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,,ne 10 have glimpse of that glory. and
,hcn nut on his cloh's again. y ihen VINO
mo,mH NO, be wIiIin. 10 die for full sight
and enjoyment OF God Metn'nks tiny
soul should look and sigh, like prisoner,
,hrouph the gates of this mortality: "O
that | had wings like dove, then would
81 fly away, and be at rest:" Most men
need patience to die, bui saint that under.
stands what death admits HIM to, should
rather need patience 10 live; methlnks he
should often look out, and listen on death
bed for his Lords coming; and when he
receives the news of his approaching
change, should say, "Thc voice of my be-
loved! behold, he cometh upon the noun.
tains, skipping upon the hills" Cant. ":3
Arg.3 Another argument persuadtng 10
this eiNsngness, is the Immediate succession
of a more excellent and glorious lite.
1t is but a wink, and you shall see God.
Your happiness shall not be deferred TIL the
resurrection; but as soon as the body is
dead, the gracious soul is swallowed up IN
life, Rom. viii i: 10, IL. When once you
have loosed from this shore, in few mo-
ments, your souls will be waited over upon
the wings of angels 10 the other shore OF
glorious eternity. Phil. |: %, 81 desire to
DC dissolved. and to be with Christ" Did
the soul body die together, as Berus
taught or did they sleep 'lll the resurrec-
ton, as others have gruundlessly fancied; !;
it had been madness for Paul to desire a
dissolution torlhe enjoyment Of Christ. For
if this were so, he enjoyed more of Christ
whist his soul dwelt in its heshly tabernacle,
than he should out of 1t.
There are but two ways Of the souls
living, known in scripture, viz. he life OF
faith, and the life Of vision, Cor. v: s.
Those two divide all time, hoh present
and future, bctwixt them, Cor. xiii: IL.
If when faith fails, sight should not mme.
diatcly succeed, what would become OF the
unbodied soul! But blessed be God, this
grea, hear, establishing truth is evidently
revealed in scripture, Luke xiii 43. You
have Christ's promise, John xiv: 3. |"
will come and receive you to myself" .
what change will a few moments mako
upon your condition? Rouse up, dying
saint when thy soul is come out little
further; when it shall stand like Abraham,
al lis tent.door, >he angels of God shall soon
be with thee; the souls of the elect are, as
it were, put out to the angels to nurse, and
when they die, these angels carry them
home again 10 their Fathers house # an
angel we're caused to fly swiftly 10 bring
saint the answer Of his prayer. Dan. TX:
%, how much more will The angels come
post from heaven to receive and transfer
the praying soul itself?
Arg. 4. Farther, 1t may much conduce
TO thy sciVingness to die, to consider, that
by death, God ottentimes hides his people
out of the way of all temptations and trou6~
les upon earth, Rev: xiv: l3. "Wrlte,
from hcnceforth, Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord" Itis Gods usual
way. when some extraordinary calamiIles
are coming upon the void, 10 set his peo.
pie out Of harms way beforehand, lisa. !vn !:
/. "Mercful men are taken away from
the evil to COME" So, Mic. vii. 2, when
such an evil time comes, as is there de-.
scribcd, "That they all lie in wait for blood.
and every man hunts his brother with net" !"
God, by an act of favor, houses his people
beforehand. Dost thou know what evil
may be in the earth, which thou art so
10th to leave? Thy God removes thee for
thy great advantage; thou art disbanded by
death, and called off the field, other poor
saints must stand 10 it, and endure great
fight Of iatflictions.
Itis observed that Mehuselah died the
very year before the food: Augustine, a
little before the sacking of Hippo Pareus
Just before the taking Of Heidelburg: Lu.
Their observes, that all the apostles died be-
fore the destruction Of Jerusalem and Lu.
ther himself died before the wars, broke Out
in Germany. 1t may be the Lord sees thy
tender heart cannot endure 10 see the misery
or bear the temptations that are coming, and
therefore will now gather thee to thy grave
in peace ;-and yet wilt thou cry, O spare
me little longer!
Arg 5. get hy heart hang hack, con-
sider the great adrantage you uW haze b9
death, above all that erer you enjoyed on
earth; and that, (l.) AS to your com'nun.
ion with God. (2.) As TO your communion
with saints.
l. For your communion with God the
time of perfecting lhat is now come thy
soul shall shortly stand before the face OF
God, and have the immediate emanalions
and beamings forth of his glory upon 1t e.:
here thy soul is remote from God, the
beams of his glory upon it e: here Thy soul
is remote from God, the beams of his glory
strike it but obliquey and tteb'y, but short.
ly it viii be under the line, and there the
sun shall stand sill, as it DID in Gideon ;
there shall be no cloudnss, nor declinings
oft. GLOW should this fill thy soul with