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The grand statute: or The law of death unalterable; opened and applied in a sermon preached May 11. 1660. At the funerals of that pious, useful, and much lamented gent. Mr. John Cope in the parish-church of St. Mary-Bothaw London. By John Kitchin, M.A. minister of St. Mary-Abchurch London.
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THE Grand Statute OR The LAW of DEATH unalterable OPENED and APPLIED IN A SERMON Preached May 11. 1660. At the Funerals of that pious useful and much lamented Gent. Mr. John Cope in the Parish-Church of St. Mary-Bothaw LONDON By John Kitchin M. A. Minister of St. Mary-Abchurch LONDON Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth Job 7.1 Quid in rebus humanis certius est morte quid incertius hora mortis invenitur Bernardus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liban Sophist Progymn London Printed for Francis Kitchin and John Garway and are to be sold at the sign of St. Paals Church in Pauls-Chaine 1660. To the truly vertuous my ever Honoured Friend M rs Hannah Cope My dear Friend THE late sad dispensation of Providence wherewith the Lord was pleased to exercise you in snatching out of your bosom the sweetest flower of your Earthly Comforts put me upon preaching that to your Ear which is now presented to your Eye The Lord print it upon your heart I confess I should much more gladly have served you in any other Office of love and labout had it seemed good in the eyes of the infinitely wise and all-disposing providence of God to have spared me this pains which yet I very willingly undertook in complyance with your requests though with a very sad and sorrowful heart I did not then more willingly preach it then I do now unwillingly publish it could I have resisted your incessant importunity both because I have ever desired to shun that Trajan◠like vanity as I may call it of affecting to be a paper flower Constantinus Magnus Trajanum Imperatorem ob aspersos passim titulos in aedificiis herbam paricta riam vocabat Cluverius Historiar Epitome and especially also considering how much of the waters of the Sanctuary run waste even out of the Press as well as the Pulpit Pasquils Libels and Ballads being more in use and esteem in this generation then Sermons God grant that this present glut and surfeit be not a fore-runner of future famine and scarcity For my delay in detaining it thus long from your view partly my absence from home partly my employments at home and especially my irresolution till of late to send it may be I hope a sufficient Apology And now it is come it has no other message to deliver save only to stir up your pure mind by way of remembrance 2 Pet. 3.1 That you may be mindful your own Mortality and that you your self are under this irrevocable Decree and indispensible Law that is now executed upon your dear deceased Husband I know you are enough sensible that he is gone oh but remember that you must follow and be confident of this that the joy of your meeting will abundantly out-balance the grief of your parting 2 Cor. 4.17 These light afflictions says the Apostle which are but for a moment work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory And in the mean-time two things considered might methinks abundantly support you under this trial 1. 1 Cor. 10.13 That no affliction hath hapned unto you but that which is common unto men and 2. That this affliction hath hapned unto you in no other manner but that which is peculiar to children for discipline not for destruction to chastise you Heb. 12.7 not to cast you off The God of Heaven make up this loss to you and yours in the more plentiful communications of spiritual blessings both graces and comforts which is the prayer of Your much obliged Friend And Servant in the Lord John Kitchin Abchurch July 30. 1660. TO THE READER READER THe thoughts of Death can never be unseasonable the houre of death being ever uncertain Most men put far away the evil day therefore they need frequent Monitors to put them in minde of their mortality The Author of this Sermon hath taken good paines to alarum and quicken secure sinners to a serious meditation of and a speedy preparation for their dying hour The subject of the Sermon being so solemne and the matter of it so well digested and composed it is well worth the inspection and perusal of all Edmund Galamy Thomas Watson THE Grand Statute OR The Law of Death unalterable HEB. 9.27 And as It is appointed unto men once to die but after this judgement So FOR the Coherence of the words with the Context be pleased to take notice of Saint Pauls drift in this Chapter which is this namely to compare Law and Gospel together and hereby to prove the Gospel-Administration to be far more excellent than the Mosaical Oeconomy and Legal dispensation And this he does briefly but fully in a few words but in many particulars In the 23. ver there 's the Comparison instituted In the rest you have the Comparison illustrated In the 23. ver It was therefore necessary saith the Apostle that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these meaning the Legal Ceremonies before mentioned but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theoph. this is the comparison Gospel Ordinances are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are heavenly things so called for their stability for their perpetuity for their sublimity for their spirituality whereas the Legal Ceremonies they were at the best but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the patterns of heavenly things these were the substance those were but the shadows those were meaner these were better sacrifices 't is true those were necessary pro hic nunc and they were beautiful in their season but God had provided better things for us Heb. 11.40 This he proves and illustrates in the next verse to the end and that in four particulars 1. We have a better Priest 2. We have a better offering 3. We have a better place 4. We have a better manner 1. A better Priest we have theirs was an high Priest indeed to wit Aaron ver 25. the high Priest entred into the holy place but ours is an higher Priest to wit Christ ver 24. Christ is entred into heaven 2. Better offerings we have their offerings were the blood of others namely of other things Bulls and Goats and Rams and Lambs were their sacrifices intimated verse 25. the high Priest entred with the blood of others but our offerings are the blood of Christ himself the Priest himself he 's both Priest and Sacrifice too ver 26. he hath appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himselfe 3. A better place we have their places of propitiation were the Tabernacle and Temple places made with hands Bazaliels hands and Aholiah's hands and the workmens hands ver 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Occumenius He is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but our place of propitiation is heaven it self ver 24. but into heaven it self He is entred now to appear in the presence of God for us an house