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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42697	A funeral sermon, preached March 13. 1697/8. For Mr. William Hartley, of Newport-Pagnel, apothecary. By J. Gibbs.	Gibbs, John, 1627?-1699.	1698 (1698)	Wing G663; ESTC R213761	12,917	26

have our Being as Daniel told quaffing Belshazzar Dan. 5.23 3. It is he that hath appointed Death for us whose Appointment is not subject to disappointment It is a Statute-Law enacted by the Divine Wisdom that all are subject unto which none can avoid but stands more firm than the Laws of the Medes and Persians Heb. 9.28 This Law is unrepealable and will surely be executed 4. It is he will bring us to Death that hath innumerable and unaccountable ways and means to do it sometimes suddenly without any previous warnings on our own Bodies Some by Fire some by Water others by the Sword or Bullet Ah! how many Thousands have thus fallen in a time of War Some by an Apoplexy others fall into Swoons that revive no more Some he brings to Death by Chronick Diseases or lingring Distempers which gradually by little and little do weaken and waste Nature until Death comes as in Consumptions Pthisicks Dropsies c. Some are taken off by Acute sharp Pains as by the Cholick Stone Gout and such like and no Man can give an Account of all the ways that God doth bring us to Death but by one means or another in one way or another it shall be done So that the common Proverb is verified That there is but one way of coming into the World but there are innumerable ways of going out of it 5. He will bring us to Death whose Power is unresistible Alas what a poor weak Worm is Man what strength hath he when the Almighty God hath to do with him Can he that is more feeble than a Moth resist or withstand or bear up against an Omnipotent Arm Job 9.12 Behold he taketh away and who can hinder him That is none can if all the Power and Strength of Men were combined together to preserve the Life of one Person it would be in vain to attempt it when God will bring him to Death Who hath an Arm like him Job 40.9 If none hath then none can disannul his Judgment ver 8. No Man hath Power to retain the Spirit in the hour of Death Eccles 8.8 Therefore no Heart can endure or hold out nor can any Hand be strong when God shall deal with Man Ezek. 22.14 6. It is he whose Will is uncontroulable He is of one Mind and who can turn him He doth whatsoever he will in Heaven above and on Earth beneath What he is pleased to do that he will do and who dare question him or say What dost thou Job 9.12 Psal 135.6 He hath no Superiour therefore it is too great Arrogancy and Boldness in a poor sorry Worm to call God to Account for what he doth as interpretatively discontented Persons do 7. He will bring unto Death Who hath set the bounds of our Lives beyond which we cannot pass Job 14.5 And when the appointed Time is come his purpose in bringing to Death shall take place There is an appointed time to Man upon the Earth Job 7.1 and untill that appointed Time come Man shall be continued on the Earth whatsoever Dangers he may meet with in his Passage through this Wilderness by one means or another God will preserve some that in probability have been near the Gates of Death being given up of Physicians for dead Persons and their Friends weeping about them have been brought back from the sides of the Pit and have out-lived others more healthful and far more likely to live And others when the time appointed was come have been brought unto Death when in Reason there was little Expectation of it 8. He will bring to Death that is inexorable when the Time determined is come It is not Prayers or Tears that shall then prevail to procure the lengthening out of the day of Life It is not crying O spare me a little that I may recover strength will serve turn How many on their Death-beds have with Tears begged a little longer time not being ready and prepared for Death But all in vain whether prepared or not it is not Wealth can purchase nor Cries procure an hour's respite when the set time is come A World of Wealth as one cryed out for an Inch of Time but had she it to give she could not have obtained it Obj. But did not God add Fifteen Years unto Hezekiah's Life in Answer to his Prayers and Tears Isa 38.1 2 3 4 5. Resp Fifteen Years were added from the time that he prayed and wept but not unto the time appointed for his Dissolution Me. This was that Excellent Person that was the Non-such of the Earth in his day But it is every me One may say God will bring me another that God will bring me and so may every individual Person So that none are exempted none shall be passed by but all God will bring to Death He doth not say I know I shall die but God will bring me to Death All that have ever been before us and they were innumerable from the Creation of the World God hath brought to Death but two the one was Enoch who was translated that he should not see Death Gen. 5.24 Heb. 11.5 and Elijah that was immediately carryed up to Heaven in a Whirlwind 2 Kings 2.11 and all that shall succeed or come after us except those that shall remain and be alive at the coming of the Lord who shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the Air 1 Thes 4.17 yet though these shall not be brought to Death they shall be changed which is equivalent to it hence 1 Cor. 15.51 We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed The longest livers died The Antediluvian Fathers reported of Gen. 5. all of whom lived through the strength of Nature and the Power of God above 900 Years except Mahalaleel that wanted five Years of 900 and Lamech that lived 777 and Enoch that lived 365 Years before his Translation yet they all were said to die as Adam Seth Enos c. So that though Men may live many Years and though they spend them in Mirth and Pleasures yet it concerns them to remember the days of Darkness will come Eccles 11.8 There is no Age of the World nor shall be unto the end of the World but Man that was born of a Woman hath been brought to Death and as no Age hath been excused so no Rank Quality or Degree of Men have been exempted The King as well as the Beggar hath passed through the Gates of Death the Prince and the Peasant hence Psal 146.5 6. Put not your trust in Princes nor in the Son of Man in whom is no help The Reason of this Exhortation His breath goeth forth he returneth to his Earth Both are lodged together one House holds them both The Honourable must come to Death all his great swelling Titles of Honour cannot secure him nor can the mean and base Condition of others preserve them The Rich and the Poor also must come to it and lie down alike in the Dust We find Luke 16.22