The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

Will not this be a trying hour to thee, when the cloth shall be drawn, and thy bodily comforts all taken off the Table? will not death search thee to the quick, when those Thieves in their frightful visors, all thy sins in that Night will break in upon thee? As the Elders of Samaria said of Jehu, when he sent to them to prepare and provide to fight with him; Two Kings stood not before him, and how shall we? Adam and Angels could not stand before sin (it laid them both low) and how wilt thou? Believe it, those that have been Lions in peace, have carried themselves like Harts in this War. Brutus whose blood seemed as warm, and to rise to as great a degree of courage as any, since the Roman Consuls, yet when Furius came to cut his Throat, he cried out like a Child. Heathen, who saw nothing almost in Death, save rottenness and corruption accompanying the body, who looked no farther then the Grave, have esteemed Death the King of Terrors; The Terrible of Terribles, and have been frighted into a Fever upon the sight of its forerunner. But Death is not half so terrible to a moral Heathen, as twill be to thee, O wicked Christian; thou knowest that thy Deaths-day is thy Dooms-day; that the Axe of Death will cut the down as fuel for the unquenchable fire; that as soon as thou art carried from the Earth, thou art cast into Hell. Thou presumest that thou shalt behave thy self like a man, in the onset with this Enemy; but I dare be the Prophet to foretell, that thy courage will be less then a Woman's in the issue, for man, man dost thou not know, as Pilate said to Christ, that Death hath power to kill thee, as well as to release thee, ⟨p. 50⟩it can send thy body to the grave, and thy soul to the place of endless misery and desperation.

Will not this be a trying hour to thee, when the cloath shall be drawn, and thy bodily comforts all taken off the Table? will not death search thee to the quick, when those Theives in their frightful vizards, all thy sins in that Night will break in upon thee? As the Elders of Samaria said of Jehu, when he sent to them to prepare and provide to fight with him; Two Kings stood not before him, and how shall we? Adam and Angels could not stand before sin (it laid them both low) and how wilt thou? Beleive it, those that have been Lions in peace, have carried themselves like Harts in this War. Brutus whose blood seemed as warm, and to rise to as great a degree of courage as any, since the Roman Consuls, yet when Furius came to cut his Throat, he cryed out like a Child. Heathen, who saw nothing almost in Death, save rottenness and corruption accompanying the body, who lookt no farther then the Grave, have esteemed Death the King of Terrors; The Terrible of Terribles, and have been frighted into a Feavor upon the sight of its forerunner. But Death is not half so terrible to a moral Heathen, as twill be to thee, O wicked Christian; thou knowest that thy Deaths-day is thy Dooms-day; that the Ax of Death will cut the down as fuel for the unquenchable fire; that as soon as thou art carried from the Earth, thou art cast into Hell. Thou presumest that thou shalt behave thy self like a man, in the onset with this Enemy; but I dare be the Prophet to foretel, that thy courage will be less then a Womans in the issue, for man, man dost thou not know, as Pilate said to Christ, that Death hath power to kill thee, as well as to release thee,