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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,026	5	11.2119	5	false

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A87797	The grand statute: or The law of death unalterable; opened and applied in a sermon preached May 11. 1660. At the funerals of that pious, useful, and much lamented gent. Mr. John Cope in the parish-church of St. Mary-Bothaw London. By John Kitchin, M.A. minister of St. Mary-Abchurch London.	Kitchin, John.	1660 (1660)	Wing K655; Thomason E1040_17; ESTC R207918	25,041	39

in gurgitibus fluminum Cro●odilis feraliter inimicum hic itaque cum viderit Crocodilum aperto ore dormientem provolvitur in limo luti ut faucibus illius facilius possit illabi tunc in os Crocodili dormient is perniciter insilit deglutitus viscera ejus cuncta dilaniat donec es extincto de cadavere vivus victor erumpat Quid Crocodilus nisi mors Tartarus quid Hydrus nisi Christus quid limo obvolui nisi humanae carnis luto vestiri Petrus Damian lib. 2. Epist 18. water-Snake does the Crocodile 2. The death of the party or the death of us and this is twofold consisting First In the separation of the soul from the body and this is a little troublesome death especially to nature these two old acquaintance play loth to depart when the time comes Inducias etiam ad horam as he said Oh reprieve me though it be but an hour and 't will be sweet nay beloved a child of God himself may sometimes be so fearful of this King of terrors that at the approach of death he may be forced to cry quarter Job 28.4 So did David Oh spare me that I may recover strength before I go hence and be no more Psal 39.13 Secondly In the separation of soul and body both from God to all eternity M●tth 25.41 and this is the bitternesse of death this is the dregs of death this is death armed Animae mors separatio est à Deo uti corporis mors est ipsius ab anima disjunctio Nicetas death with a sting and poyson too called in Scripture the second death Revel 20.14 death and hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death The death in the Text is to be understood of the death of the party for sin Anaxogoras Plutar. de consola● a● Apol. consisting in the separation of soul and body one from another and so 't is appointed unto men once to die unto men i. e. unto all men a man and a mortal signifying one and the same thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liban Sophist in D. mosth Apollog scio me genuisse mortalem said that Philosopher when newes came that his son was dead I knew I had begot a mortal it being as certaine that every man shall die as it is certaine that he lives Psal 89.48 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah mark that says the Psalmist Cui nasci contigit mori restat Seneca he puts a note of attention and observation upon i● though it be an ordinary truth it deserves an extraordinary consideration and 't is not only asserted by Scripture but 't is sealed by the experiences of all the world And indeed who has not a speculative notion of this truth The practical improvement is the main considerable as Solomon saith for the living to lay it to heart Eccles 7.2 that 's the duty Use is 1. Of information 2. Of Exhortation 1. Hence we see the mischief and misery of sin it hath brought death and ruine upon all Adams posterity if sin had not been committed death had not been appointed he hath appeared saith the Apostle to put away sin as it is appointed to men to die viz. because of sin if we had not sinned we had not died upon the death of the soul came in the death of the body the kernel was corrupted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil Allegor lib. and the shell became rotten and withered Gen. 2.17 In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die 't is in the Hebrew dying thou shalt die dying in eating thou shalt die for eating dying as the sin thou shalt die as the scourge dying as the crime thou shalt die as the curse dying in the soul thou shalt die in the body yea and in soul also to all eternity I know there are that deny this truth Audenter determinamus mortem non ex natura secutam hominem sed ex culpa Ter. ul de Anim. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Just Mattyr Resp ad Graeces that temporal death is the punishment of sin as Pelagians and Socinians upon different grounds and reasons which I shall here neither canvase much lesse go about to confute only propound to sober judgements that of the Apostle and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he said Paul for my money Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death death temporal as well as eternal as is clear by that Rom. 5.12 By one man sin entred into the world and death by sinne and so death passed upon all men viz. natural death temporal death 2. Is it so that death is the lot and portion of all men Then let us be exhorted seriously and in good earnest 1. Praevidere Providere To look for it 2. To provide for it 1. Be exhorted oh Christians to look for death for it 's certainly a comming Incertum est quo in loco te mers expectet itaque tu illam omni loco expecta Seneca Epist 26. God has not told us when we shall die nor where we shall die nor by what means we shall die nor how we shall die slowly or speedily lingringly or suddenly with the solemnity of a sicknesse or without in the field in the shop at the table in the bed no these things are lockt up within Gods Cabinet-councel It is not for you to know the times or the seasons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrylost Homi de morte saith Christ which the Father hath put into his own power Acts 1.7 'T is not 't is not what 't is not lawful for you 't is not expedient for you 't is not indeed good for you to know these circumstances of time and place and manner only this you may know and do know that die you must all have died hitherto and you must follow expect it Art thou greater than our father Abraham which is dead said they John 8.53 so say I thou rich man thou strong man thou young man thou good man thou great man art thou greater than our father Abraham that 's dead Josh 23.14 Isa 40.6 I go the way of all flesh saith Joshua what man art not thou flesh mark all flesh is grass and all the goodlinesse thereof as the flower of grasse flesh withers soon but the goodlinesse of flesh sooner the beauty of flesh and the strength of flesh and the honour of flesh and the wealth of flesh alas it may be these things a great while before flesh be gone as the flower fades and is blown away before the stalke is dried up so true is that of the Psalmist Psal 39.5 Verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Selah 2. Let me hence perswade you to provide for it as it is your wisdom to look for it so it will be your interest and security to provide for it

