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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65453	A sermon preached in St. Maries church at Gates-head in the county-Palatine of Durham at the funeral of George Johnson, Gent., deceased, May 29, Anno Dom 1683 / by Richard Werge ... ; whereunto is added, Anelegy by a friend.	Werge, Richard, 1624 or 5-1687.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1366; ESTC R8026	12,157	36

That is spoken only of such as shall be living at the very moment of Christs coming to Judgment all before them shall die and even they shall be changed which is equivalent to death Obj. Enoch was translated that he should not see death and Elijah was wrapt up into heaven and died not Ans There was a special reason why those two were freed from the ordinary way of dying It was a long time between the promise of Christ and the Exhibition of him and therefore to support the faith of believers in a freedom from death by Christ the Lord was pleased to give those two real demonstrations the one before the floud and the other after the floud Besides that one or two extraordinary Instances do not infringe an ordinary Rule especially when it is altered by him who set the Rule Moreover they were both changed which is answerable to death and thereby their robe of mortality was taken off before they were admitted into heaven Our death is a change and their change was as death Wee see by experience that men of all estates and conditions are taken away by death even the righteous perish and mercifull men are taken away No priviledge can exempt men from death Nascimur Morimur and therefore Solomon in his 30th of Prov. joyns the Womb and the Grave together to shew that we are no sooner born but death waits for us Every one that hath his Genesis must have his Exodus One hearing one boast that he could decline any word he told him he could not decline death We eat and we die said the old Stoich Wee put death into our mouths and death on our backs we are all posting on to the grave which is the House of all the living The decree of God in this respect is established and the law of nature in this respect is in violable and universal Wee are all born alike and wee must die alike We came naked into the world and we must go out naked Mors omnes reddit aequales aequat divitibus pauperes et liberis servos Death makes all alike it makes the rich and poor masters and servants alike death puts an end to all civil distinctions Having done with the illustration of this truth I shall now speak to you by way of Application First Instruction Hence wee are informed of the stability of God's decree God's purpose was that if man sinned he should die and God hath made good his word ever since all the posterity of Adam hath been liable to death Indeed God is unchangeable in his Essence his Attributes his Councels and his Word What God saith shall be done what he speaks shall be accomplished whatsoever God wills purposes and speaks shall be brought to pass Numb the 23d verse the 19th Second Instruction Hence we learn the frailty of man's nature There are many dangers and diseases attending us so that wee may say with Saint Paul Wee are in deaths oft Third Instruction By this we see the sad effects of sin There is an evil in sin and that is the violation of God's Law and their is an evil after sin and that is death the punishment of sin Draco the severe Law-giver being asked why when all sins were not equal he appointed death to all he answered he knew all sins were not equal but he knew the least deserved death It was the speech of Heraclitus concerning a Bow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 its work is to kill so the effect of sin is death By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death over all men for as much as all have sinned Rom. the 5th ver the 12th Indeed the Apostle saith there is a sin not unto death but that is to be understood of the event not the merit The least sin being committed against an infinite Justice deserves death this was a principle impressed upon nature the very Heathens were sensible of it the Apostle speaing of the Heathens Rom. the 1st and the 32d saith thus Knowing that they which commit such things are worthy of death It is plain by the words of the Apostle that the Heathens knew this and the Prophet is positiye in it The soul that sinneth it shall die Ezek. the 18th and the 4th The first Adam had two Sacraments laid before him a Sacrament of life and a Sacrament of death the tree of life was a Sacrament of life by eating of that Tree he was to be upheld in his obedience which was the way to life Had he continued eating of that Tree he had been freed from temporal death after an enjoyment of a temporal happiness in this world he should have been translated to an estate of eternal blessedness in heaven But by eating of the forbidden tree which was a Sacrament of death he was liable to death Now Adam was a representative Person the root of all mankind so that in Adam all sinned and in him all men are liable to death The Fourth Exhortation Make use of your thoughts about man's mortality as a remedy First against pride It was decreed by the Senate of Rome that when the Roman Conqueror was in his Triumphs had so many acclamations and praises and other occasions of pride that one should cry thus Remember that thou art a man that so the consideration of his mortality might keep him from pride They are in no peril of death that is they think themselves to be in no peril and this is the cause that they are so holden with pride Psal 73. If men did mind their latter end if they did consider that in a short time they must be turned into dust surely they would be humble but they think only of this life therefore they are so proud Man who at first was made like unto God is now like the beasts that perish not a brute but brutish in respect of sensuality and mortality He who was created Lord of the Universe must now say to corruption thou art my Father and to the worm thou art my Mother and Sister And this is the fruit of sin and the thought of it should make us low in our own eyes Secondly Make use of the thoughts of man's mortality as a remedy against Covetousness Facile contemnit omnia qui semper se cogitat moriturum That man is easily perswaded to contemn all things who is always mindful of his own death A little money will serve for his expences who is to go but a short journey A little parcel of earth will hold them who now ambitiously seek after the whole world Why should man be inordinatly desirous after great territories and rich clothing who in a short time shall have no more Land than the compass of his grave and no more clothing than those vestiments appointed for his burial The Psalmist accounts this a great piece of vanity surely every man walketh in a vain shew surely they are disquieted in vain He heapeth up riches to himself and knoweth