1. One way is through outward expressions that bring comfort to
come to die safely, but rather about how believers can die with comfort and cheer.
There are two ways to die cheerfully and comfortably:
1. One way is through outward expressions that bring comfort to those around us. This greatly depends on the nature of the illness from which a person may die, which can oppress the spirits and cloud the mind. Therefore, it is not subject to rules but left to God's providence.
2. But there is also a dying cheerfully and comfortably in individuals' own souls, which they may not be able to display in their dying moments when they are thoroughly prepared for it.
Truly, brothers and sisters, all I can say is that I am speaking to you about the things I have contemplated for myself before ever considering them for you. I cannot declare what I have achieved, which may be little or nothing, but only what I have aimed for, if it may be useful to us in this time of dying, especially among good ministers, with one or another [dying] almost every day.
I shall mention three things that, in my opinion, are necessary for every believer who desires to die cheerfully and enter into the presence of God in a suitable and complete manner:
I. The constant exercise of faith in surrendering a departing soul into the hand and sovereign will of God. "I die daily." How? By constantly exercising faith in surrendering a departing soul, when the time comes, to the sovereign grace, good pleasure, power, and faithfulness of God. The soul is bidding farewell to all its concerns in this world— everything it sees, everything it knows through its senses, all its relationships, everything it has been acquainted with—to have an