2 Chronicles 34:28

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers.

The saint’s refreshing

I. That God takes notice of every good thing His children do and rewards them for it even in this life.

II. How the Spirit of God in common matters doth raise up the soul to think highly of them. It sweetens death with the phrase of “gathering.”

III. That death is nothing but a gathering.

IV. That the changes of God’s children are for the better.

V. That burial is a comely and honourable thing.

VI. That death is less miserable than the ill which a man may live to see in this life

VII. That our times are in God’s hands.

VIII. That it is the sight of misery which works the deepest impression.

IX. That those which be dead in the Lord are freed from seeing of any evil or misery.

X. Another conclusion, that takes away their invocation of saints.

XI. That the lives of God’s children do keep back judgment and evil from the place where they live, and their death is a forerunner of judgment. Because--

1. Gracious men do make the times and the places good where they live.

2. Gracious men do bind God by their prayers.

XII. That the evils which we suffer are from the evil of sin.

XIII. That God will give good men faithful servants that shall deal faithfully with them. The messengers dealt faithfully with Josiah.

XIV. That the care of the commonwealth and of the Church is a duty.