the promise and oath of God which are two immutable things to assure them that God in blessing will bless them For the oath and promise is to them as well as unto Abraham and what doth this imply Surely blessing I will bless thee A. Surely I will pardon all thy sins Rom. 4.7 8. And surely I will give thee eternal life Mat. 25.34 and 5.3 And surely I will pour out my Spirit upon thee Isa 44.3 Gal. 3.14 And surely I will turn thee from thine iniquities Acts 3.26 And surely I will give thee all good things Ps 21.3 And surely I will make thee a blessed man for ever 1 Chron. 17.27 8. These two immutable things the promise and the oath of God as sure as he liveth to bless for ever all that flee to Christ for eternal life this may give them strong consolation yea this may give them such strong consolation as no troubles nothing whatever shall make void their comfort which is the next head I am to speak to 5. The blessed estate and condition of such as have an interest in Christ is made so sure and so firmly setled upon them that no troubles of this life nor Death it self can make void their blessedness They are and continue blessed under all their afflictions and temptations as well as in their greatest prosperity Psal 94.12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastneth O Lord and teachest out of thy Law Jam. 1.12 Blessed is the man that endureth Temptation for when he is tryed he shall recieve the Crown of Life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him They are and continue blessed when they dye as well as while they live Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. Death is so far from making void the blessedness of those that are Christs that it puts them into the actual possession of the Blessings of Heaven which is far greater blessedness then they enjoyed whilst they were in this world Now the favour which God hath shewn to those that are Christs in bestowing all this blessedness upon them and in making them most blessed for ever is a ground of exceeding great joy Psal 21.6 Thou hast made him most blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance This blessedness which is confirmed to them that are Christs by two immutable things the oath and the promise of God is a ground of strong consolation in all estates and conditions of such strong Consolation as cannot be made void by any troubles or by death it self as hath been already shewed from Heb. 6.13 14 17 18. Sect. 3. More grounds of consolation against the troubles of the world to such as have an interest in Christ Seeing the way to Heaven lyeth through many tribulations and experience sheweth it is an hard matter for Christians to bear up chearfully under the manifold troubles they meet with in this world I shall add some more grounds of comfort for such as have an interest in Christ against all the troubles they are liable to in this world § The World is conquered by Christ what comfort ariseth hence 1. It is a great comfort to a Christian under the troubles of the world to consider that Christ hath overcome the World Joh. 16.32 In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world By the world which Christ hath overcome we may understand all things that are in the world which hinder the peace Consolation and Salvation of the Members of Christ as the Prince of the World which is a Title given to Satan the Rulers of the world the men of the world the troubles of the world the temptations of the world the corruptions that are in the world through Lust All that is in the world which is contrary to us Christ hath overcome for us Now Christs overcoming the world is a ground of comfort against the troubles of the world on several accounts as 1. Jesus Christ having overcome the world the whole world with all things in the world is now at his disposal The Prince of the world and all the powers of the world and all the men of the world can do nothing in the world but by the permission of Christ He is Prince of the Kings of the earth and governs and over-rules all their counsels and designs Rev. 1.5 Jesus Christ the Prince of the Kings of the Earth The men of the world can do nothing against any of the Members of Christ though they be great men though Rulers but what he gives them power to do Joh. 19.11 Thou couldst have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above What Christ saith here of himself concerning Pilate is true of all his Members concerning all the Rulers of the world they can have no power at all against any of the Members of Christ except it be given them from above and this is a great quieting to the hearts of the People of God against the men and troubles of the world 2. Jesus Christ who overcame the World is the Captain of our Salvation Heb. 2.10 And he did not only overcome the world for himself but for us Gal. 1.4 Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father By his Conquest he obtained our deliverance from this present evil world We may expect while we are in the world sharp Conflicts with the troubles of the world Heb. 10.32 Ye endured a great sight of Afflictions But this is our comfort we have to do with a Conquered Enemy an Enemy that may oppose us but shall not hurt us Luk. 10.19 Behold I give unto you power to tread