Silas.
To follow and obey the corrupt motions of our blinde reason and peruerse will. The danger heereof is death: now all men naturally abhorre death, as a most fearefull thing. Therefore as we would abhorre such a mi∣serable and horrible effect as death, wee must bee carefull that we liue not after the flesh, but that we obey the Spi∣rite.
Sil.
Not onely the naturall death which is common vnto all, frō which euen the godliest are not exempted, but must dye at the last. Againe, this death is so farre from terrifying some of the godly, that it giueth them much ioy and com∣fort, and is a thing most desired of them; and therefore these words are not to be vnderstood of a corporall death alone, which is the dissolution of nature, but it may partly be vn∣derstood of a naturall death when it is inflicted vpon the godly, as a iudgement of some lust of the flesh, which they haue too much followed. As it hapened to Moyses, Aaron, Iosias, Ely, Numb. 27, 12, 13. Deut. 32, 49, 50, 51. 2. Kings. 23, 29. 1. Sam. 33, 34, & 4, 11, 18. Also the Pro∣phet mentioned, 1. Kings, 13, 24. Yea sometimes the obey∣ing some lust of the flesh, doth cost Gods children deare from the hand of ciuill iustice, as happened to some that perished in the wildernesse, 1. Cor. 10, 5. and to sundry others daily amongst our selues, who come vnto publike and shamefull death, for some worke of the flesh which they haue done, and yet no doubt are the faithful Children of God; as it did befall the Theefe vpon the Crosse. But that death which is heere chiefely to be meant, is eternall death, which is the casting out of the whole man, both bo∣dy and soule from Gods presence, to suffer Hell torments for euer and euer.