The Christians End, Sermon 4
THE FOVRTH SERMON.
ROM. 14. 7. 8.
7 For none of us liveth to himselfe, and no man dieth to himselfe. 8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: and whether we dye, we dye unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or dye, we are the Lords.
IN these words the Apostle taketh us off from our selves, and assigneth us to a true end. As the first thing that grace doth, is to set God and Christ in his owne place, the Heart: so in the second place it begets a regard of our selves, such as may stand with the love of Christ. For till Christ hath a duplicate page duplicate page place in the heart, by our comming to some degrees of selfe-deniall, selfe hindereth us in all our whole course both of believing and doing. For wee have naturally contrary principles to all articles of faith, and contrary motions to all the commands of God. It hinders us in the duties to God, to others, to our selves. And therefore to what I formerly sayd, I may adde this consideration,Doctrine. That it is no easie thing to bee a Christian. If wee were required to renounce any thing else, we might obtaine it of our selves, sooner than deny our selves: for what is nearer to our selves, than our selves? Thousand Rivers of Oyle, Micha. 6. 7.the first fruits of the body, would be given for the sin of the soule. That outward mortification so much magnified in Popery, is nothing to the renouncing of a lust. But if we would be Christians to purpose, wee must bee stript of our selves, (as they say of the serpent, he must part with the old Slough) we must have an higher principle than our selves, before we can doe it. A Christian is above himselfe, and better than himselfe, and stronger than himselfe, because hee hath a better selfe than himselfe. And by vertue of that better selfe, which is grace in his heart, hee is able to bring under all his other selfe, not onelyonly his sinfull selfe, but his naturall selfe; neither his life, nor any thing is deare unto him, in comparison of Christ.
Therefore we must not have conceits of religion, as easie: indeed if wee had sanctified judgements, and hearts set at liberty, it were an easie thing: if we had judgements to see, that we are never more our selves, than when wee are not our selves; that wee have a better being in Christ than in our selves, that our selves are our worst enemies: If the judgement were thus posse…t, and the will, and affections made answerable to this judgement, it were easie to deny ourselves. But selfe hinders the knowledge of it selfe all it can. Peccatum impedit sui cognitionem: sinne naturally hinders the knowledge of its owne foulenesse.Sin cloudeth the eye of the Soule. That which should discerne sinne is clouded, and that which should hate sinne is ingaged to sinne. So that under the use of meanes we must labour to know our condition, and the foulenesse and danger of that condition. And that is the excellency of Gods ordinances and divine truthes, that by them we come to know our selves: But I will not inlarge my selfe in that.
What it is to live,How to live to Christ. and di… to the Lord wee have declared. That it is to make Christ his chiefe aime, and end, and doe all in vertue of that end. Then is a Christian in his right temper, when Gods end, Christs end, and his end have the same centre. A qualification very excellent.
That, that makes God delight in his children so much, is that they have the same end, the same God, the same spirit with Christ. It is so excellent to prefixe a right end to ail our actions, that it spirituallizeth common actions. As Saint Paul saith of servants.Common actions by the spirit are made holy. They serve the Lord in serving their masters. Whatsoever the stuffe of our actions be, yet in that aime, and spirit, in which they bee done, they may be services of the Lord.
Now life implyeth the whole course of our actions, all our actions should be to the Lord immediately, and directly, or mediately, and reductively, as they are quickened by the Spirit of God. And that is the excellency of a christian▪ hee considers of every thing, as it helpeth his last end. As on the other side, a base worldling, considers Religion, and all things else, as they sute to his worldly aimes, but to speake of the next point.
Whether wee live or dye, wee are the Lords.
This is the inference drawne from the former two generals,Inference. negative and affirmative. None of us liveth to our selves, or dyeth to our selves. And from thence it is inferred: whether we live, or dye, wee are the Lords.
And as it is an inference raised from the former; So wee may consider it, as a cause, why we must live to the Lord, and dye to the Lord: for whether we live, or dye, we are the Lords.
The words are a certaine bottome, and foundation for a christians comfort in the uncertainty of his condition here, being between life, & death. Sure he is of death, as of life: but when to dye, and how long to live, he is uncertaine. But be that as it will be, this is certaine, living and dying, he is the Lords.
