from a near Relation from a familiar friend and acquaintance how did Jonathan and David weep over one another Ah then what is it for a man to part from himself to be rent a sunder one part from another The hardest knot and the nearest and dearest Tye that ever was must then be broken and the strictest Union must then be disanul'd the soul turned out of its Possession on the body left as a Vacuum Domicilium until the great Resurrection this must needs pierce and sting and fill with anguish in a dying hour 5. Another sting in death is that the body is consigned over to a state of corruption Dust shall return to the earth as it was Gen. 3.19 with Eccles 12.7 The body must then be reduced and resolved into its first Principles When God takes away their breath then all creatures dye and return to their dust Psal 104.29 The earthly house of this Tabernacle must be dissoived 2 Cor. 5.1 Taken down and in pieces death feeds on them Psal 49.14 Here the body feeds upon death dead creatures are its food but now death shall feed upon men by their death shall worms such like vermin live I have said to corruption thou art my Father saith Job C. 17.14 as concluding that his body must see corruption Some of Gods precious ones as Dr Taylor said of himself when condemned to be burned have deceived many viz. the worms that waited for them passing through a more speedy corruption of their precious bodies by the rage of their enemies but the ordinary way is to rot in the grave Now this carâ—yes a sting with it to think that worms shall destroy this flesh Job 19.26 The bowels and the vital parts shall be the Region of vermine When Joseph is carryed out of Egypt there is nothing but a Coffia of bones and when you shall seek a Father or other Relation or besought for there shall be nothing but Corruption an ill savour or a few dry bones 6. Another sting in death is the dolorous accidents and the heavy attendants that goe along with Death There are many things fall in in a dying hour there are the pains of death grievous sickness faintness outward parts grow numme the eyes sink the lips quiver and tremble the tongue falters the breath whezeth and draws hard the whole face waxeth pale the heart beats and throbbs Mark how Solomon in Eccles 12.2 c. leads the old man to his grave The sun or light ana the moon stars are darkned the powers of the mind shall be broken Understanding Memory and Imagination darkned weakened The Keepers of the house tremble that is the arms and hands through the abatement of the radical heat and moisture doe tremble The strong men bow themselves 〈◊〉 i.e. the thighs and knees and feet grow feeble The Grinders cease that is the Jaws and the Teeth lose their strength as to chewing the meat And those that look out at the windows are darkned that is the eyes grow dim fighted The doors are shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low the decoction of food is spoyled and all the passages of nature are obstructed He rises up at the voice of the bird his rest departs from him he is easily waked out of sleep All the daughters of musick are brought low both voice and hearing fail Passions and Fear especially is apt to move His hair becomes hoary He that was wont to bear burthens is now a burthen to himself appetite fails Thus Man goes to his long home And the Spina is loosed the Pia mater and the Veins are broken and the circulation of the blood is stopt these last especially are the constant and immediate Symptoms and sore-runners of death To have friends standing by some lamenting over us others amazed and standing agast to see rooms made dark Paul when his heart was sound tells his friends it was ready to break with the weeping of his friends whom he had told that they should see his face no more Act. 21 13. So it is here when death comes it tells our friends that they must see our faces no more This causeth great and grievous sorrowing such as is heart-breaking to those that are dying And we must then wind up with the sad reckoning of Hezekiah Isa 38. 11 12. I shall behold man no more with the Inhabitants of the world Mine age is departed he will cut me off with pining sickness 7. It puts an end to and destroyes our purposes as to this lisen All the vast projects and counsels of stare which Princes and great ones of the earth have upon the wheel when their breath goeth forth those porish Psal 146.4 The rich mans thoughts of pulling down his barns building greater they all perish'd in that night when God took away his soul Luke 12. 18 c. It s reported of Caelar that in his Notes after his death were found Projects to unite Inâ—â—â— to the Romane Empire to drein the Casoian Sea c. But his breath went forth Death prevented and his thoughts perished Death admits of no after thoughts but as the tree falls to it lyes Ecclef 11.3 Whatever designs of love and good will men have as Joseph the Shepherd and Stone of Israel had towards â—â—e Church and People of God in Egypt they all perish as to them Whatever designs of evil men have as Herod had towards jesus in his â—â—fancy they perish Mâ—â—tui non mordent Whatever hopes men have as to the concerns of this life as hezekiah had of a Son to succed him they are cut off Eccles 9 6. Also their love and their hatred and their envy are now perished And v. 10 