A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mr. William Rathband an aged and learned servant of Christ, and preached Octob. 13. 1695. at Highgate. By Samuel Slater, M.A. minister of the gospel.
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A funeral sermon occasioned by the death of Mr. William Rathband an aged and learned servant of Christ, and preached Octob. 13. 1695. at Highgate. By Samuel Slater, M.A. minister of the gospel.
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A
Funeral
Sermon
Occasioned
by
the
DEATH
OF
Mr.
WILLIAM
RATHBAND
,
An
Aged
and
Learned
Servant
of
Christ
,
AND
Preached
Octob.
13.
1695.
at
Highgate
.
By
Samuel
Slater
,
M.
A.
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
Thomas
Cockerill
,
Sen
r
and
Jun
r
,
at
the
Three
Legs
in
the
Poultrey
,
over-against
the
Stocks-Market
.
MDCXCV
.
To
the
much
Esteemed
Mrs.
SARAH
RATHBAND
In
HIGHGATE
.
Dear
Sister
,
THat
stroke
which
the
wise
God
lately
gave
to
〈…〉
Family
,
did
,
and
yet
doth
,
as
I
doubt
not
,
sma
〈…〉
on
your
back
,
and
pain
you
at
the
very
heart
.
The
wresting
of
a
loving
Husband
out
of
the
bosom
of
an
affectionate
Wife
,
is
not
much
unlike
tearing
the
flesh
from
the
bones
.
Where
indeed
there
is
unsuitableness
and
discontent
,
a
galling
yoke
between
persons
so
nearly
related
,
Cohabitation
is
more
uneasy
than
Dissolution
.
They
are
not
like
to
grieve
much
for
parting
,
who
were
a
mutual
vexation
and
torment
.
But
I
am
persuaded
there
was
between
you
Conjugal
Love
,
Kindness
and
Delight
,
and
walking
together
as
Heirs
of
the
grace
of
lise
;
whereupon
separation
by
Death
,
cannot
but
be
a
sore
Affliction
to
you
who
are
left
behind
.
Yet
,
a
reflection
upon
such
a
life
,
and
the
blessed
consequences
of
that
Death
which
was
the
period
of
it
,
may
very
well
prove
a
sovereign
Cordial
to
you
,
carrying
along
with
it
strength
and
sweetness
,
support
and
comfort
.
God
hath
been
graciously
pleas'd
to
carry
him
through
those
difficulties
which
he
did
encounter
in
his
way
,
and
to
employ
him
in
that
honourable
work
of
the
Ministry
which
he
lov'd
and
faithfully
did
,
notwithstanding
there
were
many
Adversaries
,
and
but
very
small
encouragement
he
received
from
the
hands
of
men
who
will
give
more
to
their
Houshold
servant
,
than
to
an
Embassador
of
Christ
;
and
he
continued
him
in
the
world
,
and
in
his
work
,
to
a
good
old
age
.
When
at
last
he
had
finished
his
day
and
his
work
together
,
he
entered
into
peace
and
rest
.
And
now
while
he
rejoiceth
in
Fruition
,
do
you
rejoice
in
Hope
.
Long
it
will
not
be
,
ere
he
that
shall
come
,
will
come
,
and
carry
us
away
too
to
our
eternal
home
;
therefore
instead
of
an
impotent
mourning
over
our
dead
Relations
and
Friends
,
it
is
our
main
wisdom
and
interest
to
prepare
our selves
for
Death
,
that
we
may
be
found
in
a
fitness
for
a
better
life
,
in
a
meetness
for
the
inheritance
of
the
Saints
in
light
.
Hearing
it
was
my
dear
Brother's
desire
upon
his
Death-bed
,
that
I
would
preach
the
Funeral
Sermon
,
I
did
most
readily
apply
to
the
work
;
and
your self
afterward
desiring
that
what
had
been
preached
might
be
printed
,
I
complied
therein
also
,
notwithstanding
multitude
of
business
lying
upon
my
hands
;
here
you
have
it
in
the
following
sheets
.
The
good
Lord
accompany
it
with
his
Spirit
and
blessing
upon
you
and
others
that
heard
,
or
shall
read
it
,
and
thereby
my
desire
and
design
will
be
accomplished
.
Your self
I
commend
to
the
good
will
of
him
that
dwelt
in
the
Bush.
May
the
Ever-living
and
Ever-blessed
God
be
your
Husband
,
Comforter
and
Portion
.
DEAR
SISTER
,
Novemb.
8
:
1695.
I
am
yours
in
the
best
Bonds
,
SA
.
SLATER
.
JOHN
XVII
.
13.
And
now
come
I
to
thee
.
IN
the
thirteenth
Chapter
of
this
Holy
Gospel
we
find
our
Lord
Jesus
(
in
whose
heart
it
was
to
fulfil
all
righteousness
)
had
celebrated
the
Passover
with
his
Disciples
;
at
which
Iudas
having
received
the
Sop
,
went
out
immediately
,
leaving
Christ
and
them
behind
him
,
but
carrying
the
Devil
in
him
.
It
was
Night
,
and
therefore
,
as
he
thought
,
a
fit
season
for
that
Work
of
Darkness
,
the
betraying
of
his
Lord
and
Master
into
the
hands
of
his
Enemies
,
who
thirsted
for
his
Blood.
The
Traitor
being
thus
of
his
own
accord
withdrawn
and
gone
,
and
our
Saviour
having
none
about
him
,
but
those
whom
he
knew
to
be
his
faithful
and
fast
Friends
,
preached
unto
them
this
his
last
,
most
sweet
and
excellent
Sermon
,
wherein
his
Lips
dropt
as
an
Honey-comb
;
beginning
it
at
the
Fourteenth
Chapter
,
and
continuing
it
to
the
end
of
the
Sixteenth
.
Therein
he
unbosoms
himself
to
them
,
and
speaks
his
very
heart
in
the
Language
of
Love
,
affording
to
them
precious
and
strong
Cordials
for
the
bearing
up
of
their
hearts
under
his
own
departure
from
them
(
which
he
well-knew
would
be
sorely
afflictive
to
their
Spirits
)
and
also
under
those
many
and
great
Tribulations
they
would
,
during
his
absence
,
meet
with
in
the
World
,
being
sent
as
a
little
Flock
of
Sheep
among
a
company
of
ravenous
Wolves
,
that
would
be
set
for
fleecing
and
devouring
them
.
The
Sermon
being
ended
,
which
he
delivered
,
that
in
him
they
might
have
Peace
,
knowing
they
had
to
do
with
a
conquer'd
Enemy
,
the
World
being
overcome
by
him
;
we
have
him
in
this
Chapter
putting
up
a
Prayer
to
his
Father
,
wherein
he
first
asked
something
for
himself
,
ver
.
9.
That
his
Father
would
glorify
him
with
his
own
self
,
with
that
glory
which
he
had
with
him
before
the
world
was
.
He
desires
the
manifestation
of
that
Glory
which
he
had
before
the
World
was
,
and
his
having
it
before
the
World
was
,
speaks
his
Subsistence
or
Being
before
the
World
was
,
and
by
consequence
his
being
from
Eternity
,
and
therefore
God.
He
also
prayed
for
his
People
,
both
those
that
did
at
that
time
believe
in
him
,
and
likewise
those
that
should
afterwards
believe
in
him
through
their
Word
.
The
things
he
asked
for
them
,
were
1.
That
they
might
be
sanctined
through
the
Truth
;
and
while
in
the
World
,
kept
from
the
Evil.
2.
That
they
might
be
united
and
made
One
,
yea
,
perfect
in
One.
And
3.
That
at
last
they
might
all
be
with
him
where
he
is
,
and
behold
his
Glory
,
taken
up
to
the
beatifical
Vision
,
to
a
constant
and
close
Communion
,
to
a
full
and
perfect
Fruition
of
him
.
And
the
reason
of
these
his
Desires
,
is
,
because
he
himself
was
to
be
no
longer
with
them
in
the
World
by
his
bodily
Presence
,
verse
11.
Now
I
am
no
more
in
the
world
,
but
these
are
in
the
world
,
and
I
come
to
thee
.
The
Work
that
he
came
into
the
World
for
,
was
at
that
time
almost
finished
;
and
the
Work
which
he
had
to
do
elsewhere
,
viz.
in
Heaven
,
called
him
away
.
I
am
,
saith
he
,
no
more
in
the
world
.
The
World
and
I
cannot
agree
.
It
is
a
vain
,
empty
,
sinful
,
wicked
,
and
a
malicious
World
,
it
refuseth
to
be
mended
,
and
it
cares
not
to
be
saved
,
and
I
have
been
long
enough
in
it
;
since
we
cannot
agree
,
we
will
part
.
It
is
weary
of
me
,
and
I
am
as
weary
of
it
,
yea
and
more
weary
too
:
I
never
tasted
of
its
Pleasures
,
and
I
care
not
for
its
Profits
;
that
Work
which
my
Father
gave
me
to
do
,
being
done
,
I
will
be
gone
.
I
come
to
thee
;
with
whom
it
is
best
being
,
for
in
thy
Presence
there
is
fulness
of
Joy
,
and
at
thy
Right-hand
Pleasures
for
evermore
.
To
thee
,
with
whom
I
was
from
everlasting
,
rejoycing
always
before
thee
,
and
being
daily
thy
delight
,
having
a
mutual
Delight
and
compleat
Satisfaction
each
in
other
.
To
thee
,
with
whom
I
desire
and
long
to
be
.
Father
,
I
come
;
as
soon
as
ever
I
have
drunk
off
that
Cup
which
thou
hast
given
me
to
drink
of
,
I
come
;
and
how
am
I
straitned
till
that
be
accomplished
,
and
glad
I
am
at
my
very
heart
,
that
thereupon
I
come
to
thee
.
Now
I
come
,
it
will
be
but
a
little
while
first
,
and
the
sooner
the
better
.
I
am
willing
to
leave
all
for
thee
,
to
leave
the
World
for
thee
,
yea
,
to
leave
my
dear
Disciples
for
thee
,
tho
they
be
my
Friends
,
the
Men
of
my
Choice
,
the
Purchase
of
ray
Blood
,
the
Members
of
my
Mystical
Body
,
yet
do
I
freely
leave
them
for
thee
;
Only
,
Father
,
I
consider
where
I
leave
them
,
in
a
World
that
hates
me
,
and
will
be
sure
to
hate
them
for
my
sake
;
and
therefore
while
I
leave
them
for
thee
,
I
would
leave
them
with
thee
.
I
put
them
into
thy
hand
,
let
that
uphold
and
defend
them
;
I
shelter
them
under
thy
Wing
,
let
that
secure
and
comfort
them
.
I
have
kept
them
while
I
was
with
them
;
when
I
shall
be
gone
,
do
thou
undertake
and
be
Surety
for
them
for
good
,
that
they
may
be
safe
in
the
midst
of
Enemies
,
and
stedfast
in
the
midst
of
Temptations
and
Assaults
;
yea
,
and
chearful
too
in
the
midst
of
Sufferings
and
Troubles
,
having
my
Joy
fulfilled
in
themselves
.
And
now
come
I
to
thee
.
The
Doctrine
which
from
hence
I
shall
observe
and
speak
to
in
the
following
Discourse
,
is
this
,
Doct.
An
Holy
Soul
is
,
and
very
well
may
be
willing
,
yea
,
heartily
glad
to
leave
the
world
;
because
when
it
doth
so
,
it
will
go
to
God.
I
look
upon
the
words
of
the
Text
,
as
the
Words
of
one
rejoycing
;
the
Language
of
one
whose
heart
did
even
leap
within
him
;
of
one
whose
Soul
was
upon
the
wing
of
holy
Desires
,
longing
to
be
at
its
home
.
Now
come
I
to
thee
,
and
when
I
once
am
with
thee
,
I
shall
be
where
I
would
be
,
and
with
whom
,
I
would
be
;
in
the
best
place
,
and
with
the
best
Company
;
what
suits
me
most
,
and
therefore
must
needs
please
me
best
.
Now
I
come
to
thee
,
whom
I
like
abve
all
,
being
infinite
in
all
Perfections
,
and
whom
therefore
I
love
and
prefer
before
all
.
Now
I
come
to
thee
,
who
art
mine
Eternal
Father
,
and
wilt
be
my
Eternal
Satisfaction
.
Our
Saviour
had
before
told
his
Disciples
in
John
14.
