Death a Rest

    DEATH A REST

    "And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may Rest from their labours, and their works do follow them," Re 14:13.

    PARALLELS.

    I. Rest is a desirable thing to a labouring man: Paul desireth to die; Death, or to depart, was greatly desirable in his sight.

    II. Rest is sweet, and therefore desirable to a weary man: so will Death be to a poor weary saint, one that is weary of sin, weary of the world, weary of the temptations of Satan, &c. See Sleep.

    DISPARITY.

    I. Some men enjoy Rest but in part, they have no perfect Rest: but a godly man at Death hath perfect rest; nothing shall disturb or disquiet him any more.

    II. Some men have Rest but for a little time, a short Rest: but the godly man's Rest is for ever; at Death he enters into God's everlasting Rest.

    III. Some Rest from labour is not honourable; it is a reproach to a man to take his rest, when he should be at work: but the rest of a godly man at Death is honourable; it is a Rest that Christ himself entered into, when he had finished all his work.