there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdome in the grave This is a grievous sting in death for all a mans hopes designs Projects devices to be brought to an end and to nought in one day hour or moment 8. Another sting in death is that it strips us of all our present enjoyments Mors ultima linea rerum It s the last stroke of things the utmost boundary beyond which none can pass or possess Naked shall I return Job 1. ult saith Job We shall carry nothing with us Eccles 5.15.16 Man must then leave himself and no marvel if he leave his worldly goods He shall lean upon his house saith Bildad but it shall not stand he shal hold it fast but it shall not endure Some see the funeral of their worldly enjoyments while they are yet alive Friends Acquaintance Riches and wealth leave them while they are yet alive so it was with Job but at Death every one must forsake them and his worldly enjoy ments must be as it were buried with him Psal 49.10 The wise man and the fool and bruitish person when he dyes leaves his wealth to others so God sayes to that fool Luk. 12.20 This night shall thy soul be taken from thee and then whose shall all those
Josiah Flint Dorchester from my Study 7th of 5th 1680. DEATH DISARMED BEING A Funeral Sermon Upon 1 Cor. 15.55 O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory THE great Article of the Resurrection of the Dead is the Subject of the Apostles Discourse in this Chapter a Doctrine by the Jews denyed by the Gentiles derided as Acts 17.8 They â—â—â—ffed at Paul because he preached Jesus and the Resurrection from the Dead This as a great Subject and fundamental Article of Religion of which some in the Church of Corinth doubted or else denied it the Apostle labours from several Topicks to prove 1. From the common Testimony or joynt Witness of all the Apostles as having seen and bearing Testimony unto the Resurrection of Christ v. 4 c. to 9. 2. From that Faith whereby these Corinthians did formerly entertain this Doctrine v. â—1 3. From the Perfection of the Gospel which contains this among others of the fundamental Doctrines to be known and believed v. 12. 4. From the Resurrection of Christ who rose as a publick Person v. 13. c. He is the first fruits of them that sleep v. 20. and 23. whence he is called the first born of the Dead Col. 1.18 Rev 1.5 And the first begotten of the Dead in respect of order and causality 5. From the many absurdityes that would follow if there were no Resurrection as 1. Then the Apostles Preaching and Miniâ—try was in vain v. 14. 2. Then the Faith of the believing Corinthians was in vain ibid. 3. Then the Apostles were false Witnesses of God ver Ver. 16. 4. Then those that believe Justification by the Resurrection of Christ are deceived v. 16. 5. Then they that are dead are lost i.e. damned totally and finally lost even those that are dead in Christ v. 18 6. Then the hope of Believers is in vain v. 19. 6. From the Signification of some Christian Rites v. 29. in which the Apostle alluâ—es to the custome used Acts 9.37 It was the custom not only of the Jews and more prudent moralized Nations but of the Christians also to wash and anoint the Bodies of the dead which sprung from a natural instinct and hope of a future Resurrection as Onâ— faith on the place 7. From the Sufferings of Believers v. 30. c. Lastly From the easie solution of all Arguments Allegations and Objections to the contrary v. 35. c. Now the Apostle together with this proof doth also illustrate and amplifie the Truth shewing the glorious consequents of the Resurrection as the resignation of the Mediatory Kingdome to the Father by the Lord Jesus and the glorious state of Believers after the Resurrection When the whole Army of Saints shall follow Christ the Captain of their Salvation in their own Order and the whole Rout of Sinners ungodly men shall stand bound before him Christ shall lead forth his own Souldiers victoriously and gloriously dragging the Herd of his spoyled Enemies opprobriously after him Dan. 12.2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to everlasting contempt He shall receive his Church into the nearest embraces of Love he shall reioyce over her with singing he shall rest in his Love each believing Soul shall be raised changed made immortal and glorious As the Sun riseth from under clogging Mists and obscuring Clouds so shall they be exalted unto heaven and there shine with an high-noon glory Dan. 12.3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightâ—â—â— of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Stars â—â—â—er and ever then v. 54. Death is swallowed up in victory In this Verse in allusion to the words of the Prophet Hosea Hos 13. 〈◊〉 O Death I will be thy plague O Grave I will be thy destruction the Apostle sounds the Triumph O Death where is thy Sting O Grave â—â—eye as thy Victory Such was the Apostles confidence God-ward that 〈◊〉 dare what he afore dreaded and handle the Viper he could not â—uch before To make way for the Doctrine it is necessary to enquire 1. What is meant by Death Answ By Death we are to understand natural or bodily Death It is the Resolution of the body into its first principles by and upon the Seperation of the Soul from it which is the close of this life and the beginning of another There is a twofold consideration of Death as learned Paraeus notes on v 53. 