A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Secondly, As God hath appointed the exact critical Hour, so also the particular Manner of our Death. It is he that appoints whether it shall be sudden or foreseen; by Diseases, or by Casualty; whether the Thread of our Life shall be snapped in pieces by some unexpected Accident, or worn and fretted away by some tedious and lingering Consumption, or burnt asunder by some fiery Fever. In whatever ⟨p. 32⟩manner or shape Death may appear to us, is a Secret known only unto God; but this we know that it is always his Serjeant, and wears his Livery; and all the Circumstances of our Death are of God's appointment, as well as our Death it self. And in whatever shape it shall appear to us, if we diligently endeavour by a holy Life to prepare our selves for it, it shall not be frightful or terrible to us.

Secondly, As God hath appointed the exact critical Hour, so also the particular Manner of our Death. It is he that appoints whether it shall be sudden or foreseen; by Diseases, or by Casualty; whether the Thred of our Life shall be snapt in pieces by some unexpected Accident, or worn and fretted away by some tedious and lingring Consumption, or burnt asunder by some fiery Fever. In whatever ⟨p. 32⟩manner or shape Death may appear to us, is a Secret known only unto God; but this we know that it is always his Serjeant, and wears his Livery; and all the Circumstances of our Death are of God's appointment, as well as our Death it self. And in whatever shape it shall appear to us, if we diligently endeavour by a holy Life to prepare our selves for it, it shall not be frightful or terrible to us.

Now to make some Practical Improvement of this. And,