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death_n	life_n	sin_n	wage_n	10,905	5	10.9508	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42366	A sermon preach'd at St. Michael Crooked-Lane September the 8th. 1700 Upon occasion of the death of His Illustrious Highness the Duke of Gloucester· By James Gardiner, M.A. rector of the said parish.	Gardiner, James, 1637-1705.	1700 (1700)	Wing G227A; ESTC R202270	13,434	29

last than to turn a Beggar out of his House of Hurdles WHAT Ground there is for that Observation The Life of Man is short of Kings shorter of Popes shortest whether it be because they are subject to Envy and a Rival-ambition or because they that stand high are prone to be giddy headed and consequently are aptest to catch a Fall I list not now to enquire certain it is since they are part of Adam's sinful Progeny that die they must their strength is not the strength of Stones which yet the very drops of Water wear out nor their Sinews of Brass or Iron which yet the Rust and Canker consumes DEATH like Caesar Taxes the Whole World and his Mortal Sythe Mows down the Lilies of the Crown as well as the Grass of the Field The Mighty of the Earth have no more Dominion over it then the British King Canutus of Kent had against the Seas incroaching upon his Throne Those who have a just Power of Life and Death as to their Subjests have none over their own to prolong their Lives or protract their Deaths one moment Nay couldst thou by thy Power and Policy exalt thy Throne above all the Thrones of all the Kings upon the Face of the Whole Earth and proclaim thy self Vniversal Lord and Monarch and send Yokes by thine Embassadours to all the Princes and States of the Universe Yet the Time will come and will not tarry when the Grandees and Potentates of the World who have gone down into the Dominions of Death and Darkness before thee may take up this Proverb against thee and say Art Thou also become weak as we Art thou also become vanity like unto us The Globe at One end of the Library and the Skeleton at the Other was a pretty Emblem of what we are now Discoursing and may signifie thus much that supposing a Man Master of the Whole Ball yet his Spirit shall be taken from Him that He may be dissolved and become Earth ‖ Tobit 3.6 Diogenes is brought in by Witty Lucian as Jearing the Ghost of Alexander after Death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is Alexander Dead as well as Diogenes Alexander had then learnt that he was not Immortal and co'd say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It 's no wonder I am Dead since at best I was but a Man WHATEVER course God gives to our Fortune Nature will certainly maintain and keep hers and make the Pulse beat alike in Men of High degree and those that are obscure and will inflame both alike with Fevers and chill both alike with Rheums and finally close the Eyes of both alike by Death which draws the Curtain of the Stage and then the Comedy of Fartune is at an End Nature which brought them forth Naked takes them in more naked then she brought them forth Stripping the Soul off the Body and the very Flesh off the Bones Death divesteth all the Actors of this Play of Life of the False Properties of Fortune and then Who can say This is the Noble and that the Ignoble Dust for in Death there is neither Small nor Great neither Male nor Female neither Bond nor Free the Greatest shall lye as low as the Meanest every One there shall be but as his Neighbour and as his Brother in the Flesh BUT for the further Illustration of this Great Truth That no Period of Life no State or Quality is secure a Moment from the Arrest of Death that all our Destinies are hurstled in the same Urn and sooner or later we shall be all carried into Eternal Exile let us turn to and ruminate a little upon these following Texts for thus it is Written * Heb. 9.27 It 's appointed for ALL Men Once to Die No Priviledge no Immunity from the Grave It 's a Statue-Law that hath been in Force in all Ages and will be so to the End of Time The Decree is irresistable and you may pretend as soon to obstruct the Course of Nature or hinder God's Covenant of Day and Night as to preserve Men of what Names or Titles soever Dignify'd or Distinguish'd from going to the Place appointed for all Living This is called in another place † Josh 23.14 the Way of all the Earth Some walk indeed on the Golden Sands others in Dirt and Mire but the same Vncontroulable Necessity involues all and whatsoever the Way be Plea ant or Troublesome yet every One passeth in it with equal steps measur'd by the same invariable Spaces of Hours and Days and arrive at the same common End of Life Again * Rom. 5.12 DEATH passeth upon ALL Men for that ALL have Sinned Whatever it is that makes Men Great makes them not more then Men nor less then Sinners and the Work and Wages are inseperable for the Wages of Sin is Death Nay Death found a Passage where Sin had made none even the most Holy Jesus was Dead and Buried Again † Isa 40.6 7 8. ALL Flesh is Grass and the Goodliness thereof as the Flower of the Field the Grass withers the Flower fadeth But is this a Truth so Universal that it admitts of no Exception Are not the Princes and Herves of the World exempted Have not They something in them that may be a Preservative from the insults at least of this Tyrant Death Something that They may upon Occasion plead against the Common Fate The Prophet seems to agree to this and therefore makes some difference betwixt the Great and the Person of Low Estate But what is it No other then what is between Green Grass and a Flower which tho' more Beautiful and taking to the Eye and pleasing to the Sense is every whit as subject to be trod under foot as the Grass and as they grow together in the same Field are equally liable to be cut down by the Edge of the same Sythe Nay say they escape the Browsing Mouth of the Beast the Pruning Knife the Plucking Hand and the Nipping Air yet are they still perishing still fading and will wither away of themselves Again * Psal 39.5 VERILY Every Man at his best Estate is altogether Vanity Every Word strangely Emphatical In the Original it runs Every Man is every Vanity Imagine what Vanity you will Man is that This is the true perfect Mapp of the Little World Man drawn and Colour'd by the Pen of the Royal Prophet as his Hand was guided by the Holy Ghost Behold I shew you a Mystery The Lesser World Man is more comprehensive of Vanity than the greater Again † 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 The meaning is No Man can escape it Which is the reason that the Assertion is not left bare and naked but fixed with a Selah to assure the Truth of it or so to engage our Attention as not to pass it by till we have given it a Serious and a feeling Thought Upon which account