Death

Thinking about the Second Coming – Alexander MacLaren

Thinking about the Second Coming – Alexander MacLaren

The apostolic [early] church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

– Alexander MacLaren –

Christians are to be happy at their death – Thomas Watson

Christians are to be happy at their death – Thomas Watson

See how happy are God’s saints at their death! They go to a kingdom! They see God’s face, which shines ten thousand times brighter than the sun in its meridian glory! They enter eternal glory, which is the quintessence of all delights!

– Thomas Watson –

Waiting Souls – Thomas Brooks

Waiting Souls – Thomas Brooks

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him (Lam 3:25). Waiting souls, remember this assurance is yours, but the time of the giving it is the Lord’s; the jewel is yours, but the season in which he will give it is in his own hand: the gold chain is yours, but he only knows the hour wherein he will put it about your necks.

Well! Wait patiently and quietly, wait expectantly, wait believingly, wait affectionately, and wait diligently, and you shall find that scripture made good in power upon your souls, “Yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry,” (Heb 10:37, Hab 2:3).

– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance, 1654

Heaven is Sweeter – Richard Baxter

Heaven is Sweeter – Richard Baxter

I think heaven is the sweeter because many of my old, lovely, affectionate, holy friends are there, and I am the more willing by death to follow them. And should it not be more pleasing to think that my God and Father, my Saviour and Comforter, are there?

– Richard Baxter –
from the book Dying Thoughts, 1683