Death

“In that very day his thoughts perish." I may allude to it in this sense—all worldly, vain thoughts, in that day of death perish, and come to nothing!”

“No man lives so miserable, nor no man dies so sadly—as he who lives and dies a stranger to his own soul.”

“The Lord cuts off the spirit of Princes: the word is, he slips off, as one should slip off a flower between ones fingers, or as one should slip off a bunch of grapes from a vine, so soon is it done.”

“If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord.”

“Here is the case then, man came under the covenant of works, wherein death was threatened in case of transgression; now the covenant is broken.”

“Secondly, by death is here understood, all that lasting and hard labour, that great sorrow, all the tedious miseries of this life, by which life ceases to be life, and which are the sad harbingers of certain death.”

“Upon our little, short, uncertain inch of time, depends matters of more consequence than ten thousand, thousand worlds are worth, and if we miscarry in this little time of our lives, we are lost and undone forever.”

“One of the kings of France died miserably by choking on a bite of pork; and his brother, being hit with a tennis ball, was struck into his grave!”

“Even the eternity of well or wo to your soul standeth upon the little point of your well or ill-employed, short, and swift-posting sand-glass.”

“When once a man is damned, he may bid adieu to all pleasures.”

“When once the sinner has passed that awful boundary, his soul is completely lost; his hopes are extinguished; the blackness of darkness for ever lies before him.”

“We are not born angels; die we must, therefore we had need carry always a death's head with us.”

“The pangs of the first death are pleasures in respect of the second.”

“In our ordinary language we use to say of dying, that it is the change of a mortal life for an immortal life.”

“Believe that a hypocrite, with the cunning and shrouds for his hypocrisy, can go unseen no further than the grave, nor can he longer flatter himself with thoughts of life.”

“The resurrection is called a waking; for death, you know, is a sleep.”

“So the things of this world; they pass away, but they never come again.”

“But this “due time” is properly meant to the life to come, which has two degrees: the first is at the day of death, when the soul enters into happiness.”

“Assurance will call a bloody death a safe passage to Canaan through the Red sea.”

“If God takes away my life, then God will rather have his honor from my soul to join with angels and saints, he would rather honor himself that way than in employing me any further in this world.”

“Death comes, and desolation sits where happy fellowship once reigned.”

“Man comes into the world with a cry—and goes out with a groan!”

“Where are you going?” So may a man that has his portion in this world say at his death, where is this poor soul of mine going?”

“Sin, when it is finished, will bring forth death, not only temporal—but eternal.”

“At best these bodies are a tent--than which creation knows no humbler thing.”

“Death itself can only part us for a little space, as the pier of a bridge divides the stream for a few moments—but cannot make a real separation.”

“It is enough for him that must leave all, I know not how soon; have I little or much, I must leave all.”

“They rejoice when a sinner is converted, and when he dies they are ready to carry his soul into Abraham’s bosom.”

“Man's life is but a minute, it is but a point of time, compared to the days of eternity.”

“But no precautionary care can always keep men from the dying scene.”

“When He hath led you through this water that was in your way to glory, there are fewer behind: and His order in dismissing us, and sending us out of the market, one before another, is to be reverenced.”

“They are like paint, which glitters a little in our eyes—but at death all this paint will be worn off.”

“Here on earth, the body is a clog ; in heaven it shall be a wing .”

“That water that but one minute since stood in this place or that of the river, is now gone, and new and fresh is come in its place.”

“The world is rushing on, as before, in turmoil, sin, and conflict—the war-cry, the martial music, the sigh of sorrow, and the wail of agony are heard—but not a spent echo mars their placid rest.”

“But if we take the apostle’s words in the sense which hath been given, there is full and abundant consolation against all fear of death.”

“Now, He is the firstborn of the dead in that He has this dignity and privilege to rise to eternal life the first of all men.”

“Death, with all its consequences, lies on the transgressor until another death comes (in the symbolic form of blood), and washes it away.”

“The threatening runs thus: In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die: and yet we read that Adam lived nine hundred years, and more, after this peremptory sentence.”

“Hitherto he had looked up from earth to heaven; but he was taught that ere long he should look down on earth from heaven.”

“What a sad parting-hour will it be to the soul, when it must go into another world, and leave all that it admired and loved, behind in this!”

“Accordingly, upon man's sinning, the curse seized him; and continuing under that covenant, it is still working in him, till it works his body and soul asunder.”

“There’s nothing which will make the spiritual heart of a father or mother more willing to depart from this world, than to find grace wrought in their children.”

“Thus martyrs' fires have been welcomed, and the excruciating stake been rapturously clasped.”

“What good will the whole globe of the world do at such a time?”

“There is less sand in your glass now than there was yesternight.”

“That mariner hath sailed long enough that hath gained his port; and that soldier fought long enough that hath won the victory; and that child lived long enough that hath won heaven, how early soever he died.”

“Death is but a departing (a), which word is taken from loosing from the shore, or removing of a ship to another coast.”

“There is not a headache, not a toothache, not a fever, not a grief, not a fall, not a wrench, not a plague-sore—but is a divine warning to man to prepare to die.”

“We must therefore labor so to live in the world that with a joyful heart at the day of death we may commend our souls into the hands of our Lord Christ Jesus, who gave them unto us.”

“A voice cries, "Let Reuben live and not die." There is a Savior, who delivers from this death.”

“If we were indeed to revive, and die a second time, the error might be rectified and repaired; but, alas! it is appointed for all men but once to die; and therefore to transact that well, must needs be a blessing indeed.”

“Sin gives a dash in the wine of our comforts; it digs our grave (Rom. 5.12).”

“Thus the pardoned believer, with an holy gallantry of spirit, derides and contemns his disarmed enemy death.”

“Earth is a whirlpool of despair, and then the silence of departed life.”

“Death is swallowed up in victory. 'O death,' He says, 'I will be thy plague; O grave, I will be thy destruction.' 2.”

“There be two seasons especially, in which the soul wants relief and comfort: and they are, in Trouble of Conscience, and at the Hour of Death.”

“Meditation on death would make us use time better, and crowd up much work in a little space.”

“The first degree of his glory was his resurrection, after his lowest abasement in the grave.”

“They never inquire what state they shall enter upon after death, whether upon a state of eternal woe or a state of everlasting bliss!”

“The time will come, and is at hand — when you, and all that you love, besides Christ, must be separated.”

“I will come again, and receive you to myself." And will he fail to make it good when the time of the promise is come, as at death it is?”

“Statutum est, it is appointed by a statute law that all should die.”

“Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.”