So that take the whole condition of a christian, take him in all estates of life or death, (which two divide the whole condition of man, for all men may be ranked into these two orders of quick and dead.A Christian is Christs in life & death.) I say consider a christian in either of them, Christ is Lord of both; take him in a condition of life, while he liveth, he is the Lords. When hee giveth up his breath, he is the Lords. So that come of him what will, in this uncertaine condition, this is certaine, and sure, he is the Lords.
Now a Lord is he, that hath Dominium in rem & personam, right to persons and things, and the disposing of them, pro arbitrio, as it pleaseth himselfe, and so Christ is Lord both of life and death.
First in generall, as he is Lord of all creatures by Creation, (God having given all power into his hands both in heaven and in earth.
Secondly in a more particular manner and right, Hee is Lord of all those that bee his, by a peculiar gift from all eternity, God hath given us to Christ in his eternall electing love. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, Iohn 17.saith Christ.
Thirdly, and then we are Christs by his owne purchase, we are the price of his bloud, wee are bought with a price, not of Gold, or Silver, but with his precious bloud, by that price Gods justice is satisfied. God so gave us to Christ, that he gave him to redeem, and shed his bloud for us, that his iustice might be no looser.
Fourthly, wee are his by Conquest: For he being so excellent a person, as Godman, hath rescued us from all our enemies, Sin, Sathan, Death, Hell, and whatsoever else; what have they to doe with us, when Gods iustice is once satisfied?
Fifthly, those that are true believers, are his in regard of a peculiar interest between him and them. They give themselves over to him by a contract of marriage,Wee are Christs by Covenant. and covenant, and therefore hee is Lord of them, by their yeelding of themselves to him, as a Lord: they take him for a Lord, as well as for a Saviour, and that is the foundation of the spirituall marriage, and the covenant of grace on both sides. Christ giveth himselfe to us, and wee by the spirit of Christ have grace to give our selves back againe to him.
By our owne voluntary Contract, wee have given up our selves to him in our effectuall calling, which is our answer to Gods call, when hee calleth on us to be…lieve, to take him, and the soule answers, Lord,Beliefe the answer of a good consciscience. I believe, and accept thee. This by S. Peter, is termed the answer of a good conscience, 1 Pet. 3. and is, when we can say, I am thine, thou art mine, and I yeeld my selfe to thee, to be disposed of by thee. No Christian can claime Christ, hi Lord, but this contract hath passed between his soule, and Christ.
So that if …ou looke to God the Father, we are Christs by donation: if you re…gard Christ himselfe, wee are his by purchase: if wee regard the enemies we have, we are Christs by conquest: if wee regard our selves, we are his by voluntary acceptance of the covenant of grace, and by contract past between him and us: yea, and Christ is so our Lord, as that hee is our Husband; our Lord, as our King; our Lord, as our Head. We owe to him a subjection, as subjects; a subjection, as his Spouse; a subjection, as his disciples, to be taught by him our Lord and Master.
Now the tearm of Lord, is usually given to Christ, rather than to God the Father, both in the new testament, & the old too.
And if there were no other reason for it,Reason. it is enough that God so stileth him.
But secondly, God in the second person hath done those things that make him our Lord, more than the Father, or holy Ghost: For hee in the second person hath taken our nature, and died and rose againe for us, and hath conquered all our enemies. Hee hath in the second person made us his Spouse, his Members, and in all degrees of nearnesse to him. And because God in the second person hath done all, therefore in the second person he ismore termed Lord, than God the Father, or the holy Ghost. And therefore Acts 2. 36. God the father hath made him Lord and Christ.
This is a poynt of wonderfull comfort,It is our comfort to have Christ our Lord. and not onelyonly a comfort, but a direction how to carry ourselves It is not onelyonly a poynt of dignitie and prerogative, but a dutie.
First, it is agrand cōfort, we are the Lords, and the Lords in a peculiar manner, as before. The Divel is the Lords; the Earth is the Lords, All is the Lords; but wee are the Lords by eternal donatiō, by purchase, by conquest, by voluntary yeelding to him. And therefore it is a most excellent condition.
What is the Lord?Question.
