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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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We are assured in the Word of GOD, That Good Men as well as others, must undergo the stroke of Death. We read, Job 14.1. Man that is Born of a Woman, is of Few days. By, Man that is Born of a Woman, may perhaps be understood, that Religious and Regenerate part of Mankind, who at the beginning of the Bible, are called, The Seed of the Woman; [of her, who is called, The Mother of all the Living;] The People that belong to Him, who is the Principal and the Promised Seed of the Woman: ⟨p. 14⟩Even These must see but a Few days in this world; and those Few must be Evil Days, Winter Days The First Man that Ever Died, was a Favourite of GOD.
We are assured in the Word of GOD, That Good Men as well as others, must undergo the stroke of Death. We read, Job 14.1. Man that is Born of a Woman, is of Few dayes. By, Man that is Born of a Woman, may perhaps be understood, that Religious and Regenerate part of Mankind, who at the beginning of the Bible, are called, The Seed of the Woman; [of her, who is called, The Mother of all the Living;] The People that belong to Him, who is the Principal and the Promised Seed of the Woman: ⟨p. 14⟩Even These must see but a Few days in this world; and those Few must be Evil Dayes, Winter Dayes The First Man that Ever Died, was a Favourite of GOD.
We have the Law of Death, Declared and Pronounced, in the Word of GOD: A Law ten thousand times more unalterable, than any one of the Medes and Persians. Let us turn to the Law; Gen. 3.19. Dust thou art, and to Dust thou shalt Return. Death is by the Law of GOD, the Penalty of Sin. The Penalty was thus Expressed, In the day thou Eatest, thou shalt surely Dy. Most Expressive is the Gloss of Theodoret upon it; Mortalis eris, et singulis diebus expectabis Mortem. Tis come to pass; By One Man Sin entered into the world, and Death by Sin. We are involved in the First Sin of the First Man. I make no doubt, but the Inspired Historian, intended an Illustration upon that very Text, Unto dust thou shalt Return, in this Emphatical word, which he makes the EPITAPH to so many of the Fathers; And he Died! And he Died! He seems to say, Behold, The terrible Threatening of Death, Behold, How terribly it is accomplished.