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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67065	An account of some of the dying-sayings of Susannah Yeats, late wife of Samuel Yeats, of the parish of Minching-Hammpton in Glocester-shire with a sermon preached at her funeral by Thomas Worden ...	Worden, Thomas.; Yeats, Susannah, d. 1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing W3577; ESTC R31846	16,577	40

in the Text You see that Lazarus was a good Man a declared Friend of Christ yet neither his goodness before Christ nor his relation to Christ could priviledg from Death We read of Abraham the friend of God we read of Isaac Jacob Moses Samuel David Solomon Hezekiah Josiah all eminent men for parts and piety yet nothing of all this would secure them from the stroke of death The Prophets where are they do they live for ever In a word saith David Psalm 49. 7 8. No man by any means can redeeem his brother nor give God a ransome for him For the redemption of their souls is precious and it ceaseth for ever For saith Paul It is appointed unto all men once to dye and after that to judgment 2. WE next come to shew you what Death is Death is the dissolving of the Union that 's betwixt two Beings or it is the separation of the Soul and Body each from other Two near Friends that were knit together in the Womb but now divided asunder under the Tomb. THERE is a threefold Death A death spiritual a death eternal and a death temporal or corporal FIRST of all There is a death spiritual or a spiritual death which is the dissolving of that blessed Union that was betwixt God and Man in Paradice for as the soul is united to the body of a Man so was God united to the soul and body of a Man tho not in so corporal but in a mystical mannner And as the body dies when the soul which maintains the life of it is gone in like manner did our souls dye to all spiritual life when God was gone Mark the Apostle's words in Ephes 2. 1. You hath he quickned who were dead in trespasses and sins We ceased to live the Life of God ever since that happy union was broken betwixt us and God Psalm 49. 12. 2. THERE is an Eternal death which is that state every graceless man and woman living and dying so is appointed unto after this Life of Nature is at an end And what that state is you may read in these following Scriptures Matt. 8. 11 12. I say unto you that many shall come from the east and from the west and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Psal 9. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 11. 6. Vpon the wicked shall God rain snares and fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup. 2 Thess 1. 7 8 9. When he shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power so Rev. 14. 9 10 11. 3. THERE is this natural death which unties the Soul from the Body which a good Lazarus as well as a wicked Dives must partake of from which stroke saith David no Man can keep alive his own Soul. Solomon's Wisdom Abraham's Faith Sampson's Strength David's Zeal Hezekiah's Godliness Josiah's Uprightness Job's Patience Absolom's Beauty Hammon's Honour Dives his Riches could not prevent this stroke of death Saith Solomon As dyeth the fool so dyeth the wise man and all this as the fruit of sin For the wages of sin is death Rom. 6. 23. 2. WE now come to the Reasons of the Point Why good men must die as well as bad men Reas 1. BECAUSE of Gods determination he hath decreed and appointed it to be so Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed once for all men to dye Now there is no withstanding of a decree of God Numb 23. 19. God is not a man that he should lye nor the son of a man that he should repent Hath he said it and shall he not do it or hath he spoken it and shall he not make it good You may as well turn the Winds out of their points the Tide out of its course the Moon out of her place or stop the Sun in its race as to hinder the execution of the least decree of God therefore none ever yet could stop or prevent his own departure hence THO Christ himself as God could have prevented his own death John 10. 18. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again But yet as Christ was Man he could not avoid it HENCE saith the Apostles Acts 4. 27 28. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles with the people of Israel were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Now if the determination of God brings Christ to the Grave much more will it bring other good men to the Grave also Reas 2. IT 's so Because good Men have sinned and thereby deserved this stroke of Death as well as bad Men Rom. 3. 23. with Rom. 6. 23. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God the wages of Sin is Death Only there is this difference betwixt the bad Man and the good Man's death the bad Man dies as it 's said our Lord Jesus died when all the Sins of the Elect were upon him he dyes a cursed Death Gal. 3. 13. So do the wicked they dye a cursed Death because they dye with all their Sins upon them 1 Joh. 8. 24. Except you believe in me you shall dye in your sins But the godly Man hath all his Sins done away in Christ and where Sin is pardoned there Death is disarmed Death may gape but it cannot bite it may hiss but it cannot sting a believer because both its Teeth and Sting are broken and pluckt out by Christ in the behalf of every true Christian Reas 3. WHY good Men must dye as well as bad Men is Because they might actually possess that glorious Inheritance which Christ hath purchased for them above Eph. 1. 14. Which is the earnest of our Inheritance until the Redemption of the purchased Possession unto the praise of his Glory So that it appears that Jesus Christ hath not only purchased a Redemption for his People by his precious Blood from Sin Satan the Curse and Condemnation of the Law and Wrath to come but by the price of the same Blood hath he purchased an Inheritance in Glory for them saith Peter 1 Pet. 1. 4. An inheritance uncorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for you But most certain it is while the Godly are in this Life they are at a great distance from this purchased Inheritance of Glory 2 Cor. 5. 6. Therefore we are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the Body we are absent from the Lord. So