1. There is a general and meer natural consideration of Death and so it happens not only to man but to all Creatures living 2. A Theological consideration of it as it is inflicted by the just punishing hand of God and is a part of the curse and so it is a miserable privation of Life and so it is to be considered here as a judicial penal evil and so armed with its sting it is the greatest evil in the world 2. What are we to understand by the Sting of Death Answ 1. The ground-work is Metaphorical the Apostle herein alluding to venomous Creatures as snakes serpents and vipers who are by nature armed with a sting for offence and defence so Death hath something in it offensive until it be removed A Sting at least in common account is the chief subject of venome and the instrument whereby venomous creatures pierce others and convey their poyson into them so as to fill them with pain and anguish 2. The Sting of Death is its strength and power to annoy and hurt The sting of death in a similitude and resemblance of a serpent is its offending power the sting of death is sin as in v. 56. Sin arms death and the Law impowers sin and hence death hath its sting its power to offend and hurt sinners Death is the fruit and consequent of sin Rom. 5.12 Sin entered and Death followed after hence Death comes as an Evil not only as a natural but as a penal and judicial evil as I hinted before Now sin gives strength and power unto Death so that he thâ—â—â— dyes in his sins has a very strong Death for sin puts forth all its potâ—â—â— and poyson to the utmost in the infliction of death upon the sinner 〈◊〉 causeth death to pierce pain and poison the sinner it lets out the wrathâ— which is to come upon the sinner it opens a door to endless and succorless torments it makes the parting with life and the comforts of it bitter to the sinner hence in the death of a sinner all his sins are revived and the curse seizeth on him 3. What is meant by the Apostles thus speaking in a Way of triumphâ—â— Glorying Answ 1. It is a figurative manner of speech in which Death is spoken to as in the form and guise of a Person as an Officer coming under Commission 2. It imports that his power was lost as to the Apostle and so all Believers so the Apostle includes all believers v. 57. who giveth us the
things be they shall be another mans It s certain saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 6.7 that we carvy nothing out of this world Where we took up our Lot in this life there we must leave it The things of this life are like a boat to wast us over the water which can doe us no further service when we come on shore as our cloaths that we put on in the morning and put off at night Now for them that dote upon their worldly enjoyments and have their portion in this life what a grief is it and how doth it sting them to consider that they yet must take an utter leave of all their joyes delights friends and good things at once as the merchants of Babylon lamented over the costliness of the city for in one hour it was made desolate so may the rich Miser in a dying hour They at Ziglaz wept for the sacking of the place and the captivity of their sons and daughters till they had no more power to weep yet they might be recovered but in Death there is no Return 9. Another sting in Death is that Satan is very busy to hold the souls of men in a desperate security or plunging them into the depth of 〈◊〉 spair which is the very image of Hell hence Asaph in Psal 73. spâ—â—â—â— of some in his observation that had no bands in Death and Bildad â—enâ— of others that are haled to the King of Terrors O the Râ—â—â—â—â— and restless tostings of some poor wretches when they 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 out as if their breath were already made up of Fire and Brimstone as Francis Spira and Hadrian the Emperour And oh the sottish stupidity and senslesness of others who mind nothing at all neither past nor present but their bodily pains when their souls are sinking into hell How few are there that commit their souls to God and wisely and patiently dispose themselves for their latter end There is a woe pronouced upon the inhabitants of the earth for the Devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time Râ—v 12.12 So it may be said of every inhabitant of this earth when he comes to dye the weight of sin the unsupportableness of Gods anger the terrors of hell the nearness of the danger the difficulty of salvation will all appear nakedly to the naked soul When God makes darkness and it is night then the beasts of the forest creep forth every frog will be croaking towards the evening every puddle will send up a stinking vapor in a foggy night all the several shadows of things will unite every thing will concur to make up and compleat the misery of the poor sinner but the Rulers of the darkness of this world and powers of darkness set in to doe the last and worst in this life 10. Another sting in death is in the manner of its coming 1. It comes inevitably none can withstand or evade it the wise the rich the strong the beautifull the virtuous the young and the grey-headed c. fall and perish by it It s as a River that carryes all before it a Sythe that cuts all clean before it and levels all before it Job 3.14 15 18 19. It turns