on Serpents and Scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you Serpents are an embleme of subtle enemies Gen. 3.1 Now the Serpent was more subtle than any Beast of the Field Mat. 10.16 Be wise as Serpents And of cruel enemies that seek our destruction 1 Cor. 10.9 They were destroyed of Serpents The worst of men are compared to Scorpions Ezek. 2.6 And thou Son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words though Briars and Thorns be with thee and thou dost dwell among Scorpions Scorpions here signifies wicked men which spoke big words against the Prophet Now by the help of Christ we shall tread on those enemies that are like Serpents and Scorpions and all the power of the enemy so far as nothing shall by any means hurt us And there are three negatives in the Greek which is the more remarkable to assure us of the truth of what is spoken 3. Jesus Christ who hath overcome the World will enable us through Faith in him to overcome the world our selves 1 Joh. 5.4.5 Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World and this is the Victory that overcometh the world even our Faith Who is
in him Gal. 3.8 In thee shall all Nations be blessed That is in thy seed that shall proceed out of thy loins that is the promised Messiah as appears from Act. 3.25 26. By all Nations being blessed in Christ we are to understand all persons in all Nations that believe on Christ as the following words shew ver 9. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham what Laban said concerning Jacob. Gen. 30.27 I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake That may they that are Christs say concerning Christ I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for Christs sake 2. They that are Christs are blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus Eph 1.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Spiritual blessings are the best blessings now God hath not only blessed us with some with many but with all spiritual blessings and that not only all spiritual blessings which are enjoyed in this life but with all spiritual blessings which are reserved for us in heavenly places And we are blessed with all these spiritual blessings both pertaining to this life and to be enjoyed in heavenly places in the life to come in Christ Jesus Which is better than if we had them in our own hands For Adam had all blessings in his own hands and lost them but what is put into the hands of Christ he will keep safe for ever 3. That blessedness which we have in and by Jesus Christ is eternal blesledness Besides that blessedness which they that are Christs have in this life all the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven are prepared for them and shall be given to them for their inheritance Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world His blessing is eternal life God hath blessed us in Christ with the highest blessings he had to give and we were capable to recieve and that for ever For through Christ he hath given himself unto us to be our God Ezek. 36.28 I will be your God And he hath promised to give us his Kingdom Luk. 12.32 Fear not little flock for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you the Kingdom And what greater blessings hath God to give than himself and his Kingdom And therefore what is said of David Psal 21.6 Thou hast made him most blessed for ever The same may be said of all that are Christs God hath not only made them blessed but hath made them most blessed for ever for they that come to Christ upon the call of the Gospel are made partakers of the sure mercies of David Isa 53.3 4. It is the immutable purpose and unalterable promise of God to make all the Members of Christ most blessed for ever and he hath confirmed the immutability of his counsel and promise with his oath which may give strong consolation to all that in the sense of their lost and undone condition have fled for refuge to Jesus Christ that by and in him they may obtain Life and Salvation Heb. 6.13 14 17.18 This portion of Scripture setting forth the great assurance which God hath given all that believe in Christ that he will make them blessed and happy for ever which is a foundation of strong consolation I shall observe several things out of it 1. God made a promise to Abraham that in blessing he would bless him that is that he would give him all things requisite to true blessedness that he would make him most happy and blessed for ever that he would never leave off blessing him but would bless him for ever This includes the promise of eternal life for no man is a blessed man but he that shall have eternal life all others are under Gods curse Mat. 25.34 41. The blessings of Heaven are the main part of our blessedness Mat. 5.3 2. God confirmed this promise of giving Abraham all things requisite to true blessedness with the greatest oath that he could swear For because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself saying surely blessing I will bless thee surely that is surely as I live as sure as I am God I will bless thee and make thee blessed for ever 3. This promise and this oath were not only made to Abraham but intended for the strengthning of the Faith and the consolation of all the heirs of promise to the end