CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

But to explain this truth, consider, First,¹ That God hath not only determined a general or specific time for all in the world, but an individual and peculiar for every man or woman, a general term of life God hath provided, so that none shall live beyond it. No man ever lived a thousand years. In the beginning of the world, then men were longer lived, but in Moses his time, we see him affirming the ordinary bounds of a mans life to be threescore and ten, Psa. 90. For in the wilderness by their wickedness, they brought short days upon themselves: So that all creatures have a general term of life. There is the maximum quod sic, though some live longer then others. Thus men have bounds in the general, they cannot out-live. But this is not enough, God hath appointed to every individual man, his continuance in the world, so that it is God that taketh him out of the world, when his time cometh.

But to explain this truth, consider, First,¹ That God hath not onely determined a general or specifical time for all in the world, but an individual and peculiar for every man or woman, a general term of life God hath provided, so that none shall live beyond it. No man ever lived a thousand years. In the beginning of the world, then men were longer lived, but in Moses his time, we see him affirming the ordinary bounds of a mans life to be threescore and ten, Psa. 90. For in the wilderness by their wickedness, they brought short dayes upon themselves: So that all creatures have a general term of life. There is the maximum quod sic, though some live longer then others. Thus men have bounds in the general, they cannot out-live. But this is not enough, God hath appointed to every individual man, his continuance in the world, so that it is God that taketh him out of the world, when his time cometh.

1. 1Propositions explaining this truth.