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O Eternall and most gracious God, I haue a new occasion of thanks, and a new occa∣sion of prayer to thee, from the ringing of this bell. Thou toldst me in the other voice, that I was mortall, and ap∣proaching to death; In this I may heare thee say, that I am dead, in an irre∣mediable, in an irrecoue∣rable state for bodily health. If that bee thy language in this voice,
how infinitely am I bound to thy heauenly Maiestie, for speaking so plainly vnto mee? for euen that voice, that I must die now, is not the voice of a Iudge, that speaks by way of con∣demnation, but of a Phy∣sitian, that presents health in that: Thou presentest mee death as the cure of my disease, not as the ex∣altation of it; if I mi∣stake thy voice herein, if I ouer-runne thy pace, and preuent thy hand, and imagine death more
instant vpon mee than thou hast bid him bee, yet the voice belongs to me; I am dead, I was borne dead, and from the first laying of these mud-walls in my conception, they haue moldred away, and the whole course of life is but an actiue death. Whether this voice in∣struct mee, that I am a dead man now, or remem∣ber me, that I haue been a dead man all this while, I humbly thanke thee for speaking in this voice to my soule, and I hum∣••ly
beseech thee also, to ••ccept my prayers in his behalfe, by whose occa∣sion this voice, this sound is come to mee. ••or though hee bee by death transplanted to thee, and so in posses∣sion of inexpressible happinesse there, yet here vpon earth thou hast giuen vs such a por∣tion of heauen, as that though men dispute, whether thy Saints in heauen doe know what we in earth in particular doe stand in need of, yet
without all disputation, wee vpon earth doe know what thy Saints in heauen lacke yet, for the consummation of their happinesse; and there∣fore thou hast affoorded vs the dignitie, that wee may pray for them. That therefore this soule now newly departed to thy Kingdome, may quickly returne to a io••∣full reunion to that body which it hath left, and that wee with it, may soone enioy the full con∣summation of all, in body
and soule, I humbly beg at thy hand, O our most mercifull God, for thy Sonne Christ Iesus sake. That that blessed Sonne of thine, may haue the comsummation of his dig∣nitie, by entring into his last office, the office of a Iudge, and may haue so∣cietie of humane bodies in heauen, as well as hee hath had euer of soules•• And that as thou hatest sinne it selfe, thy hate to sinne may bee expres∣sed in the abolishing of all instruments of sinne,
The allurements of this world, and the world it selfe; and all the tempo∣rarie r••uenges of sinne, the stings of sicknesse and of death; and all the castles, and prisons, and monuments of sinne, in the graue. That time may bee swallowed vp in E∣ternitie, and hope swal∣lowed in possession, and ends swallowed in infi∣nitenesse, and all men or∣dained to saluation, in body and soule, b•• one in∣tire and euerlasting sacri∣fice to thee, where thou
mayest receiue delight from them, and they glo∣rie from thee, for euer∣more. Amen.