28.
That
if
they
loved
him
,
they
would
rejoice
because
he
said
,
I
go
to
my
Father
;
because
that
his
departure
would
be
glorious
to
himself
,
and
advantagious
to
them
;
but
whether
they
through
want
of
a
judicious
Love
would
rejoyce
in
it
or
no
,
he
himself
would
perfectly
,
understanding
how
things
were
and
would
be
.
Now
come
I
to
thee
.
Once
I
came
from
thee
to
do
thy
will
,
and
that
was
pleasing
to
me
;
I
delight
to
do
thy
Will
,
O
my
God
,
thy
Law
is
within
my
heart
.
Now
I
come
to
thee
to
enjoy
thy
Presence
,
and
that
will
be
to
me
incomparably
,
inexpressibly
sweet
.
Thus
it
was
with
our
dearest
Lord
and
Saviour
,
this
was
the
frame
,
these
the
actings
of
his
Spirit
;
and
thus
likewise
it
ought
to
be
with
all
his
People
,
who
were
predestinated
to
be
conformed
to
his
Image
,
and
who
ought
to
have
the
same
mind
in
them
that
was
in
him
,
for
he
acted
and
suffer'd
,
he
liv'd
and
died
,
leaving
us
an
Example
that
we
should
tread
in
his
Steps
.
In
the
Doctrine
which
I
have
laid
down
,
there
are
three
things
,
which
we
ought
to
take
notice
of
.
First
,
That
Gracious
and
Holy
Souls
must
leave
this
World.
The
World
to
come
will
be
their
Eternal
Habitation
,
but
in
this
present
evil
World
they
will
have
but
a
short
stay
.
Those
that
have
the
largest
share
of
its
good
things
,
those
that
are
most
useful
in
it
,
and
live
to
the
best
purpose
,
serving
their
Generations
according
to
the
Will
of
God
,
must
leave
it
.
Their
loving
Father
never
intended
this
for
the
place
for
their
constant
Residence
,
nor
the
Comforts
and
Enjoyments
here
for
their
Portion
.
The
highest
Heaven
in
his
Throne
,
the
Habitation
of
his
Holiness
and
Glory
;
and
he
was
always
resolved
to
have
his
Children
about
him
there
.
This
World
is
but
your
School
to
learn
in
during
your
Minority
;
your
House
to
work
in
till
you
have
finished
what
was
given
you
to
do
;
your
Tyring-room
to
dress
in
,
that
you
may
be
ready
for
the
Marriage
of
the
Lamb
;
a
Stage
to
act
your
Part
upon
,
see
that
you
so
quit
your selves
as
to
be
at
last
found
to
Praise
and
Honour
;
but
it
is
not
to
be
your
rest
,
because
it
is
polluted
.
God
hath
too
much
of
the
heart
of
a
Father
,
and
loves
his
Children
too
well
to
keep
them
always
in
a
Vale
of
Tears
,
where
they
shall
be
frequently
Suffering
and
Sighing
,
Complaining
and
Groaning
;
always
in
a
Wilderness
that
is
over-run
with
Briars
and
Thorns
,
and
an
innumerable
company
of
Beasts
of
Prey
;
the
wicked
of
the
World
are
their
irreconcilable
Enemies
,
and
implacably
hate
them
,
therefore
they
shall
not
always
have
them
to
wreak
their
Malice
and
Rage
upon
.
They
will
for
ever
envy
and
gnash
their
Teeth
at
them
,
because
of
their
happiness
in
Heaven
,
but
they
shall
not
for
ever
exercise
their
Patience
,
and
disturb
their
Peace
upon
Earth
.
Often
O
Saints
!
repeat
in
your
thoughts
,
that
this
World
is
but
the
House
of
your
Pilgrimage
,
therefore
let
not
any
of
you
love
it
too
well
;
but
while
you
live
in
it
,
be
you
weaned
from
it
;
remembring
there
is
a
better
place
prepared
and
taken
up
for
you
,
whither
the
forerunner
,
even
Jesus
,
is
entred
,
an
house
not
made
with
hands
,
eternal
in
the
heavens
,
whose
builder
and
maker
is
God.
Secondly
,
Whensoever
Gracious
and
Holy
Persons
leave
this
World
,
they
go
to
God.
The
decayed
and
crazy
Body
doth
no
sooner
cease
to
be
any
longer
capable
of
housing
so
noble
and
excellent
a
Guest
as
the
Soul
,
and
the
Soul
doth
no
sooner
dislodge
and
leave
that
once-beloved
Structure
,
but
that
it
doth
immediately
take
its
flight
,
and
mount
up
with
a
swift
and
speedy
Motion
,
and
a
direct
tendency
(
without
the
least
and
shortest
Digression
)
to
its
great
Creator
,
even
to
him
who
alone
is
the
Father
of
Spirits
.
It
cares
not
for
any
further
Converse
with
things
below
,
being
intirely
set
for
Communion
with
him
,
by
and
for
whom
it
was
made
,
and
on
this
side
of
whom
,
it
is
,
and
cannot
but
be
,
resiless
and
unquiet
.
Gen.
5.
24.
Enoch
walked
with
God
,
and
he
was
not
,
for
God
took
him
,
i.
e.
he
took
him
home
;
he
took
him
to
himself
,
into
the
presence
of
his
Glory
,
into
the
bosom
of
his
Love.
And
thus
it
hath
been
,
is
,
and
will
be
with
all
those
who
walk
as
Enoch
did
,
who
tread
in
the
same
Steps
,
and
keep
up
the
same
Communion
;
tho
indeed
they
do
not
all
go
the
same
Way
,
yet
they
go
to
the
same
Place
,
and
to
the
same
God.
Enoch
was
translated
that
he
might
not
see
death
,
Hebr.
11.
5.
He
was
presently
carried
up
to
Heaven
,
having
his
Soul
purified
,
and
his
Body
freed
from
Corruption
.
He
was
soon
cloathed
with
a
glorified
Body
;
as
for
other
holy
Ones
,
tho
they
see
Death
,
yet
they
are
translated
too
,
carried
from
Earth
to
Heaven
,
from
Creatures
to
God.
The
Body
must
descend
into
the
Grave
,
and
there
lye
putrifying
,
corrupting
,
crumbling
,
until
it
return
to
Dust
as
it
once
was
,
but
the
Spirit
returns
to
God
that
gave
it
.
I
desire
you
all
frequently
to
call
this
to
mind
,
and
consider
it
with
the
greatest
seriousness
,
and
see
that
you
have
sanctified
Souls
,
Souls
rightly
prepared
,
brought
into
such
a
frame
as
may
be
fit
to
appear
in
so
glorious
a
Presence
,
and
converse
with
so
pure
and
holy
a
Majesty
;
that
when
they
return
to
God
they
may
be
welcome
to
him
,
and
being
come
into
his
Presence
,
for
ever
dwell
and
abide
there
,
and
not
afterwards
cast
out
and
banisht
as
the
Object
of
his
loathing
.
Thirdly
,
Holy
Souls
may
very
well
be
willing
,
yea
glad
to
go
to
God.
As
a
Bride
is
to
go
to
her
endeared
Husband
;
and
as
a
Child
at
School
under
severe
Discipline
is
to
go
to
his
most
affectionate
and
tender
Parents
,
from
whom
instead
of
hard
Blows
,
he
shall
meet
with
soft
Embraces
.
Some
Saints
upon
record
in
Scripture
,
we
find
,
were
in
such
a
frame
.
Good
old
Simeon
was
in
haste
and
prayed
for
his
Dismission
,
Luke
2.
29
,
30.
Lord
,
now
lettest
thou
thy
servant
depart
in
peace
according
to
thy
word
,
for
mine
eyes
have
seen
thy
salvation
.
Having
seen
Christ
,
he
would
sain
see
the
Father
too
.
Having
got
Christ
in
his
Arms
,
he
would
have
the
World
on
his
back
.
He
reckon'd
that
he
had
liv'd
long
enough
here
,
and
would
needs
be
gone
.
He
had
now
got
his
full
freight
,
and
therefore
desired
to
set
up
his
Sail
for
the
other
World.
Having
beheld
so
great
a
sight
as
the
Lord
of
Glory
,
tho
but
in
his
Infancy
and
Swathing-bands
,
he
was
loath
that
his
Eyes
should
be
embased
with
the
beholding
of
earthly
Vanities
any
more
.
Paul
likewise
had
the
same
thing
in
his
desire
;
so
he
told
us
in
Phil.
1.
23.
I
have
a
desire
to
depart
,
and
to
be
with
Christ.
He
would
go
from
all
,
that
he
may
go
to
him
;
and
leave
all
,
that
he
might
be
with
him
;
and
he
understood
himself
,
and
acted
rationally
in
this
desire
;
for
it
is
,
saith
he
in
the
next
words
,
far
better
.
Heaven
is
inconceivably
better
than
Earth
,
when
it
is
in
the
greatest
Peace
,
when
it
expresseth
the
greatest
Kindness
.
He
very
well
knew
what
he
said
,
he
was
a
competent
Judge
,
having
been
an
Eye-witness
of
the
Felicity
and
Glory
above
,
taken
up
into
Paradice
into
the
Third
Heaven
.
And
tho
others
have
not
been
partakers
of
that
Priviledge
,
not
so
rapt
as
Paul
was
,
yet
they
are
of
the
same
Judgment
,
and
have
the
same
Desires
working
in
them
;
therefore
he
speaks
of
it
as
a
Spirit
and
Disposition
common
to
all
the
Saints
while
they
are
in
this
Tabernacle
.
Their
hearts
stand
Heavenward
,
as
the
Needle
doth
to
the
North-Pole
,
when
it
hath
been
once
touch'd
with
the
Loadstone
;
as
you
may
see
in
2
Cor.
5.
2.
In
this
we
groan
earnestly
,
desiring
to
be
cloathed
upon
with
our
house
which
is
from
heaven
.
They
had
not
only
some
small
Inclinations
that
way
,
and
languid
faint
Desires
,
but
earnest
Groans
.
And
again
,
verse
8.
We
are
confident
,
I
say
,
and
willing
rather
to
be
absent
from
the
body
,
and
present
with
the
Lord.
We
are
willing
,
not
only
out
of
necessity
,
because
this
is
a
thing
must
be
,
but
out
of
choice
,
we
had
rather
leave
the
Body
that
we
might
go
to
God.
But
now
we
are
to
enquire
,
why
it
is
thus
.
And
you
will
find
there
is
sufficient
,
yea
abundant
reason
for
it
,
if
you
do
consider
these
four
following
Particulars
:
First
,
In
going
to
God
,
they
go
to
their
Father
.
This
was
the
comfort
and
joy
of
our
Saviour's
heart
;
with
this
he
comforted
himself
,
and
with
this
he
comforted
his
Disciples
,
looking
upon
it
as
a
Cordial
strong
enough
for
them
all
,
John
20.
17.
Go
to
my
brethren
,
and
say
unto
them
,
I
ascend
unto
my
Father
and
your
Father
,
and
to
my
God
and
your
God.
Mine
by
Nature
,
yours
by
Adoption
.
I
am
now
going
to
one
that
I
am
most
nearly
related
to
,
and
most
fully
interested
in
.
And
in
Iohn
17.
we
find
him
insisting
and
dwelling
upon
this
,
as
that
which
he
took
singular
delight
in
,
and
suckt
a
great
deal
of
sweetness
from
,
verse
1.
Father
,
the
hour
is
come
.
Verse
5.
O
Father
,
glorify
thou
me
with
thine
own
.
Verse
11.
I
come
to
thee
,
Holy
Father
.
Verse
21.
Thou
Father
art
in
me
,
and
I
in
thee
.
Verse
24.
Father
,
I
will
that
they
whom
thou
hast
given
me
,
be
with
me
where
I
am
.
Verse
25.
O
righteous
Father
,
the
World
hath
not
known
thee
,
but
I
have
known
thee
,
&c.
It
is
certain
,
that
when
wicked
Men
,
the
worst
and
vilest
of
them
,
dye
,
they
go
to
God.
Did
I
say
,
Go
?
Rather
,
they
are
forc'd
and
drag'd
against
their
will
;
they
cannot
help
it
.
It
is
to
a
God
that
many
of
them
did
not
believe
,
but
laboured
with
all
their
might
to
obliterate
the
Notion
of
his
Being
,
because
troublesome
and
tormenting
to
them
,
Psalm
14.
