wearie of this world wean'd from this scituation peinched with the coldnesse of this climate for this world alas is a great cooler to the heat of a gracious heart And were they as subject to it as its children are were they as much intangled with it Though now they may have a little heat yet then they would have none at all Secondly 't will free and remove you from all carnall objects then there shall bee no more Gold nor greatnesse to allure you from God no sinne nor sinnes pleasure to intice and bewitch you lie prostrate before you no selfe nor Satan to tempt and intrap you Good Lord what a good case will thine then bee in who or what can expresse those joyous rarities and transcendent verities of such glorious beings Oh! how unsearchable are the riches of such grace and favour Narrow hearts open your selves and the gates of your soules and let the King of glorie come in why should he be unto you as a wayfaring man that staies but for a night and is gone Thirdly 't will alter the nature of all your spirituall distresses there shall bee then no more doubts unresolved no more sins the ' I le be destroi'd no more graces unrevived no more feares of finall falling no more queries about the truth of your high calling no more want of God Christ and the good desired no more dislike of and from unknowne Christians no strangenesse of carriage among knowne members of Christ's bodie mysticall In a word there shall after this change never bee any more hearts hardnesse minds blindnesse wills perversenesse loves coldnesse zeales rashnesse listlesse desires heartlesse prayers tiresome spirit or rebellious flesh But holy hearts you shall be God-like Christ-like in all things 3. Suffer God to dispose you for it sith 't will come and you must be changed Men square wood before they build discipline their Troopes e're they joyne in battell rigg trimme and furnish their ships ere they launch put forth to Sea so God is fitting some every day of life for the day of death Would you know the way by which the Lord effects this blessed fitnesse for so glorious a change so great a worke as is the worke of dying observe then rightly these serious things in the sequell God fits his children for such a decease thus First by making the bodie of sinne irkesome to them There are some who with David have their sinnes ever before them cannot forget them are greevously Psal 51. 3. burden'd with them and their crie is such as this Oh! who shall deliver me from the bodie of this death This even this ha's made some wearie of the world yea and wearie of themselues too all the while longing to be there where they might never see or seele it more Such had rather die a thousand deaths then live dishonouring him in whose favour stands their life and whose loving-kindnesse is better than life as David speakes Hence also everie sanctified sorrow and suffering of this earthlie life puts him upon minding his last and long'd for home every decay of strength dimnes of sight dulnes of hearing and disabilitie of being and doing with all sicknes weaknes aches and pains these I say doe forewarne him of his approaching decease And thus with Job he waites all the dayes of his life untill his appointed change comes Holy hearts you 're well acquainted with the state of this distresse and therefore you must signe and seale to the truth of this experiment yet let not your hearts be troubled for sinnes burthen shall bee remov'd and you your selues certainely secur'd and sav'd Secondly by making death to them desirable this is a deathsweetning way and he acts in the businesse after this manner First suggesting into their thoughts that when death surprizeth them it shall be stinglesse and what 's the sting of death why the Scriptures tell you 't is sinne sinne is deaths Arrow which when 't is shot into the bowells of the soule at the appointed time of change oh how do's it wound with horrour cut with amazement and pierce with dread of a great just and glorious Majestie And then how do's the poore soule fester with despaire whil'st she cannot beleeve or hope to bee well and doe well after death who ha's been and done so ill in time of life And certainely if in life there 's no discharge from sinne in death the soule will greatlie feare if not throughly feel its discharge from Christ But to you that are in Jesus Christ be this word spoken The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made you free from the law of sinne and death The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the Law viz. sinnes Law Rom. 8. 1.2 1 Cor. 1. 15. for this place seemes to explaine the other Thus you are freed from both the power of sinne and death also I may adde and the victorie of the grave which cannot imprison or infringe your bodies long so long as to retaine you for ever Give thankes then unto God who ha's given you the victorie through your Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and sing with Paul ô death where is thy sting ô grave where is thy victorie For when a poore soule considers within her selfe thus well I am now neere my time of change I must leave the world But Christ ha's promis'd that he 'l bee with me to the end of my course and ha's also assur'd me that my sinnes are forgiven and forgotten I have a discharge from them through the mercie of God Is she not then readie to crie out Come Lord Jesus come quicklie Death doe thy dutie freely and thus the poore drooping doubting Christian lives dying yet ne'r tastes of the second