and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isaiah xxxviii, 21. For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Jer. xlvi, 11. Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O'virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for

thou shalt not be cured.

Jer. li, 8, 9. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed.....

Luke x, 34. And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

OTHER MEANS EMPLOYED. Mark vi, 13, 56. And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

Acts v, 15. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might

overshadow some of them.

James v, 14. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil

in the name of the Lord.

SHORTNESS AND UNCE

TAINTY OF LIFE. Gen. xxvii, 2. And he said. hold, now, I am old, I know the day of my death.

Hosea v, 13. When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. Micah i, 9. For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah: he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. Nah. iii, 19. There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee...the days of their pilgrimage. Matth. xvii, 16. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

Ps. lxviii, 20. He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GoD the Lord belong the issues from death.

Ps. cvil, 19, 20. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Ps. cxviii, 17, 18. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

18a. xxxviii, 15, 16. What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shali go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and

make me to live.

Gen. xlvil, 9. And Jacobi unto Pharaoh, The days of years of my pilgrimage are hundred and thirty years and evil have the days of years of my life been, and b not attained unto the days of years of the life of my father

1 Sam. xx, 3. . . . . Truly. a8 LORD liveth, and as thy soul eth, there is but a step betw me and death.

1 Chron. xxix, 15. For we strangers before thee, and journers, as were all our fath our days on the earth are a shadow, and there is not al ing.

strength of stones? or is my f Job vi, 12. Is my strength of brass?

Job ix, 25, 26. Now my days swifter than a post: they flee at they see no good. They are p ed away as the swift ships: as eagle that hasteth to her prey

Job x, 20. Are not my days! cease then, and let me alone, I may take comfort a little.

Job xiv, 1-3, 5, 6. Man that is of a woman is of few days. full of trouble. He cometh f like a flower, and is cut dow fleeth also as a shadow, and tinueth not. And dost thou thine eyes upon such an one. bringest me into judgment thee? Seeing his days are de mined, the number of his ma are with thee, thou hast app ed his bounds that he cannot Turn from him, that he may till he shall accomplish, as hireling, his day.

Job xvi, 22. When a few y are come, then I shall go the whence I shall not return.

Job xvii, 1. My breath is rupt, my days are extinct, graves are ready for me.

Ps. xxxix, 4, 5, 13. LORD, me to know mine end, and that I may know how frail ! measure of my days, what i Behold, thou hast made my as an hand-breadth, and mine is as nothing before thee: vẻ every man at his best state is! gether vanity. Selah. me, that I may recover stret before I go hence, and be

more.

Isa. xl, 6, 7. The voice Cry. And he said, What sh cry? All flesh is grass, and al goodliness thereof is as the fi of the fleld: The gross withel

the flower fadeth: because the prit of the LORD bloweth upon sarely the people is grass. P. xc, 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it soon cut off, and we fly away. Facil, 15, 16. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is and the place thereof shall

know it no more.

Pa cxix, 109. My soul is contally in my hand: yet do I not get thy law.

Pr. xxvil, 1. Boast not thyself of-morrow; for thou knowest what a day may bring forth. Zech 1, 5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

2 Tim. iv, 6. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

James 1, 10. But the rich, in that lets made low: because as the Lower of the grass he shall pass

FRAILTY OF LIFE. Jiv, 17-21. Shall mortal be more just than God? shall & be more pure than his Mazer Behold, he put no trust lis servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much ies in them that dwell in houses of day, whose foundation is in the dt, which are crushed before the Both? They are destroyed from erning to evening: they perish rever, without any regarding

et wisdom.

wheel broken at the cistern: Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

LESSONS.

Let me

Num. xxiii, 10.. die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Deut. xxxii, 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Ps. xc, 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

1 Cor. vil, 30, 31. And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

2 Cor. iv, 16. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Eph. v, 15, 16. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Col. iv, 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Heb. xiii, 14. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

James iv, 13-15. Go to now, ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain; Whereas

AN APPOINTED TIME
TO DIE.

gathered unto his people; for he Num. xx, 24-26. Aaron shall be shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount

ments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

Job vii, 17, 18. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart heart upon him? And that then shouldest visit him every Borning, and try him every mo

P. lxxxix, 47. Remember how Ahort my time is: wherefore hast they made made all men in vain? Pa. 1c, 4, 9. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as Yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. For all our days are passed away in thy Wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

DEATH THE WILL OF GOD. Job v, 18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Job x, 8. Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Job xxx, 23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Ps. cill, 14, 19. For he knoweth car frame: he remembereth that Ps. ix, 13. Have mercy upon we are dust; The LORD hath pre-me, O LORD; consider my trouble pared his throne in the heavens; which I suffer of them that hate sad his kingdom ruleth over all. me, thou that liftest me up from Eccles, xil, 6, 7. Or ever the the gates of death. silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the

Ps. xlix, 6-9. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Deut. xxxii, 50. And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.