1.
The
fool
hath
said
in
his
heart
,
there
is
no
God.
It
is
to
a
God
,
that
none
of
them
cared
to
know
,
and
be
acquainted
with
;
Job
21.
14.
They
say
unto
God
,
Depart
from
us
,
for
we
desire
not
the
knowledge
of
thy
ways
.
Neither
of
his
ways
,
nor
of
himself
.
They
go
to
God
as
their
Righteous
Judge
,
but
not
their
reconciled
and
gracious
Father
.
They
are
brought
before
his
Tribunal
as
Malefactors
to
receive
their
Doom
,
but
they
do
not
enter
into
his
Kingdom
as
Children
to
take
Possession
.
Whereas
those
that
are
truly
gracious
,
go
to
him
as
a
Father
;
as
a
Father
of
Mercies
,
yea
,
and
as
their
Father
in
Christ
;
to
him
as
a
God
,
yea
,
and
to
their
God
in
Covenant
;
to
a
God
and
Father
,
by
whom
they
were
begotten
,
of
whom
they
were
born
,
whose
Spirit
they
have
received
,
and
whose
Image
they
bear
.
Wicked
Men
go
to
God
to
give
an
account
of
what
they
have
done
in
the
Body
;
and
when
once
Sentence
is
past
upon
them
,
and
they
adjudged
to
their
Place
and
eternal
State
,
they
go
to
Devils
,
Matth.
24.
41.
Depart
from
me
ye
cursed
into
everlasting
fire
,
prepared
for
the
devil
and
his
angels
.
You
followed
his
Conduct
,
you
did
his
Drudgery
,
now
take
your
Wages
with
him
.
Where
he
is
,
there
shall
his
Servants
also
be
.
When
the
Saints
go
to
God
,
they
go
to
stay
,
and
to
take
up
their
everlasting
abode
with
him
,
Rev.
3.
12.
Him
that
overcometh
,
will
I
make
a
pillar
in
the
temple
of
my
God
,
and
he
shall
〈◊〉
no
more
out
.
As
they
shall
be
exalted
,
so
fixed
;
their
Happiness
shall
never
be
abated
,
their
Glory
never
eclipsed
.
Once
in
Christ
,
and
ever
in
Christ
,
there
is
no
total
and
final
falling
from
Grace
;
they
that
are
indeed
planted
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
shall
never
be
pluckt
up
;
and
so
in
the
present
case
,
once
in
Heaven
,
and
in
Heaven
to
eternity
:
1
Thess.
4.
16
,
17.
The
dead
in
Christ
shall
rise
first
;
then
we
which
are
alive
and
remain
,
shall
be
caught
up
together
with
them
in
the
clouds
,
to
meet
the
Lord
in
the
air
,
so
shall
we
ever
be
with
the
Lord.
After
that
meeting
,
there
shall
not
be
a
parting
any
more
.
Secondly
,
When
holy
Souls
go
to
God
,
they
shall
he
heartily
welcome
,
and
find
as
loving
and
gracious
a
Reception
as
they
can
desire
.
When
a
Sinner
doth
here
in
this
life
by
a
sincere
Repentance
break
off
from
his
Sins
,
and
returns
to
God
,
there
is
rejoycing
above
,
Luke
15.
●
,
and
10.
There
is
joy
in
the
presence
of
the
angels
of
God
over
one
sinner
that
repenteth
.
Where
upon
Bernard
said
,
The
Tears
of
a
Sinner
are
the
Wine
of
Angels
.
At
such
a
time
indeed
,
and
upon
such
an
account
,
Hell
is
in
an
uproar
,
and
the
Devils
fret
and
rage
;
they
cannot
endure
to
think
that
they
should
lose
any
of
their
Prey
,
and
that
one
of
their
Vassals
should
be
brought
into
the
liberty
of
the
Sons
of
God
:
But
in
Heaven
there
are
Triumphs
,
and
singing
of
Allelujahs
.
This
our
Lord
sets
out
in
the
Parable
of
the
Prodigal
Son
,
upon
whose
return
to
his
Father
and
his
Duty
,
there
were
Kisses
and
Embraces
,
Feasting
and
making
Merry
:
The
good
old
Man
forgot
his
Age
,
and
found
his
Legs
,
ran
to
meet
him
;
and
the
Family
following
so
good
an
example
,
was
in
a
transport
.
Just
so
there
is
in
Heaven
,
upon
a
gracious
Soul's
arrival
there
after
its
dissolution
:
The
great
God
doth
welcome
it
;
even
the
whole
Trinity
;
the
Father
who
elected
it
,
the
Son
who
redeemed
it
,
the
Holy
Ghost
who
sanctified
it
.
It
s
old
Relations
and
godly
Friends
do
welcome
it
,
for
they
will
not
then
be
Strangers
to
one
another
,
but
both
know
and
be
known
.
It
shall
be
welcom'd
by
an
innumerable
company
of
Angels
,
who
are
now
ministring
Spirits
unto
the
Heirs
of
Salvation
,
and
by
the
general
Assembly
and
Church
of
the
First-born
,
by
all
the
Spirits
of
just
Men
made
perfect
in
Heaven
.
Whatever
weeping
and
mourning
,
bitter
sighs
and
lamentations
there
are
here
,
for
being
deprived
of
a
faithful
Friend
;
a
comfortable
Yokefellow
;
a
pleasant
and
hopeful
Child
;
a
learned
,
orthodox
and
painful
Minister
;
an
useful
,
warm
and
exemplary
Church-member
,
that
did
adorn
Religion
,
and
credit
his
holy
Profession
,
there
are
Triumphs
above
for
the
addition
of
another
Star
that
will
for
ever
gloriously
shine
in
that
celestial
Orb.
Then
indeed
is
that
fulfilled
which
is
written
in
Psal.
45.
14
,
15.
Those
thrice-happy
Souls
are
brought
unto
the
King
in
rayment
of
needle-work
,
a
curiously
embroidered
garment
,
a
spotless
beautiful
robe
of
righteousness
wrought
for
them
by
the
hand
of
Christ
himself
;
with
gladness
and
rejoicing
are
they
brought
,
they
do
enter
into
the
King's
Palace
.
So
shall
they
be
received
with
the
highest
demonstrations
of
affection
.
Christ
hath
most
graciously
and
faithfully
promised
,
that
when
Sinners
do
now
come
unto
him
,
he
will
in
no
wise
cast
them
out
.
And
when
Saints
do
at
death
come
to
him
,
he
will
in
no
wise
shut
them
out
,
but
an
abundant
entrance
shall
be
ministred
to
them
into
the
glorious
Kingdom
of
their
God
and
Saviour
:
Yea
,
and
when
the
Lord
Jesus
shall
have
delivered
up
his
Mediatorial
Kingdom
to
the
Father
,
they
shall
still
keep
the
Mansions
prepared
for
them
in
their
Father's
house
,
and
God
himself
shall
be
all
in
all
to
them
.
Thirdly
,
These
holy
Souls
shall
not
only
meet
with
an
hearty
welcome
from
God
,
and
all
the
blessed
Inhabitants
of
that
Region
of
Light
and
Love
;
but
also
they
shall
find
a
most
splendid
and
glorious
entertainment
,
such
as
will
evidently
shew
forth
the
Love
,
and
Greatness
,
and
Glory
of
God
himself
;
and
not
only
issue
in
their
full
satisfaction
,
but
likewise
excite
and
keep
up
in
them
eternal
Admirings
.
There
are
many
Mansions
,
and
a
place
provided
for
every
one
of
them
,
in
which
they
shall
have
room
enough
,
and
whatsoever
will
be
pleasant
to
them
for
Delights
.
A
Throne
,
a
Robe
of
Glory
,
a
Crown
of
Righteousness
,
hidden
Manna
,
the
Tree
of
Life
,
which
is
in
the
midst
of
the
Paradise
of
God
;
and
to
render
their
happiness
complete
,
those
bodies
of
theirs
,
which
are
now
bodies
of
vileness
,
when
they
come
to
be
raised
out
of
their
Bed
of
dust
by
the
Divine
Power
,
and
reunited
to
their
Souls
,
shall
be
made
like
unto
Christ's
own
most
glorious
body
,
Philip.
3.
21.
What
shall
I
say
?
Had
I
the
Tongues
of
men
and
Angels
,
I
could
not
speak
more
than
is
,
the
largest
descriptions
will
fall
unspeakably
short
;
when
you
come
there
,
you
will
say
not
one
half
was
told
you
.
I
may
say
this
in
general
,
in
Heaven
you
will
meet
with
that
,
which
will
far
more
than
defray
all
the
Charges
you
were
put
to
here
;
that
which
will
abundantly
compensate
and
make
amends
for
all
the
hardships
you
endured
here
.
Those
that
have
been
the
greatest
Sufferers
in
this
world
,
when
they
come
into
the
next
,
will
thankfully
and
chearfully
acknowledge
they
are
no
Losers
.
They
shall
receive
that
which
shall
richly
reward
all
their
pains
;
so
that
instead
of
complaining
their
labour
is
lost
,
they
shall
wonder
such
sorry
services
should
be
so
recompenced
,
and
cry
,
Grace
,
Grace
to
it
.
They
shall
have
the
accomplishment
of
all
their
hopes
,
their
former
askings
and
thoughts
being
outdone
.
That
which
is
laid
up
for
them
,
and
shall
be
given
out
to
them
,
will
transcend
their
highest
expectations
,
be
a
full
and
complete
answer
to
all
their
Prayers
,
satisfy
,
silence
,
and
put
an
everlasting
period
to
all
their
desires
;
for
their
enjoyments
will
be
so
great
,
and
their
capacities
so
fill'd
,
that
there
will
be
no
room
left
for
more
.
God
will
then
make
good
all
his
Promises
,
which
are
exceeding
great
and
precious
,
so
that
not
one
tittle
of
them
shall
fail
;
and
by
this
means
all
tears
shall
be
wiped
from
their
eyes
,
sorrow
and
sighing
shall
flee
away
,
never
more
to
return
,
and
they
shall
enjoy
an
endless
Sabbath
,
an
everlasting
Triumph
,
being
fill'd
with
joy
unspeakable
,
and
full
of
glory
.
In
short
,
there
is
that
which
mortal
eye
hath
not
seen
,
nor
ear
heard
,
nor
hath
it
entred
into
the
heart
of
man
;
and
though
the
holy
and
blessed
Angels
,
which
kept
their
standing
,
and
continue
to
be
Heaven's
Courtiers
,
do
both
see
and
enjoy
it
,
yet
they
are
not
able
to
express
it
;
there
is
all
that
which
our
dearest
Lord
Jesus
did
purchase
at
the
inestimable
price
of
his
own
heart-blood
.
Now
from
all
this
which
hath
been
spoken
,
there
is
abundant
reason
to
conclude
Lastly
,
That
those
holy
and
truly
happy
Souls
are
better
with
God
in
Heaven
,
than
they
were
while
here
,
or
could
ever
possibly
have
been
.
True
love
is
free
and
liberal
to
its
endeared
object
,
it
studieth
to
be
so
,
and
takes
singular
pleasure
in
it
.
Those
that
are
kind
and
affectionate
Husbands
,
and
live
up
to
the
Law
of
their
Relation
,
do
and
will
make
it
their
business
and
endeavour
to
make
the
Lives
of
their
Yokefellows
not
only
easy
to
them
,
but
as
comfortable
as
they
can
.
But
alas
!
how
short
is
their
Arm
,
how
many
outward
and
inward
Troubles
are
there
which
their
skill
and
power
cannot
reach
?
But
it
must
be
granted
,
all
that
which
they
can
do
,
is
not
comparable
to
that
which
God
doth
for
his
People
,
nor
to
be
named
in
the
same
day
with
it
.
All
that
own
a
God
,
must
acknowledge
he
is
infinitely
beyond
the
greatest
of
men
in
power
,
infinitely
above
the
highest
and
best
of
Creatures
in
love
.
What
is
a
broken
Cistern
that
will
hold
no
water
,
to
the
Well
of
Salvation
,
the
Fountain
of
living
waters
?
What
is
a
pitiful
little
Drop
,
but
one
remove
from
nothing
,
to
the
boundless
,
bottomless
Ocean
of
Being
and
Goodness
?
