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 the first part of it they that die in• he Lord are perfectly freed from all evil, which holds true whither we look to it more generally or with more particular respect to the scope; they are freed from all these evils that an evil time hath with it: to descend into the particular consideration of this blessedness would ⟨p. 17⟩not be easy, let us only therefore look on some general heads to clear it so far forth as concerns t•e present point. 1. They have freedom from all sin that is the fountain of all evils; the Spirits of just men are made perfect, before the throne no flesh or blood as corrupt is permitted to enter in there, no rebellion in the law of the members against the law of the mind is there, no remainder of the evil heart of unbelief in drawing a back from the living God, nor any wearying of holy duties but a delightful serving of God day and night, that is, without any the least interruption, for there is not day and night, but constant day in that life, then O! Then is that petition so often putt up to him in his peoples prayers, thy will be done as it is in heaven, fulfilled, there is then a most perfect doing of is will, there his servants serve him, in such Spiritually noble state as he was never •erved by them on earth; this light, vain and unstable heart shall then be established and even fixed as an immovable pillar in the temple of God, the looseness of a wavering gadding and wandering mind shall then be […] and for ever removed, and the thoughts of it so strongly stayed in the contemplation of that most blessed object that they shall not for so much as one moment be diverted, there will not then be any the least inclination to, nor capacity of a diversion▪ O! What would some give (were it to be bought) for this part of happiness? even to be fully and finally delivered from a body of death and from the many si•ull pranks of it, and the dangerous precipices it drives them upon? 2. They have perfect freedom from all tentations to sin, there doeth not in that most clear and serene upper region breath the least air of tentation, there is no tentation to sin from without as there is no inclination to sin from within and consequently there is a full freedom from all fear of hazard and danger o• sinning, no unclean thing comes within the