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…

We come now to the Uses of this sweet point of doctrine; And the first use is of exhortation to believers: 1. To lay up this comfort, and 2ly, To bless God for this comfort, that he hath provided so ⟨p. 121⟩very well for you both in this life, and at and after your death; 3ly, Bless him that ever he was graciously pleased to bring you to this happy condition, when he might have left you altogether comfortless both in life and death, O! bless him that he hath given his Son Jesus Christ, that he is come, and that grace is through him extended that broad as to take you in: It should make you cry with holy David in a transport of admiration, what am I, and what is my fathers house, that thou hast brought me hitherto: 2 Sam. 7. and with him to say, I bless the Lord that hath given me counsel, Psal 16,

We come now to the Uses of this sweet point of doctrine; And the first use is of exhortation to beleivers: 1. To lay up this comfort, and 2ly, To blesse God for this comfort, that he hath provided so ⟨p. 121⟩very well for you both in this life, and at and after your death; 3ly, Blesse him that ever he was graciously pleased to bring you to this happy condition, when he might have left you altogither comfortlesse both in life and death, O! blesse him that he hath given his Sonne Jesus Christ, that he is come, and that grace is through him extended that broad as to take you in: It should make you cry with holy David in a transport of admiration, what am I, and what is my fathers house, that thou hast brought me hitherto: 2 Sam. 7. and with him to say, I blesse the Lord that hath given me counsel, Psal 16,

But 2ly, There are two uses we would speak a little more particularly to, the first whereof, is to exhort you to that which is the sum of all we have spoken to you from these words, even to study to live so as ye may die in Christ, which death, hath so many and so strong grounds of consolation waiting it, that all the world cannot possibly parallel or equal them; If here were not another motive to press you to faith in Christ, and to mortification, and to the making of your calling and election sure, this is sufficient, that these things have such comforts at death and against it, which are the most uncontravertibly sure, stable, and lasting grounds of comfort; other grounds of comfort that go quite dry and evanish at death, are but miserable comforters, and like Job's winter-brooks of water, that in summer disappoint the weary traveller, and send him away ashamed; but these comforts can guard the heart against the law, against challenges for sin, and against the Devil; nay let us suppose, that there were millions of Devils, and of challenges for sin, and of laws transgressed thereby, to speak and pass sentence against the believer in Christ, there is mighty and marvellous ground of comfort for him against them all here, he may appear and appeal and confidently say, there are moe with me