death God acquits the soule in Justification from sinnes guilt and cleanseth the soule through Sanctification from sinnes filth hee that 's washed from his old polutions hath the heavenly ornaments of Christ's Spirit He 's fit to solemnize a marriage with the Lambe God also perswades the soule that he ha's found a righteousnesse as well as a ransome for her Now beleevers may conclude then as the Scripture speakes that Righteousnesse delivers from death And that the righteous hath hope in his end He fits his to be changed by mortification also for when God by his Spirit has crucified sinne that would have slaine the soule Death cannot hurt much in smiring the carcase Hence is that of Christ Feare not them who kill the body but are not able to kill the soule Secondly the Lord makes the change desirable to some by inlightning Heb. 7. 25. their eyes and strengthning their hearts unto a fight and sense of all the al-sufficiencies of Christ to sustaine the soule under the straights of such a death what though sinne upbraids thee Satan affrights thee and thine owne heart trembles within thee that thou art at a stand knowest not what to doe nor how to die Yet beleeve for
was subject unto in all her apprehensions receptions and conceptions of the most Holy God and his most Holy things or of her selfe and others Besides her freedom from all impuritie and imbecility of affection her love then shal be undefiled like unto Christs and not weak cold or feeble as 't is whilst in an earthly Tabernacle 3. From all instruments of sin Shee 'l then be freed from such a body whose members are all weapons of unrighteousnesse and rebellious servants to her as shee 's a soule the Law viz. the power of the members can rebell no more against the law of her minde to lead her captive to sinnes law viz. sins power The unruly Carkasse shal never crosse vexe and disquiet her more Serenity and Magnanimity shall then cover her as a garment Shee shall then have the substance dominion and strength of a Spirit which is such as is in the Angels of God one of which did in one night slay 185000. 2 Kings 19. 35. Nor shall the vile body ever let in sinne by the sences to contaminate the precious soule any more The senses of hearing seeing smelling tasting and touching shall be spiritualiz'd ere that the soule will employ them againe The soul shal never re-enter into an unglorious body when once she 's rid on 't Nor shal shee ever have need so to doe for shal she not be contain'd in God and is not that better then to exist in a naturall body The soules of S t s although their strength bee now held in and buried in their massie sinful weake bodies shal then appeare in their native and originall strength Finally there shal be then mens sana in corpore sano a sound mind in a sound body The parts of the bodies glory are such as these 1. Freedome from all wants weaknesses distempers and uncomelinesse Neither blindnesse lamenesse deafenesse nor crookednesse shall enter that place of perfection The bodies of Saints though they dye imperfect yet shall they rise made perfect in all their parts What though their bodies be without form comeliness fashion yet they shal be made handsome beautiful and comely just like unto the glorious bodie of Christ yea and which is more they shal saith the Text be fashioned in the whole body like unto his bodie bee as handsome bodied as Christ is and have as comely a Person and feature as he himself ha's whom the Father loves dearly Mephibosheth shall have no lamenesse in his feet then he shal not halt before God in glory nor shall Moses stammer and falter with his tongue or need an Interpreter in that day For ha's not God promised to turne unto Zeph. 3. 9. his people a pure language that they may all call upon the Lord to serve him with one consent or as in the Originall with one shoulder 2. It shall have no want of outward sustenance Beings on earth may consist in what men shal eate and in that where with they shal be cloathed Providence existing in such supportments but the Kingdome of Heaven and Saints beings there consists not in meates or drinkes but in righteousnesse and true holinesse They shall hunger Revel 7. 16 17. no more neither shall they thirst any more for the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall feede them and leade them to living fountains of water as the spirit speaks Thirdly adde to this that the bodies weakenesse with want of health shall cease then Here the discord of the bodies Elementarie qualities and its corruptible nature concurring begets distempers diseases putrifactions and contagions Although afflictiōs come not forth of the dust neither doth trouble spring out of the ground but in glory by the powerfull influence of Divine Majestie upon the whole man there shall be a perfect harmony and agreement among all such qualities and dissonant humours Their bodies whether hot and dry or cold and moist shall have perfect health and strength Then ulcerous Lazarus shall be found as whole as a fish and in that day all inward or outward contagions and hurtfull impressions shall cease to be They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my Isa 11. 9. holy mountaine saith God There 's no beating bruising wounding stabbing or killing of bodies in glorie then the most high God with a stretched-out arme will free the Carkasse from all disposednesse to any inward decays of strength or vitall spirits which estate in Scripture is aptly cal'd a Condition or Inheritance incorruptible 1 Pet. 1. 