Suppose
there
were
ten
thousand
thousand
worlds
,
and
put
them
all
together
,
what
would
they
all
be
to
one
God
?
And
then
though
the
enjoyment
which
the
Saints
have
of
God
now
,
doth
far
exceed
all
the
sinful
and
sensual
enjoyments
of
carnal
and
profane
Worldlings
,
which
was
the
reason
why
Moses
did
esteem
the
reproach
of
Christ
greater
riches
than
the
treasures
of
Egypt
,
and
rather
chose
to
suffer
affliction
with
the
People
of
God
,
than
to
enjoy
the
pleasures
of
sin
for
a
season
;
and
made
that
Noble
Italian
Marquis
Galeaceus
say
,
Cursed
be
that
man
who
counts
all
the
world
worth
one
hours
enjoyment
of
Iesus
Christ.
Yet
compare
the
best
,
and
fullest
,
and
sweetest
of
the
Saints
enjoyments
here
,
with
those
in
the
mansions
above
,
and
they
fall
exceeding
short
of
them
;
for
,
what
is
sitting
under
the
shadow
of
Christ
,
to
the
beholding
of
his
glory
?
what
is
the
joy
of
Faith
,
to
that
of
sight
?
what
is
a
love
letter
,
or
message
of
peace
,
or
kind
token
from
God
now
and
then
,
to
a
lying
in
his
bosom
,
to
a
being
and
continuance
in
his
joy
?
what
is
seeing
of
his
power
and
glory
in
the
Sanctuary
,
to
the
beatifical
Vision
?
what
is
seeing
in
a
glass
darkly
,
to
a
seeing
face
to
face
;
seeing
as
we
are
seen
,
and
knowing
as
we
are
known
?
what
are
the
first-fruits
of
the
Spirit
,
to
the
whole
harvest
?
what
some
Praelibamina
,
foretastes
,
to
a
sitting
down
with
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
and
Iacob
,
in
that
Kingdom
of
God
at
the
feast
of
glory
,
and
there
taking
the
fill
of
love
to
all
eternity
?
while
the
Saints
are
present
in
the
body
,
they
are
absent
from
the
Lord
,
and
a
state
of
absence
neither
doth
nor
can
afford
satisfaction
;
the
holy
Soul
during
that
,
will
with
the
enamoured
Spouse
be
longing
and
crying
,
Make
haste
my
Beloved
,
and
be
thou
like
a
Roe
or
young
Hart
upon
the
mountains
of
spices
.
It
is
only
in
the
glorious
presence
of
God
that
such
an
one
will
find
a
fulness
of
joy
,
and
at
his
right
hand
those
pleasures
which
are
for
evermore
.
Let
us
now
come
to
the
improvement
of
this
Point
in
a
way
of
Application
,
and
the
first
Use
shall
be
for
Information
,
in
three
things
:
If
it
be
just
matter
of
rejoicing
to
holy
Souls
,
that
at
death
they
go
to
God
;
then
from
hence
,
First
,
We
may
learn
the
folly
and
misery
of
those
who
do
now
depart
from
God
;
whose
lives
are
nothing
else
but
a
continual
departure
from
him
.
Yea
,
in
the
very
Acts
of
Worship
,
when
they
draw
nigh
to
him
with
their
lips
,
their
hearts
are
estranged
and
far
from
him
,
running
after
their
covetousness
.
The
folly
that
is
in
this
course
of
life
is
very
apparent
,
and
the
misery
that
certainly
attends
it
,
will
be
one
day
no
less
sensible
;
but
there
are
too
too
many
among
us
guilty
hereof
;
some
through
the
principle
and
power
of
Unbelief
;
their
not
giving
credit
to
the
reports
of
the
Word
,
neither
to
its
dreadful
Threatnings
,
nor
to
its
sweet
and
gracious
Promises
.
Do
you
,
I
beseech
you
,
look
carefully
to
it
,
that
there
be
not
in
any
of
you
an
evil
heart
of
unbelief
,
in
departing
from
the
living
God.
Others
,
yea
and
the
same
persons
too
,
make
this
departure
from
God
out
of
love
to
the
world
;
for
if
any
man
love
the
world
,
the
love
of
the
Father
is
not
in
him
.
And
it
is
no
wonder
to
see
men
going
from
that
place
and
company
where
and
with
whom
they
do
not
love
to
be
;
have
a
care
of
the
world
therefore
,
let
it
not
bewitch
you
.
While
ye
live
in
it
,
be
ye
not
devoted
to
it
,
but
weaned
from
it
.
If
you
do
set
your
hearts
upon
the
world
,
you
will
turn
your
back
upon
God.
Demas
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
hath
forsaken
me
;
and
in
forsaking
him
,
he
forsook
Christ
:
what
was
the
reason
of
it
,
but
his
embracing
this
present
world
,
2
Tim.
4.
10.
How
powerful
and
prevalent
are
these
two
things
,
unbelief
,
and
love
of
the
world
,
with
the
generality
of
men
!
what
a
vast
multitude
of
persons
do
they
carry
away
from
God!
What
is
there
that
in
a
moral
way
he
could
have
done
more
,
than
that
which
he
hath
done
?
He
hath
frequently
and
loudly
called
them
by
messenger
after
messenger
;
he
hath
most
graciously
invited
them
,
most
lovingly
and
sweetly
allur'd
them
,
and
used
variety
of
means
and
arguments
to
conquer
their
aversness
,
to
convince
their
judgments
,
to
gain
their
hearts
,
and
bring
them
to
him
;
yet
,
after
all
,
he
hath
cause
to
complain
,
Ye
will
not
come
to
me
that
ye
may
have
life
.
Nay
,
in
stead
of
coming
to
him
,
they
are
running
further
and
further
from
him
,
as
if
they
thought
they
could
never
be
at
too
great
a
distance
;
whereas
they
have
no
cause
to
run
from
God
,
for
in
so
doing
they
run
from
life
,
and
rest
,
and
happiness
,
and
into
the
mouth
of
ruin
and
destruction
,
and
are
too
far
removed
from
him
already
.
They
are
already
without
God
in
the
world
,
Ephes.
2.
12.
They
were
born
with
their
backs
upon
God
,
were
Transgressors
from
the
womb
,
going
astray
,
speaking
and
seeking
Lyes
,
and
so
they
continue
to
do
,
for
every
wilful
Sin
is
a
step
from
God.
Now
I
would
desire
such
to
consider
,
and
that
seriously
,
whether
this
their
way
be
not
their
folly
.
The
Scripture
doth
expresly
tell
us
,
They
that
are
far
from
him
shall
perish
,
Psal.
73.
27.
and
that
he
hath
destroyed
all
them
that
go
a
whoring
from
him
.
And
as
he
hath
done
,
so
he
will
go
on
to
do
;
for
he
is
in
one
mind
,
and
in
this
case
Repentance
shall
be
hid
from
his
eyes
.
And
to
this
add
one
Consideration
more
,
You
must
appear
before
him
at
the
last
whether
you
will
or
no
;
though
you
should
call
to
the
rocks
to
cover
you
,
and
the
mountains
to
fall
upon
you
,
and
hide
you
from
the
wrath
of
the
Lamb
,
and
from
the
face
of
him
that
sitteth
upon
the
Throne
,
yet
you
must
appear
.
Now
you
will
not
be
invited
to
him
as
a
Saviour
;
then
you
shall
be
dragged
before
him
as
a
Judge
.
Suppose
you
should
then
beg
and
plead
,
Lord
,
Lord
,
open
to
us
;
what
answer
can
you
look
for
at
his
hands
but
this
,
Depart
from
me
,
for
I
know
you
not
.
And
how
do
you
think
he
should
know
you
,
since
as
long
as
you
liv'd
,
you
would
never
acquaint
your selves
with
him
.
Oh
poor
Sinners
!
be
wise
while
you
may
,
and
know
assuredly
,
it
is
best
going
to
him
now
for
a
pardon
,
and
grace
,
and
acceptance
,
before
you
go
to
him
to
receive
your
final
Sentence
.
If
you
will
not
now
go
to
him
as
humble
Penitents
,
with
Confessions
and
Supplications
,
that
your
Sins
may
be
blotted
out
,
you
shall
come
to
him
as
Criminals
in
order
to
execution
;
and
if
you
desire
to
know
aforehand
what
your
punishment
will
be
,
you
may
read
it
in
2
Thess.
1.
8.
Everlasting
destruction
from
the
presence
of
the
Lord
,
and
from
the
glory
of
his
power
.
Secondly
,
We
may
from
hence
learn
,
what
our
life
in
the
world
should
be
:
It
is
a
matter
of
very
high
and
near
concernment
for
men
and
women
to
understand
themselves
well
in
this
particular
,
to
know
what
they
should
be
and
do
,
and
how
they
should
live
,
that
they
may
be
approved
;
and
truly
our
life
should
be
a
coming
to
God
,
and
a
walking
with
him
.
In
the
first
Conversion
there
is
a
facing
about
,
a
turning
of
the
mind
and
heart
to
God.
Christ
sent
Paul
to
the
Gentiles
,
to
turn
them
from
darkness
to
light
,
and
from
the
power
of
Satan
to
God.
And
after
the
first
turn
is
made
,
there
should
be
a
further
returning
;
all
the
actions
of
the
life
should
be
so
many
steps
back
to
God.
This
was
the
great
design
and
end
of
our
Lord
Iesus
in
his
dying
,
not
only
that
he
might
bring
pardon
and
peace
to
men
,
but
also
that
he
might
bring
men
to
God
,
bring
them
into
favour
with
God
,
yea
,
and
into
obedience
and
conformity
to
him
,
and
into
a
communion
and
conversation
with
him
,
1
Pet.
3.
18.
He
suffered
,
the
just
for
the
unjust
,
that
he
might
bring
us
to
God.
Now
since
that
was
the
gracious
design
of
Christ
,
the
blessed
and
noble
end
he
had
in
his
eye
,
and
was
willing
to
be
at
so
much
cost
for
the
accomplishment
of
,
shall
not
we
comply
with
him
therein
?
shall
it
not
be
in
our
heart
,
as
well
as
in
his
?
And
since
we
have
so
great
an
excellent
Person
to
take
us
by
the
hand
and
introduce
us
,
and
bring
us
in
and
present
us
to
the
Father
,
let
us
go
,
let
us
not
draw
back
,
let
us
not
stand
questioning
and
disputing
,
and
saying
,
Shall
I
,
shall
I
?
this
is
a
meer
loss
of
time
,
let
us
go
presently
,
the
sooner
the
better
.
You
have
heard
that
you
must
go
at
last
,
yes
,
you
must
,
there
is
no
possibility
of
avoiding
it
,
and
therefore
let
us
all
be
persuaded
,
and
heartily
willing
to
go
now
.
To
day
if
you
will
hear
his
voice
,
harden
not
your
hearts
.
Go
now
to
God
in
your
Mind
and
Thoughts
,
in
your
Hearts
and
Affections
,
before
you
go
in
your
Persons
.
Get
as
much
of
Heaven
as
you
can
before-hand
.
The
Psalmist
said
,
Psalm
73.
ult
.
It
was
good
for
him
to
draw
night
to
God.
And
without
peradventure
,
it
is
full
out
as
good
now
as
it
was
then
,
as
good
for
us
as
it
was
for
him
.
It
is
both
a
pleasant
good
,
and
a
profitable
one
.
Let
us
therefore
do
it
,
yea
,
and
be
drawing
nearer
and
nearer
to
him
every
day
,
never
thinking
our selves
near
enough
so
long
as
we
are
in
a
far
Country
,
and
till
we
come
to
be
with
him
in
Heaven
.
And
yet
again
,
let
us
not
think
it
enough
to
to
be
making
frequent
approaches
to
him
in
Holy
Duties
,
and
in
Gospel
Ordinances
,
which
are
as
a
Iacob's
Ladder
,
upon
which
the
holy
Soul
ascends
and
makes
its
spiritual
advances
,
but
keep
up
a
daily
Walk
with
God
,
as
Enoch
and
Noah
did
in
their
Generations
;
maintain
an
intimate
and
constant
Communion
with
him
,
that
you
may
be
able
to
say
with
Paul
,
Our
Conversation
is
in
Heaven
.
And
with
Iohn
,
Truly
our
fellowship
is
with
the
Father
,
and
with
his
Son
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ.
