1. Sleep is common to all men; there is no man can live without sleep; A man may live long without meat, but no man can live long without sleep. So it is true of death, Death is common to all, it is appointed for all men once to die: And therefore David said, He was to go the way of all slesh; Statutum est omnibus semel mori, Omnibus est calcanda semel lethivia, All men must sleep the sleep of death, or else be changed, which is a metaphorical death.
2. As sleep ariseth from the vapours that ascend from the stomach to the head, and tie the senses, and hinder their operations; so death came into the world by Adams eating the forbidden fruit, and by the poisonfull vapour of sin, that brought death upon him, and all his posterity. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned, Rom.5.12. Had Adam never sinned, Adam should never have died: But In illo die, said God In that day thou eatest the forbidden fruit thou shalt die the death. Sin brings omnimodam mortem, all kinds of death; it brings death temporal, death spiritual, and death eternal. Now because all men are poisoned with the poison of sin, therefore all men must sleep the sleep of death; It is sin that hath poisoned all mankind.
3. As a man when he goeth to sleep puts off his clothes, and goeth n•ked into bed: So it is with us when we come to die; We came naked into the world, and we must go naked out of the world; As we brought nothing with us into the world, so we must carry nothing ⟨p. 6⟩with us out of the world; And therefore death in Scripture is called nothing else but an unclothing of our selves, 2 Cor.5.4. Death to a child of God, is nothing else, but the putting off of his clothes. The body of man is animae [Greek or Hebrew] & vestimentum, it is the souls clothing; and death is nothing else but the unclothing of the soul; it is just like a man going to bed, and putting off his clothes; St Peter calls it, The putting off our earthly tabernacle, 2 Pet.1.14. Our bodies are the souls tabernacle, and death is the putting off of this tabernacle.
1. Sleep is common to all men; there is no man can live without sleep; A man may live long without meat, but no man can live long without sleep. So it is true of death, Death is common to all, it is appointed for all men once to die: And therefore David said, He was to go the way of all slesh; Statutum est omnibus semel mori, Omnibus est calcanda semel lethivia, All men must sleep the sleep of death, or else be changed, which is a metaphorical death.
2. As sleep ariseth from the vapours that ascend from the stomack to the head, and tie the senses, and hinder their operations; so death came into the world by Adams eating the forbidden fruit, and by the poisonfull vapour of sin, that brought death upon him, and all his posterity. By one man sinne entred into the world, and death by sinne, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned, Rom.5.12. Had Adam never sinned, Adam should never have died: But In illo die, said God In that day thou eatest the forbidden fruit thou shalt die the death. Sinne brings omnimodam mortem, all kindes of death; it brings death temporal, death spiritual, and death eternal. Now because all men are poisoned with the poison of sinne, therefore all men must sleep the sleep of death; It is sin that hath poisoned all mankinde.
3. As a man when he goeth to sleep puts off his clothes, and goeth n•ked into bed: So it is with us when we come to die; We came naked into the world, and we must go naked out of the world; As we brought nothing with us into the world, so we must carry nothing ⟨p. 6⟩with us out of the world; And therefore death in Scripture is called nothing else but an uncloathing of our selves, 2 Cor.5.4. Death to a childe of God, is nothing else, but the putting off of his cloaths. The body of man is animae 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 & vestimentum, it is the souls cloathing; and death is nothing else but the uncloathing of the soul; it is just like a man going to bed, and putting off his cloaths; St Peter cals it, The putting off our earthly tabernacle, 2 Pet.1.14. Our bodies are the souls tabernacle, and death is the putting off of this tabernacle.