If we be Christs,Answer. we have him for Lord, that is, Lord of life, Lord of glory, Lord of grace, that is, Lord of Lords, King of Kings. He is an independent Lord, none is above him, the Father and he agreeing together: if you know one, you know both. Hee is an absolute Lord, a free Lord, he hath no dependance at all upon any creature whatsoever. An eternall Lord, we have an eternall being in him; for wee are, when we are dead.Christ …ur Lor… before and after death. And therfore the Apostle divideth it, Whether we live or dye, wee are the Lords. We have a substance when we be dead: and a Lord of equall continuance with our selves: a king for ever. Therefore it is a poynt of wonderfull comfort.
But you will say,Obj…ct. Freedome is a sweet thing, especially freedome from government, so as to have no Lord to controule us: therfore how can this be so excellent estate to have Christ our Lord?
Beloved, wee are creatures, wee are neither of our selves,Answer. nor by our selves, nor …or ourselves.
Besides, wee have enemies greater than our selves, the powers of hell: and therefore if we had not a better above us, what would become of us? but to bee totally subjected under the power of enemies It is the happines of the inferior to be in subjection to be the superior. It is the happines of beasts to be under man, that they may be kept from destruction. It is the happines of the the weak to have tutors & governers It is the perfection of inferiors to yeeld a gracious subjection to that that is better than themselves. For every thing is perfected by being subject to that which is better. And therfore we especially in our lapsed condition, seeing wee are our owne greatest enemies.
God in love will not trust us with our selves since the fall, but wil have our hapnes to be dependent & subject to another, to a God in our nature, an excellent Lord: and therefore an excellent Lord, because (besides what I spake before) Christ hath all the authority in heaven & earth committed to him, not only over us, but over our enemies, that they shall not doe us harme. And indeed he cannot bee Lord of the Chruch, but he must be Lord of all creatures in heaven and earth, that no creature may prejudice his Church. Hee hath universall authoritie over all things, and all for the Chruches cause.
And then he hath all the good qualities of a Lord, not only authority, but wisdome, and strength, & power, & bounty, and goodnesse, and whatsoever may make him a gracious Lord. And therefore it is our perfection to be in subjection to this Lord.
To set forth a little the excellencie of this Lord.
He hath the sweetnesse of all superiours whatsoever; as he hath taken the name of all superiority, that is sweet, and lovely, so he hath the affections of all, and eminently more than all; hee is a Lord, as a Husband; hee loveth more than any husband can doe. Hee is a Lord, as a King, he can do more for us than any king, He hath all power in heaven, and earth, and hell, over the divels themselves. All knees bow to him, Phil. 2. 10.of things in heaven and in earth, and under the earth. And he is Lord, as an Head. Whatsoever Superiority is neare & deare, that hee is to his Church.
He requires service. I but hee is such a Lord as enableth us to serve him, helpeth our infirmities by his Spirit: without him we can doe nothing, but in him wee can doe all.
And as hee enableth us to performe service, so doth hee reward every service, every good thought, nothing is lost that is done for Christ…, sake, not a cup of cold water. Hee giveth strength to per…orme, accepteth it as a worke of his Spirit, and then rewardeth it. He is so a Lord, as he standeth for his; so a Lord, as he appeareth for us now in heaven, against all accusations of Sathan. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods people? for Christ maketh intercession for them.Christ answereth all Satans accusations in defence of his children. He stood for his Disciples here on earth, and upon any occasion was ready to defend them; and hee is as ready in heaven to stand for his subjects and servants, and will answer all accusations of a malitious world, against his Chruch and children, and will bring forth their righteousnesse to light, as the noone day; hee standeth for their credit, and ingageth himselfe for the defence and protection of his Mount Sion, his Church.
And to adde one thing more out of the text, concerning the excellencie of this Lord, Chr…sts love … and eternall.he is an unchangeable Lord, his love is as himselfe, and his care as himselfe, Eternall: For whether we live or dye, we are his. What other people that are under a government, can say so? For all their governours love and care endeth in death. In the meane time their mindes are variable, their affections may dye before themselves: as how many have beene cast off in their old dayes? But God will not do so. Forsake me not in my gray haires, sayth David. Hee is our Lord while wee live, and he leaveth us not when wee leave to live; but is our God to death, in death, and after death, and for ever. It is a relation that holds for eternitie. As our Saviour Christ sayth of Abraham, Isaac and Iacob. He is the God of Abraham. Abraham is dead, Isaac and Iacob rotten in their graves. I but their soules are in heaven: and because he is their whole God, their bodies shall be raised againe, and united with their soules, and bee for ever with the Lord.
