The Christian's Consolations Against The Fears Of Death - With Seasonable Directions How To Prepare Ourselves To Die Well (1824) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mother and that of the child, the one decays and dies insensibly, the child's life grows and increaseth by degrees; so it is in the faithful and regenerate soul; there are two lives; that of sin, that the scripture names the old man; and that of the new man, which is created according to God in righteousness and true holiness; the one diminishes and draws to its final end; but the other grows and gathers strength, until we arrive to the perfect stature of our Lord Jesus Christ; the spirit of God every day gets ground of our corruption and weakness. CHAPTER V. Why ice are yet subjected to the corporal or natural death, and what advantage we thereby receive in Jesus Christ. THE wise king teacheth us in the ninth Ec- clesiastcs, That the same accident happens to all, to (lie rigttieous, and to the wicked, to the clean, and to the polluted, to him that sacrificfth, and to him that sacrificfth not. These words are to be understood of the several aflfliction