Thirdly, The human body consist of perishing principles, Gen. iii. 19. "Dust thou art, and unto dust sh• th•• return." The strongest are but brittle earthen vest, easily broken i• shivers The soul is but me••ly •oused, […] this mortal body, which is not a house of stone, but a house of clay; the mud walls cannot but moulder away, especially s•g the foundation is not on a rock, but in the dust; they are crushed before the moth, though this insect be tender, that the gentle touch of a finger will dispatch it, Job iv. 19. These principles are like gun-powder; every small spark, lighting on them, will set them on fi•e, and blow up the house. The stone of a raisin, or a hair in milk, have choked men, and laid the house of clay in the dust. If we consider be frame and structure of our bodies. how fearfully and wonderfully we are made; and on how regular and exact a motion of the fluid•, and balance of humours, our life depends; and that death has as many doors to enter in by, as the body hath pores: and if we compare the soul and body together, we may justly reckon. there is s•e that more astonishing in our life, than in our death; and that it is more strange, to see dust walking up and down on the dust, than lying down in it. Though the lamp of our life be not violently blown out; yet the flame most go out at length, for want of oil. And what are those distempers and diseases, we are liable to, but death's harbingers, that come to prepare its way? They meet us, as soon as we set our foot on earth; to tell us at our entry, that we do but come into the world to go out again. Howbeit, some are snatched away in a moment, without being warned by sickness or disease. Fourthly, We have sinful souls, and therefore have dying bodies: death follows sin, as the shadow follows the body. The wicked must die, by virtue of the threatening of the covenant of works, Gen. ii. 17. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." And the godly must die too; that, as death entered by sin, sin may go out by death. Christ has taken away the sting of death, as to them; albeit he has not as yet removed death itself. Wherefore, though it fasten on them, as the viper did on Paul's hand, it shall do them no harm: but because the leprosy of sin is in the walls of the house, it must be broken down, and all the materials thereof carries forth.
Thirdly, The human body consis• of perishing principles, Gen. iii. 19. "Dust thou art, and unto dust sh• th•• return." The strongest are but brytle earthen vess•, easil• broken i• shivers The soul is but me••ly •oused, 〈…〉 this mortal body, which is not a house of stone, but a house of clay; the mud walls cannot but moulder away, especially s•g the foundation is not on a rock, but in the dust; they are crushed before the moth, though this insect be tender, that the gentle touch of a finger will dispatch it, Job iv. 19. These principles are like gun-powder; every small spark, lighting on them, will set them on fi•e, and blow up the house. The stone of a raisin, or a hair in milk, have choaked men, and laid the house of clay in the dust. If we consider be frame and structure of our bodies. how fearfully and wonderfully we are made; and on how regular and exact a motion of the fluid•, and balance of humours, our life depends; and that death has as many doors to enter in by, as the body hath pores: and if we compare the soul and body together, we may justly reckon. there is s•e that more astonishing in our life, than in our death; and that it is more strange, to see dust walking up and down on the dust, than lying down in it. Though the lamp of our life be not violently blown out; yet the flame most go out at length, for want of oil. And what are those distempers and diseases, we are liable to, but death's h•rbingers, that come to prepare its way? They meet us, as soon as we set our foot on earth; to tell us at our entry, that we do but come into the world to go out again. Howbeit, some are snatched away in a moment, without being warned by sickness or disease. Fourthly, We have sinful souls, and therefore have dying bodies: death follows sin, as the shadow follows the body. The wicked must die, by virtue of the threatning of the covenant of works, Gen. ii. 17. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." And the godly must die too; that, as death entered by sin, sin may go out by death. Christ has taken away the sting of death, as to them; albeit he has not as yet removed death itself. Wherefore, though it fasten on them, as the viper did on Paul's hand, it shall do them no harm: but because the leprosy of sin is in the walls of the house, it must be broken down, and all the materials thereof carries forth.