of the world Wherein that is in which promise God willing to shew to the heirs of promise 'T is not said to shew to Abraham but to shew to the heirs of promise confirmed it with an oath so that the promise and oath of God are intended for all the heirs of promise That we might have a strong consolation 'T is not said Abraham so that the oath and promise of God is as much for our comfort as Abrahams 4. Gods oath added to his promise sheweth that his counsel and decree for blessing Abraham and all the heirs of promise is immutable he will not alter his purpose or promise of blessing any of the heirs of promise 5. God is abundantly willing that the heirs of promise should know the immutability of his counsel of giving them all things requisite to true blessedness 6. Such as have fled to Christ for refuge to be saved from wrath to come and to give them eternal life may have strong consolation That we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us By fleeing for refuge we may understand fleeing to Christ that we may escape from wrath to come and may obtain eternal life and Salvation The Cities of refuge under the law whether the Man-slayer was to flee that he might be preserved from the avenger of Blood did typifie Christ to whom we are to flee for refuge that we may escape the wrath and vengeance of God which is due to us for our sins Eternal Life is the hope which is set before us to be laid hold upon Tit. 2.13 Looking for that blessed hope That is for eternal life Tit. 1.2 In hope of eternal life This hope is set before us in the Gospel Col. 1.5 For the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the Truth of the Gospel And therefore it is called the hope of the Gospel ver 23. And be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel This is the hope we are to lay hold upon 1 Tim. 6.12 Lay hold upon Eternal Life So that our fleeing for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us is this our fleeing unto Jesus Christ that we may escape that wrath which is due to us for our sins and that we may in him and through him obtain Eternal Life and Salvation 7. They that have thus fled for refuge have
he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God 4. By Christ overcoming the world the world is become ours the troubles of the world which would of themselves hinder our Salvation shall be made through the Conquest of Christ to further our Salvation Phil. 1.19 I know that this shall turn to my Salvation The Apostle speaks of his Bonds and of the afflictions some evil minded men thought to add to his Bonds ver 13.16 And he knew that his afflictions should be so far from hindring that it should be a furtherance of his Salvation See also 2 Cor. 1.6 VVhether we be afflicted it is for your Consolation and Salvation which is effectual in enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer The Salvation of the Corinthians was effectual that is powerfully promoted effectually carried by enduring the same sufferings which the Apostle endured Hence the World through Christ is said to be ours as well as all other things 1 Cor. 1.21 22 23. Because even the troubles of the World are through Christ made to work for our advantage § The intercession of Christ a ground of comfort against the troubles of the World II. The intercession of Christ is a ground of comfort against the troubles of the World Joh 17.9 13. I pray for them whom thou hast given me And these things I speak in the VVorld that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves He acquainted them with his praying for them on purpose that their hearts might be filled with joy It is a comfort to such as are in affliction to hear that good men are always mindful of them in their Prayers to God 1 Thes 3.6 7. You have a good remembrance of us alwayes Therefore Brethren we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your Faith If it were good tidings to the Apostle to hear that the Thessalonians had good remembrance of him always and that which did comfort him in all his affliction and distress How much more may it comfort us in all our affliction and distress to hear that Jesus Christ hath good remembrance of us alwayes and ever liveth to make intercession for us For 1. Though Christ be in Heaven and we are upon the Earth he beareth us upon his heart continually This was typified by the high Priest under the Law Aaron bore the names and the judgment of the Children of Israel upon his heart continually when he went into the holy place Exod. 28.29 30. And Aaron shall bear the names of the Children of Israel upon the Breast plate of judgment upon his heart when he goeth in unto the holy place for a memorial before the Lord continually And shall bear the judgment of the Children of Israel before the Lord continually Aaron the high Priest was a Type of Christ who is our great high Priest Heb. 4.14 Aarons going in unto the holy place was a Type of Christs ascending into Heaven Heb. 9.24 What Aaron did Typically when he entred into the holy place that Christ doth really for us now he is in Heaven And what was it that Aaron did when he went into the holy place 1. He bore the names and he bore the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart The judgment of the Children