A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

To go about to prove this, were to lose so much time; every one grants he must die. All other Questions about Man, are answered by Peradventures: If it be demanded, Whether such an Embryo shall see the Light? What's the Answer, but, perhaps it shall, perhaps it shall not: If it be born, and it be asked, Whether it shall live, and grow up to Age? Why, perhaps so, perhaps otherwise: If it grow up to Age, and Enquiry be made, Shall it be rich, or shall it be poor? honourable, or despised? learned, or ignorant? What's the Answer? Only, perhaps it shall, perhaps not. But if it be asked, Whether it shall die? The Answer now is, Yes; it is certain, without any Peradventure; there is no doubt at all of this; It is appointed by God for Men once to die. And therefore though Physicians have written Books of preserving of Health, yet never any wrote Books of avoiding of Death. We need no other proof of ⟨p. 11⟩Man's Mortality, but only to search into the Records of the Grave; there lie Rich and Poor, Strong and Weak, Wise and Foolish, Holy and Profane; the Rubbish of ten thousand Generations heaped one upon another, and this Truth that all must die, written indelibly in their Dust.

To go about to prove this, were to lose so much time; every one grants he must die. All other Questions about Man, are answered by Peradventures: If it be demanded, Whether such an Embryo shall see the Light? What's the Answer, but, perhaps it shall, perhaps it shall not: If it be born, and it be asked, Whether it shall live, and grow up to Age? Why, perhaps so, perhaps otherwise: If it grow up to Age, and Enquiry be made, Shall it be rich, or shall it be poor? honourable, or despised? learned, or ignorant? What's the Answer? Only, perhaps it shall, perhaps not. But if it be asked, Whether it shall die? The Answer now is, Yes; it is certain, without any Peradventure; there is no doubt at all of this; It is appointed by God for Men once to die. And therefore though Physicians have written Books of preserving of Health, yet never any wrote Books of avoiding of Death. We need no other proof of ⟨p. 11⟩Man's Mortality, but only to search into the Records of the Grave; there lie Rich and Poor, Strong and Weak, Wise and Foolish, Holy and Prophane; the Rubbish of ten thousand Generations heaped one upon another, and this Truth that all must die, written indelibly in their Dust.