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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 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.
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 Express'd, 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 Threatning of Death, Behold, How terribly it is accomplished.
Remarkable is that Word of GOD; Rom. 6.23. The Wages of Sin, (or, Paid by Sin,) is Death. Gerhard notes, That OPSONIA, which we render, Wages, properly are, Gibaria quaedam et lautitiae, quibus milites alliciebantur, qui ventris Gulaeque causa vitam habent Venalem; The Dets and the Dainties, with the prospect whereof, the Commanders drew their Hungry Soldiers to Expose their Lives. We are here Elegantly called back, to Consider the First Sin of the First Man. Sin, which is compared unto a General, enticed us with an OPSONION, a Dish of Fruit, a Delicate Entertainment: But we found nothing but a miserable Death in the Dish; while we were thus drawn to List under the Banner of the Devil, in a Rebellion against the Holy GOD.