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In this life, in this death of the body; O Lord, I see there are no degrees, though differences of time; The man that dyed yesterday is as truly dead, as Abel the first man that dyed in the world▪ and Methuselah that lived nine hundred sixty nine years, did not more truly live, then the childe that did but salute, and leave the world; but in the
life to come, and the second death, here are degrees; de∣grees of blessedness to the glorified, degrees of torments to the damned; the least whereof is unspeakable, un∣conceivable: Oh thou that art the Lord of life and death, keep my soul from those steps that go down to the cham∣bers of death; and once set it (for higher I dare not sue to go) but over the threshold of glory and blessedness.