Oh
how
Noble
is
it
to
converse
with
God!
it
meliorates
and
raiseth
,
and
spiritualizeth
the
Soul
;
it
never
is
with
him
,
but
it
comes
away
better
from
him
;
and
how
sweet
is
it
,
God
being
pleasant
for
delights
;
for
certain
you
will
find
and
judge
it
so
,
when
you
do
once
come
by
experience
to
know
what
it
is
,
you
will
then
say
as
Peter
did
upon
the
Mount
of
Transfiguration
,
It
is
good
,
Lord
,
to
be
here
.
Thirdly
,
We
may
from
hence
learn
that
,
It
is
very
much
our
Interest
,
and
therefore
our
wisdom
to
bid
God
heartily
welcome
,
whensoever
he
is
geaciously
pleased
so
far
to
condescend
as
to
come
to
us
.
You
have
heard
,
and
I
hope
you
believe
,
that
it
is
appointed
for
all
Men
once
to
dye
,
and
when
we
do
dye
,
let
it
be
in
what
way
it
will
,
and
by
what
stroke
it
will
and
let
us
be
in
what
State
and
Frame
we
will
,
we
must
all
of
us
go
to
God
,
all
appear
before
the
Judgment-Seat
of
Christ.
And
let
us
think
with
our selves
what
Entertainment
we
would
have
then
;
how
we
would
have
Christ
carry
toward
us
.
Do
not
we
desire
that
he
should
receive
us
graciously
,
and
bid
us
welcome
as
some
of
his
old
Friends
and
Acquaintance
?
Would
we
not
be
glad
to
hear
him
owning
us
before
his
Father
and
the
Holy
Angels
,
and
saying
to
us
,
Come
ye
blessed
of
my
Father
,
inherit
the
kingdom
prepared
for
you
?
I
do
not
in
the
least
question
but
you
would
.
Then
I
counsel
you
,
that
in
order
thereunto
,
you
would
now
carry
kindly
toward
God
,
and
receive
him
as
it
becomes
an
infinite
Great
,
Holy
,
and
Glorious
Majesty
to
be
received
.
Know
this
,
such
is
his
Goodness
that
he
often
comes
to
you
.
Frequently
in
his
word
,
therein
he
discovers
and
reveals
his
Mind
and
Will
concerning
you
,
opens
to
you
the
Mysteries
of
his
Kingdom
that
were
kept
hid
from
Ages
and
Generations
,
from
the
Wise
and
Prudent
of
the
World.
Bid
him
welcome
,
and
his
Word
welcome
,
say
with
Hez●kiah
,
Good
is
the
word
of
the
Lord
;
yea
,
those
Precepts
of
it
that
are
most
contrary
to
corrupt
Nature
,
and
those
threatnings
of
it
that
are
most
tremendous
and
startling
.
Receive
it
into
your
Hearts
as
well
as
into
your
Heads
,
and
let
it
dwell
richly
in
you
.
Do
not
imprison
any
word
of
God
,
as
Asa
did
one
of
the
Messengers
that
brought
it
;
do
not
rebel
against
the
Light
;
do
not
hold
any
truth
in
unrighteousness
.
Sometimes
he
comes
to
you
by
his
Spirit
,
in
such
and
such
an
holy
Motion
,
awakening
you
out
of
your
Sleep
and
Sloth
,
reducing
you
from
such
a
wandering
,
calling
you
to
such
a
Word
and
Duty
.
Now
,
do
not
you
resist
him
,
but
submit
and
comply
;
do
not
you
quench
him
,
but
bring
fewel
rather
;
do
not
grieve
him
,
but
labour
to
be
his
Delight
and
Joy.
Carefully
listen
to
his
Voice
,
and
make
speed
to
follow
his
Ducture
,
as
Paul
did
immediately
,
not
consulting
with
Flesh
and
Blood
when
God
had
once
revealed
his
Son
in
him
.
The
Spouse
was
guilty
of
vile
Ingratitude
,
and
sinn'd
grievously
in
lying
lazily
,
and
asking
her self
a
company
of
simple
questions
,
I
have
put
off
my
coat
,
how
shall
I
put
it
on
?
I
have
washed
my
feet
,
how
shall
I
defile
them
?
Which
spake
her
loath
to
stir
,
when
her
beloved
who
had
done
a
great
deal
more
,
and
deserved
much
better
at
her
hands
,
stood
all
the
while
without
knocking
at
the
Door
,
calling
and
begging
for
Admission
,
Cant.
5.
2.
Open
to
me
my
sister
,
my
love
,
my
dove
,
my
undefiled
.
One
would
have
thought
such
language
of
Love
should
have
melted
,
should
have
raised
her
.
Do
not
you
contract
upon
your selves
guilt
of
the
same
kind
;
therefore
my
advice
to
you
shall
be
the
same
with
what
you
find
in
Psalm
24.
7.
Lift
up
your
heads
,
O
ye
gates
,
and
be
ye
lift
up
ye
everlasting
doors
,
and
the
king
of
glory
shall
come
in
.
Follow
this
advice
,
will
you
?
Oh
that
you
would
,
remembring
that
you
your selves
must
one
day
go
to
God
,
and
let
that
influence
you
to
such
a
demeanour
of
your selves
toward
him
now
,
as
that
you
may
not
at
last
find
the
Door
shut
against
you
,
and
be
forced
to
stand
without
calling
and
crying
in
the
bitterness
of
your
Souls
,
Lord
,
Lord
,
open
to
us
,
but
may
have
an
entrance
ministred
to
you
abundantly
into
the
glorious
kingdom
of
your
God
and
Saviour
;
Know
for
certain
,
the
very
same
measure
you
mete
out
,
shall
be
meted
into
you
again
;
with
the
pure
he
will
shew
himself
pure
,
and
with
the
froward
he
will
shew
himself
froward
.
If
you
will
be
deaf
to
his
call
now
,
he
will
not
hear
yours
at
last
,
Prov.
1.
24
&c.
Because
I
have
called
,
and
ye
refused
;
I
have
stretched
out
my
hand
,
and
no
man
regarded
.
When
your
fear
cometh
as
desolation
,
and
your
destruction
cometh
as
a
whirlwind
;
when
distress
and
anguish
cometh
upon
you
,
then
shall
they
call
upon
me
,
but
I
will
not
answer
;
they
shall
seek
me
early
,
but
they
shall
not
find
me
.
The
second
Use
that
I
shall
make
of
this
Point
,
shall
be
for
Examination
:
Let
you
and
me
fall
to
work
,
and
put
our selves
upon
the
Scrutiny
,
for
I
can
assure
you
,
it
will
be
no
lost
labour
to
search
and
try
our selves
,
whether
we
are
such
,
and
our
State
such
,
as
may
at
a
dying
hour
be
willing
to
go
to
God
,
and
may
at
the
present
rejoyce
in
the
thoughts
of
it
;
and
so
,
tho
we
must
expect
to
fall
by
the
stroke
of
Death
,
yet
we
are
deliver'd
from
the
fear
of
Death
.
And
in
order
to
the
resolving
of
this
great
case
,
let
us
propound
to
our selves
these
three
Questions
,
and
deal
faithfully
with
our
own
Souls
,
for
it
is
dangerous
,
yea
ruinous
to
be
deceived
in
a
matter
of
so
great
importance
.
First
,
Hath
there
been
reconciliation
made
between
God
and
you
.
Is
it
Peace
,
O
my
Soul
,
is
it
peace
?
There
was
a
b●each
,
that
breach
sprung
up
to
an
Enmity
,
that
Enmity
produc'd
a
War
;
you
have
been
fighters
against
God
,
there
have
been
Acts
of
Hostility
,
how
is
it
now
?
Is
that
Breach
made
up
,
is
that
Enmity
taken
away
,
and
the
War
at
an
end
?
There
hath
been
Peace
offered
to
you
,
and
most
condescending
gracious
Terms
propounded
,
have
you
accepted
and
closed
with
them
?
It
cannot
but
be
a
most
dreadful
thing
for
a
poor
Creature
to
find
it self
at
last
no
other
than
a
vessel
of
wrath
fitted
for
destruction
,
one
in
whom
God
can
have
no
pleasure
.
It
is
a
dreadful
thing
for
one
that
lived
a
pitiful
life
,
and
had
little
else
but
trouble
in
this
world
,
to
find
it
unspeakably
worse
in
the
next
,
trouble
here
,
and
torment
there
.
A
dreadful
thing
for
one
that
was
cloathed
with
Silk
and
Velvet
,
far'd
deliciously
every
day
,
swam
in
pleasures
,
and
had
the
world
at
will
,
to
lie
down
in
sorrow
upon
a
Bed
of
Flames
,
where
throughout
Eternity
he
cannot
procure
a
moment's
ease
,
nor
a
drop
of
water
to
cool
his
tongue
.
How
sad
will
it
be
,
when
a
poor
Soul
is
deprived
of
those
comforts
and
delights
which
it
eagerly
hunted
after
,
and
plac'd
its
happiness
in
,
and
is
turned
out
of
house
and
home
;
its
old
tabernacle
of
the
body
being
so
weak
and
crazy
,
that
there
is
no
possibility
of
continuing
there
any
longer
,
and
goeth
naked
to
God
,
who
alone
is
able
to
afford
it
succor
and
relief
,
and
then
it
findeth
that
he
is
an
enemy
to
it
,
and
will
not
give
it
one
good
word
or
look
,
nor
receive
it
into
everlasting
habitations
.
Well
,
do
you
now
think
seriously
of
it
,
God
is
in
Christ
reconciling
the
world
to
himself
,
and
he
hath
committed
to
us
the
Word
of
reconciliation
,
and
we
as
the
Embassadors
of
Christ
,
and
Messengers
of
Peace
,
have
sounded
this
Word
in
your
ears
;
and
as
tho
God
did
beseech
you
by
us
,
we
have
often
and
often
prayed
you
in
Christ's
stead
that
ye
would
be
reconciled
to
God.
Now
enquire
how
hath
this
Word
wrought
upon
you
?
Hath
it
come
to
you
not
in
Word
only
,
but
also
in
Power
?
What
effect
hath
it
had
?
Is
the
enmity
that
was
in
your
hearts
and
natures
to
God
slain
?
Have
you
thrown
down
your
Weapons
of
Rebellion
?
Are
you
reconciled
unto
God
?
Have
you
laid
hold
by
an
hand
of
Faith
upon
Christ
,
who
is
his
strength
,
in
order
to
the
making
of
peace
with
him
?
He
hath
promised
that
in
that
way
you
shall
make
peace
with
him
,
otherwise
never
expect
it
,
for
it
will
be
but
in
vain
;
to
persons
out
of
Christ
,
he
is
a
consuming
fire
,
and
everlasting
burnings
.
Have
you
submitted
to
God
,
and
stoop'd
and
bow'd
to
his
Government
?
Do
you
like
and
love
his
Law
?
Are
you
desirous
that
he
should
reign
over
you
,
and
erect
his
Throne
in
you
?
Set
this
down
with
your selves
as
a
most
certain
truth
,
that
unless
you
receive
him
for
your
Lord
and
King
,
you
will
never
find
him
your
Friend
.
Secondly
,
Can
you
say
as
Christ
did
in
this
Chapter
,
that
you
have
glorified
God
upon
earth
?
All
the
glory
that
great
Personages
,
Lords
and
Ladies
,
Kings
and
Queens
have
now
,
will
not
stead
them
,
nor
comfort
them
at
the
last
,
but
their
having
brought
glory
to
God
in
their
generation
,
and
several
places
.
Christ
did
this
,
and
he
found
the
thought
of
it
sweet
to
him
,
he
reflected
upon
it
with
joy
;
and
this
all
of
us
should
do
too
in
cur
measure
,
and
to
the
utmost
of
our
power
:
for
this
was
the
end
of
our
Creation
,
for
this
we
were
sent
into
the
world
,
without
this
we
live
to
no
purpose
;
and
without
this
we
cannot
rationally
expect
to
be
accepted
of
him
,
or
glorified
by
him
.
But
here
some
poor
humble
Christian
may
object
against
its
self
,
and
say
,
When
you
speak
of
my
glorifying
God
,
it
strikes
all
my
hopes
dead
,
for
I
have
not
done
it
,
nay
,
I
have
not
been
in
a
capacity
of
doing
it
.
