50. Of Death.
Alexander Questioning Diogenes why he pored upon a pile of dead mens Bones? Answered, to find out his Father Philip's Skull, if possible he could difference if from others: A Reply as suitable as his re∣search,
Dunton's remains, or, The dying pastour's last legacy to his friends and parishioners ... by John Dunton ... ; to this work is prefixt the author's holy life and triumphant death : and at the latter end of it is annext his funeral sermon.
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- Dunton's remains, or, The dying pastour's last legacy to his friends and parishioners ... by John Dunton ... ; to this work is prefixt the author's holy life and triumphant death : and at the latter end of it is annext his funeral sermon.
- Author
- Dunton, John, 1627 or 8-1676.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for John Dunton ...,
- 1684.
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- Subject terms
- Dunton, John, -- 1627 or 8-1676 -- Sermons.
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
- Funeral sermons.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"Dunton's remains, or, The dying pastour's last legacy to his friends and parishioners ... by John Dunton ... ; to this work is prefixt the author's holy life and triumphant death : and at the latter end of it is annext his funeral sermon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36908.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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both enough to flag the Plumes, and darken the splendour of the Young Gal∣lants Glory, for Objects of Mortality seri∣ously contemplated, are but dusty Cha∣racters, wherein we may read our own nothingness, & rebate the swelling Humours of Honour, Beauty, and Valour, seeing Death makes no difference between Persons and Qualities, between Royal and Plebean Dust; the Worms no difference between Nereus and Thersites, Beauty and Deformity; the Earth no difference between Noble and Ig∣noble, Rich and Poor, being all retaken into the Womb that bore them, unless it be the Addition of a Golden Epitaph upon a Marble Cover-lid to Emblemize their past Greatness, if not their Goodness; whereas poor Irus goes more silently to his Bed of Earth than rich Croesus, not burdened with such thick Clay. Gaze we not then on these gilded Vanities, which like Basilisks Wounds us to death; let not our Passions Soveraignize over our Affections, to make us neglect the fruition of our future felicity, and consequently incur everlasting Misery; but muse we our Souls upon our Death-day, as our second Birth∣day; upon our Corruption as a new Generation to a new Life, that so we may not forget our return home, laden with the Rich Treasure of Heaven, the Works of Faith, Repentance, and
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Obedience, with which we must encounter, yea, Conquer both Death and our selves.