Question 42

But seeing Christ died for vs, why must we also die?

Our death is not a satisfaction for our sinnes, but an vtter destroying of sinne, and a passage into euerlasting life.^a

The vse.

Wherefore, hauing bene taught, that it is the common condition of all men to die, wee are all and every one of vs put in mind, so to order our life, that whensoeuer God goeth about to call vs out of this valley of miseries, hee may finde vs ready, that is, neither too much intangled with the cares of this life, nor discouraged with the feare of death, both because we knowe this to be the very way of the whole Earth, and also, because whether we liue, or whether we dy, we are our Lord Iesus Christs: who is vnto vs, (as the Apostle saith) both in life and death aduantage.^b