Kings and Counsellors Princes into the grave it breaks prisons small and great are seized by it It is appointed for all once to die saith the Apostle Heb. 9 27. Like sheep they are laid in the Grave and Death feeds on them Psal 49.14 This carryes a sting with it â—o lye open to the power of an enemy inevitably 2. It comes suddenly without delay this night saith God thy soul â—â—all be taken from thee Luk 20. Man knoweth not his time Eccl. 9.12 3. It comes irrecoâ—erably Job 14.12 Man lyeth down and riseth not 〈◊〉 the heavens be no more and v. 14. shall he live again the interrogaâ—â—â—â— implyes a strong and vehement negation Job 7.9 10. as the cloud â—â—â—onsumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more he shall return no more to his house nor shall his place know him any more 4. Another sting in Death is that it puts us into a state unknown of which we have no experience it s called a Land of darkness as â—â—â—â—ss it self and of the shadow of death and without any order and where the light is as darkness Job 10.22 Men are afraid to goe in the dark the traveller is afraid to pass when the evening is come and where a man knows nothing he suspects the worst Mat. 17.6 The Disciples were sore afraid at the voice from the excellent glory Lastly Unto ungodly men it is a certain inlet and entrance into eternal Death It s a dark passage into the bottomless pit they are led through the prison of the grave to the place of execution Death temporal ushers in death eternal the death of the body makes way for the death of the soul they dye now and they dye ever Rev. 21.8 We read of A second Death after which there is none to come This is the sting of all its stings a state in which a man cannot be worse and yet shall never be better when death and hell shall be joyned in one for ever VSE I. Hence learn why men dread and are so afraid of Death yea there are many causes why a natural man should fear Death because of the sting that is in it Ah should I tell you nothing and you should mind no other but your souls seperation from your body can you part with it without a sigh or a serious thought or of your bodyes corruption though it might be wrapped in lead and entombed in marble yet in a few days it shall be an abhorring and loathing to all living it shall be a prey to vipers and creeping worms of the earth your carcases and your remembrance shall alike rot and perish together Should I tell you of your sicknesses and death-pangs that shall oppress you and your helpless friends standing by should I shew you your coffin your Grave or Tomb your Herse cloath and your Bier should I tell you of the breaking of your purposes and your intents frustrated and this coming inevitably suddenly and unalterably methinks these things should present Death as terrible Ah but I tell you it is the wrath of God the scalding drops of it and the fruit of your sin the beginning of your everlasting destruction It s no other liberty but what the Felon hath when he is taken out of prison and brought forth to execution it s your extream agony and the time of Satans rage and the prevailing of the powers of darkness the black guard of Hell surrounding of you the rending of you in pieces I acknowledge its an error in the saints 〈◊〉 people of God to be so much affrighted at death and to goe so mournfully out of this world surely they have not learn'd to look off this world
but God takes them to himself Body and soul are taken assunder as the pieces of a Watch out of order not to be lost but to be set together again that they may goe better God is a carefull and faithful keeper of those precious Reliques and will bring them together the word of his Truth is for it Ezek. 37.12 O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves What then though they part asunder since neither of them part nor are disunited from â—he Lord Jesus O happy parting to leave this Cell this crazy earthly â—â—bernacle for a glorious Mansion and to embrace a dear Saviour It s but like going to bed at night the body rests and the soul keeps in action while the night time of the grave lasts in this world the bodies of the Saints sleep in Jesus but their souls are in bliss The Souls of just men may bespeak their bodies as the Lord Jesus did his Disciples Joh. 14.3 It is expâ—diens â—â—r you that I goe away and if I goe away I will we again and receive you to my self The Body like Onesinus is an unprofitable servant for the present Phil. v. 11. therefore departs for a while that it may be received for ever 4. The Sting of Death is taken out in that though the body rot and consume and becomes loathsome yet it is but dissolved it is not destroyed As Christ told Martha Thy Brother shall rise again Joh. 11.23 so the body shall rise again hence the Apostle though he grants that the body doth dye yet it is no otherwise then as a fruitful seed dyeth that it may spring up again v. 36.37 of this Chapter Job 19.25.26 27. For I know saith Job that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the Earth and though after my skin worms ' destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me God doth not intend to lose what he leaves behind in this world no but as he brought Israel out of Egypt so will he ransome us from the power of the Grave and redeem us from Death Hos 13 