A Sermon Preached at St. Dunstans January 15. 1625. [1625/6]

              A 4 sermon preached at st dunstano dunstans Dun stans january 15 162 5 1536 1626 r62 l626 5161 fagi the first sermon after our dispersion by the sickness EXOD 12.30 1230 FOR THERE THEPE WAS NOT A HOUSE WHERE THERE WAS NOT ONE DEAD e GD INTENDED life and immortality for man and man by sin GDinducd induce death upon himself at first when man had done so and that now man was condemned man must die yet god gave him though not an absolute pardon yet a long reprieve though not a new immortality yet a life of seven and eight hundred years upon earth and then misery by sin growing upon man and this long life which was enlarged in his favour being become a bur- den unto him god abridged and contracted his seven hundred to seventy and his eight hundred to eighty years the years of his life came to be threescore and ten and if misery do suffer him to exceed those even the exceeding it self is misery death then is from our selves it is our own but the executioner is from god it is his he gives life no man can quicken his own soul but any man can forfeit his own soul and yet when he hath done so he may not be his own executioner for as god giveth life so he kelleth killeth killeth says moses there not as the cause of death for death is not his creature but because he employs what person he will and executes by what instrument it pleases him to chuse age or sickness or justice or malice or in our apprehension fortune in that history from whence we deduce this text which was that great execution the sodain jodain death of all the first born of egypt it is very large and yet we may usefully and to good purpose enlarge it if we take into our consideration spiritual death as well as bodily for so in our houses from whence we came hither if we left but a servant but a child in the cradle at home there I1