Does it not deserve a tear? ',

Back to John Flavel's "The Method of Grace"

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As death takes the believer from many sorrows, and 
brings him to the vision of God, to a state of freedom 
and full satisfaction; so it drags the unregenerate 
from all his sensual delights to the place of torment! 

Death is the king of terrors—a serpent with a deadly 
sting to every man who is out of Christ. 

How lamentable is the state of unregenerate persons!
Were this truth heartily believed, we could not but mourn 
over them with the most tender compassion and sorrow. 
If our husbands, wives, or children are dying a natural 
death—how are our hearts rent with pity and sorrow for 
them; what cries, tears, and wringing of hands show the 
deep sense we have of their misery! O Christians, is all 
the love you have for your relatives spent upon their 
bodies? Are their souls of no value? Is spiritual death 
no misery? Does it not deserve a tear? May the Lord 
open your eyes, and affect your hearts with the 
wretchedness of spiritual death.