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death_n	die_v	sin_n	wage_n	7,907	5	11.1189	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29117	Elijah's epitaph and the motto of all mortalls in the other reason in the text, perswading him into a willingness to dye, in these words, I am no better then [sic] my fathers, I Kin. 19, 4 / by Thomas Bradley, D.D. one of His Late Majesties chaplains and præbendary of York, and preach't in the minster there, and in his rectory of Ackworth, 1669, Ætatis suæ, 72.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1670 (1670)	Wing B4131; ESTC R34264	17,583	51

Eyes then Funerall Sermons can doe unto our Eares Dayly we heare the Tollings of the Passing bells calling us to our long home Dayly we see the bones and skulls of our friends deceased rak't out of the Grave dayly we see others following after them and the mourners about the streets It strikes me deeply into the meditation of mortality when I doe but look over the Register Book to see in the turning over of how few leaves I finde the same man Baptized Married Buried Thus one Generation passeth away and another succeedeth and hasteth after it as we after them till we all lye down in the Dust of Death For we are no better then our Fathers But to draw to an end I will onely shew you some Reasons proving not onely the certainty but the necessity of dying that so we may make account of it look for it and provide for it and so conclude this Observation also And there are six Reasons which make it not onely certain but necessary that we should dye First Because we are all sinners And the wages of sin is Death Rom. 6.23 And in the fifth of the Romans ver 12. By one man sinne entred into the World and death by sinne and so death went over all men in whom all men have sinned Secondly The Sentence of Death is gone out against all mankind not to be reverst This Sentence was pronounc't in Paradise and dayly put in execution ever since In quo die commederis morte moriêris In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death Thirdly The matter whereof we are made necessitates it the meane and corruptible dust of the Earth And of this God puts us in minde from the very beginning of our being Pulvis in pulverem Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt return Fourthly From the continuall conflict that is between the foure contrary qualities that are in us Of Heate and Cold Drought and Moysture one against another These being the prime qualities of the foure Elements of which we and all compound or mixt bodies doe consist are found in us in one degree or other all which being contrary the one to the other are in continuall fight one with another which never ceaseth but with the dissolution of the compositum the compound body wherein they are Where here these qualities are in aequilibri● equally ballanc't and in some due proportion mingled in the body there the body is healthfull strong of an excellent temper and of long continuance which was the happiness of Adam in his first Creation and of the long-lived Fathers before the Flood in a great measure But where one of these qualities doth predominate and get the upper hand over the other there follows a distemper and upon that sickness and weakness which by the Art and care of the skillfull Physitian may be helpt at least in some measure and for a time if he be skillfull in these two things First to find out and to discover which of the qualities it is which hath the predominancy And secondly How to correct that quality and to relieve the other which is oppressed by it and so to set them in some equall proportion and due temper again But this can no Art of man doe so as to keep them alwayes in an equall ballance but the qualities being so diametrally opposite one to the other the fight will still be renewed again and the conflict continued till the one hath destroyed the other upon which must needs follow the dissolution of the whole body so that in these very Elements that we consist of we carry Death about us we onely stay while the one hath gotten the mastery of the other and so bring us down to our dust Fifthly There is a nocessity that we should taste of death and be turned to our dust again that so our gross and corruptible bedies being first putrified may be purifyed and refined and defaecated from all those dreggs and terrestriall groseness which was in them while they lived here in the Flesh and so be raysed again spirituall and incorruptible This Reason Saint Paul gives 1 Cor. 15.36 Thou foole that which thou sowest is not quickened except it dye And ver 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption but before it put on incorruption it must put off corruption and that must be done by death It shall be raysed spirituall but first it must lay down that which is carnall in it this is done by Death and the Grave where the body is first putrified and turn'd to Dust that so as the Phaenix out of it 's own Ashes so the body may be raysed out of it 's own Dust and renewed out of it 's own Materialls that so becoming incorruptible spirituall and immortall it may be fit to enter into the Heavenly habitations and to be partaker of the inheritance with the Saints in glory Sixthly and lastly It is necessary that all men should dye and be layd up in the Earth in order to the great Assizes the great and generall Judgement to come that so they may be all brought forth together to their tryall for the greater honour of the Judge our Lord Jesus Christ the greater glory of the solemnity and the greater state of the proceedings in that high Court and in that great day This is the Reason the Apostle gives of the necessity of all mens dying before the generall Judgement And in order to it Heb. 9.27 It is appointed for all mon once to dye and after that to come into Judgement Some particular judgements we see dayly executed in the World in which God doth punish some particular sinnes by Judgements Nationall Locall and Personall that men may know There is a God that Judgeth the Earth and that sinne shall not alwayes goe unpunished But these are but as petty Sessions in respect of the Great Assizes to be holden at the Generall Judgement of the Grat Day That 's the Day indeed the Day of all Dayes called The Day of the Lord the Day wherein the Lord will be glorified in the sight of Men and Angells good and bad when they shall see the Sonne of Man comming in the Clouds with power and great glory and all the holy Angells with him with flaming fire rendring vengeance to them that would not know him nor obey his glorious Gospel when all Nations shall be gathered before him and all the Generations of men which have been upon the Earth from Adam to the end of the World when the Angells shall gather the Elect from the foure Winds from all quarters of the World and the Sea shall give up her dead and the Earth shall give up her dead and they shall all great and small appear before the Throne and be set in two mighty bodies the one on the right hand and the other on the left and there stand to heare their finall doome Those on the right hand the Sentence of Absolution Venite benedicti Come ye

