!$ DEATH BIRTH, O R, The Fruit ofEves Tranfgrcßîon, il ,(17r13 SERMON XXXVI::,.'"<,,;, Gen. 35. 19. "Ind Rachel; died. T is a statute law of God, that all, both Men and Women, All min multi mull die. The caufesfor which it pleafed Almighty God die. to leave the bodies, even of his deareft Children under the power ofDeath, tobe returned to dull, are many. Firft, for themanifeflhag his truth, according to that an- i; 7dtanifeft dent threatning mentioned, Grn. 3.19. Dte(1thouart, and Gods until. todufthou(halt return, Secondly, for the manifeflationofhis power, that by ;; rifit power. death, hemay tranflate hischofen fcrvants to life. Sin itwas that brought death into the world : and God will thew his firength in this, that death [hall be theutter abolifhment, even ofthat very thing which broughtit fril upon us,and made us all liable to it. Ifthere hadnot been fin, there Ihould not have been death: and now God dill, that in thofe that are his, the kingdomand being I of is n ihall utterly bedcfiroyed ; the head ofGoliah" fhalI be cutoff with his own rd, and fn[hail be extinguifhed by that which it feff firit procured. Thirdly,
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