A Saint Indeed

Tis observed that Methusala dyed the very year before the flood, Augustin a little before the sacking of Hippo. Pareus just before the taking of Heidelberg: Luther observes that all the Apostles dyed before the destruction of Jerusalem: and Luther himself before the wars brake out in Germany: it may be the Lord sees thy tender heart cannot endure to see the misery, or bear the temptations that are coming, and therefore will now gather thee to thy […] in peace: and yet wilt thou cry, O spare me a little longer?

Tis observed that Methusala dyed the very year before the flood, Augustin a little before the sacking of Hippo. Paereus just before the taking of Heidelberg: Luther observes that all the Apostles dyed before the destruction of Ierusalem: and Luther himself before the wars brake out in Germany: it may be the Lord sees thy tender heart cannot endure to see the misery, or bear the temptations that are coming, and therefore will now gather thee to thy 〈…〉 in peace: and yet wilt thou cry, O spare me a little longer?

5. Arg. If yet thy heart hang back, consider the great advantage you will have by death, above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. And that (1) As to your communion with God. (2) As to your communion with Saints.

1. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come; thy Soul shall shortly stand before the face of God, and have the immediate emanations and beamings forth of his glory upon it, here thy Soul is remote from God, the beams of his glory strike it but obliquely and feebly, but shortly it will be under the line; and there the sun shall stand still as it did in Gibeon, there shall be no cloudings, nor declineings ⟨p. 179⟩