The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

Alas, how do we adjourn the thoughts of death▪ 'Tis almost death to think of it. There are some that are in the very threshold of the grave, who have one leg in the earth and another leg in hell: yet put far from them the evil day^*. ⟨p. 80⟩I have read of our Lysicrates, who in his old age dyed his grey hairs black, that he might seem young again. When we should be building our Tombs, we are building our Tabernacles: die daily, lest you die eternally. The holy Patriarchs in purchasing for themselves a burying place, showed us what thoughts they still had of Death. Joseph of Arimathea erected his Sepulchre in his Garden: we have many that set up the Trophies of their victories; others that set up their Scutcheons, that they may blaze their honour: but how few that set up their Sepulchres? who erect in their hearts, the serious thoughts of death? Oh, remember when you are in your gardens, in places most delicious and fragrant, to keep a place for your Tomb-stone: die daily. There is no better way to bring sin into a Consumption, then by oft looking ⟨p. 81⟩on the pale horse, and him that sits thereon^*. By thinking on death, we begin to repent of an evil life; and so we disarm death before it comes, and cut the lock where its strength lies.

Alas, how do we adjourne the thoughts of death▪ 'Tis almost death to think of it. There are some that are in the very threshold of the grave, who have one legge in the earth and another legge in hell: yet put farre from them the evil day^*. ⟨p. 80⟩I have read of our Lysicrates, who in his old age dyed his gray hairs black, that he might seeme young againe. When we should be building our Tombes, we are building our Tabernacles: die daily, lest you die eternally. The holy Patriarchs in purchasing for themselves a burying place, shewed us what thoughts they still had of Death. Ioseph of Arimathea erected his Sepulchre in his Garden: we have many that set up the Trophies of their victories; others that set up their Scutchions, that they may blaze their honour: but how few that set up their Sepulchres? who erect in their hearts, the serious thoughts of death? Oh, remember when you are in your gardens, in places most delicious and fragrant, to keep a place for your Tomb-stone: die daily. There is no better way to bring sinne into a Consumption, then by oft looking