4. Potentia non moriendi ex quadam hypothesi unionis cum anima originali ter perfecta immortali undefiled and that fadeth not away reserv'd in heaven for them Hence the body is invested with Potentia non moriendi immortality it can never be a dying body any more nor shall the Saints ever have cause to cry any more oh who shall deliver mee from this bodye of death and is not this that blessed day of the bodies redemption from sinne death its wages What but this made those followers of Christ who had receiv'd the first fruits of this glory wee speak of to groane within themselves waiting to enter this rest 4. And what misse of sleep can there be then when the body ha's ceas'd from its labours which makes it wanting in such a kinde Besides there will be no lacke of fire to heate us or aire to coole and strengthen the bodies breathing for there shall be an aura Quae supplet defectumaeris corporibus glorificatis caelestis as some affirm which shal supply the want of aire to glorified bodies but I rather judge there shall bee no misse of such things because there shall be no sunne to scorch them neither cold to pinch them the sunne shall not light upon them nor any heate as the holy Ghost ha's said 5. And can you think that he who cloaths Lillios on earth without their owne paines taking will let Saints in heaven goe naked Ha's not the Lambe of God promised that his shall walke with him in white and that his raiment is so fit and large and covers so wel as that nakednesse cannot appear Who tooke away Joshuah's filthy Revel 7. 16. garments when hee stood before the Lord caus'd his iniquities to pass from him and cloath'd him with change of raiments was 't not the Angell of the Covenant Jesus Christ 6. It s universal freedom from Sicut spiritus carni serviens non incongrué carnalis ita caro spiritui serviens recte appellatur spiritualis c. Aug. de civit Dei l. 13. c. 20. all power to affront the spirit of Christ by disobedience and dishonour And as subjection to sinne and Satan shews the body is naturall whilst here so submission to the spirit of Christ there will shew it is a spiritual body which is another part of its glorie 8. A general exemption from Restat ergo ut suam recipiat quisque mensuram quam vel habuit in
can God will have the disposing of it in love You see then heavenly Inhabitants you are not this worlds children that the house you must put on is a house from Heaven immortalitie everlasting life 2 Cor. 5. 2. and this is that home the Lord would have you groane earnestly for that you may be cloath'd therewith Fourthly he 's a stranger who ha's double duties and burthens laid upon him because he 's not a peculiar native of that Countrie where hee dwells such are Saints while in the bodie and dwelling here for they have burthens of their owne to beare and they also beare the burthens of other men First of their owne they have that made burthensome to them which is not made so to others to earthlie men sinne is their burthen both the sinnes of themselves and others though God ha's laid the iniquitie of Saints on his Sonne that they shall never be their burthen hereafter and that themselves shall never feele their weight for future yet ha's hee made their weight heavie to them whilest in the bodie My iniquities are gone over my head and are a burthen too heavie for me The good man could not stand under the burthen when the crie of his crime was ascended on high and tells you he ha's no rest in his bones nor soundnesse in his flesh by reason of his sinne That he 's troubled with it and bowed downe greatly that it makes him goe mourning all the day long What though 't is better to feele their pressures here than lie under them in Hell yet in that they are a burthen to Saints here and not to sinners it demonstrates them strangers in this world For men of this world find not sinne ponderous in them they can swallow it downe without any the least dislike checke or curbe given to it But sinners what though you 're incensible now you shall find your sense of feeling hereafter I can guesse at your diseases suffering grieves you more than sinning sinne is your Heaven such as 't is if not what means your complaining and crying out of the one but not of the other Secondly burthens of others the sinne that others feele not because 't is in them as its proper place even that I say makes the Saints know sorrow A righteous soule 's vexed fretted sadded from day to day whilest hee 2 Pet. 1.8 heares sees and observes the unlawfull deeds of men and 't was such a trouble to the Prophet that rivers of waters ran downe his eyes for the breach of the Law viz. abundance of teares shedd he for other mens sinnes whereas alas in this age men are seldome seen to weep for their owne sins Oh England thy people grow in knowledge but not in practise they 're all for speculation Many of thy people know sin but few there are who have a heart to sorrow for sinne I le tell thee thy disease thou art Judgement sad but not sinne sad Joy ha's so much transported some whether headie or heartie let experience speake that there 's little growth of other graces found Faith Love Patience Meeknesse Gentlenesse Mercifulnesse and Brotherlie kindnesse are rarities in these tottering times Ah Lord what will the end of these things be English Atheists must Saints beare your burthen here what then why you shall bear 't your selves hereafter ungratefull hearts you have melting Prophets whose soules weepe in