Small offers towards the service of the tabernacle in the wilderness four discourses accommodated…

First, Impatient Desires of Death, are to be Reproved.

Something is to be said by way of Concession; and something by way of Correction about such Desires.

First by way of Concession, I would say; There are some Desires of Death well-becoming a Child of God. Such were the Desires of Paul, in Phil. 1. 22. I desire to be dissolved and be with Christ. When we think of the day, in which we shall go to the the Spirits of just men made perfect; and to Jesus the Mediator of the New-Covenant; When we ⟨p. 118⟩think of the day in which the Lord will deliver us from the hand of all our enemies, and from the hand of SIN; O the thoughts of it should fill our Souls with Raptures of Joy! they should cause our hearts to leap and spring within us. In is an allowable thing to be almost angry with Time, to call upon slow Time, and say, Fly apace Fly away, O Time; Come, O Eternity, come and fetch me into the presence of the Lord. The Visions of the Lord Jesus may cause us to say humbly with aged, faithful Simeon, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace. The Chariots of Death, sent by the Lord Jesus to fetch us unto Himself should be as welcome to us, as the Waggons of Joseph were to Jacob of old. It should cause us to Rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, when we think of the unspeakable joy and the full glory which we are going unto. There are holy longings and lookings of Soul, with which we may cry out, Why, why are His Chariots so long i'coming? Why tarry the Wheels thereof?

First by way of Concession, I would say; There are some Desires of Death well-becoming a Child of God. Such were the Desires of Paul, in