Diduction 6.
* 1.1Lastly, I will close all with a word of counsel. Is this the pri∣viledge of dying believers to commend their souls into the hands of God. Then as ever you hope for comfort or peace in your last hour, see that your souls be such as may be then fit to be commend∣ed into the hands of an holy and just God. See that they be holy souls. God will never accept them, if they be not holy. With∣out holiness no man shall see God. Heb. 12.24. He that hath this hope, (viz. to see God) purifieth himself even as he is pure, 1 Joh. 3.3. Indeavours after holiness are inseparably connected with all rational expectations of blessedness. Will you put an un∣clean filthy defiled thing into the pure hand of the most holy God? O see they be holy, and already accepted in the beloved, or wo to them when they take their leaves of those tabernacles they now dwell in. The gratious soul may confidently say then, Lord Iesus, into thy hands I commend my spirit. O let all that can say so then, now say,