14. he will not leave an hair nor a broken bone nor a dust behind All that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth Joh. 5.28 29. Christ shewed a Type of it at his own Resurrection Mat. 27.52 c. And the Graves were opened and many bodyes of Saints which slept arose which shall be fully accomplished in all the Saints in the general Resurrection The Grave shall then be found to be a chamber of Repose and a bed of Rest Christ having made it so to the Saints And as for the soul of a child of God it shall not see corruption It s not so much as dissolved but released and set at liberty Sin here makes its motion towards heaven and its progress in grace flow The body is a weight pressing down but when Death shall rid us of this the souls motion and pass into heaven shall be quick and speedy like the Thief on the cross no sooner crucified and dead but glorified This day saith Christ thou shalt be with me in Paradise Let who will dream of the souls sleep they are asleep that think so saith Calvin No assoon as the vail of the body is removed we with open face behold the Glory of the Lord. The spirit shall return to God that gave it 5. The Sting of death is taken away in that all the dolorous accidents 〈◊〉 attendants of death are by Christ qualified sanctified What are pains agonves of Body but the putting down of this earthly Tabernacle iâ— order to the raising of a spiritual and everlasting Building the breaking off of our chains fetters in our being released hence While the bodies of the Saints are filled with pains their souls are filled with the comforts of God Our friends lament but Angels rejoyce though we must now part from them yet there is Gods Host the Life guard of heaven ready to accompany us thither Suppose a Saint going to his grave and the mourners by trains going in the streets could the departed utter a word would it not be that of Christ to the danghters of Jerusalem Luk. 23.28 Weep not for me but weep for your selves and for your Children 6. The Sting of Death is taken out in that though the purposes of a godly man in death are destroyed yet his main purpose and his chief design stands and abides his main purp ose and design was to glorifie God and save himself his own soul Now he that hath walked with God that hath traced the wayes of holiness that hath studied the mysteryes of the Gospel that hath laboured and not fainted and that is found so doing that hath committed his soul into the hands of God and is able to stand at the appearing of Christ he doth not miss of nor lose his purpose I have fought the good fight I have finished my course saith Paul did henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness 2 Tim 4 7 8. What though men gather no more of the wealth of this world Heaven is inheritance enough What though they gain no more repute here Their Record is on high What if they attain not the end of their labours Yet their reward is with the Lord. What though their worldly affairs be discomposed if their eternal concerns be fixed What if their dayes be cut off since their work is done It would not avail a man any thing to win the world and lose his soul its profit enough if a man save his soul though he lose the world It was a sad thing for the Mariners to cast over their goods Acts 27.18 but when Paul told them that no life should be lost v. 22. they are comforted So here though we leave our stuff and lose our worldly labours yet our lives 〈◊〉 safe the main Chance is secured 7. The Sting of Death is taken away in that the Saints are dead â—â—nd mortified to the world they glory in nothing more then in the cross 〈◊〉 Christ be which they are crucified unto the world and the world unâ—â—â—â— them 〈…〉 11. Hence they enjoy this world as though they enjoyed it not 〈…〉 Hence while they live in the world and upon the necesâ—â—ry com 〈…〉 they live above it Hence it s no hard matter for them to dye and 〈◊〉 out of the world The world will have no great miss of 〈◊〉 and I shall 〈◊〉 no great miss of it Things dead have no seeling or sence of any parting from each other Wicked men think the Saints not worthy to live in the world Acts 22.22 and God thinks the world not worthy of them Heb. 11.38 nor doe they esteem the world worthy to be desired the time past of their lives in this
victory Deaths commission and power is taken away it comes not as a penal and judicial evil to the Saints not as a part of the curse but a remain of the cross an evil of affliction sanctified and eminently conducing to their good hence the Apostle gloryes over it not in a way of proud insulting but in an humble triumph of faith in God through Christ which plainly argues death as to him and all believers was spoiled of its power Hence we may take up these two Doctrines of just and weighty Observation Doct. 1. That there is a sore and grievous Sting in natural Death or natural Death is armed by Sin with a sore and grievous Sting Doct. 2. That the Sting of Death is certainly and infallibly taken out so that it cannot really hurt prejudice or annoy true Believers These two Doctrines doe contain the true meaning and intent of the Apostle in these words 1. That there is a sore and grievous Sting in natural Death This lies first in our way Never shall we see our deliverance fully till we see our danger nor be sensible of the