What
glory
can
the
infinitely
great
and
ever-blessed
God
(
who
is
exalted
above
all
blessing
and
praise
)
possibly
receive
from
such
a
sorry
contemptible
Worm
,
such
an
earthen
Vessel
,
such
a
broken
Potsherd
as
I
am
?
I
do
with
grief
and
self-abhorrence
own
and
acknowledge
that
I
have
highly
dishonour'd
him
,
being
a
discredit
to
his
holy
and
reverend
Name
while
I
was
called
by
it
,
and
a
disparagement
to
Religion
while
I
made
a
profession
of
it
.
But
let
me
ask
thee
,
Was
not
the
glory
of
God
dear
to
thee
,
and
his
Name
precious
?
Was
he
not
highest
in
thy
esteem
,
valued
above
all
the
world
,
set
up
in
the
Throne
,
all
other
things
being
made
his
Footstool
?
Canst
thou
not
with
all
thy
heart
say
after
the
Prophet
in
Psal.
73.
Whom
have
I
in
heaven
but
thee
,
and
there
is
none
upon
earth
that
I
desire
beside
thee
?
Hast
thou
made
him
thy
choice
,
and
desired
to
live
in
an
obedience
to
him
,
and
expressiveness
of
him
?
Hast
thou
commended
him
to
others
,
thy
Relations
,
Friends
and
Neighbours
,
and
endeavoured
in
thy
place
to
enlarge
his
Kingdom
,
and
submit
themselves
to
his
Government
?
Hast
thou
offered
thy self
and
thy
praise
to
him
?
He
himself
tells
thee
,
Psal.
50.
23.
That
is
a
glorifying
him
.
Hast
thou
had
thy
fruit
unto
holiness
,
and
was
thy
heart
set
for
the
bringing
forth
much
fruit
?
Our
Saviour
tells
you
,
Iohn
15.
8.
Herein
his
Father
is
glorified
.
If
thou
dost
find
these
things
in
thy self
,
tho
thou
dost
also
find
too
much
of
that
which
should
not
be
,
and
is
matter
of
grief
to
thee
,
thou
may'st
meditate
terror
without
being
terrified
,
thou
may'st
be
very
willing
,
yea
glad
to
die
,
whensoever
God
calls
thee
to
it
,
being
fully
persuaded
that
he
will
with
an
hand
of
grace
put
a
glory
upon
thee
,
when
at
the
same
time
he
will
extort
glory
from
others
in
a
way
of
wrath
and
vengeance
.
Thirdly
,
Can
you
say
as
our
Saviour
did
,
I
have
finished
the
work
which
thou
gavest
me
to
do
?
He
had
work
given
him
by
the
Father
,
good
and
great
work
,
in
which
his
Father
,
himself
,
and
all
his
people
were
concerned
,
it
being
for
his
Fathers
and
his
own
Glory
,
and
for
his
Peoples
Salvation
and
everlasting
Happiness
.
And
he
was
intent
upon
it
,
industrious
and
diligent
in
it
.
I
must
,
saith
he
,
work
the
works
of
him
that
sent
me
while
it
is
day
.
And
at
his
giving
up
of
the
Ghost
,
he
could
say
,
It
is
finished
.
Now
none
of
us
were
made
and
sent
hither
to
be
idle
,
nor
to
sport
upon
the
Earth
as
Leviathan
doth
in
the
Sea.
No
,
no
,
we
all
have
Work
to
do
,
Work
that
our
heavenly
Father
hath
given
us
.
There
is
the
general
Work
of
Godliness
and
Religion
,
and
the
particular
Work
of
our
several
Stations
and
Relations
.
None
need
sit
still
and
study
how
to
pass
away
the
time
,
for
they
have
enough
to
do
if
they
will
but
mind
it
.
Now
if
our
Work
be
not
done
,
how
shall
we
with
any
comfort
or
boldness
look
our
great
Lord
and
Master
in
the
Face
.
It
was
a
terrible
Sentence
that
past
upon
the
lazy
Servant
that
had
buried
his
Talent
in
a
Napkin
.
But
here
again
,
a
poor
humble
Christian
will
presently
object
against
its
self
;
for
such
an
one
needs
none
Accuser
,
he
can
and
will
do
that
work
fast
enough
.
And
in
this
case
he
will
take
shame
as
his
Portion
,
and
declare
he
is
very
far
from
finishing
the
Work
which
God
gave
him
to
do
.
You
have
minded
other
things
of
less
concern
,
yea
of
no
concern
,
and
neglected
that
.
You
have
lived
in
the
World
to
very
little
purpose
,
led
unprofitable
Lives
,
and
suffered
your
Days
,
your
precious
Seasons
,
your
golden
Hours
to
run
out
at
waste
.
You
have
done
but
very
little
for
God
,
and
for
your
Souls
,
and
in
order
to
your
everlasting
Happiness
;
and
that
which
you
have
done
,
hath
been
so
pitifully
done
,
that
you
are
asham'd
to
look
upon
it
;
you
have
botcht
and
bungled
at
it
.
And
I
do
readily
grant
,
your
best
Works
do
not
deserve
acceptance
with
God
;
he
may
justly
reject
and
abhor
them
,
and
cast
them
as
Dung
into
your
Faces
,
because
of
the
Iniquities
which
adhere
or
cleave
to
them
.
But
let
me
ask
you
,
and
do
you
ask
your
own
Souls
when
you
are
in
your
Retirements
and
greatest
Seriousness
,
Hast
thou
loved
the
Work
of
God
,
and
preferred
the
hardest
and
most
unpleasing
pieces
of
it
before
the
most
facil
and
pleasant
parts
of
the
Devil's
?
Hast
thou
counted
his
Service
perfect
freedom
,
but
that
of
Sin
the
basest
of
Drudgeries
?
Have
you
been
pleased
and
delighted
when
you
did
at
any
time
find
your
hearts
raised
in
it
,
and
enlarged
,
and
more
than
ordinarily
carried
out
?
Hath
it
been
your
Grief
and
Trouble
when
you
found
in
your selves
straitness
,
deadness
,
and
dulness
?
Have
you
been
angry
with
your selves
,
because
you
have
done
no
more
and
no
better
for
God
?
Have
you
often
and
often
with
earnestness
begg'd
of
God
that
he
would
give
you
more
Grace
and
greater
Strength
in
order
to
your
doing
him
better
Service
,
and
bringing
him
more
Glory
?
Then
you
need
not
be
afraid
to
appear
before
him
,
for
he
will
spare
you
,
as
a
Father
spareth
his
Son
that
serveth
him
;
and
you
shall
be
accepted
in
the
beloved
;
and
your
gracious
and
prevailing
Advocate
will
appear
on
your
behalf
,
and
plead
your
Cause
,
saying
,
as
once
he
did
on
the
behalf
of
the
good
Woman
,
whom
the
Disciples
in
their
discontent
quarrel'd
,
They
have
done
what
they
could
.
And
he
will
cover
all
your
Failings
,
and
fill
up
all
your
Vacancies
and
Defects
with
his
own
most
full
and
perfect
Obedience
;
for
to
your
comfort
know
,
tho
thy
Duties
be
weak
,
and
deficient
,
and
defiled
,
yet
his
Obedience
was
compleat
and
perfect
;
nay
more
,
it
was
Satisfactory
too
,
and
of
a
meritorious
Nature
too
,
and
the
merit
of
it
is
sufficient
for
thee
,
and
for
all
his
People
.
And
therefore
if
that
which
I
have
spoken
be
the
frame
of
your
Spirits
,
you
may
at
a
dying
hour
with
triumph
say
,
Now
,
Father
,
come
I
to
thee
.
We
will
now
proceed
to
the
third
Use
of
this
Doctrine
,
which
will
be
by
way
of
Exhortation
;
and
it
shall
be
divided
only
into
Two
Branches
.
My
first
Exhortation
is
this
,
Do
not
mourn
immoderately
over
your
deceased
Friends
and
Relations
.
Those
of
them
I
mean
,
who
while
they
were
here
,
lived
unto
the
Lord
;
and
when
they
had
finished
their
course
,
and
came
to
the
period
of
their
Days
,
those
Bounds
which
they
could
not
pass
,
died
in
the
Lord
,
and
in
the
faith
.
As
to
the
business
now
in
hand
,
it
is
no
matter
by
what
they
died
,
whether
a
natural
Death
or
a
violent
one
,
by
the
hand
of
an
Enemy
or
an
Executioner
;
consumed
by
the
merciless
Flames
,
or
swallowed
up
by
the
mighty
Waters
;
whether
they
died
a
short
and
easy
Death
,
and
having
serv'd
their
Generation
according
to
the
Will
of
God
sell
asleep
,
or
a
tedious
and
lingring
one
,
cast
upon
Beds
of
Languishment
,
and
having
wearisom
Days
,
Nights
,
and
Months
,
numbred
out
unto
them
.
Nor
is
it
as
to
this
any
matter
in
what
manner
they
died
,
whether
under
a
dark
and
thick
Cloud
,
having
many
Questions
,
Doubts
,
and
Fears
;
or
under
the
Smiles
of
God
,
the
Light
of
his
Countenance
,
and
the
bright
sweet
shining
of
his
Face
;
whether
they
came
to
their
Harbour
in
a
pleasant
Calm
,
or
in
a
blustering
Storm
.
In
a
word
,
whether
they
had
the
perfect
use
of
their
Understanding
and
Reason
to
the
last
,
or
were
under
a
delirium
and
distraction
.
These
things
are
not
so
much
to
be
insisted
upon
.
Were
they
Holy
and
Gracious
?
Were
they
born
twice
before
they
died
once
?
Were
they
partakers
of
the
Holy
Ghost
in
his
renewing
Influences
?
Was
their
Walk
with
God
,
and
their
Motions
toward
Heaven
?
Did
they
carry
Grace
along
with
them
into
the
other
World
,
and
leave
good
ground
of
Hope
in
this
concerning
them
?
Then
keep
your
Grief
within
its
due
bounds
.
You
may
,
yea
you
ought
to
be
sensible
of
God's
hand
,
and
of
your
own
loss
,
and
of
the
Nations
and
Churches
loss
.
God
would
not
have
his
Children
stupid
,
he
allows
not
in
them
a
Stoical
Apathy
.
Paul
doth
not
forbid
all
Mourning
upon
this
account
,
but
would
not
have
yours
like
that
of
theirs
who
mourn
without
hope
.
You
may
be
sensible
,
but
not
sink
;
drop
some
Tears
over
such
an
o
〈…〉
s
Herse
,
but
not
be
drown'd
in
Sorrow
.
While
by
your
Sorrow
and
Tears
you
express
the
dearness
of
your
Affection
to
your
deceased
Friend
,
be
sure
that
by
your
patient
Submission
and
humble
Silence
,
you
do
equally
manifest
your
Faith
and
Hope
.
And
to
that
purpose
I
offer
these
Four
following
Particulars
to
your
Consideration
.
First
,
Your
departed
Relations
and
Friend●
are
gone
to
him
that
loved
them
best
,
and
that
both
can
and
will
do
most
for
them
.
To
him
that
is
all
Love
,
and
hath
all
Power
.
To
him
who
hath
Earth
with
all
its
fulness
,
Heaven
with
all
its
Glory
at
his
own
dispose
,
and
is
himself
alone
better
than
both
.
They
are
gone
indeed
,
and
shall
not
return
;
their
Places
here
will
know
them
no
more
.
Oh!
saith
one
,
my
Husband
is
gone
,
and
he
was
my
Guide
and
my
Support
.
He
lived
with
me
as
a
Man
of
Knowledge
,
and
helped
me
on
in
the
way
everlasting
.
And
saith
another
,
My
Wife
is
gone
,
and
she
was
a
suitable
Yoke-fellow
,
a
delightful
Companion
,
the
desire
of
mine
Eyes
.
And
saith
another
,
My
Child
is
gone
,
and
it
was
a
pleasant
One
,
the
Child
of
my
Hopes
,
but
now
that
is
gone
,
that
Bud
is
nipt
,
and
those
Hopes
are
blasted
.
And
say
others
,
Our
Shepherd
is
gone
,
who
led
us
by
the
skilfulness
of
his
Hands
,
brake
to
us
the
Bread
of
Life
,
and
sed
us
with
sound
Knowledge
and
Understanding
.
These
are
gone
,
and
gone
for
ever
,
and
they
will
not
return
any
more
;
and
you
say
true
,
for
they
cannot
,
Job
14.
14.