of Israel may signifie all their causes their affairs their condition this teacheth us Christ our high Priest knoweth his by name and that both their persons and conditions are born upon his heart 2 Aaron bore the names and judgments of the Children of Israel upon his heart at all times when he went into the holy place twice it is mentioned that he bore them continually which teacheth us that neither our persons or conditions are at any time forgotten of Christ but they are upon his heart continually now that he is in Heaven Psal 73.23 I am continually with thee That is continually upon thy heart under thy care And as David was so are we continually with Christ 3. Aaron bore both the names and judgment of the Children of Israel for a memorial before the Lord continually So Christ our high Priest as he carrieth our persons and conditions upon his own heart so he continually presenteth our case and condition before his Father The Apostle said 2 Cor. 7.3 You are in our hearts to die and live with you The like may be said of Christ concerning all that are his They are so much in the heart of Christ that he dyed for them and now that he is raised from the dead they are so much on his heart that he will live with them for evermore The Church of Christ is more upon the heart of Christ than the Church of Corinth was upon Pauls heart Now if the Saints had such a Room in Pauls heart that it was in his heart to live and dye with them then how much are all the Saints upon the heart of Christ What the Lord saith of Solomons Temple 2 Chron. 7.16 Mine Eyes and mine Heart shall be there perpetually The same is true of all Christians that are the Temple of God 2 Cor. 6.16 Ye are the Temple of the Living God The eyes of the Lord and the heart of the Lord shall be upon them perpetually Christs bearing us upon his heart is set forth by his carrying his Lambs in his Bosom Isa 40.11 He shall feed his Flock like a Shepherd he shall gather the Lambs with his Arm and carry them in his Bosom It is not said he shall put them but he shall carry them in his Bosom intimating that not only strong Christians but the weakest and most feeble and shiftless are always born upon his heart And in doing this he fulfills his Peoples Prayers for they desire to be set as a Seal upon the heart of Christ Cant. 8.8 Set me as a Seal upon thine heart as a Seal upon thine Arm. The Seal makes and leaves an impression upon the Wax and all the cuts and engravings on the Seal are imprinted on the Wax 't is as if the Spouse should have said carry me upon thy heart as men use to carry Seals which they are very chary of and that there be deep and abiding impressions of all my troubles graven upon thy heart set me as a Seal upon thine Arm that is manifest the love of thine heart by thy actings towards me and for me put forth thy power to help me in all my troubles The Apostle had great confidence that God would give preserving grace to the Philippians because they were much in his heart to pray for them every time he went to the Throne of Grace Phil. 1.4 6 7. Always in every Prayer of mine for you all making request with joy Being confident of this very thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it untill the day of Jesus Christ even as it is meet for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart If the
34. If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my judgments if they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments then will I visit their Transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my Faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my Lips § No doubts about our Spiritual estate to be indulged or admitted but upon Scripture grounds 3. After you have closed with Christ and God hath cleared up to your Souls your interest in Christ by his Word and Spirit admit no doubts about your interest in Christ but upon Scripture grounds Satan labours what he can to keep us in a doubting condition all our dayes because doubts of this nature hinder our comfort weaken our faith and are impediments to our glorifying God And therefore after clearest evidences of our interest in Christ he will be thrusting doubts into our minds whether webe Christs yea or no that he may puzzleus herein as long as we live After our Lord Jesus Christ had it witnessed to him from Heaven that he was the Son of God Matth. 3.17 And lo a voice from Heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased The Devil tempted him twice with doubts about his Sonship Matth. 4.3 6. If thou be the Son of God if thou be the Son of God Now if Satan adventured to suggest doubts to our Lord Jesus Christ after he had his Sonship witnessed in an extraordinary manner even by his Fathers voice speaking from Heaven to him it is no marvail if he be often suggesting doubts to us about our interest in Christ after clearest manifestations thereof Wherefore it will be our wisdom to examine all our doubts to see whether there be real grounds from the Holy Scriptures for such doubts and if there be not then to reject them as the suggestions of Satan and the sinful fruit of our own unbelieving mistrustful hearts As Christ said to Peter Matth. 