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…

For that life that is not lived to God, and to the honour and glory of Jesus Christ, is not at all worthy the denomination of life, since we are all the time we live so, but dead while we live: It is astonishing to think that Reasonable ⟨image 19⟩Men and Women professing they have immortal souls, living especially under the clear light and sun-shine of the Gospel, who do not at all design nor endeavour to live to God, nor to live the life that they now live in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God, should foolishly fancy themselves to live, and fondly flatter themselves in a golden dream, that they shall be well at death, and die in the Lord, and so be blessed with them that die thus; who rest from their labours, and whose works follow them; who enter into peace and rest in their beds, every one walking in his uprightness; O! fools Paradise; O! deplorable and damnable delusion. Who ever therefore would be, (as all of us are unspeakably concerned to be) undeceived as to this self-murdering and soul-ruining gross practical error and mistake, and seriously and sincerely desire to live so as they may have the well-grounded hope of dying in the Lord, and of being truly blessed at and after their death; (without which it had been much better for them never to have lived at all, or to have lived the life of brutes, even of the most abject, vile, contemptible, and abominable brutes, which when they are dead are done, annihilated, and gone) Let them diligently peruse, and gravely ponder these few following Sermons, and pray for the blessing of them; The Design whereof (excellently driven by the Author, who did most edifyingly and exemplarly, most convincingly and comfortably▪ live and die thus) is to rectify such miserable mistakes; and to airth right (which he doth by a most admirably divine art) towards the only sure and safe way of dying happily, which is by living holily.

For that life that is not lived to God, and to the honour and glory of Jesus Christ, is not at all worthy the denomination of life, since we are all the time we live so, but dead while we live: It is astonishing to think that Reasonable ⟨image 19⟩Men and Women professing they have immortal soules, living especially under the clear light and sun-shine of the Gospel, who do not at all designe nor endeavour to live to God, nor to live the life that they now live in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God, should foolishly fancy themselves to live, and fondly flatter themselves in a golden dreame, that they shall be well at death, and die in the Lord, and so be blessed with them that die thus; who rest from their labours, and whose works follow them; who enter into peace and rest in their beds, every one walking in his uprightnesse; O! fools Paradise; O! deplorable and damnable delusion. Who ever therefor would be, (as all of us are unspeakably concerned to be) undeceived as to this selfe-murthering and soul-ruining grosse practical error and mistake, and seriously and sincerely desire to live so as they may have the well-grounded hope of dieing in the Lord, and of being truely blessed at and after their death; (without which it had been much better for them never to have lived at all, or to have lived the life of brutes, even of the most abject, vile, contemptible, and abominable brutes, which when they are dead are done, annihilated, and gone) Let them diligently peruse, and gravely ponder these few following Sermons, and pray for the blessing of them; The Designe whereof (excellently driven by the Author, who did most edifyingly and exemplarly, most convinceingly and comfortably live and die thus) is to rectify such miserable mistakes; and to airth right (which he doth by a most admirably divine arte) towards the only sure and safe way of dieing happily, which is by living holily.