[ 1507] Why it is, that the Children of God die usually sooner then others.
SHould any of us have a Child,* 1.1 an onely son in France, Holland, or some such like place of distance abiding there to learn the language, to see fashi∣ons or the like, and should hear that the Countrey were all in an uproar, ready to fight on•• against another; What course should we take in this case? should we not in all hast write to have him home, where he might be in more safe∣ty? In like manner doth God with his people that he hath (as it were) at Nurse or at School here in this World;* 1.2 When trouble and danger is toward those places, where they make their abode, he calleth for them away, he taketh them home to himself, wh••r•• they are sure to be safe, far out of Gun's shot, and free from touch or view of evil.