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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	death_n	life_n	1,641	5	4.5440	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42697	A funeral sermon, preached March 13. 1697/8. For Mr. William Hartley, of Newport-Pagnel, apothecary. By J. Gibbs.	Gibbs, John, 1627?-1699.	1698 (1698)	Wing G663; ESTC R213761	12,917	26

feeble Matter yet if Sin had not made the way he should not have died but our Father Adam the Representative of Mankind transgressing the Law of Creation presently Death is threatned Gen. 3.19 and that not to himself only but to all that should come out of his Loyns or his whole Posterity and although the Guilt of Sin binding over to Eternal Death be removed from some of his Seed by the Seed of the Woman yet Natural Death must pass upon them all 2. Man having sinned God did not send us into the World with a Design of spending an Eternity to it but gives us a little Time to prepare us for an Eternal Glory which he hath prepared for those that die in the Lord. Most Men live as if they were sent hither only to eat and drink and provide for their Flesh but the All-wise God had higher Ends in making so Noble a Creature as Man putting him into a Natural Capacity by the Soul he hath endued him with which is a Spirit and Immortal of an Immortal Glory And the Lord hath given him time to seek after it and appointed ways and means how he may attain it which time not being duly improved and the means wofully neglected proves the occasion of mens Eternal Destruction Hence it is that the tender Heart of Christ did so condole the case of Jerusalem Luke 19.42 They had the means of attaining the knowledge of the things belonging to their Peace but they let slip the time and made no good use of the means until the things of their Peace were hid from them A fair Warning to us that are partakers of the Gospel and call aloud upon us to seek the Lord while he may be found and to call upon him while he is near Isa 55.6 3. God will bring us to Death because of his Appointment He hath so appointed and ordained and this cannot be frustrated Men may ordain purpose and appoint things that never come to pass but it is otherwise with the Infinitely All-wise and Almighty God there can be no Contingencies happen to make his Purposes and Appointments void 4. Because he will bring us to Judgment which follows Death Heb. 9.28 There is the Judgment of particular Persons at Death for the Spirit returns to God to be disposed of when the dusty Body doth return to the Earth Eccles 12.7 The General Judgment which is commonly called the Day of Judgment is at the Resurrection when the Lord will bring back from Death again 5. God will bring the Wicked to Death to put an end to his Wickedness When he hath filled up his measure Psal 7.9 he shall Damn Curse be Drunk no more he shall no longer mock at Religion nor Persecute God's People with Tongue or Hand He is a Burthen to the Earth whilst he lives and God will ease the Earth of that Burthen by his Death 6. God will bring his People to Death to give them Rest from all their Labours Rev. 14.13 They shall be carryed out of the reach of a vexing tempting Devil and from the malice and enmity of an envious World and from all the Tribulations they meet with whilst they are in it John 16. ult In the World ye shall have Tribulation They shall no longer groan under the Burthen of a Body of Death have no more cause to complain and fetch deep sighs from the oppression of Guilt nor bemoan themselves for the filthiness of their Hearts nor shall they any longer be without the light of the Sun nor walk in Darkness as here often they do from the hidings of God's Face But 7. God will bring them to Death to bring them into Possession of the Eternal Inheritance prepared for them those Mansions of Light that he hath been by his Grace fitting and preparing them for Rom. 9.23 Col. 1.12 Or if you will God will bring them to Death to bring them to the full glorious uninterrupted Enjoyment of his blessed Presence that they may ever be with the Lord for whilst they are at home in the Body they are in the sense forementioned absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 So that by what hath been said in these three last Particulars and many other that might be mentioned which the Time being past and my Strength much exhausted I must forbear to insist on it will appear though both Godly and Ungodly are brought to Death yet there is a vast difference between the Death of the one and of the other A little time I must take to improve this Doctrine by Application 1. If God will bring us to Death this informs us 1. Of the certainty and necessity of dying unless God will change his Mind repeal his Statute-Law or hath not Power sufficient in his Hand to execute it So that we may say as the Woman of Tekoah did to David 2 Sam. 14.14 We must needs die and be as Water spilt upon the Ground For unless that first Law which was the Result of Infinite Wisdom be rescinded by a Post-Act which cannot be supposed or that there is a Proviso to exempt any from the common Fate of Mankind the first Law doth stand in full force and must certainly be put into execution 2. That seeing the Lord will bring us all to Death this doth inform us of and reproveth the Folly and Madness of those that put this far away upon a presumption of long Life and yet know not what the next day or hour may produce like the rash Fool in the Gospel Luke 12.19 and it may fare with them as it did with him v. 20. What wilt thou presume of length of days and on this Presumption defer thy Repentance Alas how many such are there now that are past Repentance Doth not the Lord denounce a Woe against such Amos 6.1.3 What Bed dost thou lie on what is thy Pillow stuff'd with that canst sleep securely in thine Impenitent Condition Dost thou not fear that when thou sleepest on thy Bed in the Night that in the Morning thou shalt awake with the Everlasting Flames about thine Ears I am sure thou hast cause enough to fear it 3. If God will bring us to Death it doth greatly concern us to bring Death near to our selves before God brings us to it 1. Believing the Truth my Text speaks of I find that though it is generally acknowledged that all must die yet too few there are that do really believe that they are of that number Surely was it believed it would produce better things than do appear in their Lives and Conversations What Peter saith touching the dissolution of all things and what use should be made of it 2 Pet. 3.11 If Men did believe their own Dissolution it would provoke unto a Holy and Godly Conversation What a poor Woman once said lying on a Death-bed may many say in the like Condition I often said she thought of Dying but would I had believed it Believing brings that near that is at a distance Janus-like it looks