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Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late…
Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late governor of the colony of Connecticut, in New-England; who died, at Boston, Nov. 27. 1707 and was honourably there interred on Decemb. 4. ensuing; in the 69th year of his age. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]Winthropi justa. A sermon at the funeral of the Honourable John Winthrop Esq. late governour of the colony of Connecticut, in New-England; who died, at Boston, Nov. 27. 1707 and was honourably there interr'd on Decemb. 4. ensuing; in the 69th year of his age. : [Three lines of quotation in Latin]
printed by Timothy Green, 1708
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Fallen Man is Mortal.
There is no man Living, but anon this Account must be given of him, He Died; this Account, He's Dead. Or, if you will rather have the DOCTRINE, in the Express words of the Scripture, take it so; Psal 89 48. What Man is he that Liveth, and shall not see Death?
The Antediluvians indeed, were comparatively Long Lived People. But the most marvellous Macrobius among them all, anon came to this; And he Died. The Shortening of Humane Life, and then the Standing of it, at the Term it is now set at, I have never yet seen, any Natural Reason given for it, tho' I have Read what others have said on it, (besides a Collection of all in the Incomparable Heidegger,) that could give any tolerable Satisfaction. This only I have seen, That when Physicians, from whom the most of satisfaction might be Expected, come to write of it, they give the least of any. In Reading Beverovicius you'll find it so. All the Reason that we know of it, is; Tis even so, Lord of our Life, because it pleases thee! Tis now ⟨p. 11⟩but a very Little, Little while; A Time that may be measured by a Span; Tho' according to the ancient Arithmetic of the Hand, wherein the Little Finger of the Right Hand Contracted, signified an Hundred, it is well if it prove Half a Little Finger; before every one of us has arrived unto the Period of his Life; And he Died. The GOVERNOR of Israel •aid, Our Days on Earth are as a Shadow, and there is none Abiding. Another GOVERNOR invites us now to insist upon […] Every Living man may say with him, ••b 30.23. I know that thou wilt bring me […] Death. Tho' Ordinarily we do not know, the Time of our Death; nor the Way of our Death; yet every man must certainly Know, That God will bring him to Death. Tho' a man be never so Ignorant of other Things, yet this One Thing, he cannot but Know most certainly, That God will bring him to Death.