73 T H E S T I N G OF DEATH, O R T H E STRENGTH O F SINNE. SERMON VI. z Cor. ip. S6. The StingofDeath is Stn, and the StrengthofSin is the Law. Olomon telleth us, that there is a feafoa for every thing, there it 4 time to be born, and a time to die: Thefe two are the two great feafons of all men, we are as fure to die, as we are t''P ítnrìi ° fire we have lived; and every degree of our life, is but a Rep to our death. Every man of us bath but a part toall here in theworld, when we have done that that Godkath appointed us, we are drawn off from the Stageby Death. Youwill fay, this is a hard condition for fo Noble a crea- ture as Man is to be folded up in the grave, for fo fair a beauty as the life of man is, to be doled up in eternal darknefs, that man fhould turn to the acquaintance of dull and worms, and make his habitation with rottennefs arid lothfomenefsa that Death fhould have the viélory of fo excellent a Creature, it is a hard condition. The Eccicf. 3.'2.
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