2. In the we are in death of their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Psal. xc. 10. 5, 6, 7. We are sojourners as were all our fathers our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. One generation passeth away, and another cometh. Eccl. i. 4. See also, Isa. xl. 5 to 8. -James i. 10, 11. 2. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou midst of life knowest not what a day may bring forth. Prov. xxvii. 1. Ye know not what shall be on the morFor what is your life? It is even a vapour, succour, but that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv. 14. There is but a step between whom may we seek for of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly row. me and death. 1 Sam. xx. 3. We had the sentence displeased? of death in ourselves. 2 Cor. i. 9. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. Jer. xvii. 11. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. 2 Kings xx. 1. Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. John vi. 68. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. Psal. lx. 1. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Psal. xc. 8. 11. I said, Lord, be merciful unto me heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. Psal. xli. 4. O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction. Jer. xvi. 19. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psal. xlvi. 1. Who is a 3. Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us bitter pains of eternal death. rock save our God? Psal. xviii. 31. All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Rom. iii. 23. God is angry with the wicked every day. Psal. vii. 11. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Isa. xlv. 22. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions. Isa. xliii. 25. 3. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness. Exod. XV. 11. There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 1 Sam. ii. 2. Who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of not into the the mighty can be likened unto the Lord? O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? Psal. lxxxix. 6. 8. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love. Zeph. iii. 17. O the hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? Jer. xiv. 8, 9. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. Thou art a gracious and merciful God. Neh. ix. 17. 31. Thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Isa. lx. 16. Forasmuch as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Heb. ii. 14, 15. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations. 2 Pet. ii. 9. Deliver us from evil. Matt. vi. 13. Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men. Psal. xxvi. 9. These shall go away into everlasting punishment. Matt. xxv. 46. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting 4. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of shut not to our pray ers; but spare us, Lord most O holy and viour, thou Judge eter not, at our last hour, fall from thee. burnings? Isa. xxxiii. 14. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. Rev. ii. 11. 4. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. Psal. xxxviii. 9. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in our hearts, his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto merciful ears the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Heb. iv. 13. Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear. 2 Kings xix. 16. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me, holy, O God Lord, be thou my helper. Psal. xxx. 10. Lord, most mighty, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the merciful Sa- voice of my supplications. Psal. cxxx. 2. The eyes most worthy of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are nal, suffer us open unto their prayers. 1 Pet. iii. 12. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the for any pains porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy of death, to people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach. Joel ii. 17. They shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Mal. iii. 17. Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Psal. xxii. 3. The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Psal. 1. 1. The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier. Psal. xciii. 5. Ye denied the Holy One and the Just. Acts iii. 14. The Saviour of all men. 1 Tim. iv. 10. It behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Heb. ii. 17. It is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. Acts x. 42. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power. Rev. iv. 11. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord; O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. Psal. cxvi. 3, 4. But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O : 1. Foras much as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. Isa. xliii. 1, 2, 3. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me. Psal. xxiii. 4. They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. Acts vii. 59, 60. CCXXVII. The Solemn Interment. 1. The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 1 Sam. ii. 6. Thou takest away their breath, they die, and are turned to their dust. Psal. civ. 29. Why died to take unto I not from the womb? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Job iii. 11. 13. 17. In very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power. Exod. ix 16. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God: but it shall not be well with the wicked. Eccl. viii. 12, 13. Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth' in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the Lord hath spoken it. Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jero : 2. We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to to ashes, boam shall come to the grave. 1 Kings xiv. 11, 12, 13. Merciful men are taken away, from the evil to come. Isa. lvii. 1. I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Phil. i. 23. Then shall the spirit return unto God who gave it. Eccl. xii. 7. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19. 2. And Sarah died: and Abraham stood up before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, Give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. And earth, ashes the children of Heth answered, In the choice of our dust to dust; sepulchres bury thy dead: none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. And Abraham spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. Gen. xxiii. 2 to 6. 12, 13. 19. This man [Joseph of Arimathea] went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. Luke xxiii. 52, 53. The first man is of the earth, earthy. 1 Cor. xv. 47. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was. Eccl. xii. 7. And Abraham answered and said, Behold, now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes. Gen. xviii. 27. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Eccl. iii. 20. 3. And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. Acts xxiv. life, through 15. Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed Jesus Christ; at the bush, when he called the Lord the God of 3. in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal our Lord who shall change our vile body, Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of |
