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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Death comes suddenly upon many men, and may upon all men.
The whole life of the longest liver in this world, is but a moment, compared to eternity; and there is not any moment of our life, but (with respect to second causes) we are subject to death in it: We always in some sense (though at some times more) carry our lives in our hand, and how soon, or by what hand they may be snatched out of ours, we know not.
The whole life of the longest liver in this world, is but a moment, compared to eternity; and there is not any moment of our life, but (with respect to second causes) we are subject to death in it: We alwayes in some sense (though at some times more) carry our lives in our hand, and how soon, or by what hand they may be snatcht out of ours, we know not.
Now if our whole life be but a moment, and we subject to death every moment, how should we stand prepared for death every moment? And how sad is it to think, that they who may die the next moment, should for days, and weeks, and months, and years, never prepare for death? Most are loth to think of the end of their lives, till they are nearer the end of them; yet no man knoweth how near he is to the end of his life. Many put off the thoughts of death till it cometh, yet none can put off the coming ⟨p. 641⟩of death; they would remove the meditation of death to the fall of their leaf, to the winter, and worst of their old age, yet they are not able to remove death one moment from the Spring and best of their youth.
Now if our whole life be but a moment, and we subject to death every moment, how should we stand prepared for death every moment? And how sad is it to think, that they who may die the next moment, should for dayes, and weeks, and moneths, and years, never prepare for death? Most are loth to think of the end of their lives, till they are nearer the end of them; yet no man knoweth how near he is to the end of his life. Many put off the thoughts of death till it cometh, yet none can put off the coming