The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…

however they that would die in the Lord, would study to be found much in the exercise of this grace (we do here indifferently design these, duties or graces,) for if repentance be called for when the Kingdom of Heaven is near, then sure it is called for, when death is near, and there is nothing more requisite then a kindly penitent heart as a spur to chase to Jesus Christ, when we are to meet with him at death. 3. A third duty, is the exercise of mortification, it is a painful but a profitable duty, to be crucified to the world, to die to our lusts and carnal delights; by mortification we mean not only that which takes away the dominion of sin, and sets on to the study of holiness, but that which plucks up the roots and tapouns of sin, and slays the motions of it, and as it were, weeds it out of the heart, that which puts you to mortify your distempers and passions of envy, anger, pride, inordinate desires &c. And to seek to ⟨p. 57⟩have your affections heavenly, which notably fits for dying in the Lord. A 4. duty that would be carefully practised, is sobriety, let your moderation, sayeth the Apostle, be known to all men, the Lord is at hand, mortification looks much to things in themselves sinful and unlawful, I say much, though I will not say only, and sobriety looks to things lawful in themselves, wherein insobriety is the bane and plague of many, who being so glued to the things of a world, and to these delights and pleasures which are lawful in themselves, and whereof a moderate use is allowed, that they are entangled and fettered with them and made as unfit for dying, by their insobriety in them, as by their doing of some things that are in themselves sinful, O! how doeth inordinate love to children, friends, lands, houses, farms, oxen, and to the married wife, unfit them for dying, therefore the Apostle exhorts Christians, 1 Pet. 1. To gird up the loins of their mind, to be sober […] hope to the end; for when men are unsober in the use of the creatures, they are like to these that have long garments which take the feet from them, as it were, and impede them in their walking and at their work, when the affections hang loose and drag on the earth and the things that are in it, and the mind takes liberty to vaig and rove after these things, the man cannot be busy at his main work, or make progress in his Journey to Heaven;

however they that would die in the Lord, would studie to be found much in the exercise of this grace (we doe here indifferently designe these, duties or graces,) for if repentance be called for when the Kingdome of Heaven is neir, then sure it is called for, when death is neir, and there is nothing more requisit then a kindlie penitent heart as a spurr to chace to Jesus Christ, when we are to meet with him at death. 3. A third dutie, is the exercise of mortification, it is a painfull but a profitable dutie, to be crucified to the world, to die to our lusts and carnal delights; by mortification we mean not onlie that which takes away the dominion of sin, and setts on to the studie of holinesse, but that which plucks up the roots and tapouns of sin, and slayes the motions of it, and as it were, weids it out of the heart, that which puts you to mortifie your distempers and passions of invye, anger, pryd, inordinat desyres &c. And to seek to