The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…

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VSE I.

I earn hence that Death gives us no rule of judging whether men be good or bad. This is one of the all things which the Wiseman tells us fall out alike unto all, Eccl. 9. ••g. the remarks that men are apt to make here are fallacious. A judgment cannot pass in respect of Death it self, for wise men and fools both die alike, nor can there be any censure safely made in respect of the circumstances with which it is clothed; godly Josiah dies just after the same manner in which wicked Ahab dies; both good men and bad men die, some in youth, some in old age,; some by a natural, others by a violent Death. It is true, if there be an apparent reason to be read in the lives of men, a sober Judgment may be made about the manner of their dying, so far as to put us upon adoring of the Righteousness of God in it: but merely from thence to conclude them to be either good or bad, is to argue from a false Topic, Luke 13. begin.

I earn hence that Death gives us no rule of judging whether men be good or bad. This is one of the all things which the Wiseman tells us fall out alike unto all, Eccl. 9. ••g. the remarks that men are apt to make here are fallacious. A judgment cannot pass in respect of Death it self, for wisemen and fools both die alike, nor can there be any censure safely made in respect of the circumstances with which it is clothed; godly Josiah dies just after the same manner in which wicked Ahab dies; both good men and bad men die, some in youth, some in old age,; some by a natural, others by a violent Death. It is true, if there be an apparent reason to be read in the lives of men, a sober Judgment may be made about the manner of their dying, so far as to put us upon adoring of the Righteousness of God in it: but meerly from thence to conclude them to be either good or bad, is to argue from a false Topick,