excellent remedy till we have felt the smart of the fore hence many men out of stupidity or a wilful slighting or refusing to mind their death their last end have made too light a matter of it but of a truth when death comes armed by sin with an high Commission from the Law it will be found to be piercing painful and poysonous I shall therefore in the first place endeavour to shew more particularly what the Sting of Death is before I come to shew how it is taken out 〈◊〉 â—â—ow there are several Stings in Death 1. The first sting in death is that it came into the world through mans own fault Rom. 5.12 By one man sin entered and death by sin and death passed upon all men c. It is sin brought in death as a curse and punishment Death comes from God not as instituting the course of Nature at first but as revenging sin There is a Saying in Ecclsiasticus that God did not make Death true it is not a Creature but the destruction of the Creature God is not the peccant cause of the falling of this house of clay but our sin as Eccles 10.18 It s plain in the tenor of the first threatning Gen. 2.17 They are Malefactors that are sentenced aâ— judged and condemned to die Every sinner dyes as a Malefactor as an evil doer suffering for his own sin And truely it pierceth deep if a man consider that he fetcht the Viper out of the snow and nourished it in his own bosome which now doth sting and devour him When a man must say In me convertite ferrum mea caedes mea fraus omnis When it shall be told him as Jer. 2.19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee And as Jer. 4.18 thy way and doings have procured these things unto thee this is thy wickedness We like the foolish woman Prov. 14.1 pull down the house over our heads with our own hands Before we feel the burthen of sin our own will to it is our warrant for it and because our selves have done it we can easily excuse it but at last it will sting like an Adder This will double the burthen this will be enough to silence any sufferer in this last execution of Justice upon him i.e. in this life This consideration will devolve all the load upon our selves Who shall relieve us Who shall grieve for us Whom shall we blame but even leave our complaint upon our selves 2. Another Sting in Death is that it comes from the Wrath of God Psal 78.50 He made a way to his anger and spared not their soul from death God takes away the wicked in his wrath Psal 58.9 Death is his destroying Angel that chaseth them out of the world There are two thing in a curse or punishment 1. Something that is evil some oppressing evil 2. The wrath of God mixt with it Now death is a part of the curse now this is piercing and painful indeed for a man to be taken away in wrath Sinners in Sion are afraid and a fearful thing it is to tall into the hands of the Living God 3. Another sting in death is that it is the punishment due to sin It comes armed therefore with a Commission to take satisfaction for of sence and wrong done to the infinite God It is the wages of sin Rom. 6. ult We were bound upon peril of our lives and on pain of death to keep Gods Law Gen. 2.17 In the day thou catest thereof thou shalt surely dye that being broken death ensues and seizeth on us as our punishment So v. 22. of this Chapter In Adam all aye Sin and punishment goe together When the body of sin goes before Punishment as its shadow attends it When Eve brought forth a son she was brought a bed of death according to the Proverb Ex malo Corvo malum Ovum The Jews have a Saying There was never any punishment hapned to them but there was anounce of the golden calf in it So there is no death but there are some drachmes of sin in it The lively Image of Sin is ever to be seen in Death Would you see the sad influence that moisture hath upon iron Look upon the rust of it Would you see the horrid evil of drunkenness Look upon the effects of it Prov. 23.29 Who hath woe who hath sorrow Who hath contention Who hath babling Who hath wounds without cause Who hath redness of eyes v. 30. They that tarry long at the wine they that goe to seck mixt wine So here Who hath shortness of breath a pale countenance a crazy body Catarrhs Epilepsies Palsyes c They that continue in sin Why doth the living man complain Lam. 3.39 A man for the punishment of his sin This stings pains and pierceth the sinner when death comes 4. Another sting in death is that it separates the soul and body each from other These antient friends whose lives and happiness here as Jacobs was in Benjamins Gen. 44.30 lare bound up in one anothers welfare Will ye take Benjamin away All these things are against me If mischief befal him then shall ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave Gen. 42 36 38. So may the body which is so closly wedded and so dearly affected to the soul say If ye take away my soul you take away my life As it is reported of Madrian the Emperour when he was dying he thus trembling at the gastly countenance of the King of Terrors bespake his miserable soul Animula vagula blandula Hospes Comesque corporis Quoe nune abibit in loca Pallidula rigida nudula Nec ut soles dabis Jocos O thou little pleasant wandring soul the guess and companion of the body 〈◊〉 what place will it goe c. So hard did he find it for these two friends to part If it be so hard for a man to part