2 Kings viii, 10. And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: how beit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

2 Kings xx, 6. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years.. . . . . Job vii, 1, 2. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work.

As a

Job xiv, 5, 14. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thou hast

appointed his bounds that he cannot pass: If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Eccles. iii, 2. A time to be born, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Isa. xxxviii, 5. Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: Behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

NONE TO BE EXEMPTED. Num. xxiv, 23. And he took up his parable, and said, Alas! who shall live when God doeth this?

Josh. xxiii, 14. And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts, and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

Judges ii, 10. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

1 Kings ii, 2. I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man.

Job vii, 9, 10. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

Job ix, 22. This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

Job xiv, 10, 12, 19, 20. But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

Job xxi, 23, 25, 26, 32. 33. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie

Eccles. II, 16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is, in the days to come shall all be forgotten: and how dieth the wise mant as the fool.

Eccles. iv, 15. I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

Eccles. vi, 6. Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

Eccles. viii, 8. There is no man that hath power over the spirit, to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Eccles. xii, 5. Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish.

Zech. i, 5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Heb. vii, 23. And they truly were many priests, because they were not

suffered to continue by reason of death.

PREPARATION FOR DEATH OF VARIOUS KINDS.

1.-SECULAR.

2 Kings xx, 1. 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.

1sa. xxxviii, 1. In those dar was Hezekiah sick unto de And Isaiah the prophet, the s of Amoz, came unto him, ani sal unto him, Thus saith the L Set thine house in order: for the shalt die, and not live.

Heb. ix, 16, 17. For where testament is there must also necessity be the death of testator. For a testament is force after men are dead: off wise it is of no strength at all wh the testator liveth.

II.-SOLICITUDE FOR
SURVIVORS.

Deut. xxxi, 14, 28, 29. And LORD said unto Moses, Behold, days approach that thou must call Joshua, and present selves in the tabernacle of congregation, that I may give a charge. And Moses and Jo went, and presented themse in the tabernacle of the cong tion. Gather unto me all elders of your tribes, and officers, that I may speak words in their ears, and heaven and earth to re against them. For I know after my death ye will at corrupt yourselves, and turn from the way which I have manded you; and evil will b you in the latter days; became will do evil in the sight of LORD, to provoke him to through the work of your hal

1 Kings il, 1, 2. Now the de David drew nigh that he sh die; and he charged Solomo son, saying, I go the way of all earth: be thou strong there and shew thyself a man.

endeavour that ye may be 2 Peter 1, 15. Moreover. I after my decease to have things always in remembrane

III. CHARGE IN REGAR TO BODY WHEN DEAD Gen. xlvii, 29, 30. And the drew nigh that Israel must and he called his son Josepd. said unto him, If now I b found grace in thy sight, pa pray thee, thy hand und thigh, and deal kindly and with me; bury me not, I thee, in Egypt: But I will he my fathers; and thou shall me out of Egypt, and berg in their burying-place. A said, I will do as thon hast

Gen. xlix, 29-33. And he cha them, and said unto them, i to be gathered unto my f bury me with my fathers cave that is in the field of E

-Hittite; In the cave that is in Fall of Machpelah, which is Mamre, in the land of Ps. lxxxviii, 10-12. Wilt thou which Abraham bought shew wonders to the dead? shall the field of Ephron the the dead arise and praise thee? rue for a possession of a bury-Selah. Shall thy loving-kindness tale. There they buried be declared in the grave? or thy Inn and Sarah his wife; taithfulness in destruction? Shall they buried Isaac and thy wonders be known in the kah his wife; and there I dark? and thy righteousness in ed Leah. The purchase of the land of forgetfulness? ⚫il, and of the cave that is

has from the children of sh. And when Jacob had made cf commanding his sons, ered up his feet into the 1 yielded up the ghost, Megathered unto his people, 14-6, 25.... Joseph said, speak, I pray you, in the Pharaoh, saying, My bade me swear, saying, Lo, my grave which I have i for me in the land of there shalt thou bury Now therefore let me go up, yee, and bury my father, I will come again. And said, Go up and bury thy M20cording as he made thee And Joseph took an oath dren of Israel, saying, rely visit you, and ye yup my bones from

37. Let thy servant, "Ceturn back again, that in mine own city, and by the grave of my if my mother.....

xiii, 31. And it came to at he had buried him, that to his sons, saying, When ad, then bury me in the *re wherein the man of aried; lay my bones beis bones.

