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…

there is no evil example there, but on the contrary if there were any need of stirring up, strengthening and encouraging one of another, its there eminently; there is withal there a holy freedom from the difficulty that is in watching here, which though it be a requisite useful and necessary duty in sojourning saints yet it hath with it a painfulness and fear, from which the dead in the Lord even triumphing saints are perfectly freed. 3. They are freed from all challenges for sin, they have there no troublesome nor disquieting exercise of conscience, the immediate enjoyment of Gods company so quiets and satisfieth them, that nothing can disquiet them; there they are under no desertion nor fear of desertion, and these are often two sad exercises to the godly here, the challenges of their conscience for sin, and the weights on their Spirits because of desertion; there is moreover no lukewarm nor any lifeless Spiritual condition there, but a condition always fresh, lively and at the very best, they are continually praising in the sense of the love of God overflowing them in duty: the dead in the Lord must then certainly be in a most happy condition when they are freed from all these & from all fear of them. But 4. they are freed from all the effects of sin, there is no curse, no wrath, no sickness of body, no anxiety of mind there, no terror nor apprehension of indignation; no poverty no scarcity nor want to them of any thing there (how poor soever a life they may have here), but God is all and in all, he by himself immediately fills the room of all things, and fills up the vastest capacities of the soul; they are also freed from all the tossings and troubles that are here in this lower world, there are no confinings nor finings, no sequestrations nor forefaultures or hazard of losing estates, no quarterings of soldiers to discompose the quiet and tranquillity of families ⟨p. 19⟩there, which some would think a piece of happiness to be quit of; there is no reproach, no discredit nor disgrace there, but a new name given;

there is no evil example there, but on the contrary if there wer any need of stirring up, strengthening and encouradging one of another, its there eminently; there is withall there a holie freedome from the difficultie that is in watching here, which though it be a requisit usefull and necessarie dutie in sojourning saints yet it hath with it a painfullnesse and fear, from which the dead in the Lord even triumphing saints are perfectly freed. 3. They are freed from all challenges for sin, they have there no troublesome nor disquieting exercise of conscience, the immediat enjoyment of Gods companie so quiets and satisfieth them, that nothing can disquiet them; there they are under no desertion nor fear of desertion, and these are often two sad exercises to the godly here, the challenges of their conscience for sin, and the weights on their Spirits because of desertion; there is moreover no lukewarme nor any lyfelesse Spirituall condition there, but a condition alwayes fresh, livlie and at the verie best, they are continually praising in the sense of the love of God overflowing them in duty: the dead in the Lord must then certainly be in a most happie condition when they are freed from all these & from all fear of them. But 4. they are freed from all the effects of sin, there is no curse, no wrath, no sicknesse of body, no anxietie of mind there, no terror nor apprehension of indignation; no povertie no scarsiie nor want to them of any thing there (how poor soever a life they may have here), but God is all and in all, he by himselfe immediatly fills the roume of all things, and fills up the vastest capacities of the soul; they are also freed from all the tossings and troubles that are here in this lower world, there are no confinings nor fynings, no sequestrations nor forefaultures or hazard of loseing estates, no quarterings of souldiers to discompose the quiet and tranquillitie of families