14.31 O thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt So should we say to our own hearts when doubts arise in our hearts wherefore do I doubt Have I cause from the word of God to question my interest in Christ because of this or that which is suggested to me If not reject those doubts as causeless and as proceeding from Satan § Interest in Christ is consistent with great imperfections sore afflictions dreadful temptations conflicts between the Flesh and Spirit want of influences succeslesness in Holy Duties and the hideings of Gods face 4. It is of great use to the holding fast the perswasion of our interest in Christ to have a right understanding of the State and Condition of a Christian in this present evil world A man may be united unto Christ and have a saving interest in him and yet be sensible of many and great imperfections and be exercised with sharp afflictions and dreadful temptations he may feel a law in his Members warring against the law of his mind and find great conflicts between the Flesh and the Spirit he may feel great dryness and want of Spiritual influences and be under the hideings of Gods face and meet with other exercises of his Faith and notwithstanding all these things he may be Christs and Christ may be his As I shall shew by instanceing in the several particulars 1. A man may be sensible of much imperfection in himself he may find very great defects in his best duties and yet be one that hath a saving interest in Christ God may be his Father and he may be one of Gods Children Isa 64.6 8. We are all as an unclean thing and our righteousnesses are as filthy rags But now O Lord thou art our Father There are Babes in Christ as well as young Men and Fathers and they that are but Babes in Christ are so full of imperfections that in some things they seem more like to carnal men than Spiritual 1 Cor. 3.1 And I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual but as unto carrnal even as unto babes in Christ yet these Babes in Christ that had much carnality in them were truly interested in Christ as we may see ver 23. ye are Christs 2. A man may be exercised with sharp and sore afflictions such as may melt and break his heart and yet have a saving interest in Christ Cant. 2.2 16. As a Lilie among Thorns so is my love among the Daughters My beloved is mine and I am his When the Spouse was a Lilie among Thorns that is compassed about with sharp afflictions which did prick and grieve her like Thorns she was Christs Love and Christ was hers and she was his When David was afflicted very much and his troubles such as melted his Soul and broke his heart he did not question his interest because of his afflictions but could and did own it that he was the Lords Psal 119.28 107. My Soul melteth for heaviness I am afflicted very much compared with ver 94. I am thine save me A man may be exercised with horrid and dreadful temptations and yet be one that hath an interest in Christ The Apostle Paul who was a chosen Vessel and had an undoubted interest in Christ was under the buffettings of Satan which were as grievous to his Soul as a Thorn is grievous to the Flesh 2 Cor. 12.7 There was given to me a Thorn in the Flesh the Messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure Our Lord Jesus himself was tempted by Satan to great and grievous sins to get bread when he was hungry to cast down himself from a Pinacle of the Temple which was in effect to have destroyed himself and to fall down and worship the Devil And what worse sin than to worship the Devil Matth. 4.6 9. Now if Satan adventured to tempt our Lord Jesus Christ to such horrid sins as these are We need not wonder if he assault his Members with temptations to the worst of sins as Blasphemy Idolatry Atheism Self-Murder and the like 4. A man may have a saving interest in Christ and yet feel in himself the indwelling corruption which may incline him to that which is evil and hinder him in doing that good which he desireth to do He may feel the lustings of the Flesh opposing the workings of the Spirit of Grace He may feel the Law in his Members warring against the Law of his Mind and sometimes leading him Captive to the Law of Sin and yet be one that is made a partaker of the saving benefits of Christ We find the Apostle Paul uttering such complaints as these Sin dwelleth in me The good that I would that I do not but the evil which I would not that I do I find a Law that when I would do good evil is present with me I see another Law in my Members warring against the Law of my mind
his grace and love towards her She lived much in Communion with God there was an unspeakable intercourse between God and her Soul every day She would do nothing till she had spread it before the Lord and knew his mind and in things not only small but weighty She had such intimations from the Lord of his will and his secret was so with her as she before hand knew the mind of God because God had told hereby his Spirit for she gave not over till he had signified by his â—pirit upon her Spirit what was his pleasure what he would do or what he would have done and God did marvelously herein condescend to her not once but frequently or from time to time she was far from Euthusiasme but had such intimacy with the Lord that she went daily to him for some word some manifestation of himself to bear