Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may bebold my Glory, which thou hast given me. Joh. 17. 24. For when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God; and 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: and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another with these Words. 1 Theff. 4. 16, 17, 18. I SCRIPTURES Against the Fear of Death. Tis appointed unto men once to Die. Heb. 9. 27. What man is he that liveth, and shall not fee Death? Pfal. 89. 48. Fear Fear not therefore the Sentence of Death; remember them that. have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the Sentence of the Lord over all flesh. Ecclus. 41. 3. For out of the ground wast thou taken: Dust thou art, and unto Dust shalt thou return. Gen. 3. 19. And as for me, I know that thou wilt bring me to Death, and to the house appointed for all Living. Job. 30. 23. For few and evil have my Days been. And now, behold! I seem as one who am going the way of all the Earth. Gen 47. 9. and. Josh. 23. 14. And as I came forth of my Mother's womb, so naked shall I return to go as I came ; and shall take nothing of my Labour away in my hand with me. Eccl. 5. 15. For we are Strangers before thee, and Sojourners, as were all our Fa ther's thers: Our Days on the Earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. 1 Chron. 29. 15. As Pilgrims, we fojourn: And have here no continuing City, but Seek one to come. I Pet. 2. II. Heb. 13. 14. For we know, that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were diffolved we have a Building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. And in this being burdened, we groan earnestly; defiring to be cloathed upon with our House which is from Heaven. I Cor. 5. 1, 2, 4. For the Lord Jesus shall change this vile Body, and fashion it like unto his own glorious Body. Phil. 3. 2.1. And this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality. I Cor.15.. 53. So that the Day of Death, is really better than the Day of ones Birth, Eccl. 7. 1. And And the Righteous hath hope in his Death. Prov. 14. 32. Blessed are the Dead which Die in the Lord: for they rest from their Labours, and their Works do follow them. Rev. 14. 13. The time of my Departure is at band: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the Faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness, which the Lord the Righteous Fudge shall give me at that Day. 2 Tim. 4. 6, 7, 8. And therefore for me to Die is Gain. And I have a Defire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better. Phil. 1. 21, 23. PRAY-. PRAYERS 1. A Submission to the Sentence of Death. Lord my God, in most profound Humility of Soul and Body, I cast my Self at the feet of thy Divine Majesty, Adoring thee as my Sovereign Judge. Who haft pronounced against Me and all Sinners, (in the first Man that finned) the Sentence of Death, saying, Duft thou art, and unto Dust shalt thou return. In Homage of thy Divine Justice, I humbly submit to the Sentence then pronounced against Me, and all Mankind. All the Days of my appointed time will I wait, till my Change come. Job 14. 14. |