secret places for your pride whose eyes weepe sore and runne down with teares on your behalfe such strangers have burden enough and more then they can beare did not God lay help on one that 's mightie they have burdens of suffering too Both their owne and others the Saints have many reall feares sorrowes sufferings fightings and smitings within which the children of this world feele not many sower morsells and many a bitter cup which others taste not of is not this to be us'd like a stranger what feares of falling cares of standing desires of beleeving living and loving the Lord Jesus are there found in them that are not elsewhere and are there any sorrowes like to theirs Children of this world are safe in the hands of Satan who acts them and workes in them hence they are not disturb'd not molested and tormented by him as Gods children be who can have no rest in the world by reason of him and sinne which is his creature when any rest they take 't is in him whose dwelling is farre above this unworthie station Strangers can hardly live in a strange Land such is the opposition they have from sundrie causes Souldiers of Jesus Christ endure hardship whilest in the Church Militant adde to this the sufferings of others who is weake and 2 Tim. 2. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 29. they are not offended and they burne not afflicted and their bowells yerne not stirre not certainely there 's a sweet nearnesse and blessed dearnesse of affections betwixt united members of Christ's bodie mysticall for their affections doe all runne in one and the same veine a veine of 3 Ep. Ioh 1. 7. truth as those who love in truth knowing truth and for the truths sake When God brought evill on Iâ—m 3. 1. to 25. the Church Jeremiah cries out I am the man that have seen affliction by the rod of his wrath I am brought into darknes he ha's turn'd his hand against me he ha's broken my bones coÌ„pass'd me with gall travel made my chaine heavie ha's shut out my prayer as for the wormwood the gal my soule ha's them still in remembrance with many expressions of like importance And Paul was but one Member of the Church yet there came upon him dayly 2 Cor. 11. 23. the care of all the Churches he bare their burthen as well as his owne and so fulfill'd the Law of Christ The like to Paul is the case of some now Some one Christian takes care for all the Churches surely then these acts so strange to the world must needs prove Saints to be strangers here But whence is it and why do's God serve his sonnes and daughters thus put them into a strange Land Let them live for a time so farre from home whence is it he puts them into the hands of this world which is so unkind a nurse to them and whatsoever else is his we 'l shew you whence 't is that so kind a father puts his children into such an unkind world First that they may see the vast difference which is betwixt earth and Heaven unsanctified ones see no difference betwixt the one and the other all 's alike to them could they live below and know no wants not meet with changes have their hearts desire they would seeke no other Heaven bee content to live below and not above the world for Christ's unsavourie and verie fulsome to such full hearts selfe-sufficient ones who barre out the sufficiences of Christ keepe at a distance from him sensuall selfe-content with seen things and seeing is beleeving
thoughts will be eaten up of these the lesser things will bee lost among the greater When David doated much on the world what was the issue 't was this he thought himselfe a foole for so doing tells the Lord he was ignorant and as a beast a bruit before him Psal 73. And at last he sweetly sings whom have I in Heaven but thee and there 's none on earth that I desire besides thee then he had enough beloved strangers let me tell you you either have or shall have enough too as the Proverb is for when you awake you shall be satisfied with the Lords Image at the Resurrection God will make you amends I am sure for all your hard measure that you receive in this strange land Secondly unnecessarie things things you need not are not in straights for are but as lumber and luggidge which will hinder you and presse you downe as you 're running your heavenly race Do's not experience teach that some have more of the worlds wealth than they can tell how to use do's not that hinder in heavenly ingagements I know nothing more obstructive Oh! how good is God to his then when he rids them of needlesse luggidge strips them of seen things that hee may cloath them with unseen things an invisible incorruptible immortall substance do's not one staffe support the Traveller when a bundle of staves brings him under Oh then that all who intend for Heaven would seek no more provision for the journey then will help them thither Oh soule will it not grieve thee to consider that when thou hast certainely thought thou art as high as Heaven thou shalt by an evill world be laid as low as Hell be then in earnest a stranger to it and in it for to be a stranger to the other world will hinder from entering into thy Masters Joyes Fifthly strangers ingage not themselves too much in the affaires of the Natives of strange lands strangers must not bee medlers as the Proverb is Citizens of Heaven would you shew your selves to be strangers here plunge not your selves too deep then in the negotiation of the Natives of this world who make it their busines to be mightie wealthie honourable pleased and pleasur'd here