A discourse concerning earthquakes. Occasioned by the earthquakes which were in New-England, in the…

2. Men look upon Death as a greater Evil than Affliction. All that a man has will he give for his Life. Death is called the King of Terrors, Job 18. 14. It does as much exceed other Evils, as a King d•th excel other Men. But sin is more Evil than Death. Solomon found it more bitter than Death, Eccle•. 7. 26. A Christian▪ should say, rather let me dye than sin. For a man may Glorify God by dying, Job. 21. 19. but he cannot Glorify God by sinning. And therefore he ought ⟨p. 61⟩to Embrace the most terrible Death that men can inflict upon him, then to commit the least Sin. The Hebrew Martyrs did so. They were tortured, not accepting deliverance, Heb. 11. 35. The Tyrant Antiochus told them that if they would but eat one mouthful of Swines flesh which then was forbidden by the Ceremonial Law, their lives should be spared; but they chose rather to be tortured to death than to Sin against their Consciences although it were but in a Ceremony. We have ••ewed that Sin separates the Soul from God; but Death does not so. I am persuaded (says the Apostle) that Death cannot separate us from the love of God, Rom. 8. 38. Nay, Death brings the Soul of the true Believer unto a full Enjoyment of God: Being absent from the Body, they are present with the Lord.

2. Men look upon Death as a greater Evil than Affliction. All that a man has will he give for his Life. Death is called the King of Terrors, Job 18. 14. It does as much exceed other Evils, as a King d•th excel other Men. But sin is more Evil than Death. Solomon found it more bitter than Death, Eccle•. 7. 26. A Christian▪ should say, rather let me dye than sin. For a man may Glorify God by dying,