A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

2 Inference. That it is a great thing to die. The Son of God, the Redeemer of man hath an immediate presidency over this affair He signalizes himself by it, who could not suppose, he should be magnified by a trifle! We slightly say, such a one is Dead! Consider the matter in it self, and 'tis great. A reasonable Soul hath changed States! an intelligent Spirit is gone out of our world! The life of a Gnat, a Fly, those little Automata, or self moving things, how admirable a production is it! It becomes no ⟨p. 32⟩man to despise what no man can imitate. We praise the Pencil that well describes the external figure of such an Animalculum, such a little Creature, but the internal vital, self moving power, and the motion itself, what Art can express! But an humane life how important a thing is it! Twas one of Plato's thanksgivings that God had made him a man! How careful a guard hath God set over every mans life! fencing it by the severest Law. If any man shed mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed; and how weighty is the annexed reason! For in the image of God he made man. This then highly greatens this matter. He therefore reserves it wholly to himself, as one of his peculiarities, to dispose of such a life! I am he that kills and makes alive. We find it One of ⟨p. 33⟩his high titles, The God of the Spirits of all flesh. He had what was much greater to glory in, that he was The Father of spirits, indefinitely spoken When he hath all the heavenly Regions, the spacious Hades, Peopled with such Inhabitants whose dwelling is not with flesh; (and for vast multitudes of them) that never was, that yet, looking down into this little world of ours, this minute spot of his creation, and observing that here were Spirits dwelling in flesh ▪ he should please to be s•yl•d also the God of those Spirits, signifies this to be with him too an appropriate glory, a glory which he will not communicate farther then he communicates Godhead. And that he held it a divine right to measure the time unto each of them of their abode in flesh, & determine when they shall dislodge.

2 Inference. That it is a great thing to die. The Son of God, the Redeemer of man hath an immediate presidency over this affair He signalizes himself by it, who could not suppose, he should be magnified by a trifle! We slightly say, such a one is Dead! Consider the matter in it self, and 'tis great. A reasonable Soul hath chang'd States! an intelligent Spirit is gone out of our world! The life of a Gnat, a Fly, those little Automata, or self moving things, how admirable a production is it! It becomes no