Use 2. Here is infinite comfort to1 the upright man, his end is peace: If you look to the beginning of his life it is not eligible*, his life is interwoven with troubles, [Greek or Hebrew], we are troubled on every side, 2 Cor. 4. 8. like a ship that hath the waves beating on both sides; but, the end is peace; and the smoothness of the end may make amends for the ruggedness of the way. The upright man, though he lives in a storm, he dies in a calm, Jer. 31. 17. There is hope in thine end. The end crowns all; The upright man though he drinks worm-wood while he lives, yet he ⟨p. 54⟩swims in honey when he dies; the upright man, with Simeon, departs in peace, Luke 2. 29. and his ending in peace is but his entrance into peace, Isa. 57. 2. He shall enter into peace; his dying-day is his marriage day. Grace gives both the flowers and the crop: the sweet flowers of peace here, and the full crop of glory hereafter. Paula, that religious Lady when one had read to her that Scripture, Cant. 2. 11. The singing of birds is come: yes, saith she, the singing of birds is now come, and so being full of peace mounted off from her death-bed, and went triumphing, and as it were singing to heaven: Then, shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart, Ps. 32. 11. peace is that never fading garland which shall be set upon the head of the upright, so saith my Text, Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.
Use 2. Here is infinite comfort to1 the upright man, his end is peace: If you look to the beginning of his life it is not eligible*, his life is interwoven with troubles, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, we are troubled on every side, 2 Cor. 4. 8. like a ship that hath the waves beating on both sides; but, the end is peace; and the smoothnesse of the end may make amends for the ruggednesse of the way. The upright man, though he lives in a storme, he dies in a calme, Ier. 31. 17. There is hope in thine end. The end crowns al; The upright man though he drinks worm-wood while he lives, yet he ⟨p. 54⟩swims in honey when he dies; the upright man, with Simeon, departs in peace, Luke 2. 29. and his ending in peace is but his entrance into peace, Isa. 57. 2. He shall enter into peace; his dying-day is his marriageday. Grace gives both the flowers and the crop: the sweet flowers of peace here, and the full crop of glory hereafter. Paula, that religious Lady when one had read to her that Scripture, Cant. 2. 11. The singing of birds is come: yes, saith she, the singing of birds is now come, and so being full of peace mounted off from her death-bed, and went triumphing, and as it were singing to heaven: Then, shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart, Ps. 32. 11. peace is that neverfading garland which shall be set upon the head of the upright, so saith my Text, Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.
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- *Noli praecipitare judicium nec sententiam proferre ex proximo intuitu mollerus.
