The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

USE. II.

VSE. II.

Let it serve to direct Gods people, what to do, that their death may be comfortably thought of, and expected by them: and that is by endeavouring to get this secured, that it shall be no other than a sleep to you. This is the •o• of all Gods Children: but though Death shall be really thus to every true Believer, yet there is something to be done by them, that it may be sensibly so to their minds, and they may be able thus to entertain it when it comes: and for this end there are these three things which you are to be advised about, viz.

1. Labour to feel the weariness of this life. They are the weary, that would fain be at rest. As long as life and the concerns of it are not tiresome to us, so long we are loth to die, and the thoughts of it are ungrateful to us; but when it is thus with us, then the very forethoughts of it will afford u• matter of refreshment: Job could say, that he would not live always, if he might have such an indulgence granted him; and there are a great many things which have enough in them to make us weary, if they were well pondered: there is that sin which we must be always dragging after us, and ⟨p. 31⟩putting us to continual grief: and there are the sins of others, which we must see and hear, which will wring tears from our eyes: there are also the sorrows which this life is burdened withal, and will not be at an end whilst that lasts: yea and the very difficulties with which a Christian doth any thing for God here, by reason of his weak grace, and the strong corruption which makes resistance to it; yea, and the dismal days that are expected to come: it is an happiness to be at rest out of the noise and bitterness of such things: that therefore was a merciful promise which was made to the godly King Josiah,