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…

2ly, As it enlighteneth the Judgment, so it ordereth the affections and rules the passions, therefore when Solomon is speaking to the young man who will be tied with no bands, he Ironically bids him rejoice and laugh on, but withal wills him to remember that for all these things he will come to Judgment, the meditation of Death and Judgment would say of laughter thou art mad, and of mirth what doest thou? It would make men look on them as vanity, folly, and madness; & these thoughts especially would become folks in prosperity, and in their youth when their humours are more high bended and light; meditation on death is a notable bridle to lightness. 3ly, If we will yet look more particularly forward, Its exceeding profitable to advance mortification, to bring us out of the entanglements of a world, and to help us with singleness and denyednesse in following Christ, thou fool, (says death) this night thy soul may be taken from thee, and whose shall all these things be? It makes mens carousing and good fellowship (as they call it) tasteless; conscience would in that case speak and say, what if thou die drunken or with the cup in thy hand? this meditation makes a man care little for the world, riches, pleasures, and honour; it would make all to grow very unsavoury, in a word, it mortifies these three which are the worlds trinity, pride, covetousness, carnal lusts. 1. It mortifies pride, as we may see in David, who says, Psal. 39. Lord teach me to know my end and the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. And in Job, who says to corruption, it is his ⟨p. 100⟩mother, and to the worms, they are his Sisters; It puts to say, dust I am and into dust I shall return. 2. It mortifies covetousness, for the meditation of death wrings the heart from the things of the world, and gives the man other thoughts to think upon; how many when death approaches are forced to say, they have cumbered themselves with the world and it hes beguiled them. 3. It mortifies carnal pleasures, for what can vain fleshly lusts do to men that are dying? For as merry as they are now, say these thoughts, they must appear within a little before God in Judgment, and if this be not a bridle to these lusts, I know not what will be a bridle. 4.

2ly, As it inlighteneth the Judgment, so it ordereth the affectiones and rules the passions, therefore when Solomon is speaking to the young man who will be tyed with no bands, he Ironically bids him rejoice and laugh on, but withall wills him to remember that for all these things he will come to Judgment, the meditation of Death and Judgment would say of laughter thou art mad, and of mirth what doest thou? It would make men look on them as vanity, folly, and madnesse; & these thoughts especially would become folkes in prosperity, and in their youth when their humours are more high bended and light; meditation on death is a notable bridle to lightnesse. 3ly, If we will yet look more particularly forward, Its exceeding profitable to advance mortification, to bring us out of the entanglements of a world, and to help us with singlenesse and denyednesse in following Christ, thou fool, (sayes death) this night thy soul may be taken from thee, and whose shall all these things be? It makes mens carrouseing and good fellowship (as they call it) teastlesse; conscience would in that case speak and say, what if thou die drunken or with the cup in thy hand? this meditation makes a man care litle for the world, riches, pleasures, and honour; it would make all to grow very unsavoury, in a word, it mortifies these three which are the worlds trinity, pride, covetousnesse, carnal lusts. 1. It mortifies pryd, as we may see in David, who sayes,