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…

The 2d Question we would propose is, how will ye answer some peculiar tentations that death useth to bring along with it; for tentations are then more sly and subtle as challenges are more loud and piercing, and the devil is then more then ordinarily busy, and if tentations be then yielded to, he hath almost win the cause; O! Consider how ye will answer these tentations; I shall only instance these five tentations that use to assault and set upon folk at death; the 1. is a tentation to fretting against Gods dispensation in removing and calling away a person at such a time and under such circumstances, which fretting floweth from a unwillingness to die; O! As enmity will be ready to burst out in being angry at Gods chopping by death at the man in the midst of such a design and project or before he got such a bargain ended, such a purchase made, or such a child provided for &c. And if the devil prevail by this tentation to fretting and repining at divine disposal, it ⟨p. 30⟩will mar the fruit of any thing that might be then expected, and will further estrange you from God that ye cannot come near him, and yet O! How rife is such a tentation? Study to walk therefore in a sweet pliableness and readiness to die, for if ye go on following one design after another, and one worldly business after another without this study, ye will be taken unawares suddenly surprised in the midst of them as many are, and be in eminent hazard of being prevailed over by this tentation to fretting and grudging at deaths arresting though by the great and righteous Judge his order. A 2d tentation is to Atheism, for as folk have lived in Atheism, so the devil assaults them by tentations to Atheism at their death, to make them despise death and desperately to harden themselves against it, and with a profane and damnable sort of delicacy Agag like to throw themselves into the pit; hence many desperate souls who as they tushed along their life at the thoughts of death, so when death comes they trouble not themselves with it, but shake off all fear and study a sort of godless gallantry of Spirit, and seeing they must die they will die, and will not so much as seem to regard it; but will ye that way outface the wrath of God and dare to laugh in taking the cup of his indignation in your hands?

The 2d Question we would propose is, how will ye answer some peculiar tentations that death useth to bring alonge with it; for tentations are then more slie and subtile as challenges are more loud and peirceing, and the devil is then more then ordinarly bussie, and if tentations be then yeilded to, he hath almost win the cause; O! Consider how ye will answer these tentations; I shall only instance these fyve tentations that use to assault and sett upon folk at death; the 1. is a tentation to fretting against Gods dispensation in removeing and calling away a person at such a time and under such circumstances, which fretting floweth from a unwillingnesse to die; O! As enimitie will be ready to burst out in being angrie at Gods chopping by death at the man in the midst of such a designe and project or before he gott such a bargane ended, such a purchasse made, or such a child provyded for &c. And if the devil prevail by this tentation to fretting and repining at divine disposall, it