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A31030	Jacob at his journeys end, or, Part of his last words uttered to his son Joseph, and the rest of his children, immediately before his being gathered to his fathers a sermon preached at the interment of ... William, Lord Brereton of Brereton in Cheshire ... / by A.B.	A. B.	1665 (1665)	Wing B9; ESTC R3284	11,205	26

death were offended at his words and fell foul upon him telling him that now they knew that he had a Devil for say they Abraham is dead and the Prophets are dead If any thing could reprieve from death probably it must be either greatness or goodness 1. Not Greatness For man being in honour abideth not but is like the beasts that perish that is must dye as well as they Psal 49. 12. So again Psal 82. 6. I have sayd you are Gods but ver 7. Ye shall dye like men Death knocks as boldly and enters as irresistably into the rich mans palace as the poor mans cottage Lazarus died and so did the rich man also and was buried with more pompous solemnity it is likely but with less comfort and advantage as you may collect if you view the passage Luke 16. 22. Death when it comes with its commission makes no distinction all in this respect are alike and go to one place saith Solomon and are dissolved into the like indistinguishable dust 2. Nor Goodness Jacob who was loved dyed as well as Esau that was hated nay though Greatness and Goodness meet they cannot exempt nor rescue from the grave Israel was Princeps cum Deo and Rectus Dei He wrastled with God and prevailed yet when he came to grapple with Death he had the foyl None so great none so good as our Blessed Redeemer yet when he was pleas'd to take our nature and to bear our sins he sunk under the unsupportable load and the bitter cup of Death must not pass by but he must tast and drink it And sure the servant is not greater nor hath reason to expect to fare better than his Lord. If he dyed before he entered into glory so must wee too we must dye with him if we will reign with him and partake with him in death if we will share with him in glory It hath been observ'd by others that Moses was bid go up and dye but that we must dye before we can go up But I add that it was but to Mount Nebo whither Moses must go up before his death Neither he nor we can ascend Mount Sion that is above before we descend unto the Hades that is below We must stoop to the grave ere we can rise to glory So it is a truth Israel and we too must dye 2. It is a truth that Israel did and we must apply I dye sayd old Israel I am a stranger and a sojourner with thee as all my fathers were Oh spare me before I go hence saith David Psal 39. 22. My days are swifter than a Weavers Shuttle saith Job cap. 7. 6. and my days are vanity saith he ver 16. The time of my departure is at hand said S. Paul 2 Tim. 4. 6. And my life draws nigh to the grave saith David again Psal 88. 2. So that unless a man can say that he is better than David Abraham Isaac or Jacob than Moses and the Prophets and all his Predecessors he must say with Israel I die And he must not say it onely but take notice of it For 3. This is a notable and observable Truth as the word Behold which is prefixed doth imply 1. It is a considerable Truth in respect of a mans self and his own death For First this consideration will make the thoughts of death less troublesome Elijah could pray for death when he considered it had been the portion of his fathers and that he was no better than they 1 Kin. 19. 4. Though the thoughts of company cannot abate the miseries of the second death they may lessen the terrours of the first St Paul could desire to be dissolved when he thought of being with Christ who was dead before him 2. This consideration that we must die may by Gods blessing make us more careful how we live It is the indiscreetest folly and the greatest improvidence imaginable for a fleeting soul to feed it self with hopes of going to this or that place and getting this or that gain to morrow when it may be lost to day To bath it self in pleasures when 't is ready to be ravished into everlasting burnings or promise it self rest for many years when it may be snatch'd from its deluding delights before the approaching night If we must die t is fit we take time to live to live to the Lord that we may dye in the Lord and live hereafter with the Lord. 3. This consideration that we must die should make us strive to do all the good we can while we live Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might or do it quickly saith Solomon Ec. 9. 10. and he adds the reason for his advice for there is no work nor device nor knowledge in the grave whither thou goest Death is that night when no man can work Therefore while we have time let us do good to all Gal. 6. 10. to our selves and to others too Dives Luke 16. had no permission to return to his Fathers house to warn his Brethren When a man is dead and gone hence his place shall know him no more Job 7. 10. The grave is the den of that roaring lion from whence vestigia nulla ret●orsum the place to which all go and from whence none return But perhaps the young gallant may think that though this doctrine may be seasonably preach'd to those of old Israels age and to his own decrepit friends or father that are as weary of the world as he is of them it is yet too soon to have his delights eclips'd or his delicate ears struck with such un welcom and terrible truths But let him consider he is growing up and ripening for death from the time he first had life 'T is true what Seneca says tunc quoque cùm crescimus decrescit vita each day that makes the time he hath lived longer makes the remainder shorter Thy glass is still running and the more sands are spent already the fewer are behind 2. And as we are concerned in respect of our own so it doth concern us to take notice of the death of others also First when we see or hear of the death of another we should remember and prepare for our own Joseph a son is not privileg'd above Israel the father though he was born after him he might have dyed before him 2. Since others as well as our selves must dye it is our part to do all the good we can unto them and get all the good we can from them before they dye If they live in the fear of God imita●e them and so shalt thou dye like them and live for ever with them I shall detain you no longer in the prosecution of the Text already treated on there remains another subject I mean that Honourable though liveless spectacle that hath brought us unwillingly hither and is the sad occasion of this solemnity I could wish had God seen it good there had been no such occasion of this concourse or that