APPLICATION.
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APPLICATION.
I. Are Faithful Ones predestinated unto a Crown of Life? Then we owe a Good Esteem unto Faithful Ones. Whenever we see any person Faithful unto the Lord Jesus Christ, we may say with our selves; That Person is an Heir of a Crown! The Lord Jesus Christ will one day bestow a Crown of Life upon that Person. To load such a Person with Injuries must needs be displeasing to the Lord, whose he is, and whom he Serves with Faithfulness. All that Love the Lord Jesus Christ, ought also to Love them that Serve Him Faithfully. Those persons whom the Lord Jesus Christ will Crown, certainly we ought also to Love. Our Lord Jesus Christ says, Psal. 101.6. Mine Eyes shall be on the Faithful of the Land. The people of the Lord Jesus Christ should say so too. And when they that are Faithful unto Death, are by Death taken away from the Land, it becomes us to look after them with mournful and weeping ⟨p. 19⟩Eyes; as we do this Day after our WIGGLESWORTH: it becomes us to Lament after them, and say; The Faithful, The Faithful; the Chariots of our Land, and the Horsemen thereof!
II. Shall they that are Faithful to Death, receive a Crown of Life? Then the Faithful have no cause to be afraid of Death. An Eminent person Condemned to Die, began his Letter to his Friend upon it so; Condemnatus sum ad vitam; A Sentence of Life is passed upon me! A Martyr coming to the Stake, there kneeled down, and cried out, Welcome, Everlasting Life! Oh! Let us Learn, to Welcome Death, when Gods Time for our Death arrives, under that Notion; An Inlet into Everlasting Life. A Faithful man could say, Phil. 1.21. To me, to Die is Gain. What? Loath to Gain! Will you be afraid of Receiving a Crown of Life? Tis not a Grave, but a Crown, that is before you. The Grave whereof you have such an Horror, will be but, Sepultura Laborum, vitiorum, et Lacrymarum; the Grave of your Pains, your Sins, your Tears. To Bury these, 'tis to Live; 'tis Life in the sweetest Relish of it. Faithful Christian; Thou hast mastered every thing else. It remains now, that thy Aversion to Death, be likewise mastered. Oh! be not uneasy at the Approach of Death. As the Faithful man said,