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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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Sermon 87: That God hath determined a precise time to every particular man in the world, how long…
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4. We must acknowledge God doth set bounds to every mans life, 1because the time of their death is called their day in a peculiar manner, viz. that day God had appointed for them. Jer. 50.27 We unto them, when their day shall come, that day wherein God had appointed them for slaughter, and Ps. 37.13. The Lord will laugh, for he seeth that his day is coming. That look, as God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the whole world, so he hath appointed a particular day for every man, which is his particular day of judgement, then he is adjudged either to hell or heaven. Thus Nathan tells David, When thy days shall be finished; and certainly this is of dreadful consideration to every wicked man. Thou hast thy day of death appointed, thy hour of dissolution is coming, it's thy day. Now thou hast a day of jollity, of mirth and quietness, but remember this thy day is coming. Thou hast heard of the day of such a mans death, and such an one, and so thou hast thy day of death likewise.
4. We must acknowledge God doth set bounds to every mans life, 1because the time of their death is called their day in a peculiar manner, viz. that day God had appointed for them. Jer. 50.27 Wee unto them, when their day shall come, that day wherein God had appointed them for slaughter, and Ps. 37.13. The Lord will laugh, for he seeth that his day is coming. That look, as God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the whole world, so he hath appointed a particular day for every man, which is his particular day of judgement, then he is adjudged either to hell or heaven. Thus Nathan tels David, When thy daies shall be finished; and certainly this is of dreadful consideration to every wicked man. Thou hast thy day of death appointed, thy hour of dissolution is coming, it's thy day. Now thou hast a day of jollity, of mirth and quietnes, but remember this thy day is coming. Thou hast heard of the day of such a mans death, and such an one, and so thou hast thy day of death likewise.