A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

The Dissolution is observable in divers circumstances: It is Personal; I, though an Apostle of Christ. Necessary; I must, there is no remedy. Voluntary; Put off, willingly, without snatching from me. Instant; Shortly, the decree cannot be suspended.

The Dissolution is observable in divers circumstances: It is Personall; I, though an Apostle of Christ. Necessary; I must, there is no remedie. Voluntary; Put off, willingly, without snatching from me. Instant; Shortly, the decree cannot be suspended.

The Revelation or Premonition of his death, is referred either, Ad Genus mortis, The kind and manner of his death. Tempus moriendi, The time prefixed of his dying.

The Revelation or Premonition of his death, is referred either, Ad Genus mortis, The kinde and manner of his death. Tempus moriendi, The time prefixed of his dying.

Knowing:] This is his Resolution. The assurance of unavoidable death, is a ⟨p. 258⟩doctrine well known: every one can say with Peter; I know. Nil dicitur frequentius, nil creditur facilius; Nothing is more frequently repeated, nothing is more readily believed. Bern. Cogitate mortuum, quem scis necessitate moriturum. Think thy self, as it were, already dead; whom thou knowest necessarily to die. Bed. It is fit that Death should effect death:^d the spiritual, a corporal: the death of sin, a death of punishment: a voluntary death, brings a necessary death. Therefore, saith Chrysostom, Let us make a virtue of necessity; Offeramus Deo pro munere, quod pro debito tenemur reader; Let us offer God that for a gift, which we are bound to pay as a debt. This is an hard and woeful necessity, saith Anselm; Perdidit homo beatitudinem ad quam factus est, & invenit mortem ad quam factus non est. Man lost that life to which he was ordained, and found the death to which he was not ordained. All men die in time, some before their time.