A plea for the Godly

Wicked men like Hawks are set high upon a perch, vervelled with Jingling bells, but then comes their passing-bell and calls them away, and when they die, there is no miss of them; their life was scarce worth a prayer, nor their death worth a tear; the wicked die in their sins, Joh 8. 21. Death to them is but Inferni porta, a trap-door to let them into hell.

Wicked men like Hawks are set high upon a pearch, vervel'd with Jingling bells, but then comes their passing-bell and calls them away, and when they die, there is no miss of them; their life was scarce worth a prayer, nor their death worth a tear; the wicked die in their sins, Joh 8. 21. Death to them is but Inferni porta, a trap-door to let them into hell.

But when a righteous man dies, his sins die with him; the pale face of death looks ruddy, being sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb. When a Believer hath death in his Body, he hath Christ in his Soul; the day of his death is his Ascension day to heaven^*: The death of a Saint is precious,

But when a righteous man dies, his sins die with him; the pale face of death looks ruddy, being sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb. When a Believer hath death in his Body, he hath Christ in his Soul; the day of his death is his Ascensionday to heaven^*: The death of a Saint is precious,

1. *Mors sanctis est meta laborum, depositio sarci•ae peccatorum, & Transitus ad meliorem vitam Rivet.