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A43966	The sting of death and death vnstvng delivered in two sermons in which is shewed the misery of the death of those that dye in their sins, & out of Christ, and the blessedness of theirs that dye in the Lord : preached on the occasion of the death of the truely noble and virtuous Lady Mildmay / by Leonard Hoar ...	Hoar, Leonard, 1630?-1675.	1680 (1680)	Wing H2200; ESTC R21593	30,404	33

from a near Relation from a familiar friend and acquaintance how did Jonathan and David weep over one another Ah then what is it for a man to part from himself to be rent a sunder one part from another The hardest knot and the nearest and dearest Tye that ever was must then be broken and the strictest Union must then be disanul'd the soul turned out of its Possession on the body left as a Vacuum Domicilium until the great Resurrection this must needs pierce and sting and fill with anguish in a dying hour 5. Another sting in death is that the body is consigned over to a state of corruption Dust shall return to the earth as it was Gen. 3.19 with Eccles 12.7 The body must then be reduced and resolved into its first Principles When God takes away their breath then all creatures dye and return to their dust Psal 104.29 The earthly house of this Tabernacle must be dissoived 2 Cor. 5.1 Taken down and in pieces death feeds on them Psal 49.14 Here the body feeds upon death dead creatures are its food but now death shall feed upon men by their death shall worms such like vermin live I have said to corruption thou art my Father saith Job C. 17.14 as concluding that his body must see corruption Some of Gods precious ones as Dr Taylor said of himself when condemned to be burned have deceived many viz. the worms that waited for them passing through a more speedy corruption of their precious bodies by the rage of their enemies but the ordinary way is to rot in the grave Now this car●yes a sting with it to think that worms shall destroy this flesh Job 19.26 The bowels and the vital parts shall be the Region of vermine When Joseph is carryed out of Egypt there is nothing but a Coffia of bones and when you shall seek a Father or other Relation or besought for there shall be nothing but Corruption an ill savour or a few dry bones 6. Another sting in death is the dolorous accidents and the heavy attendants that goe along with Death There are many things fall in in a dying hour there are the pains of death grievous sickness faintness outward parts grow numme the eyes sink the lips quiver and tremble the tongue falters the breath whezeth and draws hard the whole face waxeth pale the heart beats and throbbs Mark how Solomon in Eccles 12.2 c. leads the old man to his grave The sun or light ana the moon stars are darkned the powers of the mind shall be broken Understanding Memory and Imagination darkned weakened The Keepers of the house tremble that is the arms and hands through the abatement of the radical heat and moisture doe tremble The strong men bow themselves 〈◊〉 i.e. the thighs and knees and feet grow feeble The Grinders cease that is the Jaws and the Teeth lose their strength as to chewing the meat And those that look out at the windows are darkned that is the eyes grow dim fighted The doors are shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low the decoction of food is spoyled and all the passages of nature are obstructed He rises up at the voice of the bird his rest departs from him he is easily waked out of sleep All the daughters of musick are brought low both voice and hearing fail Passions and Fear especially is apt to move His hair becomes hoary He that was wont to bear burthens is now a burthen to himself appetite fails Thus Man goes to his long home And the Spina is loosed the Pia mater and the Veins are broken and the circulation of the blood is stopt these last especially are the constant and immediate Symptoms and sore-runners of death To have friends standing by some lamenting over us others amazed and standing agast to see rooms made dark Paul when his heart was sound tells his friends it was ready to break with the weeping of his friends whom he had told that they should see his face no more Act. 21 13. So it is here when death comes it tells our friends that they must see our faces no more This causeth great and grievous sorrowing such as is heart-breaking to those that are dying And we must then wind up with the sad reckoning of Hezekiah Isa 38. 11 12. I shall behold man no more with the Inhabitants of the world Mine age is departed he will cut me off with pining sickness 7. It puts an end to and destroyes our purposes as to this lisen All the vast projects and counsels of stare which Princes and great ones of the earth have upon the wheel when their breath goeth forth those porish Psal 146.4 The rich mans thoughts of pulling down his barns building greater they all perish'd in that night when God took away his soul Luke 12. 18 c. It s reported of Caelar that in his Notes after his death were found Projects to unite In●●● to the Romane Empire to drein the Casoian Sea c. But his breath went forth Death prevented and his thoughts perished Death admits of no after thoughts but as the tree falls to it lyes Ecclef 11.3 Whatever designs of love and good will men have as Joseph the Shepherd and Stone of Israel had towards ●●e Church and People of God in Egypt they all perish as to them Whatever designs of evil men have as Herod had towards jesus in his ●●fancy they perish M●●tui non mordent Whatever hopes men have as to the concerns of this life as hezekiah had of a Son to succed him they are cut off Eccles 9 6. Also their love and their hatred and their envy are now perished And v. 10 there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdome in the grave This is a grievous sting in death for all a mans hopes designs Projects devices to be brought to an end and to nought in one day hour or moment 8. Another sting in death is that it strips us of all our present enjoyments Mors ultima linea rerum It s the last stroke of things the utmost boundary beyond which none can pass or possess Naked shall I return Job 1. ult saith Job We shall carry nothing with us Eccles 5.15.16 Man must then leave himself and no marvel if he leave his worldly goods He shall lean upon his house saith Bildad but it shall not stand he shal hold it fast but it shall not endure Some see the funeral of their worldly enjoyments while they are yet alive Friends Acquaintance Riches and wealth leave them while they are yet alive so it was with Job but at Death every one must forsake them and his worldly enjoy ments must be as it were buried with him Psal 49.10 The wise man and the fool and bruitish person when he dyes leaves his wealth to others so God sayes to that fool Luk. 12.20 This night shall thy soul be taken from thee and then whose shall all those

