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 O Lord deliver my ſoul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling! 'O bring me out of the miry clay, ſet my feet upon a rock, and eſtabliſh my goings, and put a new ſong in my mouth, even praiſes to our God!

If Jacob went down ſo cheerfully into Egypt, when God had ſaid unto him, Fear not to go down for I will go down with thee, and I will bring thee up again: Why ſhould a believer fear to go down to to the grave, when God hath undertaken to go down with him thither, and to bring him up again. His body may be turned into duſt, but God is in covenant with his duſt, and will not ſuffer the leaſt particle of it to be loſt. Are not the righteous taken away from the evil to come? Do they not reſt on their beds; and enter into peace? Why then ſhould I grudge at dying? When the Lord is to bring heavy wrath and judgments on a land, he frequently houſeth many of his people in heaven before hand: and, how happy are theſe that win the houſe before the ſweeping hail-ſhowers doth fall. A believer needeth not to look for any ſettled fair weather in this world: it will be nothing but one ſhower up and another down, till he be houſed in heaven. O why then ſhould I linger in this wilderneſs!

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