in the evilday. 3 57 death, and with hell they are at an agreement, when the over flowing fcourge (hall paffe through it fhall not come unto them. And now (like debtors that have feed the Serjeant) they walk abroad boldly and feare no arreft. But God tells them as fait as they binde he will lode: roar Covenant with deathAall be di/- annulled, and your agreement It 'lb bellPall not gland; and how fhould it ifGod will not let his feat to it ? There is a divine LaW for this evil day, which came in force upon Adams firft fin, that laid the fatal knife to the throat of mankinde, which bath opened a flute to let out his heart-blood ever fince. God to pre- vent all efcape hath fowen the feeds of death n our very confti- tution and nature,fo that we can affoon run from our felves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a handof violence, and hew us down`; there is in the tree a worme which grows out of its own fubftance that will deftroy it, fo in us, thole infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the duft, Our death was bred when our life was -firft conceived and as a breeding woman cannot hinder the houre of her tra- vel, (that follows in nature upon the other) fo neither can man hinder the bringing forth of death with which his life is big. All the pains and aches man feels in his life are but fo many tin- fultue morientis nature, groans of dying nature ; they tell him, his diffolution is at hand. Beet thou a Prince fitting in all thy fate and pomp, death dare enter thy Palace, and come through all thy guards, to deliver the fatal meffage it hath from God to thee, yea, runs its dagger to thy heart ' wert thou compaffed' with a Colledge of Do6tors conlulting thy health, Art and Na- ture both muff deliver thee up when that comes. Even when thy firength is firrn:fl, and thou eateft thy bread with a merry heart, that very foodwhich nourifheth thy life, gives thee withal an carnal of death, as it leaves thole dregs in thee which will in time procure the fame. 0 how unavoidable rnuft this evil day of death be, when that very ftaffe knocks us down to the: grave at laft, which our life leans on 5 and is preferved by ! God owes 2 debt both to the firft &ion and fecond ; to the firft he owes the wages of his fin : to the fecond, the reward of , his fufferings. The place for full payment of both is the other world, fo that except death comes to convey man thither, the wicked who are the polterity of the firft Adam, will miffe of that Y Y .3 full i
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