In all the vicissitude and entercourse of things in this world, wee need something to sticke to: and this the Christian hath to sticke to, that never faileth him, He is the Lords,Christ is ours, and wee are his. and the Lord is his: hee is Christs, and Christ is his. Christ hath a love that is as himselfe, unchangeable, Whom the Lord loveth, he loveth to the end. The promises made in Christ, are as Christ, the promises of grace here, and glory hereafter certain: as his nature and love is unchangeable, so the fruit of his love in his gracious promises, is alwaies certain. They are the everlasting portion of the Church.
The good things promised, are everlasting likewise, we may build upon them; wee cannot build on riches here, or life here, but we may build on eternall life, eternall glory and happinesse.
So that cast a Christian into what condition you will,A Christian is happy in all condition, he hath God and Christ in covenant with him, and the love of Christ, and all the gracious promises, and the things promised. And these doe not vary, life varieth. We may live now, dye to morrow; but whether we live or dye, these foure things mentioned, are certainly ours.
A Christian cannot say of any thing here, that it will be his long; his estate is his now, and many wayes there are to take it away: his friends are his now, but their friendship may decline: any thing in the world may bee so ours to day, as not ours to morrow. And therefore were it not that in this varietie of conditions we had something that is afterward, …here were our comfort? wee may out-live all com…orts here,Our happines in Christ is everlasting. but wee cannot out-live our happinesse in Christ, For whether wee live or dye, wee are the Lords.
To speake of this a little, as it yeeldeth comfort in death;Ground of… comfort. wee are the Lords not onelyonly while we live, but when wee dye. Why? because we have a being in Christ when we dye. Christ is a living root; because I live, you shall live also. This Lord is the Lord of life: and therefore whosoever is one with the Lord of life, hee can indeed never dye. Death is only a change of a naturall graccious life here, to a glorious life in another world: from the Church warfaring here, to the Church triumphant in heaven▪
It is not properly death;A Christian dieth not. for misery dyeth, Death it selfe dyeth, wee doe not dye; Death overthroweth it selfe, but a Christians life is hid with Christ, and when he dyeth, he dyeth to live, and is found in Christ at the day of judgement, and shall bee for ever with Christ. Therefore it is no great matter what kinde of death a Christian dyeth, because he dyeth in the Lord. Blessed are they that dye in the Lord. Hee sayth not, them that dye a faire death: A wretch, an opposer, an hypocrite may doe so, and goe to hell. But blessed are they that dye in the Lord, because Christ is their Lord in death, and so sayth the Apostle, Heb. 11. All these dyed in faith. Hee sayth not, they all dyed a faire death, for they did not, but many of them dyed a bloudy death; yet they all dyed in faith, and so they dyed in the Lord.
And therefore when wee read in the Histories of the Church, that some were torne in pieces with wilde beasts, that they gave the bodies of the Saints to the Fowles of Heaven, as David hath it (which may discourage some to bee Christians) let us not thinke that any matter, they died in faith. And as the Psalmist sayth,Psal. 116. Pretious to the Lord is the death of all his Saints. For he taketh notice of them in their lives, not onelyonly in their lives, but the haires of their head, they being all numbred. Hee taketh notice of the teares▪ that fall from their eyes,God noteth every thing done to his children. and will not hee take notice of their bloud? Hee taketh notice of their persons, their haires, their teares, and will hee part with their lives for nothing? No, hee will be payd for the lives of his children, when hee parts with them, his enemies shall bee sure to pay for it. Hee will bee avenged on them for it, as the bloud of Naboth was on Ahab: so hee will bee revenged on all the persecutours of his Church, and take a strict account of every droppe of bloud that hath beene shed: for their persons are pretious, God taketh speciall notice of them, they are his members, his Spouse, and neare unto him.
And then hee will not have them dye,They shall do their work for which they came. till they have done their worke. Hee taketh speciall notice of them all their life: And when they have done what they came for (as Christ sayth of himselfe, I have done the worke thou gavest mee to doe: Then hee sendeth for them home. They dye not at adventure, but under the care of one, that knoweth them well both in life and death.
And therfore it is that God so revenged the Persecutors of his Church, for the bloud of his Saints, from the bloud of Abel unto this day.