not made with hands 2 Cor. 5.1 4. A better manner we have their offerings were repeated and that often to note their imperfection every year new offerings ver 25. The high Priest entred into the holy place every year with the blood of others but our offering is but once and once for all not towards the end of the year but towards the end of the world verse 26. with 25. Nor yet that he should offer himself often for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself And this he proves and illustrates in the two last verses 1. Laying down his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 for his medium and proof in the words of my Text. As it is appointed unto men once to die 2. Applying his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 for his illustration in the words following So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many c. q. d. There 's no man dies any more than once but our offering and sacrifice is a man the blood of Christ God-man therefore he must and can die but once It is appointed unto man once to die but after this judgment In the words there are two of those quatuor novissima Mors Judicium Gloria Gehenna Bern. in Se●m two of those four last things that the Ancients have advised us often to remember and consider Death Judgment Considera tres re non venies in transgressionem unde veneris è sordibus quo tandem sis abiturus inpulverem coram quo rationem es red diturus coram Sanct. Ben. R●f Akiba Particutare sigillatim statim dum moriuntur Carthus Heaven Hell here are two of them not only named but stated 1. The certainty of Death after sin He hath appeared to put away sin as it is appointed unto men once to die 2. The Celerity of Judgement after Death but after this Judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 immediatè post as the phrase imports John 19.38 I le handle the first of these only The certainty of Death It is appointed c. Wherein you have three Doctrines observable 1. Death is the Lot and portion of all men sooner or later first or last It is appointed unto men to die 2. Death comes but once to men naturally It is appointed unto men once to die 3. Death ever comes by and never comes but by Gods appointment It is appointed unto men c. I shall God willing handle them all and therefore I can but paraphrase upon each particular 1. Doct. Death is the lot and portion of all men sooner or later for the evidence of which we must know that there is a threefold death mentioned in Scripture Mors triplex est Culpae Gratiae Naturae Ambr. lib. 5. in Luc. 1 A sinful death 2. A spiritual death 3. A penal death adeath of grace which is sinful a death of sin which is gracious and spiritual a death of the person which is penal or there is 1. A death in sin 2. A death to sin 3. A death for sin 1. A death sin sin Ephes 2.1 You hath he quickned who were dead in sins and this is a sad death this is a woful death many are thus dead and no body misses them no body knows them no body laments them saying ah my brother or ah sister ah my wife or ah husband Jer. 22.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo lib. de profugis ah my Lord or ah his glory there are thousands of these walking ghosts go up and down the streets every day and that without observation such a one was she as merry as she was 1 Tim. 5.6 The widow that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth the husband is dead the husband is dead every one knows that Oh but look to 't for Gods sake look to 't the widow may bedead also if she be not careful and watchful the widow that lives in pleasure is dead yea twice dead Jude 12. 2. A death to sin as Barzillai was dead to Davids Courtship to whom all his royal and pompous entertainment would seeme but as dry and saplesse things 2 Sam. 19.35 Can I discerne betweene good and evil Can thy servant taste what I eate or what I drink Can I hear any more the voice of singing-men or singing-women He was dead ey'd to his Pageants and dead pallated to his banquets and dead ear'd to his musick so dead to pride and dead to lust and dead to covetousnesse dead to the world and dead to self c. and this now is a good death this is a right 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indeed this is an happy death Sneton in Augusto and oh that every living soul in the Congregation was thus dead oh that this Fvneral Sermon might be the Funeral of all your lusts this you have mentioned in Colos 3.3 for ye are dead i. e. dead to sin and in Rom. 6.2 so expounded How shall we that are dead to sinne live any longer therein 3. A death for sin the work turn'd into wages 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Soluc Orat. 4. the crime made the punishment Rom. 6.23 The wages of sin is death Rom. 6.21 The end of sin is death Culpa morique fuit paena morique fuit Death was our sin and it was fit Sin should be punished by it Now this last death is twofold or at least in reference to the subject thereof to be doubly considered 1. The death of the Surety or the death of Christ for us and this is a glorious death this is a Christians triumphant death we can boast of this death against all the world against all the Divels in Hell against all accusations of conscience against all exactions of Justice 2 Sam. 11.17 this will smooth the wrinckles of Gods brow and appease his anger and indignation as that of Uriah's did Davids Uriah the Hittite is dead also that pleased David so Christ our Sacrifice is dead also and that pleases God Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died Nay we can boast of this death even against death it self O death where 's thy sting O grave where 's thy victory thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15.55 57. There are two parts of that triumphant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sung accordingly by both parts of a Saint O death where 's thy sting that the soul sings O grave where 's thy victory that the body sings Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory that both sing over the sting of death by sanctification over the stroke of death by resurrection and both through the death of Christ who by death has slain death as the * Hydrus est animal habitans