things be they shall be another mans It s certain saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 6.7 that we carvy nothing out of this world Where we took up our Lot in this life there we must leave it The things of this life are like a boat to wast us over the water which can doe us no further service when we come on shore as our cloaths that we put on in the morning and put off at night Now for them that dote upon their worldly enjoyments and have their portion in this life what a grief is it and how doth it sting them to consider that they yet must take an utter leave of all their joyes delights friends and good things at once as the merchants of Babylon lamented over the costliness of the city for in one hour it was made desolate so may the rich Miser in a dying hour They at Ziglaz wept for the sacking of the place and the captivity of their sons and daughters till they had no more power to weep yet they might be recovered but in Death there is no Return 9. Another sting in Death is that Satan is very busy to hold the souls of men in a desperate security or plunging them into the depth of 〈◊〉 spair which is the very image of Hell hence Asaph in Psal 73. sp●●●● of some in his observation that had no bands in Death and Bildad ●en● of others that are haled to the King of Terrors O the R●●●●● and restless tostings of some poor wretches when they 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 out as if their breath were already made up of Fire and Brimstone as Francis Spira and Hadrian the Emperour And oh the sottish stupidity and senslesness of others who mind nothing at all neither past nor present but their bodily pains when their souls are sinking into hell How few are there that commit their souls to God and wisely and patiently dispose themselves for their latter end There is a woe pronouced upon the inhabitants of the earth for the Devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time R●v 12.12 So it may be said of every inhabitant of this earth when he comes to dye the weight of sin the unsupportableness of Gods anger the terrors of hell the nearness of the danger the difficulty of salvation will all appear nakedly to the naked soul When God makes darkness and it is night then the beasts of the forest creep forth every frog will be croaking towards the evening every puddle will send up a stinking vapor in a foggy night all the several shadows of things will unite every thing will concur to make up and compleat the misery of the poor sinner but the Rulers of the darkness of this world and powers of darkness set in to doe the last and worst in this life 10. Another sting in death is in the manner of its coming 1. It comes inevitably none can withstand or evade it the wise the rich the strong the beautifull the virtuous the young and the grey-headed c. fall and perish by it It s as a River that carryes all before it a Sythe that cuts all clean before it and levels all before it Job 3.14 15 18 19. It turns Kings and Counsellors Princes into the grave it breaks prisons small and great are seized by it It is appointed for all once to die saith the Apostle Heb. 9 27. Like sheep they are laid in the Grave and Death feeds on them Psal 49.14 This carryes a sting with it ●o lye open to the power of an enemy inevitably 2. It comes suddenly without delay this night saith God thy soul ●●all be taken from thee Luk 20. Man knoweth not his time Eccl. 9.12 3. It comes irreco●erably Job 14.12 Man lyeth down and riseth not 〈◊〉 the heavens be no more and v. 14. shall he live again the interroga●●●● implyes a strong and vehement negation Job 7.9 10. as the cloud ●●●onsumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more he shall return no more to his house nor shall his place know him any more 4. Another sting in Death is that it puts us into a state unknown of which we have no experience it s called a Land of darkness as ●●●●ss it self and of the shadow of death and without any order and where the light is as darkness Job 10.22 Men are afraid to goe in the dark the traveller is afraid to pass when the evening is come and where a man knows nothing he suspects the worst Mat. 17.6 The Disciples were sore afraid at the voice from the excellent glory Lastly Unto ungodly men it is a certain inlet and entrance into eternal Death It s a dark passage into the bottomless pit they are led through the prison of the grave to the place of execution Death temporal ushers in death eternal the death of the body makes way for the death of the soul they dye now and they dye ever Rev. 21.8 We read of A second Death after which there is none to come This is the sting of all its stings a state in which a man cannot be worse and yet shall never be better when death and hell shall be joyned in one for ever VSE I. Hence learn why men dread and are so afraid of Death yea there are many causes why a natural man should fear Death because of the sting that is in it Ah should I tell you nothing and you should mind no other but your souls seperation from your body can you part with it without a sigh or a serious thought or of your bodyes corruption though it might be wrapped in lead and entombed in marble yet in a few days it shall be an abhorring and loathing to all living it shall be a prey to vipers and creeping worms of the earth your carcases and your remembrance shall alike rot and perish together Should I tell you of your sicknesses and death-pangs that shall oppress you and your helpless friends standing by should I shew you your coffin your Grave or Tomb your Herse cloath and your Bier should I tell you of the breaking of your purposes and your intents frustrated and this coming inevitably suddenly and unalterably methinks these things should present Death as terrible Ah but I tell you it is the wrath of God the scalding drops of it and the fruit of your sin the beginning of your everlasting destruction It s no other liberty but what the Felon hath when he is taken out of prison and brought forth to execution it s your extream agony and the time of Satans rage and the prevailing of the powers of darkness the black guard of Hell surrounding of you the rending of you in pieces I acknowledge its an error in the saints 〈◊〉 people of God to be so much affrighted at death and to goe so mournfully out of this world surely they have not learn'd to look off this world