but doe not you doe so meddle not with that their businesse hasten home and why for their 's most might wealth pleasure and treasure in heavenly places What can you thinke of which is in this world and is not in your Fathers house And now you strangers you Vse 1 may be glad 't is with you as 't is that you are no better acquainted here Oh be not loath then neither feare to leave this strange land would you hasten to your journeyes end is your heart at home let these things then give life to your indeavours that way First till you leave it you 're farre from your best friends and chiefest favours When the prodigall child was from his Fathers house 't is said hee was in a farre Countrie and is not your case the same who dwell in God What are huskes hardly got so good what shall they bee more in esteeme than bread if you will not come from among the swine your Father will fetch you 't is better then to goe and meet him while his armes are open to receive you his head bowed to salute you and his heart drawn out to feast you feed you cloath and adorne you with Jewells Consider your father is of another Countrie he that begot you again lives in Heaven a great way hence and what are you here for but to dispatch your Fathers businesse as Jesus told his Mother Are not you the Lords factours and must factours stay alwayes abroad what shall they forget their native Countrie and not hasten to it who that 's wise do's not strive lawfully to be at his heavenly home What! know you not that your Father 's your best benefactour Besides your spirituall brethren and sisters with all your holy acquaintaince are within those heavenly places a godly child may have his thoughts running out on his godlie parents deceased a husband his thoughts on his wife and on the contrarie the wife on her husband but alas they cannot see their faces till God hath taken them out of this strange land who then would bee wedded to this world and not rather wean'd from it and married to the Lord Yet further your portion and dowrie is above also your reward 's with the Lord in the land of the living how then can you like to dwell in a land where there 's such dying of persons and portions some live by bread only in a sence but children from on hie cannot the mind or soule is the man as wee say and that cannot may not survive in such a manner by such meanes This strange land can onely minister to the bodie ha's not one savourie morsell for the soule do's rather contaminate and desile the soule than refresh it O divine Celestiall soule 't is the safest way for thee then to flie from this strange land in all thy motions as from the face of a Serpent Secondly you should not bee loath to leave it when providence will have it so for till then you 'l be foiled vexed and soiled with filthie sinnes they 'l beare you downe keepe you under bring you low when you would be on high with God in the Heavens whilest the soule is in the bodie sinne lodgeth with her will have roome as well as shee Oh how unrulie a guest is sinne Besides here in this strange land you cannot sing your Hebrew songs so sweetlie with such fulnesse of Joy as in your owne Countrie if this world which sometimes inthrals you should require of you songs bid you bee merrie Alas this is no place for such Joy as is a Joy of heart heartie Joy is in Heaven and me thinkes I should heare such a voice from Christians as was heard in the Temple before the fall of the Jewes Migremus hinc let us goe hence let us goe hence Thus as children learne to speake and delight in the language of their Parents so should you in imitation of Christ Finally I beseech you if you be strangers that you would as Pilgrims and strangers abstaine from fleshlie lusts which warre against the Spirit so saith the Lord of Rests for certainly sinne cannot enter Heaven Oh what a blessed good would it prove to you if you would bee and doe now what you are willing to bee and doe then when purest glorie must make the scrutinie for and into impurest sinnes 1 CORINTHIANS 15. 51 52. Behold I shew you a mysterie wee shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed c. CHAP. IV. Of the Saints last and best change MUtable man ha's made his times variable Adam chang'd his mind and God chang'd his mansions Paradise could not hold him who held not God in his thoughts let goe an unparaleld good When man alter'd his doeing God alter'd his
for though 't is sweet yet 't is of an earthlie breed It ha's a glorie too but the best glorie of a flower must be preserv'd by a shower and when all 's done it withers and is lost at last Secondly Deaths certaintie it will not faile you 't will find you wherever you goe therefore when thy bones are full of marrow and riches comes in as a floud Argue thus yet I must die Christexpecting Christians can tell you that a wife a child a friend nor any of them can be injoyed for ever That their estates comforts and lives are going declining will desert them and therefore doe long for and desire a change after which they can change no more 'T is further cleare thus First from Gods decree It is appointed Heb. 9. 27. for all men once to die Secondly from the constitution of our natures Mans nature is a composition 2 Cor. 5. 