Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

2. The assured Christian knows that if death it self come, (which is the worst men can inflict) […] shall be no loser by the exchange; nay he shall […] the best bargain that ever he made since he […] parted with all in his afflictions, to follow Christ There are two rich bargains a Christian makes; […] is whe• he exchanges the world for Christ in his ••rst choice at his conversion, in point of love and stimation: the other is when he actually parts wit•'he world for Christ at his dissolution: both th•e are rich bargains, and upon this ground it wa••the Apostle said, To me to live is Christ, and to die is ••ain, Phil. 1. 21. The death of a believer in Chr••, is gain unspeakable, but if a man would ma•• the utmost gain by dying, he shall find it in dying for Christ, as well as in Christ: And to show you wherein the gain of such a death lies, let a few particul••• be weighed, wherein the gain will be cast up in b••h; he that is assured he dies in Christ, knows,

2. The assured Christian knows that if death it self come, (which is the worst men can inflict) 〈…〉 shall be no loser by the exchange; nay he shall 〈…〉 the best bargain that ever he made since he 〈…〉 parted with all in his afflictions, to follow Christ There are two rich bargains a Christian makes; 〈…〉 is whe• he exchanges the world for Christ in his ••rst choice at his conversion, in point of love and stimation: the other is when he actually parts wit•'he world for Christ at his dissolution: both th•e are rich bargains, and upon this ground it wathe Apostle said, To me to live is Christ, and to die is ain,