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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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I Confess, Tis a Satyr upon Mankind, for to make such an Enquiry. It is from a Stupidity which deserves a Satyr, That we need any thing to mind us of our own Mortality. A Foolish Lawyer not long ago, Published a Book, to Prove, That a man might by Faith Escape Death; And he had the Folly to declare in his Book, his own Faith, that he himself should never Dy. God soon Confutes his Madness; God makes him find, that the Writ of Death cannot be Quashed! That Mad Man has no Professed Disciples among us; None that are so Vain as to Profess Immortality. But we too too generally Live, as if we were so. We Live, as if Death were an Article, of as Difficult Belief, as the Resurrection of the Dead. It is needful, that we should be Enlivened with the Demonstrations of this thing, That we are to Dy. Sirs, Attend unto them!
I Confess, Tis a Satyr upon Mankind, for to make such an Enquiry. It is from a Stupidity which deserves a Satyr, That we need any thing to mind us of our own Mortality. A Foolish Lawyer not long ago, Published a Book, to Prove, That a man might by Faith Escape Death; And he had the Folly to declare in his Book, his own Faith, that he himself should never Dy. God soon Confutes his Madness; God makes him find, that the Writ of Death cannot be Quash'd! That Mad Man has no Professed Disciples among us; None that are so Vain as to Profess Immortality. But we too too generally Live, as if we were so. We Live, as if Death were an Article, of as Difficult Belief, as the Resurrection of the Dead. It is needful, that we should be Enlivened with the Demonstrations of this thing, That we are to Dy. Sirs, Attend unto them!
I. We have the Admonitions of our Death, dispensed unto us in the Lively Oracles of GOD. The infallible Word of GOD, has with Repeated Thunderclaps, infallibly assured us, That we are ⟨p. 13⟩to Dye. We have the Word of GOD for it; Heb. 9.27. It is Appointed unto men once to Dye. Some have Died Twice; [Those who were miraculously Raised from the Dead, but not with the Better Resurrection:] But there is a Statute of Heaven for All to Die Once. The Word of GOD, which miscalls Nothing, has called Men, by the Name of Methim, or, Mortals. We are Instructed in the Word of GOD; [