22. By faith Joseph, le died, made mention of arting of the children of ! and gave commandment Lag his bones.

-SPIRITUAL PREPARATION, WHICH MUST MAYS BE MADE BEFORE

DEATH.

mil, 29. O that they te, that they understood they would consider After end!

1. 5. For in death there is "mbrance of thee: in the

who shall give thee thanks?

9. What profit is there *Blood, when I go down to 142 Shall the dust praise «. shall it declare thy truth? 1 xxxix, 4. LORD, make me * mine end, and the measay days, what it is; that I KLow how frail I am.

se, 12. So teach us to num

the LORD, neither any that go Ps. cxv, 17. The dead praise not down into silence.

Eccles. ix, 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou

goest.

Isa. xxxviii, 18, 19. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

Amos iv, 12. Therefore thus will

I do unto thee, O Israel: and be cause I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

Matth. x, 28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

John ix, 4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Heb. xiii, 14. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

1 Peter i, 17. And if ye call on of persons judgeth according to the Father, who without respect every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

2 Peter i, 10, 11. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

again.

Job xvii, 16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

Ps. xxxi, 5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

Ps. xxxvii, 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Ps. Ixxiii, 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Ps. cxvi, 15. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

Prov. xi, 8. The righteous is

delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

Prov. xiv, 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

Eccles. vii, 1. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day

of one's birth.

Isa. lvii, 1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Luke xvi, 22, 25. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

Luke xxiii, 43. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou; be with me in paradise.

John xi, 11-13. These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he Howbeit sleep, he shall do well. Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.

Rom. xiv, 8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the

or die, we are the Lord's.

1 Cor. iii, 22, 23. Whether Paul. or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

Phil. i, 21, 23. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and be with Christ; which is far better.

Rev. xiv, 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit,that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

THE HOPE OF CHRISTIANS. Gen. xlix, 18. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD!

Job vii, 16. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity.

Job xiii, 15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Job xix, 25-27. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Ps. xlviii, 14. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Ps. lv, 8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

Ps. lxxiii, 25, 26. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire be

side thee. My flesh and my

heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Luke ii, 29, 30. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.

John xiv, 2, 3. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be

also.

the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Cor. xv, 55-57. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our

Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor. v, 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

2 Tim. iv, 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

DEATH A GREAT

CHANGE.

I-PHYSICAL CHANGE PRODUCED BY DEATH. Gen. xxiii, 3, 4. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Job xxl, 26. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Job xxiv, 19. Drought and heat consume the snow-waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned.

P8. xlix, 14. Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

P3. lxxx, 16. It is burnt with fire; it is cut down: they perish at

the rebuke of thy countenance.

Ps. cxli, 7. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Isa. xiv, 11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

John xi, 39. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead

four days.

II.-THE DEAD FORGOTTEN.

Job viil, 18, 19. If he destro him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying. I have not s thee. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth sha others grow.

Job xviii, 17. His remembranes shall perish from the earth, an

he shall have no name in th street.

Job xx, 8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be fou yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Ps. xxxi, 12. I am forgotten as dead man out of mind: I am like broken vessel.

Ps. 1xxxviii, 4, 5. I am counted with them that go down into t pit; I am as a man that hath strength. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave. whom thou rememberest no more and they are cut off from thy hand.

Eccles. ii, 16. For there is no r membrance of the wise more th of the fool for ever.

Eccles. iv, 16. There is no end all the people, even of all tas have been before them: they al that come after shall not rejoice i him. Surely this also is vani and vexation of spirit.

Eccles. viii, 10. And so I the wicked buried, who had con and gone from the place of th holy, and they were forgotten! the city where they had so doe This is also vanity.

III. TOTALLY AND FOR EVER CUT OFF FROM THE

WORLD.

2 Chron. xxxiv, 28. Behold, will gather thee to thy father and thou shalt be gathered to grave in peace, neither shall the eyes see all the evil that I w:

bring upon this place, and u

the inhabitants of the same.

they brought the king wen again.

Job iii, 17-19. There the wicke cease from troubling, and th the weary be at rest. There i prisoners rest together, they b not the voice of the oppress The small and great are there

and the servant is free from master.

Job x, 21. Before I go whence shall not return, even to the 1 of darkness, and the shadow death.

Job xiv, 11,13-15,21. As the wat fail from the sea, and the f decayeth and drieth up. On t thou wouldest hide me in 1 grave, that thou would est tr me secret, until thy wrath past; that thou wouldest appeti