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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26126	The Christian physician by Henry Atherton, M.D.	Atherton, Henry, M.D.	1683 (1683)	Wing A4112; ESTC R35287	159,440	417

Irreversible so certainly shall all the Off-spring of Adam High and Low Rich and Poor Learned and Unlearned descend unto the gates of the Grave mingle their dust and pay down their Symbole of Mortality Divesne prisco natus ab Inacho Nil interest infimâ De gente sub dio morieris Victima nil miserantis orci Omnes eo●em cogimur c. Horat. Carmin Lib. 2. Ode 3. St. Austin observes three kinds of ●eath The first is when God forsakes ●he Soul so he forsook Saul 1 Sam. 6.14 and so he forsook Pharaoh Exod. ●13 This Death is also mentioned Matt. ● 22 Let the dead bury their dead The second is When the Soul for●●kes the Body which is in the common ●urse and order of Nature So Laza●s died John 11. The last is When both Body and Soul ●ffer eternal Death and this is menti●ned Matt. 25.46 and so also Luke 16. ●2 23. The Rich also Man died and was ●uried and in Hell he lift up his Eyes ●eing in torments c. Now Sin is the parent of all these ●ut great sins and a state of impenitency ●nd hardness of heart are the cause that ●ove God to the first and last First to ●rsake the Soul but not till the Soul ●rsakes him next to consign him over 〈◊〉 that state of Immortal Death The second kind of Death is common ●o the Godly as well as the Wicked to ●im that feareth an Oath as well as ●im that sweareth to the Religious as ●ell as the Profane because Gods Decree 〈◊〉 unchangeable Eccles 7.20 and because ●hat even they also cannot lead a sinless life but have many sins many frailties and imperfections that they cannot totally be freed from while they live Death saith the Apostle passed upon all Men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 Death then is certain to all nullum Saevà caput Proserpina fugit and yet nothing more uncertain than the time of it Mors certa est incerta dies One dies in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and vigor of his Age when his Bones are full of Marrow and his Blood of Spirits Another in his Infancy wen there are great expectations of future comfort and hopeful successes Another is intombed in his Mothers Womb and never sees the Light Another dies in the Flower of his Youth Another in Old Age but all sooner o● later come to one Seat the Grave One goes well at Night to his Bed and in the Morning is found dead Lotus nobisum est hilaris coenavit ide● Inventus mane est mortuus Andragoras Martial l. 6. Another goes out of his doors an● his beloved Consort is with much jo● and impatience expecting his happy re●urn and anon she receives the sorrow●●l news of his Death by a Fall or a ●eavor Of all the uncertain things in ●●e World I know not a more uncer●●in thing than the times of our Death There are so many thousand Casual●es that may intervene to deprive a Man ●f life that it is a greater wonder that ●e is than that he is not A Plague or ●●me popular Disease or Fevour or Small●ox an Immoderate Grief or profuse ●y an Intemperate Draught or undi●ested piece of Meat yea a Hair or a ●rape-stone with Myriads of other acci●ents may introduce Death And as Death is certain so is Judg●ent too As it is appointed unto Men once to ●e so after this the Judgment As one fixed by an irrevocable unalterable De●ee so is the other too He hath appointed a day in which he ●ill judge the World Acts 17.31 This Judgment will be universal both 〈◊〉 to persons and things God will judge ●e secrets of all hearts by Jesus Christ ●om 2.16 Every Man shall receive the ●●ings done in his body according to ●●at he hath done whether it be good or evil 2 Cor. 5.10 and to that end we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ God is said to be the Judge of all Heb. 12.23 which evinces the certainty of a day of Judgment Otherwise to what purpose is there a Judge And shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Here the good man finds the sharpest Misery and greatest Afflictions the Evil Man the sweetest Felicity and fullest Pleasures Here the Rich mans Table stands pressed with Delicacies and poor Lazarus lacks even Crums to feed him Therefore it would much impeach the Justice and Goodness of God if there were not a time and place to make some retribution to each of these to reward the Righteous and to punish the Wicked Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompence Tribulation to them that trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thess 1.6 7. Remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented Luke 16.25 So that a Man shall say Verily there is a reward for the Righteous Verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth Psal 58.11 Otherwise where is our Hope For if in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all Men most miserable 1 Cor. 15.9 Nothing could buoy up the Spirits of a good Christian amidst all the heavy Pressures and Afflictions of this Life but that he has the Hopes and Assurance that there is an exceeding and eternal Weight of Glory laid up for him in the life to come St. John in his Revelation tells us Chap. 20.12 13. That he saw the Dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books according to their Works And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it and Death and Hell delivered up the Dead which were in them and they were judged every Man according to their Works From the whole you see there is a certainty nay a necessity of Death and Judgment This then should teach thee O my Soul 1. First to be often meditating of it before it comes Nil sic revocat a peccato quam frequens Mortis et Judicii meditatio This will restrain thee from Sin and make Death and Judgment less terrible when it comes Is there such a day approaching for all the Sons of Men How should we then resolve with David to make a Covenant with our eyes that they behold not vanity that we set a Watch before our Mouths and keep the door of our lips as with a bridle that we offend not with our tongues that we always have clean hands and a pure heart that at length we may dwell in his Tabernacle and rest upon his holy Hill for ever Si sapis utaris totis Colinediebus Extremumque tibi semper adesse puta Martial I know the sting of Death is Sin but thanks be to God who giveth us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 2. Are there