Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

2. It is the salvation also of your Bodies which I would have you endeavour after: I do not mean the salvation of your bodies from sufferings, which Religion doth sometimes call you unto; nor a salvation of your bodies from sickness and temporal death, ⟨p. 10⟩which Religion doth not exempt any from; but the salvation of your bodies from perpetual death and pain of Hell; you may pamper your flesh for a while on Earth, which may make it a more fit bait for the Worms in the grave, and your bodies after death may be at rest, and take a sweet sleep for many years in the dust; but there is a morning approaching after the long night of death and many hours of darkness, in which the graves will be opened and the dead will be awakened, and then your bodies will come forth of the dust; and they will be adjudged by Christ unto most horrid and endless torments in Hell, to burn for ever in unquenchable Fire, if you be found under the guilt of sin: O therefore labour after the salvation of your Bodies; when your bodies now are sick, you endeavour to get them cured, when they are full of pain, you use means to get the pain removed; and you will fly as fast and as far as you can from natural Death, and you will do much to lengthen out and strengthen the thread of your life, though do what you can, it will in time be cut asunder, and death which hath you upon the chase will overtake and overcome you whatever resistance be made; O labour to get deliverance from the pains of body which are prepared in Hell for the damned: Fly, O Fly from eternal Death and the strokes of Gods wrath which will come upon the bodies of the wicked hereafter; if you would not have those faces scorched, those eyes and tongues and hands roasted, and that flesh broiled and fearfully tormented in the flames of Hell fire, labour after salvation. As you love then your selves, your souls and bodies, seek after your salvation.

2. It is the salvation also of your Bodies which I would have you endeavour after: I do not mean the salvation of your bodies from sufferings, which Religion doth sometimes call you unto; nor a salvation of your bodies from sickness and temporal death,