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…

A 4th Use is, and its of other two branches, If there be a necessity of dying and dying in the Lord to them that would be happy; There is nothing so forcible to press the study of holiness. 2. Nothing so forcible to scar from profanity, which are the great scope of all preaching: I say consider this doctrine rightly and it will be found, 1, To be most powerfully provoking to holiness, the reason is, because dying well, and living well are knit together, and nothing can more demonstrate the absolute necessity of holiness, without which none shall see the Lord; its as necessary as peace with God and Heaven, and who ever they be who think not so now, when ever they ⟨p. 88⟩shall be summoned to remove, they shall without all peradventure find it to be so. 2ly, Is there any thing more scarring at, and deterring from, profanity and a carnal walk? Gather all that the world can afford whither of sinful pleasures, or of lawful temporal delights immoderately often used, and suppose that ye could come by your very hearts desire and wish in them, what will they all advantage you when death comes? to have so many thousands or hundred thousands of merks, to have so much land or so many houses, will do you no good at death; what will it advantage you to spend your time in pleasure, in the lusts of the flesh, in tippling and drunkenness? And ye that are swelled with pride and ambition, and would have all others backing you, and beckoning and bowing to you, what, I say, will these profit you when death shall put an end to them all, and make an eternal divorce betwixt you and them, and when ye must lye down amongst the dead, and when the worms must be a covering to you? Its even a wonder (if ought of this kind could be a wonder to our carnal and profane hearts) considering the necessity of dying and of dying in the Lord to all that would die well and happily, with the faith and conviction that we generally profess to have of them, that we think so little seriously of death, and of such a death, and are at so little pains in the study of holiness to prepare for it.

A 4th Use is, and its of other two branches, If there be a necessity of dieing and dieing in the Lord to them that would be happie; There is nothing so forcible to presse the studie of holinesse. 2. Nothing so forcible to scarr from prophanity, which are the great scope of all preaching: I say consider this doctrine rightly and it will be found, 1, To be most powerfully provocking to holinesse, the reason is, because dieing well, and living well are knitt togither, and nothing can more demonstrat the absolute necessity of holinesse, without which none shall see the Lord; its as necessary as peace with God and Heaven, and who ever they be who think not so now, when ever they