A90272:78
The labouring saints dismission to rest. A sermon / preached at the funeral of…
The labouring saints dismission to rest. A sermon / preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Henry Ireton Lord Deputy of Ireland: in the Abbey Church at Westminster, the 6th. day of February 1651. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel. Licensed and entered according to order.
London: printed by R. and W· Leybourn for Philemon Stephens, 1652
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Reas. 1. The general condition of their mortality doth require that it should be so: It is appointed to all men once to die, Heb. 9. 27. There is a stable law fixed concerning the sons of men, that is not upon the account of any usefulness here to be dispensed withal, The number of our months are with God; he hath fixed our bounds, which we shall not pass: our days are as the days of an hireling, that have a certain prefixed and determinate end: their strength is not the strength of stones, neither is their flesh of brass, that they should endure for ever. See Job 14, 10, 11, 12. This (I say) requires that there should be an appointed season for their Employment, for it is so for their lives: and yet there is more in it then this: for in the course of 5000 years, God hath exempted two persons by his Sovereignty from the condition of mortality, who walked with him in their generations. So that the bounds fixed to them were ⟨p. 13⟩not upon the account of their lives, but merely of the work they had in hand.
Reas. 1. The generall condition of their mortality doth require that it should be so: It is appointed to all men once to die, Heb. 9. 27. There is a stable law fixed concerning the sons of men, that is not upon the account of any usefulness here to be dispensed withall, The number of our moneths are with God; he hath fixed our bounds, which we shall not passe: our dayes are as the dayes of an hireling, that have a certain prefixed and determinate end: their strength is not the strength of stones, neither is their flesh of brasse, that they should endure for ever. See Job 14, 10, 11, 12. This (I say) requires that there should be an appointed season for their Employment, for it is so for their lives: and yet there is more in it then this: for in the course of 5000 yeeres, God hath exempted two persons by his Sovereignty from the condition of mortality, who walked with him in their generations. So that the bounds fixed to them were ⟨p. 13⟩