The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

4. That Death, which finisheth the Creatures time, puts an end to all such business. It is the man that must seek God, but man consists of a Soul and a Body; and it is whiles these are in union that he is capable of this affair: Whereas Death dissolves his union, and so utterly ends the opportunity; the body can no longer be used as an instrument of this, if we should preach to it, it cannot hear […]. The Soul is now separated from the body, and can no longer perform its functions in it, whiles this dissolution remains: and we are told, that life is the only working time, Eccles. 9. 10. The Grave is therefore called the place of silence, and the land of forgetfulness; and they that are […] are said to know nothing, &c.

4. That Death, which finisheth the Creatures time, puts an end to all such business. It is the man that must seek God, but man consists of a Soul and a Body; and it is whiles these are in union that he is capable of this affair: Whereas Death dissolves his union, and so utterly ends the opportunity; the body can no longer be used as an instrument of this, if we should preach to it, it cannot hear 〈…〉. The Soul is now separated from the body, and can no longer perform its functions in it, whiles this dissolution remains: and we are told, that life is the only working time, Eccles. 9. 10. The Grave is therefore called the place of silence, and the land of forgetfulness; and they that are 〈…〉 are said to know nothing, &c.

5. That the Eternal State into which men passeth from time, is unchangeable. Where time ends, Eternity ⟨p. 316⟩begins; and it is the property of time that the Subjects are mutable, they may be changed from what they are: but it is equally the property of eternal things that they are immutable. When men die, they pass to their particular judgment,