The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D. Volume 3; With a Memoir of His Life [Written by Himself] (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hood, before they have arrived at manhood. He cuts off multitudes in manhood, before they have arrived at three-score years and ten. He is so absolutely sovereign in the disposal of life, that we are always uncertain how long the aged shall live, or how soon the young shall die. Hence we can never discover the order of death, by the order of age. 2. God takes men out of the world, without any apparent regard to their bodily strength or weakness. There is almost an infinite variety in the frame and contexture of their bodily constitutions. Some are formed strong, and vigorous, and healthy; while others are continually weak, and frail, and sickly. But though we are ready to mark out the latter for an early death, and the former for a long life, yet God discovers no such order in executing the sentence of mortality. This affecting thought deeply impressed the heart of Job, who expresses it. with peculiar force and tenderness. " One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet . His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure." The strong often fall into the grave before the weak, and the healthy before the sickly. When God sends death into a city, or a society, or a family, he discovers no order in respect to the strength or weakness of those whom he lays in the dust. 3. God brings men to their end without any apparent respect to the place of their dying. No place is too grand or too mean, too public or too private, too sacred or too profane, for death to enter. Death enters the palaces of princes and the cottages of peasants. Death enters the houses of feasting and the houses of prayer. Death meets men at home and abroad, on the land and on the sea, where they m...