And as the death of his Saints are pretious, so are all the things the Saints have, Whatsoever they have, is pretious to the Lord.their credit is pretious, their goods are pretious: God taketh notice of everie thing they part with for his sake. As he, and all his, is ours, himselfe, his happines, his spirit, his priviledges: so when wee are his, all ours are his; hee taketh care of our lives, of our deaths, of our credits, of our riches, of our estates: wee part with nothing for him, but he considers it, and will reward it aboundantly.
Hee that dyeth in the Lord, is a blessed man, so sayth the spirit, the flesh will not say so, but rather will inferre, who would bee so religious? for such venture their lives▪ and are counted as the offscowring of the world. The Divell will teach this Lesson, and the world. As they have lived in the flesh, and will sell all to bee some body in the World, though they goe to hell when they have done. But saith the Spirit, blessed are they who not onelyonly die for the Lord, as Martyrs, but that die in the Lord, whether to seale the truth of God with their blood, or other wise, they die happily▪ & so this is a ground of speciall comfort.
And as it is a ground of speciall comfort;Of direction to give our selves to Christ. so it is a ground of direction. Whether we live, or die, we are the Lords▪ Therfore it may bee a foundation of living to the Lord. If we be the Lords, surely we ought to live to him. I… we be his, all our endeavours, whatsoever is ours, are his. Fructus and Fundus, goe together, the fruit and the soile, and therefore if we be the Lords in life & death, we must not live to our selvs, as our own: but give our selvs to him, & not to anything else: we are not our owne, nor mans, but the Lords. And therefore wee ought not to yield up our selves to our selfe-wils, selfe-wit, self-love, to be at or owne disposing▪ and to live as we list. We are redeemed from our selves, yea from all our vaine conversations.
Some thinke Christ dyed, and therefore they may be vaine, especially at the solemn time of Christs nativitie. The divell hath so prevailed with the world, and will, till there bee a new face of the Church: they never honour the Divell more, than when they seeme to honour Christ. For say they, Christ came to set us at libertie.Object. Did hee so? But it was to deliver us from wickednesse;Answer. yea, from vaine conversations, and not to purchase us liberty to live as wee list.Psal. 12. 4. Our tongues are our owne, say they in the Psalmes. I but Christ sayth, they are not your owne, they are his. And if they bee not Christs, they are the Divels. Our thoughts are not our owne, but all should bee dedicated to Christ. Therefore wee should bee content that Christ should set up a regiment in our soules, that hee may rule our thoughts, …desires, our language, and members, that they may be all weapons of righteousnesse.
Wee have nothing our owne,Nothing our…. much lesse …inne, from which we are redeemed. And not onelyonly from grosse sinnes, but from such conversations as are vaine in themselves, and will be vaine to thee.
And when wee are redeemed from sin, and from vaine conversations, we are redeemed from our selves, from the world, from the Divell, whom now hath a man to serve? none but this Lord. Wee have renounced all other in Baptisme: and we are revolters, and rebels, and renounce out covenant in baptisme, if we renounce not the world, and the lusts of it in our lives.
Our selves we must not serve: for we are redeemed from our selves; and not onelyonly from our carnall selves, but naturall selves: Christ is Lord of our natures. And a Christian ought to say, Lord, of thee I had this body, of thee I had this life of mine, these goods of mine, this credit of mine, this reputation and place in the world. As I had all from thee, so I returne all to thee againe.
And as we are not our owne, we must not bee other mens,We must not be regulated by others opions in religion without ground. we are not servants of men, as the Apostle sayth: wee must not take upon trust the opinions▪ that others would put upon us, or what wee list our selves in religion; wee must not have mens pesons in admiration, for advantage, we must not Idol…ze any creature; for as we are not our owne, so we are not any others, but we are the Lords.
The happinesse of a Christian is to bee independent on the creatures; hee may use them as subordinate helpes, but hee is to depend onelyonly on this Lord, what to believe, what to speake; and not to take up this or that opinion, to please this or that man, thereby to rise to greatnesse.
It is a base thing to say, I believe as my pa…ents believe: are you your parents▪ your parents are the servants of this great Lord, whose you are, and to whom it is your dutie to yeeld your selves.
