A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Now, that I may make way to press upon you the serious consideration of your own Mortality, let me briefly mark ⟨p. 6⟩out some things that tend to the Explication of the Words. And,

First, In that the Proposition is laid down in the Text indefinitely, It is appointed unto men; it is that which is equivalent to an Universal, and reacheth to all men; It is appointed to all men once to die. We read of two only in the whole Book of God that were exempted by an extraordinary Grace, and peculiar Privilege from this great Law of Dying, and they were Enoch and Elijah. Of Enoch it is said,¹ That he walked with God, and he was not; for God took him. And of Elijah it is said,² That he went up by a Whirlwind into Heaven. The great God, after a strange and unusual manner tacked their temporal and eternal Life together, making their Time run it self into Eternity without any period or interruption. The Apostle also tells us,³ That all shall not die; to wit, at the last Day, at the last appearing of Jesus Christ, there shall be a World full of Persons that shall not taste of Death. All shall not die; but all shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an Eye. These are exempted, and being excepted, it is certain all ⟨p. 7⟩the Generations of Men, from the first Creation, to the last Consummation of all things, are all appointed by God unto Death.

First, In that the Proposition is laid down in the Text indefinitely, It is appointed unto men; it is that which is equivalent to an Universal, and reacheth to all men; It is appointed to all men once to die. We read of two only in the whole Book of God that were exempted by an extraordinary Grace, and peculiar Priviledge from this great Law of Dying, and they were Enoch and Elias. Of Enoch it is said,