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A42640 A sermon of mortalitie preached at the funerals of Mr. Thomas Man at Kingston in Svrrey Feb. XXI, 1649. R. G. 1650 (1650) Wing G56; ESTC R40870 14,085 33

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shall be a generall Resurrection and this is Spes in Urnâ Hope in the Grave Thirdly we ought daily to Prepare for Death and to live in continuall Expectation thereof and this is Viaticum in via Provision in the way First the Term of our life is appointed and die we must no avoyding hereof And that for these Reasons First it is GODS Will and Decree ver 5. His daies are determined the number of his moneths are with thee thou hast set his bounds that he cannot passe As he set bounds to the Sea hither shalt thou come and no further so thus long shalt thou live and no longer 39 Psal 5. Thou hast made my daies saith David as an hands breadth If GOD hath made them but an hands breadth who can make them longer Pilate would not alter his Writing 19 Joh. 22. Nor GOD his Decree that is gone out It was the first Doctrine preached to man after his Fall 3 Gen. 19. Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne Not by any necessity of his created Nature but because he finned GOD threatneth to make his End as base as his Beginning Die then we must Dance all in Deaths Ring sooner or later we shall be cut downe by the Axe of Death to be Fuell for Burning or Timber for Building to become a cursed Brand in Satans Furnace or a blessed Beam in CHRISTS Palace GOD hath passed upon Adams Posterite this sentence of Temporall Condemnation Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne All of us without some extraordinary Dispensation as that of Enoch and Elias was are liable to the same 5 Gen. 24. 2 Kings 2.11 Secondly through the contagion of originall Sinne Sinne is the wicket that let Death into the World 5 Rom. 12. As by one man Sinne entred into the World and Death by Sinne and so Death passed upon all men for all have sinned Sinne hath given Death much advantage and victory over humane nature that the kernell of a Raison yea a haire in Milk hath choaked and killed a man as it did Anacreon * Val. Max. lib. 9. cap. 12. and Fabius the Romane and layd him lower then the beasts of the earth for they lie upon the ground while he is layd under it Thirdly from the Matter whereof the body of man consists The originall of mans body is Dust 2 Gen. 7. Homo ab humo Not any durable matter as Marble and Rocks against which the Winds blowing and the Waves beating cannot prevaile 7 Mat. 25. but like Dust before the Wind 18 Psal 42. 4 Iob. 19. Wee dwell in houses of clay whose foundations are in the dust i. e. in mortall bodies subject to corruption which are crushed before the Moth sooner and with lesse labour then the Moth is crushed which is killed onely with a little touch 2 Corinth 5.1 The Apostle calls it an Earthly house or Tabernacle For wee know that if our Earthly house of this Tabernacle be dissolved c. St. Paul who was a * 18 Acts 3. St. Paul exercised a handy-craft wrought with Aquila whose Trade was to make Tents of skins then much in use in those hot countries view Anot. on the Acts Tent-maker elegantly compareth our body to a Tent and that in many regards First a Tent or Tabernacle is easily raised up and as easily taken down and spoyled so is our body by sicknesse or outward violence come but one ill night one little touch of a Feaver some paine in the Side or imperfection in the Lungs come the stone in the Bladder Abijt illa universa Scaena all the Stage vanisheth Secondly a Tent is a moveable House or Habitation so are our Bodies which are now like Tents pitched upon the Earth but shall be hereafter transported into Heaven Thirdly a Tent is foule without and soild with Wind and Weather so the Body and Outside of man is but vile and contemptible subject to blasts and stormes exposed to all the violence of Nature Now that I may the better rivet the Truth into your Minds and Memories consider with me that the walke of Death is Vniversall not some men die but all all that have breath must lose it and all that have life must leave it as the Woman of Tekoah told K. David 2 Sam. 14. cap. We must all dye you a Soveraigne and I a Subject you a Man and I a Woman We must needs die and be as water spilt upon the ground which cannot be gathered up againe Wee shall all be desperately lost I have seen an end of all perfection said Holy David 119 Psal 96. There is nothing so perfect on Earth but it hath an end David had a sight of this Happy are they which have Davids Eyes It concernes us to looke into this matter And GOD requires us to listen to the Proclamation of mans Mortality that he makes by his Prophet 40 Isaiah 6. * Quia per nativitatem viret in carne per juventutem candescit in flore per mortem aret in pulvere Greg. in Ps 5. Paenitent A Voice said cry And he said What shall I cry All flesh is grasse and all the goodnesse the gracefulnesse the glory thereof is as the flawer of the field GOD would have the Prophet discover the Vanitie of all humane Excellency to cry it in the Eares of the People to make such a noyse that might rouze a man that were slumbring awake a man that were sleeping move a man that were musing so carefull is GOD that you should learne this Lesson For First no Eminency of Office or Dignity can priviledge thee though thou sittest in the Chaire of Earthly Dignity Death will pull thee thence 82 Psal 6. I sayd yee are * Nuncupativè non Substantivè Gods by Name not by Nature but yee shall dye like men No Title of Honour shall excuse you die you must and render an account as well as other men Wee have seen this Truth verified in our daies Hee that made the Earth of nothing can marre the greatest in a moment Hee bringeth Potentates to nothing and maketh the Iudges of the Earth as Vanity 40 Isa 23. Hee poureth contempt upon Princes sayes Job 12.21 And looseth the Girdle of the Strong i. e. For their VVickednesse and Tyrannie He causeth their People and Subjects to contemne them Secondly no Strength or Statelinesse of any Place or Palace can protect thee Xenoph. in Apolog. pro Socrat. Socrates would live no longer unlesse his Freinds could tell him of a place without the Territories of Athens where men never die And it was a pretty Answer of Hormisda the Persian Ambassadour to Constantius the Emperour demanding of him how he liked the Citie of Rome with the Amphitheatrum the Capitolium and other such rich Monuments as were shewed unto him In truth I thinke it the most glorious Citie in the World * Id tantum sibi placuisse quod didicis set ibi quoque homines mori Ammian Marcell