I believe your hell is dried up, and ye have only these two shallow brooks, sickness and death to pass through; and ye have also a promise that Christ shall do more than meet you, even that He shall come Himself and go with you foot for foot, yea and bear you in His arms. O then! for the joy that is set before you; for the love of the Man (who is also "God over all blessed for ever") that is standing upon the shore to welcome you, run your race with patience. The Lord go with you. Your Lord will not have you, nor any of His servants to exchange for the worse. Death in itself includeth both death of the soul and death of the body; but to God's children the bounds and limits of death are abridged and drawn into a more narrow compass. So that when ye die, a piece of death shall only seize upon you, or the least part of you shall die, and that is the dissolution of the body; for in Christ ye are delivered from the second death; and therefore, as one born of God, commit not sin (although ye cannot live and not sin), and that serpent shall but eat your earthly part. As for your soul, it is above the law of death. But it is fearful and dangerous to be a debtor and servant to sin; for the count of sin ye will not be able to make good before God, except Christ both count and pay for you. [Samuel Rutherford]
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