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[ 1508] All Men must die, and lye down in the dust.

JAcobus Emissenus a famous writer and Tutor to Ephraem the learned Syrian,* 1.1 reporteth; that when Noah went into the Ark, he took the bones of Adam along with him, and coming thence he divided them amongst his sons, gi∣ving the skull to Shem his first born, saying; Let not this delivery from the Floud make you secure, behold your first Parent, and the beginning of all Mankind; you must all (Nati natorum et qui nascuntur ab illis, and all that come from you) go unto the dust to him:* 1.2 And without all doubt, All Men must dye, and lye down in the dust, they may desire to stay long here in this valley of tears, and to live in this thin shadow of Mortality, when by the course of Nature, they are dri∣ven on, and carried out to their last home; the very encrease of their life

tendeth to a decrease,* 1.3 till they meet all in one place, that which Adam hath provided for all his Posterity, and where himself being already laid, all shall be brought unto him.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Andr. Masius in cap. Ult. Iosh. v. 32.
• * 1.2

  Scriùs aut ci∣tiùs sedem ••ro∣peramus ad unam.
• * 1.3

  Eccles. 6. 6.