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OBject. But is not death a punishment of God for sin? Doth not Scripture call it the King of fears? And Nature above all other evils abhor it?
Answ. Ile not meddle with that which is controversal in this: Whether Death be properly a punishment, or not: But grant that in it self considered, it may be called Evil, as being naturally the dissolution of the Creature. Yet being sanctified to us by Christ, and being the season, and occasion of so great a Good, as is the
present possession of God in Christ; it may be welcomed with a glad submission, if not with desire. Christ affords us grounds enough to comfort us against this natural Evil: And therefore en∣dues us with the principle of Grace, to raise us above the reach of nature.
For all those low and poor Objections, as leaving House, Goods, and Friends, leaving our children unprovided, &c. I pass them over as of lesser moment, then to take much with men of Grace.
§. 24.
Malum poenae, vel privatio boni in genere Entis, non in ge∣nere Moris.