Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

Stephen Gardiner said of justification by Faith only, that it was a good supper doctrine, though not so good a break-fast one. So the power of godliness, this spiritual life, though it be not so pleasant to live in as to the flesh, yet it is most comfortable to die with.

When Moses had heard a little of the earthly Canaan, how earnestly doth he beg that he might see it! Deut. 3.25. I pray thee let me go over and see the good Land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. Thou hast read a little of the ⟨p. 177⟩heavenly Canaan, and hast thou not ten thousand times more cause to desire it?

When Moses had heard a little of the earthly Canaan, how earnestly doth he beg that he might see it! Deut. 3.25. I pray thee let me go over and see the good Land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon. Thou hast read a little of the ⟨p. 177⟩heavenly Canaan, and hast thou not ten thousend times more cause to desire it?

Plato saith, If moral Philosophy could be seen with moral eyes it would draw all mens hearts after it: May not I more truly say, if the gain of a Saint at death could be seen with spiritual eyes, with the eye of faith, it would make all men in love with it, and eager after it! Balaam, as bad as he was, did desire to die the death of the righteous; and surely they that dislike their way, cannot but desire their end; but God hath joined them both together, and it is not in the power of any man to put them asunder; therefore if thou wouldst die their deaths, thou must live their spiritual lives. Holiness is the seed out of which that harvest groweth. If thou wouldst be safe when thou shalt launch into the vast Ocean of eternity; if thou wouldst be received into the celestial habitation, when thou shalt be turned out of thy house of clay, make sure of this life in Christ. If an Heathen Prince would not admit Virgins to his bed before they were purified;