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Deaths advantage
Deaths advantage; opened in a sermon preached at Northampton, at the funeral of Peter Whalley Esq; then mayor of the said town. And now upon the earnest desires of his friends published by Edward Reynolds. D.D.
London: printed by Tho Newcomb for George Thomason, 1657
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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.
2. But when all these things are gone, haply friends may recruit a man again, as they did Job, Chap. 42.11. 1We read of the incredible bounty of Princes and States to the people of Rhodes, after they had been sorely ruined by an earthquake, insomuch that their calamity proved an advantage unto them. But in death there is a loss of friends, as well as of Estate, Wife, Children, all part at the grave, and never meet till the Resurrection.
- 1Polyb. hist. l. 5. Fruitur diis iratis. Juv.
3. Though means and friends be all lost, yet if a man could keep possession of himself, it may be his head or his hand, his wit or his labour would repair his losses again: But Death is the losing of a mans self, no hand left to work, no head left to contrive; it tears a man asunder •ro•n himself, and sends his parts as far distant as either Heaven or Hell are from the Grave. Now after all these losses, of Estate, of Friends, of Wisdom, of ⟨p. 11⟩strength, of a mans very self, what possible room is there left for Gain, when he that should enjoy it is himself lost?
3. Though means and friends be all lost, yet if a man could keep possession of himself, it may be his head or his hand, his wit or his labour would repair his losses again: But Death is the losing of a mans self, no hand left to work, no head left to contrive; it tears a man assunder •ro•n himself, and sends his parts as far distant as either Heaven or Hell are from the Grave. Now after all these losses, of Estate, of Friends, of Wisdom, of ⟨p. 11⟩