A Summons TO THE GRAVE OR. The Necessity of a Timely Preparation for DEATH. Demonstrated in a SERMON Preached at The FUNERAL of that most Eminent and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ Mr. JOHN NORCOT.Who Departed this Life March 24. 1676By BENJAMIN KEACH, a Cordial and an unfeigned Lover of the Deceased.MIC. 7. 2. The good man is Perished out of the Earth.LONDON, Printed for Ben. Harris at the Stationers Arms in Sweethings Rents, near the Royal Exchange. 1676.Title page of A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…, London, 1676A summons to the grave, or, The necessity of a timely preparation for death…Benjamin Keach, 1676

A SERMON •••ached at the Funeral of Mr. JOHN NORCOT, March the 28th. 1676.

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I Need not tell you the ground and occasion of this present Meeting; Certain I am this is a sorrowful Assembly: Whether I am fit to preach or no I cannot tell, but sure I am ripe to mourn. May I not on this occasion use the words of David upon Abner's death, 2 Sam. 3. 38. Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? Who ⟨p. 2⟩more worthy of honour than those God confers honour upon (and to be employed as Christs Ambassadors) to treat in his stead with poor sinners about their eternal estate and condition, is no small dignity; and to be deprived of such a one, what greater ground for grief and mourning? But not to take up your time in a way of Introduction, I shall commend to you that portion of holy Scripture, which shall be the ground of my present discourse;

I Need not tell you the ground and occasion of this present Meeting; Certain I am this is a sorrowful Assembly: Whether I am fit to preach or no I cannot tell, but sure I am ripe to mourn. May I not on this occasion use the words of David upon Abner's death, 2 Sam. 3. 38. Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? Who ⟨p. 2⟩more worthy of honour than those God confers honour upon (and to be employed as Christs Embassadors) to treat in his stead with poor sinners about their eternal estate and condition, is no small dignity; and to be deprived of such a one, what greater ground for grief and mourning? But not to take up your time in a way of Introduction, I shall commend to you that portion of holy Scripture, which shall be the ground of my present discourse;

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I Need not tell you the ground and occasion of this present Meeting; Certain I am this is a sorrowful Assembly: Whether I am fit to preach or no I cannot tell, but sure I am ripe to mourn. May I not on this occasion use the words of David upon Abner's death, 2 Sam. 3. 38. Know ye not that there is a Prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? Who ⟨p. 2⟩more worthy of honour than those God confers honour upon (and to be employed as Christs Embassadors) to treat in his stead with poor sinners about their eternal estate and condition, is no small dignity; and to be deprived of such a one, what greater ground for grief and mourning? But not to take up your time in a way of Introduction, I shall commend to you that portion of holy Scripture, which shall be the ground of my present discourse;

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A SERMON •••ached at the Funeral of Mr. JOHN NORCOT, March the 28th. 1676.