If
a
man
dye
,
shall
he
live
again
?
Yes
,
in
another
World
,
(
Iob
did
not
question
that
,
but
rejoyced
in
the
Faith
of
it
)
but
not
again
in
this
World.
The
most
holy
Persons
that
lived
best
,
and
pleased
God
most
,
cannot
return
to
live
again
here
;
and
indeed
as
they
cannot
,
so
they
would
not
;
if
they
could
,
they
would
not
.
For
remember
this
,
as
they
are
gone
from
hence
,
and
from
you
,
so
they
are
gone
to
God
,
and
to
Heaven
.
They
are
gone
,
but
it
is
from
their
Labour
to
their
Rest
,
to
an
undisturbed
and
everlasting
Rest
,
after
a
wearisome
and
tedious
Life
.
They
are
gone
,
but
it
is
from
the
Work
of
their
Lord
,
in
which
they
were
faithful
and
industrious
,
to
the
Joy
of
their
Lord
,
which
nothing
shall
imbitter
,
neither
can
any
take
it
from
them
.
God
will
not
,
Enemies
shall
not
.
They
are
gone
,
but
it
is
from
a
life
of
Conflicts
which
they
had
with
the
Corruptions
of
their
own
Hearts
,
and
the
Temptations
of
Satan
,
to
maintain
an
everlasting
Triumph
with
the
Lord
Jesus
,
the
Captain
of
their
Salvation
.
In
short
,
They
are
gone
,
but
it
is
out
of
the
Wilderness
which
was
over-run
with
pricking
Briars
and
vexing
Thorns
,
and
full
of
Beasts
of
prey
,
Lyons
roaring
,
and
Serpents
hissing
,
the
Devil
and
his
Instruments
creating
them
all
the
trouble
they
can
;
and
now
they
are
entred
into
the
Coelestial
Canaan
,
a
Land
flowing
not
with
Milk
and
Honey
,
but
unspeakably
better
.
Enjoyments
,
infinitely
purer
and
higher
Delights
.
Do
but
you
tread
in
their
Steps
,
and
follow
them
in
their
Faith
and
Holiness
,
considering
the
end
of
their
Conversation
,
and
then
you
shall
meet
them
again
,
and
that
meeting
shall
be
with
Joy.
Secondly
,
Tho
they
be
gone
,
yet
their
time
of
going
was
first
come
.
The
Apostle
Paul
speaks
of
a
time
of
departure
,
2
Tim.
4.
6.
I
am
now
ready
to
be
offered
,
and
the
time
of
my
departure
is
at
hand
.
The
time
which
God
in
his
infinite
Wisdom
and
Goodness
had
ordained
and
prefixed
by
an
eternal
and
unalterable
Decree
.
They
liv'd
till
the
last
Sand
in
their
Glass
was
run
out
,
till
they
had
reached
those
Bounds
which
they
could
not
pass
.
There
is
one
thing
which
some
surviving
Relations
do
most
unreasonably
afflict
and
torture
themselves
with
,
notwithstanding
all
the
care
they
have
taken
,
it
is
this
;
they
think
if
this
or
that
had
been
done
,
their
deceased
Relation
might
have
been
still
alive
;
but
that
is
a
foolish
Fancy
,
and
I
am
apt
to
think
it
a
Suggestion
of
the
Devil
,
who
thereby
would
pour
Vinegar
into
that
Wound
which
Providence
hath
made
;
for
if
this
and
that
,
and
an
hundred
,
nay
,
a
thousand
things
more
had
been
done
,
they
all
would
not
have
kept
them
here
.
It
is
indeed
unquestionably
our
Duty
to
be
in
the
diligent
use
of
all
lawful
means
for
the
preservation
of
Health
,
the
cure
and
removal
of
Diseases
,
and
the
continuance
of
our
own
and
our
Relations
Lives
,
and
a
known
wilful
neglect
of
any
doth
bring
guilt
with
it
,
and
may
breed
a
painful
sting
in
the
Conscience
;
but
all
the
means
that
can
be
used
cannot
possibly
hinder
the
accomplishment
of
any
of
the
divine
purposes
;
Who
hath
resisted
his
Will
?
and
who
can
resist
it
?
Will
you
consider
this
,
and
work
it
upon
your
hearts
by
repeated
thoughts
?
such
Friends
and
Relations
of
yours
are
gone
,
but
not
before
they
were
sent
for
.
God
bid
Moses
go
up
to
Mount
Nebo
,
and
die
there
;
the
same
God
(
in
whose
hand
our
times
are
)
did
also
bid
them
lie
down
upon
such
a
Bed
,
and
die
there
.
Death
was
God's
Messenger
,
he
commission'd
it
,
and
gave
it
his
order
,
its
work
was
to
cut
off
the
thread
of
their
lives
,
and
fetch
them
home
;
and
that
work
must
be
done
,
how
unacceptable
and
afflictive
soever
it
is
to
any
,
yea
,
and
it
must
be
done
at
that
very
time
too
.
Tho
in
other
things
God
exerciseth
admirable
patience
,
waiting
that
he
might
be
gracious
;
and
being
exulted
,
that
he
might
have
mercy
upon
sinners
;
yet
in
this
case
he
will
not
stay
,
nor
is
it
at
all
fit
that
he
should
,
nor
is
it
lawful
for
any
to
desire
it
.
What
reason
can
be
given
why
Infinite
Wisdom
should
give
way
to
humane
weakness
and
folly
,
or
why
God
should
in
the
most
minute
and
smallest
Circumstance
act
counter
to
his
own
most
Holy
Will
and
Purpose
for
the
gratifying
of
our
humour
and
imprudent
desires
;
let
us
leave
God
to
chuse
and
order
,
as
being
best
able
,
and
learn
our selves
to
submit
and
accept
;
and
since
Death
must
and
will
do
its
work
at
its
time
,
let
us
be
before-hand
,
and
do
our
work
in
our
time
;
since
Death
will
not
stay
for
us
nor
any
body
,
let
us
so
prepare
and
get
ready
,
that
we
may
not
have
cause
to
desire
its
stay
.
Thirdly
,
Though
they
be
gone
,
yet
it
was
not
before
they
were
fit
to
go
.
Some
of
thm
liv'd
but
a
little
time
,
but
they
liv'd
much
in
a
little
time
;
and
how
are
they
to
be
commended
,
and
the
grace
of
God
to
be
admired
in
them
,
who
do
happily
dispatch
that
work
in
twenty
years
or
less
,
which
others
,
and
those
holy
Souls
too
,
are
threescore
or
seventy
years
about
.
Some
die
young
,
it
is
a
sign
they
ripened
apace
.
The
Husband
man
careth
not
when
he
plucks
up
his
Weeds
,
because
they
are
either
for
the
Furnace
or
the
Dunghil
;
but
his
Corn
shall
be
white
to
the
Harvest
before
he
puts
in
his
Sickle
.
So
a
wise
man
will
let
the
Fruit
of
his
Orchard
hang
till
it
be
ripe
,
and
when
it
is
so
he
gathers
it
.
So
doth
the
wise
and
ever-blessed
God
;
as
for
wicked
men
he
is
not
so
curious
about
them
,
they
only
cumber
the
ground
,
they
bring
forth
wild
Grapes
,
down
with
them
,
saith
Justice
,
it
will
be
a
good
riddance
,
let
better
be
planted
in
their
room
;
but
he
doth
otherwise
with
the
Trees
of
Righteousness
,
the
souls
of
holy
persons
are
prepared
for
glory
by
that
time
their
bodies
drop
into
the
Grave
.
The
marriage
of
the
Lamb
will
not
come
,
before
his
Bride
hath
made
her self
ready
.
Now
is
not
this
enough
to
satisfy
you
?
give
one
good
reason
if
you
can
,
why
any
should
remain
upon
earth
,
after
they
are
once
truly
fit
for
Heaven
?
why
they
should
have
their
days
prolonged
,
when
their
work
is
finished
?
they
shall
not
die
before
it
,
why
should
they
live
here
after
it
?
why
should
they
not
receive
the
Crown
of
Righteousness
,
when
they
have
fought
the
good
fight
,
and
finished
their
course
,
and
kept
the
faith
?
To
what
purpose
,
I
beseech
you
,
should
they
live
,
when
they
have
no
more
grace
to
get
here
,
and
no
more
good
to
do
?
To
such
an
one
as
loves
God
dearly
,
and
is
set
for
his
glory
,
an
useless
,
barren
,
and
unprofitable
life
would
be
an
heavy
burden
,
and
a
great
deal
worse
than
death
:
Such
an
one
in
such
a
case
would
not
know
how
to
enjoy
himself
an
hour
,
but
would
long
and
pine
,
and
cry
out
for
the
coming
of
death
,
as
the
Mother
of
Sisera
did
for
her
Son
,
Why
is
his
Chariot
so
long
in
coming
,
why
tarry
the
wheels
of
his
Chariot
?
Fourthly
,
As
they
are
gone
to
God
,
so
they
had
excellent
company
by
the
way
.
It
is
not
a
little
distance
between
this
earth
which
the
Saints
now
inhabit
,
and
the
highest
Heaven
unto
which
at
death
they
go
,
the
habitation
of
God
,
and
seat
of
the
blessed
;
and
tho
the
holy
Soul
be
exceeding
swift
in
its
motion
,
when
it
is
once
freed
from
the
heavy
clog
of
dull
flesh
,
and
got
upon
the
wing
,
yet
will
it
be
some
time
before
so
long
a
Journey
can
be
dispatch'd
,
and
it
arrive
at
its
desired
home
.
At
the
beginning
of
Daniel's
supplication
the
Commandment
came
forth
,
and
the
Angel
Gabriel
was
caused
to
flee
swiftly
,
yet
he
came
not
to
him
till
the
time
of
the
evening
oblation
.
And
there
is
an
innumerable
number
of
wicked
spirits
in
the
way
,
Legions
of
Devils
in
the
Regions
of
the
Air
,
which
envy
the
happiness
of
those
who
are
to
have
an
everlasting
abode
in
those
places
out
of
which
they
themselves
were
cast
,
and
therefore
will
be
sure
to
do
their
utmost
for
the
disturbing
them
in
their
ascent
.
But
for
the
preventing
of
it
,
the
great
and
holy
God
hath
appointed
them
a
strong
Guard
,
in
Hebr.
1.
14.
the
holy
Angels
are
said
to
be
initistring
spirits
,
sent
forth
to
minister
for
them
who
shall
be
the
heirs
of
salvation
,
and
they
take
pleasure
in
doing
so
.
Little
do
we
know
the
obligations
we
lie
under
to
them
,
how
much
we
are
beholden
to
them
,
how
they
watch
over
us
,
and
pitch
their
Tents
about
us
,
and
are
Assistants
to
us
.
Many
and
many
are
the
good
offices
which
the
good
Angels
do
for
the
Saints
while
they
live
,
and
when
they
die
,
they
are
a
strong
Convoy
to
their
Souls
,
that
will
keep
off
from
them
all
Enemies
and
Dangers
,
and
bring
them
with
safety
and
honour
into
the
King's
Palace
,
the
Presence-Chamber
of
their
God
and
Father
.
Upon
all
these
accounts
I
counsel
you
not
to
lay
the
reins
upon
the
neck
of
your
passions
,
nor
to
mourn
over
them
who
died
in
the
Lord
,
as
those
who
have
no
hope
,
for
they
are
blessed
.
When
they
lived
,
they
were
the
habitations
of
God
through
the
Spirit
;
when
they
died
,
they
died
in
the
Lord
,
and
their
bodies
sleep
in
Iesus
;
their
Souls
upon
dissolution
,
are
the
charge
of
Angels
.
It
was
they
that
carried
the
Soul
of
poor
,
but
precious
Lazarus
into
the
bosom
of
Abraham
,
tho
the
rich
Glutton
suffer'd
him
to
lie
in
his
Rags
and
Sores
,
starving
at
his
door
,
neglected
and
despis'd
;
and
both
their
souls
and
bodies
,
at
the
Resurrection
of
the
Just
,
shall
have
a
consummate
happiness
in
the
full
,
uninterrupted
,
and
eternal
enjoyment
of
God.
Therefore
,
I
say
again
,
mourn
not
for
them
,
there
is
no
cause
,
they
are
in
a
far
better
condition
than
you
;
turn
your
Grief
into
another
Channel
,
and
,
as
our
Saviour
directed
,
weep
for
your selves
,
and
for
your
children
,
on
the
score
of
what
you
have
lost
,
and
what
you
may
feel
in
this
world
of
sin
and
uncertainty
.
