A47613:271
A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…
A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death demonstrated in a sermon preached at the funeral of that most eminent and faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Norcot who departed this life March 24, 1675/6 / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for Ben Harris, 1676
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Doct. That all men must die.
Or thus, That no man whatsoever, can escape the power of the grave.
I shall, God assisting, endeavour to demonstrate and confirm the truth of this Proposition. The holy Spirit doth not slightly pass it by, but puts a Remora to it; viz. that Emphatical signal word Selah, which shows us that this word calls for meditation and our diligent attention; it doth lay a kind of an arrest upon our spirits, not passing from it till we have seriously weighed the matter. What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Death will be too hard for him, and too powerful to resist; there is no withstanding the strength of this King, he will bring all into subjection: he is said in Rom. 5. 12, 14. to reign over all, and so he is called the ⟨p. 12⟩terror of Kings as well as King of terrors, he is so to the wicked; and what King hath as many subjects as Death hath? And that I may demonstrate it, consider Age cannot rescue any man from the hand of Death; the oldest man must die. All those that lived before the Flood are dead. Methuselah lived nine hundred sixty nine years, Gen. 5. 27. but alas at last the words tell you, and he died; he lived near a thousand years, but at last was forced to subject to the grave.
I shall, God assisting, endeavor to demonstrate and confirm the truth of this Proposition. The holy Spirit doth not slightly pass it by, but puts a Remora to it; viz. that Emphatical signal word Selah, which shews us that this word calls for meditation and our diligent attention; it doth lay a kind of an arrest upon our spirits, not passing from it till we have seriously weighed the matter. What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Death will be too hard for him, and too powerful to resist; there is no withstanding the strength of this King, he will bring all into subjection: he is said in