[ 1021] Whether it be lawfull to desire Death.
IT is written of Martyrius,* 1.1 that being on his Death-bed, he desired that God would be pleased to release him out of the miseries of this sinful World; but his
Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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Auditors standing by, said, What will become of us, and our poor souls, when you are gone? your losse will be a great prejudice to us, you cannot conceive, what hurt we shall re∣ceive by your death. Well, saies he, if my life may be profitable to Gods people, I will do any thing that he will have me to do.* 1.2 He desires to live, so as it may stand with Gods good pleasure. And a man may wish to die, for it is good or sinfull so to do, as the the grounds are, whereupon the desires are setled. It is an expression of faith to be freed from sin, and to have a more neer communion with God. Thus it is, that the Bride in the Revelation saies Come, and the Spirit saies Come; and both the Spirit and the Church take hands together▪* 1.3 and say, Come Lord Iesus, come quickly. No man, saies Christ, can see may face,* 1.4 and live: O then, saies the Church, let me die, that I may see thy face. But such is the frailty of man, that even strong desires, and unadvised wishes, are to be found amongst the people of God, such as wish for death, in regard of carnall ends;* 1.5 thus Eliah, because of Iesa∣bels frownes, cries out, Lord take away my life, &c. and Ionah,* 1.6 in a pettish humour, thinks it better to die than to live, not considering, that Patience is the daughter of Hope, and grandchild of Faith; so that he that believeth, maketh no•• haste. There is Heaven, saies Hope; It is mine, saith 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Yea, but saith Patience, I will wait till Gods appointed time come.
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* 1.1
Salp. Sev. Hist. Sacra.
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* 1.2
S. Faweet Ser. at S. Alphage Lond 1646.
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* 1.3
Rev. 22.
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* 1.4
Nonne mori sa∣tius, vitae quam ferre pudorem? Claudian.
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* 1.5
1 King. 19. 4.
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* 1.6
Jon. 4.