The
second
Branch
of
this
Use
of
Exhortation
will
be
this
,
Be
you
willing
to
go
to
God
also
,
whensoever
he
shall
please
by
death
to
send
for
you
.
You
,
I
mean
,
who
have
been
indeed
made
partakers
of
grace
;
who
love
God
,
and
have
made
him
your
choice
,
and
have
good
hope
,
yea
,
assurance
of
your
interest
in
him
.
It
would
be
a
shame
for
any
of
you
to
be
unwilling
and
loth
to
die
,
God
may
very
well
take
that
unkindly
at
your
hands
,
and
you
for
it
have
reason
to
be
displeas'd
and
angry
with
your selves
.
What
is
there
upon
earth
that
should
make
you
unwilling
?
What
is
there
in
Death
that
should
affright
and
scare
you
?
Have
you
great
affliction
and
trouble
here
,
would
it
not
be
better
for
you
to
be
out
of
it
;
to
exchange
a
tempestuous
Sea
for
an
Haven
of
Peace
?
Do
you
now
swim
in
Delights
,
and
abound
with
Creature
comforts
,
shall
you
not
find
better
in
Heaven
,
than
those
you
leave
behind
you
?
Would
you
stay
yet
longer
,
that
so
you
might
provide
for
your
Children
,
and
see
them
setled
well
and
comfortably
in
the
World
?
Will
you
not
commit
them
to
the
care
of
your
heavenly
Father
,
who
is
their
God
in
Covenant
as
well
as
yours
?
Can
you
trust
God
with
your
Souls
,
and
will
you
not
trust
him
with
your
Seed
?
Do
you
think
it
is
an
hard
thing
to
die
,
cannot
God
strengthen
you
for
it
?
Is
there
a
bitterness
in
it
,
cannot
God
sweeten
it
to
you
?
Cannot
he
make
it
easy
to
you
,
as
he
hath
made
it
to
many
of
his
People
?
Cannot
he
by
the
light
of
his
Countenance
,
and
the
witness
of
his
Spirit
,
and
the
shedding
abroad
of
his
love
in
your
hearts
,
mitigate
and
abate
the
sense
of
pain
?
Look
to
it
that
you
do
not
leave
him
while
you
live
,
and
then
rest
confident
of
this
,
that
he
will
not
forsake
you
when
you
come
to
die
.
David
could
say
,
Psal
23.
4
Tho
he
did
walk
through
the
valley
of
the
shadow
of
death
he
would
fear
no
evil
;
for
God's
rod
and
staff
did
comfort
him
.
I
am
apt
to
think
the
pains
of
Death
are
worst
at
a
distance
,
and
not
seldom
more
terrible
to
the
Spectators
than
to
the
Patient
.
And
I
do
not
in
the
least
question
,
but
the
throws
and
agonies
of
many
poor
Women
in
Child-bearing
,
and
those
Pains
also
which
are
caused
by
the
Cramp
,
the
Gout
,
the
Stone
or
Strangury
,
are
far
greater
and
more
severe
than
the
Pains
of
Death
usually
are
.
But
however
,
we
may
be
sure
of
this
,
those
Pains
,
be
they
what
they
will
,
are
but
short
,
if
compared
with
that
blessed
Eternity
which
shall
succeed
them
;
and
so
light
,
as
not
worthy
to
be
mention'd
the
same
day
with
that
far
more
exceeding
weight
of
glory
which
shall
be
graciously
bestowed
upon
them
that
overcome
.
So
the
holy
Apostle
Paul
saith
,
Rom.
8.
18.
I
reckon
that
the
sufferings
of
this
present
life
,
take
them
altogether
from
the
first
to
the
last
moment
,
are
not
worthy
to
be
compared
with
the
glory
which
shall
be
revealed
in
us
.
Therefore
by
Prayer
earnestly
beg
of
God
a
willingness
to
go
to
him
,
and
take
pains
with
your
own
Souls
,
in
order
to
the
working
of
them
up
thereunto
.
Humbly
and
freely
leave
it
to
him
,
who
is
infinite
in
wisdom
to
chuse
,
the
time
when
it
shall
be
;
to
him
who
is
love
it self
,
and
whose
compassions
do
not
fail
,
to
order
out
the
manner
how
it
shall
be
;
only
be
you
careful
to
prepare
and
get
ready
;
labour
to
be
fit
to
die
,
and
meet
for
the
inheritance
of
the
Saints
in
light
;
and
when
that
grim
Messenger
comes
,
bid
him
welcome
,
and
let
your
hearts
be
glad
,
and
your
glory
rejoice
.
Do
your
Souls
now
at
any
time
wander
from
God
,
call
them
in
,
and
chide
them
home
;
and
when
you
come
to
die
,
sing
them
home
,
and
the
good
Lord
enable
you
by
being
with
you
while
you
walk
in
the
valley
of
the
shadow
of
Death
,
comforting
you
with
his
Rod
and
Staff
,
giving
you
to
look
within
the
veil
,
and
to
see
your
Advocate
and
Mediator
Jesus
at
the
right
hand
of
God
ready
to
receive
you
,
that
so
you
may
,
as
the
Protomarryr
Stephen
did
,
commend
your
spirit
into
his
hand
;
and
besides
what
hath
been
already
said
,
before
the
time
of
your
departure
come
,
lay
your selves
in
with
these
comfortable
meditations
.
First
God
,
whom
you
go
to
,
is
the
best
and
dearest
Friend
.
In
him
there
is
infinite
Fulness
and
everlasting
Love.
As
the
Sun
when
up
and
shining
forth
in
his
Glory
,
doth
so
obscure
and
darken
all
the
Stars
,
that
in
his
Presence
they
hide
their
Heads
and
disappear
;
so
doth
the
Glory
of
God
prevail
and
triumph
over
all
the
Beauty
and
Glory
of
the
Creature
.
He
hath
all
Perfections
,
and
is
pleasant
for
Delights
.
It
is
his
Glory
to
be
Self-sufficient
and
All-sufficient
.
He
hath
enough
for
himself
,
and
for
the
holy
Angels
,
who
look
no
further
and
desire
no
more
;
therefore
he
cannot
but
have
enough
for
you
.
And
as
there
is
All
fulness
in
him
,
so
All-sweetness
too
.
Here
indeed
a
gracious
Soul
may
sometimes
discover
that
in
God
which
strikes
a
terror
in
it
.
The
Psalmist
remembred
God
,
and
was
troubled
,
Psalm
77.
3.
The
Prophet
cried
out
,
I
am
undone
,
for
mine
eyes
have
seen
the
King
,
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
Isa
6.
5.
But
in
the
other
World
,
where
the
sight
will
be
clear
and
full
,
you
shall
see
nothing
in
him
,
save
that
which
will
be
your
Comfort
and
Joy.
Then
every
sight
of
him
will
be
ravishing
,
and
every
thought
of
him
precious
.
He
will
then
be
in
your
Account
altogether
lovely
.
You
will
then
see
he
hath
such
a
Glory
as
knoweth
no
blemish
,
such
a
Fulness
as
knoweth
no
defect
,
so
that
you
cannot
desire
him
better
than
he
is
,
nor
would
you
have
him
other
than
he
is
;
for
,
as
all
his
Attributes
are
his
own
Glory
,
so
they
will
all
contribute
to
,
and
issue
in
your
Satisfaction
.
Secondly
,
Heaven
is
the
sweetest
place
that
you
can
be
in
:
We
have
reason
to
conclude
it
must
of
necessity
be
so
,
since
God
hath
chosen
it
for
his
own
Seat
,
the
place
of
his
own
Residence
.
This
World
is
but
a
Wilderness
since
Sin
entred
into
it
,
that
is
a
Paradice
far
beyond
the
Terrestial
one
,
out
of
which
our
first
Parents
were
driven
.
This
World
is
but
a
Dunghil
,
that
is
a
Mountain
of
Myrrhs
,
there
be
the
Beds
of
Spices
.
There
is
nothing
to
pollute
,
nothing
to
offend
,
no
danger
of
falling
,
no
fear
of
losing
,
nothing
to
disturb
the
Spirit
,
to
break
the
Peace
,
or
damp
the
Joy.
Read
and
consider
that
excellent
Description
which
is
given
of
the
New
Ierusalem
in
that
Rev.
21.
10
,
&c.
some
passages
whereof
are
these
,
The
foundations
of
the
wall
garnished
with
all
manner
of
precious
stones
,
the
twelve
gates
were
twelve
pearls
;
the
City
,
yea
,
the
very
street
of
it
is
pure
gold
;
the
Lord
God
Almighty
,
and
the
Lamb
,
are
the
temple
of
it
;
the
Glory
of
God
doth
lighten
it
,
and
the
Lamb
is
the
light
thereof
.
And
if
there
be
such
a
Glory
in
that
great
City
,
which
descends
from
God
out
of
Heaven
,
what
do
you
think
,
and
how
great
is
the
Glory
of
that
great
City
which
is
in
Heaven
?
What
words
are
big
enough
to
express
it
?
What
mind
large
enough
to
conceive
it
?
Deus
&
Coelum
non
patiuntur
hyperbolem
.
God
and
Heaven
are
incapable
of
an
Hyperbole
;
our
most
raised
and
inlarged
Thoughts
will
be
too
narrow
,
short
and
low
.
I
will
add
but
one
thing
more
,
and
shut
up
this
Discourse
.
Lastly
,
When
once
you
come
to
Heaven
,
you
will
never
be
weary
of
being
there
.
Here
indeed
we
are
quickly
weary
and
tir'd
out
at
the
best
of
our
comforts
.
A
Man
may
lie
in
a
Bed
of
Down
till
he
is
weary
,
and
his
Bones
ake
.
He
may
sit
at
a
noble
and
sumptuous
Feast
till
he
is
weary
,
and
would
be
glad
of
a
dimission
.
We
may
pray
,
and
preach
,
and
hear
,
till
we
are
weary
,
tho
we
should
not
be
weary
of
Gospel-Ordinances
and
Religious
Duties
,
yet
we
may
be
weary
in
them
.
But
there
is
no
such
thing
as
this
in
Heaven
;
no
,
nothing
like
it
throughout
Eternity
.
The
Saints
there
will
neither
be
weary
of
God
,
nor
of
Heaven
,
nor
of
themselves
,
nor
of
one
another
.
Their
Eye
will
not
be
weary
of
beholding
God
,
and
contemplating
his
Glory
,
nor
the
Tongue
weary
of
blessing
and
praising
him
,
nor
Soul
and
Body
weary
of
maintaining
a
close
and
intimate
converse
,
with
him
.
As
there
will
be
a
compleat
Enjoyment
,
so
constant
and
fresh
Delight
.
A
Fulness
and
All
fulness
of
Joy
,
and
that
will
infallibly
afford
Pleasures
for
evermore
.
God
hath
made
a
great
Breach
among
you
,
who
meet
in
this
place
,
by
taking
away
his
Servant
,
who
labour'd
in
the
Word
and
Doctrine
.
It
is
above
Fifty
years
since
our
first
Acquaintance
,
we
having
been
of
the
same
College
,
and
under
the
same
Tutor
.
He
was
a
Learned
Man
,
and
as
I
am
persuaded
,
truly
Godly
,
one
that
denied
himself
,
and
suffered
much
for
Conscience-sake
.
I
came
hither
to
do
you
good
,
not
to
commend
him
,
for
that
is
needless
,
you
having
known
his
Doctrine
and
manner
of
Life
.
His
Course
is
finished
,
and
God
hath
call'd
him
home
,
so
that
you
shall
see
his
Face
no
more
.
I
beseech
you
to
live
the
Truths
he
brought
you
;
and
since
you
are
taken
with
the
goodness
of
this
Air
,
and
the
pleasantness
of
this
Place
for
the
health
of
your
Bodies
;
see
that
you
neglect
not
you
Souls
,
but
chearfully
allow
to
the
procuring
and
setling
one
among
you
,
that
may
fe●d
you
with
sound
Knowledge
and
Understanding
;
by
your
Liberality
therein
manifest
the
value
you
have
for
the
Gospel
;
and
the
good
Lord
send
one
,
in
whose
Light
you
may
rejoyce
.
FINIS
.