Seven sermons on several select subjects preached

Doct. That death, whenever it comes, it makes a great change.

First, This change that death will make, it is a certain change; there is no avoiding it, Psal. 89.48. What man is he that lives and shall not see death? Heb. 9.27. It is not strength, it is not courage, it is not any worldly grandeur can exempt from death: deaths Sword cuts asunder the Royal Sceptre. The godly they must die as well as others. Though death doth not destroy the treasure of Grace, yet death breaks the Vessel that this treasure is in. Pliny, he speaks of a golden Vine ⟨p. 14⟩that is not subject to storms. The body of a Saint, when glorified, shall be be like that golden Vine, but now it is a withering Vine, and is soon blasted by death. We are not so sure to lie down in our beds, as we are to lie down in our graves.

First, This change that death will make, it is a certain change; there is no avoiding it, Psal. 89.48. What man is he that lives and shall not see death? Heb. 9.27. It is not strength, it is not courage, it is not any worldly grandure can exempt from death: deaths Sword cuts asunder the Royal Scepter. The godly they must die as well as others. Though death doth not destroy the treasure of Grace, yet death breaks the Vessel that this treasure is in. Pliny, he speaks of a golden Vine ⟨p. 14⟩that is not subject to storms. The body of a Saint, when glorified, shall be be like that golden Vine, but now it is a withering Vine, and is soon blasted by death. We are not so sure to lie down in our beds, as we are to lie down in our graves.