Asarkokaukemma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, opened in a sermon preached…Asarkokaukēma, or The vanity of glorying in the flesh, open'd in a sermon preached…

As a dying man,¹

1. 1Fourth notion.

and you shall see him no more till the Resurrection. ⟨p. 90⟩And yet here you cannot expect much, at least, not to answer the proportions of such a fair and exemplary life; the nature of the^* distemper, putting him into a capacity, not so fit to communicate what he felt, or to receive what might have been seasonably tendered from others, though in this later respect the modesty and tenderness of his dearest relations towards friends, that desired to have served him in a personal attendance, was stronger then their friends fears. Yet God was pleased in wonderful goodness, to put his bridle into the mouth of the disease, so that though it did cast a cloud upon the bright firmament of his understanding, yet it did not ⟨p. 91⟩transport him unto any undecency. It was wonderful to standers by, that during the tyranny of that froward disease, (which was about a fortnight) there was nothing of frowardness that fell from him, but he retained his native sweetness of spirit till the last breath.² He bare the pains of a violent sickness, with that calmness and serenity, as if he had not so much as wished to be in any condition, but what he was; to which purpose he most Christianly expressed himself once to his mother; That he blessed God, God had fitted him for a bed of sickness, and that he could fancy it all the things which he delighted in.

and you shall see him no more till the Resurrection. ⟨p. 90⟩