A funeral sermon on the death of that pious gentlewoman Mrs. Judith Hamond Late…

6thly, That where Death shall be perpetual, it is there but self-procured. They only lye under Death, that loved it. All they that hate me love death, Prov. 8. 36. They inwrap themselves in death, they ⟨p. 30⟩make a covenant with it. That Sin, which is Death, which carries Death and Hell in it self, that they loved; 'Twas so 'tis true, with the rest, that finally perish not; but it was not always so. The Grace of God made a difference, not to be quarrelled at, when striving with many, it is victorious with some. But of those with whom it is not so, it must be said, as their final, never-altered sense, even to the last, They would not be plucked out of the Gulf, that deadly Gulf, where they therefore lye, as in their most agreeable Element. And let it further be considered.

6thly, That where Death shall be perpetual, it is there but self-procured. They only lye under Death, that lov'd it. All they that hate me love death, Prov. 8. 36. They inwrap themselves in death, they ⟨p. 30⟩make a covenant with it. That Sin, which is Death, which carries Death and Hell in it self, that they lov'd; 'Twas so 'tis true, with the rest, that finally perish not; but it was not always so. The Grace of God made a difference, not to be quarrell'd at, when striving with many, it is victorious with some. But of those with whom it is not so, it must be said, as their final, never-altered sense, even to the last, They would not be plucked out of the Gulph, that deadly Gulph, where they therefore lye, as in their most agreeable Element. And let it further be considered.

7. That for the death that shall be perpetual, 'tis to be confined, and go no further. Before it was diffused and continually more and more diffusing it self. But in the future state of things, when time has run to its period, and the Affairs of it are shut up by the final Judgment, Death and Hell are now to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, which is the second Death,