The second Prerogative Royal of a Believer.The second Prerogative Royall of a Believer.

CHAP. VII. The second Prerogative Royal of a Believer.

CHAP. VII. The second Prerogative Royall of a Believer.

Now I proceed to the second Prerogative, which is yet to come: what holy David saith of Zion, Glorious things are spoken of thee, O thou City of God, Psalm. 87.3. I may apply to these ⟨p. 85⟩blessed things in reversion.

NOw I proceed to the second Prerogative, which is yet to come: what holy David saith of Sion, Glorious things are spoken of thee, O thou City of God, Psalm. 87.3. I may apply to these ⟨p. 85⟩blessed things in reversion.

2. The second Prerogative royal §2of a Christian, is, he shall be carried up by the Angels: In this life, a believer is carried by the Saints; they lift him upon the wings of their prayers, and when they can carry him no longer, after death the Angels take him, and carry him up: thus shall it be done to the man whom God will honour. Wicked men who are of the Devils life-guard, when they die, they shall have a black-guard of Angels to carry them: Thou who art an old sinner (that hast an hoary head, but thy heart is as young in sin as ever▪) I may say to thee, as Christ said in another sense, to Peter: When thou art old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not