Yea, it is better for us to be dead to our selves, and live in thee; then by living in our selves, to be deprived of thee.
O make the many bitter aggravations of my death as a Man, and a King, the opportunities and advantages of thy speciall Graces and Comforts in my Soul as a Christian.
If thou Lord wilt be with me, I shall neither fear nor feel any evill, though I walk thorow the valley of the shadow of death.
To contend with death is the work of a weak and mortall man; to overcome it, is the grace of thee alone, who art the Almighty and immortall God.
O my Saviour, who knowest what it is to die with me as a Man; make me know what it is to passe through death to life with thee my God.
Though I die, yet I know that thou my Redeemer livest for ever: though thou slayest Me, yet thou hast encouraged me to trust in thee for eternal life.
O withdraw not thy favour from me, which is better then life.
O be not far from me, for I know not now neer a violent and cruel death is to me.
As thy Omniscience, O God, discovers, so thy Omnipotence can defeat the designes of those who have, or shall conspire my destruction.
O shew me the goodnesse of thy will, through the wickednesse of theirs.