1. of wasting ingredients he 's made up of dying materialls The Apostle calls the bodie a house of earth and know you not that earth may be and is corrupted do's breed that which will infect and infest it with a noisome stench Besides a house of earth is weake and what is there which hath not power on that which is weaknesse it selfe Adde to this that a Tabernacle is not made to last long 't is made on purpose for a short time of exigence and distresse Thirdly the defilements of our nature they put us to the sword murther us in our comforts have given being to this last change as well as others Trees and plants breed the wormes which at last make them lifelesse and so doe we serve our selves and soules If Adam give Rom. 3. 12. leave to sinne sinne will give way to death There 's no man living who shall not have his fit of dying though the death of Saints bee precious in the sight of the Lord yet die they must for his onely begotten sonne did not escape it What then though a man strive repine order his diet intreat and shun occasions yet as the Psalmist speakes none shall deliver his soule from the hand of the grave Live hee as long as Methuselah yet must hee die at last Gray-headed sinners what meane you to stand it out with God so long to breake with God for a trifle what 's your life that should bee spent laid out for him and that he requires from you 'T is not worth the honour to be accounted of force to draw your soules from God Oh then make no more waste of time redeeme it for if Christ ha's redeem'd you you cannot squander away the whole thereof and give him none Remember 't is a difficult thing to die well Thirdly mans necessitie and that first in respect of the bodie A corruptible bodie cannot enter into the incorruptible Heavens it must die and be chang'd It must leave its filth in the grave before it can be meet to dwell in the heavenlie places above The bodie is now the substance and matter of all diseases putrifactions infirmities and deformities although you take in the comeliest Creature your eyes have seen within the bounds of this observation For is' t not conceived in the likenesse of flesh heat of lust and staine of sinne the sensible Prophet sincerely confessed it Besides who knowes Psa 51. 5. not that knowes Christ that 't is the livelie instrument of sinne The verie excrements of whose nostrills ear 's pores and other passages duelie and trulie considered will seeme more loathsome then the uncleanest sinke or vault Oh! what vile bodies have wee and how great need have wee that they should be chang'd buried in the dust and refined Trees and plants bring forth leaves flowers fruits and pleasant smells But mans bodie brings forth naturallie nothing but vermine wormes rottennesse and a filthie stench Lord what is man that thou art mindfull of him and what ha's hee to bee proud of who 's made of such materialls First in respect of the soule that she may be freed from that discord which is in the bodie untill the change comes for whilest the bodie lives a naturall life there 's no businesse can bee dispatched which concernes the soules welfare without a mutinie in the heart the flesh is a home-bred enemie a bosome Rebell that 's daily against the Spirit because they are contraries The flesh alas forestalls all Divine motions actions and indeavours of the soule and Spirit and it begets and breeds an indisposednesse towards them all though all the wayes of God be pleasantnesse and all his paths peace yet this bodie of flesh will make them seeme irkesome burthensome and full of trouble Is' t not high time then that the bodie should be changed made a better servant to the soule Besides it 's sinne-sick distempers are infanable whilest it is here for ha's it not brought on man a certaine necessitie of sinning so that we cannot but displease the highest Lord. Doe you doubt of this why the Scriptures tell you that those who are in the flesh cannot please God that wretched Law of the Rom. 8. 8. members wars against the Law of the mind and Spirit of life which brings the whole man into an insupportable bondage This is mans miserie in his uprisings and downe-lyings a depraved nature Rom. 7. 23. is his associate and as David speakes innumerable evills doe encompasse him about and have taken hold of him that he 's not able to looke up to Heaven This bring 's Psal 40. 12. to mind a worthie saying of like concernment O flesh flesh I can neither live with thee nor without thee Now at the rebreathing in or the re-uniting of the soule to its owne proper person the bodie shall be found incorruptible and that even that will be found the last and best Resurrection Secondly rejoyce in and at the Vse 2 thoughts of such a change consider first 't will rid you of all uncleane societie with sin and sinfull flesh whilest we are here we converse and commerce with greatest sinners and with innumerable sinnes we alas walke among the Tombes with men that lie under the powers and pledges of the everlasting death persons who die living and will at last live dying and yet ne'r bee dead In this life Gracious Christians you heare the greatest Majesties name prophaned his wayes blasphem'd truths defam'd and doe see his friends are foil'd and spo'ld But after death you shall never heare such evill tidings any more Who then that 's wise will love and long to live with the dead more then the living or in the societie of condemned persons in a noysome goale rather than to have fellowship with the glorious Princes of God in the Heaven of matchlesse and endlesse glorie In this Babylon faithfull Jewes are forc'd to hang their Harpes upon the willowes are much disabled from singing sweetlie to the Lambe their Hebrew songs certainly then all whose mansions are with God are or should be