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

For the Resolution; men must die; and the Apostle calls death the Dissolution of life. For the marriage of the soul to the body is the bond of life, the dissolution of this bond is death. This divorce must be suffered, one husband must be lost: happy are we if we find another in heaven, Jesus Christ. Morieris, non quia aegrotas, sed qui vivis; saith the Philosopher. Thou shalt die, not because thou art sick, but because thou art alive. Cui nasci contigit, mori restat, Sen. He that comes into this world, must go out of this world. It is no new thing to die, for life it self is nothing else but a journey to death. Quicquid ad summum pervenit, ad exitum properat. Whatsoever hath aspired to the highest, must descend to the lowest. Hebr. 9.27. It is appointed unto men to die once: it is a Statute-law decreed in the high Parliament of heaven. God so threatened Adam, Gen. 2.17. In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shal• surely die. But Adam lived above 900. years after? yet was there no delay nor evasion of Gods doom; for he presently became mortal, and fell into a consumption, that never left him till it had brought him to the grave. Quisquis queritur hominem mortuum esse, queritur hominem fuisse, Sen. Whosoever complains that a man is dead, complains that he was a man. Thus for the certain substance; now for the uncertain circumstance.

For the Resolution; men must die; and the Apostle calls death the Dissolution of life. For the marriage of the soule to the body is the bond of life, the dissolution of this bond is death. This divorce must be suffered, one husband must be lost: happy are we if we find another in heaven, Iesus Christ. Morieris, non quia aegrotas, sed qui vivis; saith the Philosopher. Thou shalt die, not because thou art sicke, but because thou art alive. Cui nasci contigit, mori restat, Sen. He that comes into this world, must goe out of this world. It is no new thing to die, for life it selfe is nothing else but a journey to death. Quicquid ad summum pervenit, ad exitum properat. Whatsoever hath aspired to the highest, must descend to the lowest. Hebr. 9.27. It is appointed unto men to die once: it is a Statute-law decreed in the high Parliament of heaven. God so threatned Adam,