up her Spirit that day and he gave in either a word of promise or let out something of his attributes to her discovered of his Wisdom Power Faithfulness Allsufficiency Unchangableness and the like wherewith her inward man was fed and strengthned and when her Family concerns were more she arose the earlier and though attended with the greatest weakness yet always began the day with God and would not omit the seasons for private Communion with the Lord neither indeed could she live without them they being the life of her Spirit She lived in an eminent exercise of many graces of the Spirit She was well instructed in the mystery of the life of Faith lived in a daily dependance upon God for all in her greatest fulness she lived not upon the creature but upon God and recieved all from him in the way of Faith and Prayer in every strait she had recourse to the Al-sufficiency of God and would often say the creature runs into emptiness and the streams they dried up but the Fountain was ever full and flowing and in all losses and changes blessed her self in God her portion who was a faithful Covenant keeping God for ever she went to the Wisdom of God to be directed and waited there for Counsel every day her faith advanced into assurance of the love of God which she enjoyed most part of her days and thence issued spiritual and unmixed comforts as she walked circumspectly being careful not to provoke the Lord so he witnessed his love to her and filled her Soul with strong Consolation that she had a Heaven out of it's place even hereupon Earth she was in the Banquetting house of Jesus Christ in his Wine Cellar where his Banner over her was Love In a Letter of her own she said I have not only heard that God is good but I have had many experiences of his Love and Faithfulness to me in all my streights and Widdow-hood condition I may say the Life of Faith is the sweetest Life in the World as it is a Life that bringeth much glory to God so much comfort to our selves How full of Love she was to Jesus Christ is already manifested in her carefulness to keep his Commandments and also in her love to the Members of Christ both that and also her Humility and self-denyal appeared in that in her highest actings and best frame she disowned her self and leaned only upon Jesus Christ trusted only in him gloried in nothing but in Christ in the Cross of Christ in the Righteousness of Christ in the Love of Christ not in what she did for Christ though she did much and delighted in so doing but she gloried in the Grace of Christ that did much for her he and his Righteousness were all her life and comfort she had an eye upon the Incense the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ in all her approaches to God being ashamed of the mixture of sin those weaknesses and imperfections that were in her best performances notwithstanding all her strictness and exactness she lay as low before the Lord in the sense of her own vileness emptiness nothingness as if there were nothing in her She was much in exalting of Jesus Christ his merits and grace admiring what he had done for sinners touching their reconciliation to God the remission of sin their standing and priviledges in grace here and the glory that is to be revealed relying on the freeness and fulness of his grace alone as if she had done or were able to do nothing she did set the Crown on his head in all always saw that in her self which kept her low and humble before the Lord and nothing in her own eyes She excelled in and was a pattern of Patience under all her troubles her afflictions were many and long often at the very mouth of the Grave in the latter part of her time seldom enjoyed a well day yet never murmured thought her afflictions small bore them with a chearful Spirit was always submissive to the will of God always thought and spoke well of God and justified him in all her Tryals She was wonderfully melted into the will of God and lived always out of her own will resigned up to God to be disposed of as he pleased and was greatly satisfied in what he chose for her she hath said the will of God is sweet to her in every condition and under much bodily weakness if the Lord would have her live to be sick she was content yet latter ward was mostly tryed in the Fire of affliction when her Husband laid down his living upon the accompt of Non-conformity in stead of repining she said she was glad they had such a house and accommodations to leave for Christ and with all freeness and readiness resigned up all to him She was sorely tryed in the loss of her dearest Relations and choicest comforts in this World but she was prepared to be any thing that God would have her be and that with all alacrity and cheerfulness of Spirit She had a lively hope of future mercy of the life to come shee said she scarce knew how to live out of Heaven from Jesus Christ always groaning in the body to be delivered from the body of sin and death and to be with Jesus As she set out at first so she continued in the vigorous and constant exercise of all grace not loosing the life nor abating or impairing the strength thereof in old age under the decays of nature but in the 73 of her age she slept or dyed in Jesus 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