Vse.And therefore in sollicitation to any sin, make that use of it, that the holy Apostle doth in that grosse sin, that reignes …o m…ch in the world, and brings many to h…ll, Defile…ent of body. Saith hee, Our bodies are bought with a price, And shall I take the members of Christ, and make them members of an …? So when wee are tempted by corruption, and Satan joyning with it; reason thus: Shall I de…le this body of mine? my body is not mi…e,Nothing our owne. it is th… Lords; my members are not mine, they bee dedicated and consecrated to him. What should such base abhominable … to Christ? I am his, my thoughts his, my desires should bee his.
Let those that bee given to swea…ing, and blasphe…ing, a…d idle …alke, consider that their tongues are not their owne: and yet for whom doe they imploy their tongues as an instrument, but for Sa…?
So when wee come to dye,2 Vse. make use of it, not onelyonly for comfort, but for duty; We are Christs, and therefore if hee doth call us by any kinde of death, if hee sends for us by a bloudy death, goe to Christ that way, because he is Lord, and disposeth of whatsoever befalleth us, and determineth by what death wee shall glorifie him. Bee of Saint Pauls resolution, to glorifie God both living & dying. Phil. 3.He knew God should be glorified, by his death, as well as by his life. So wee may glorifie Christ by any death; bee content to yeeld our selves any kind of way to him.
There bee two vertues wee ought specially to exercise in the houre of death, Assurance of faith that wee are Christs. And a resignation to his will; that in faith, and in obedience, wee may commit our selves to him, as to a faithfull Creatour and Redeemer. This is our dutie.
And it is no easie a matter to do this. Many bequeath themselves to God; but alas, they have alienated themselves before to the world They have given their bodies to wine, to women, as the Scripture phrase is. Or they have given their spirits to the world. As wee use to say in our common speech, of some men, They are given to the world. But when they have given their strength to the flesh before, and doe at time of death bequeath their spirits to the Lord, will hee owne them? Alas, they are alienated before, and so put out of their owne disposing. And therefore ordinarily (unlesse the Lord worke a miracle) it is impossible to dye in the Lord… If a man have not lived to the Lord before; which may teach us to give our selves really to him in our life time; that our lives being a service to Christ, wee may comfortably die to him, and have our soules to dispose of.
The like subjection must bee shewed in all conditions whatsoever.We must bee subject to God in all conditions. If God will have mee to honour him in a meane calling, I am not mine owne, I am his, my life, and all my condition of life, are onelyonly to him. My calling, my estate, it may bee is low, that my pride may bee humbled. But God hath set mee in my calling, he will have mee to honour him in it. In the meanest calling, a man shall have enough to give an account of, and therfore there is no reason to be ashamed of our calling. I am the Lords, in my life, in all the passages of it, in my calling, in all the troubles of it, I am to looke for support, and protection, and provision, and direction from God. I am here by his appointment. And therefore he that hath set me in this place, will provide for me, protect me, guide mee by his Spirit, what to doe in my place. And so it is a ground of contentation in all conditions.
You see then there is great reason why wee should not live to our selves, but to the Lord: that wee should not dye to our selves, but to the Lord. For it is a great comfort, & a speciall duty: and therfore in a word▪ We cannot have a more comfortable experiment in all divine truths▪ It is our chiefest comfort that God is ours, and we are his, and to improve it.than this, That God in Christ hath passed over himselfe to be ours, and wee have passed over our selves to him, i… wee have grace to doe i…. And then to plead, and improve it, when it is done▪ there is not a comfort of greater comprehension: and therefore the Apostle dwelleth on the poynt. No man liveth to himselfe, no man dyeth to … selfe; but we live to the Lord, and dye to the Lord. To what end is all this? but that we should settle it as a bottome, & ground of comfort and contentment, and happinesse, that wee are not our owne, but the Lords.
Think therefore of this one thing, that wee are his, that hath a command in heaven and earth, to whom all knees bow with subjection; his, that is Lord of Lords, King of Kings, that is Lord Paramount, who will not suffer any thing to befall his Church, or any particular Christian, that shall not bee for their good: for he hath all power in heaven and earth for that purpose, and for ever. What a comfort is it in life, and death, in the middest of oppositions here, or from the powers of hell, that we have a Lord, that is commander of all, Lord of life or death? He hath the keyes of hell and death. Himselfe hath conquered all, and hee will conquer all in us by little and little. What happinesse is it, Isay, to be under such a Lord?
The end of the fourth Sermon▪