is sure to be Cheated more or less And if the other he deales withall hath not the like skill he is as like to be Cheated on the other hand For there is no trust to be given to words in this case Thus much it cost me Thus much it is worth Thus much I have been bidden for it saith the Seller and never a word true Then on the other hand It is naught it is naught saith the Buyer but when he is gone he boasteth as Soloman observeth So that our Saviour was not mistaken Matth. 21. when speaking of such Chapmen in buying and selling he calls them both Theeves both the buyer and the seller It is Written My House shall be called the House of Prayer but you have made it a Denn of Theeves To set forth this by a Comparison there is me thinks the same difference between us and our Fathers of former Generations in these matters that there was between Jacob and Esau The Scripture tells us Jacob was a plaine Man and dwelt in Tents but Esau was a cunning Hunter Even so our fore-fathers were plain men and dwelt in Tents plain in their dealing plain in their dyet plain in their apparrel plain in their buildings plain in their speech plain in their carryage and behaviour every way and above all plain and rich in the rich Jewell of plain Dealing But the men of our after Ages like Esau are cunning Hunters they hunt for their Neighbours Goods for their Houses for their Lands for their Farmes over their heads for their substance for their Possessions for their Places for their Offices yea and where they can have opportunity for it or any hope they may prevaile for greater gaine And thus we have made out the third Observation to be generally too true That in those things wherein there is Succession seldome comes the better Elijah tells us He was no better then his Fathers well were it with us if we were no worse And so much of the third Observation gathered out of this expression of the Prophet For I am no better then my Fathers The fourth follows and that is 4th Obs His contented submission to the common condition of Mortalls to Dye and to follow the Generations of his Fathers And here by his Fathers may well be meant all the Generations that were before him as well the Fathers that were before the Flood as those that followed after in the second World from Adam that was first Created to the last Generation that was before him I am no better then they but mortall as they were made of the same mould the Dust of the Earth as they were under the same Law and condition that they were to return to Dust again They all had their Pilgrimages here on Earth for a time and in their time served their Generations their Pilgrimages are ended and they are dead and gone and turn'd to their Dust I also have now had my time upon Earth in a tedious Pilgrimage and now I pray thee let this day be the last of it and this place the end of it here let me dye and be gathered unto my Fathers For I am no better then my Fathers In which words we have His humble acknowledgement of his mortality and in him of our own and of all Man-kind throughout all Generations we and all our Fathers before us and our Posterity after us All Mortalls It is usuall in the Scriptures especially of the Old Testament to periphrase the death of men departed out of this world by saying They are gathered unto their Fathers Here in this world men are scattered one from another in respect of time by the interposition of many Generations in respect of place by the distance of many hundreds of miles in respect of state and condition by the variety of differences of high and low rich and poor learned and unlearned bond and free Kings and Captives mighty and meane strong and weak c. but Death gathers all together in the Grave we shall all meet in the Dust we shall finde one another Death gathers us all into it's Nett and layes us up in the Dust How Courtly the Prophet brings in the Kings and mighty men of the Earth brought down to the Dust saluting one another and as it were complementing one another in the Grave being met there and those that were there formost well-comming those that came after them to the same House of Darkness There lyes Adam Seth Enes Methushalem and the rest of the Fathers of the Old World before the Flood There Noah Shem Arphaxad Terah Abraham Isaac Jacob and the rest of the Patriarks since the Flood And there all the Generations of our Fathers since them to these times wherein we now live some of them lived longer then others some of them did great and glorious Acts in their time and so were more famous in their Generation then others but the conclusion of all was this at the last And he dyed and was gathered unto his Fathers Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years and he begat Sons and Daughters and he dyed Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years and begat Sons and Daughters and he dyed Methushalem the longest liver of them all he lived nine hundred sixty and nine years and begat Sons and Daughters and he dyed and so of all the rest after all the Story of their long Lives and great things done by them in their time yet this was the Catastrophe of them all And he dyed Neither Wisedome nor Wealth nor Power nor Policy nor Greatness nor Goodness nor Grace nor Holiness it selfe can priviledge from this common condition of the Sonnes of Adam but they must dye We see That wise men dye as well as fools Psal 49.10 and rich men dye as well as poor and strong men dye as well as weak and Kings dye as well as Captives c. It puts me in minde of a Sage and grave saying of an Embassadour from whom I doe not now well remember but comming to Rome in an Embassie he was shewed all the glory the state and the magnificence of that famous City but it chanc't that while they were shewing him all these glorious things there past by a Corps carried to the Grave to be buried which this wise Embassadour observing took occasion from thence to speak these words That notwithstanding all that greatness and glory yet he saw that men dyed at Rome as well as in their Country so impartiall so inexorable is this common devourer of men there is no Covenant to be made with Death no agreement with the Grave It is one of Solomon's insatiables which never saith it hath enough till it hath us all with our Fathers For we are no better then our Fathers But what need I Preach mortality to mortalls whose very bodies that they carry about them dayly Preach unto them the same thing and the spectacles of mortality which we dayly see Preach it more powerfully to our