When I hear that a good and godly man is dead, I am affrighted, and fear that God hates the world, and is taking away the upright and good, to the end he may fall upon and punish the wicked. Even so should we learn to condemn, scorn, and deride death. These were right words of faith. Such and the like ought we to cull out of the legends of the saints, wholly omitting the fooleries that the papists have stuffed therein. So many members as we have, so many deaths have we.
Death peeps out at every limb.
Let us die, that so the devil may be at rest. There shall arise false prophets, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Therefore he died well and happy. Likewise when St Augustine was to die, he prayed the seven penitential Psalms. The school of faith is said to go about with death.