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. xxxvii. 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: Beliold, 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 vil, 9, 10. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave sla'l 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 heivens 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 pisseth; 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

Job xxiv, 24. They are ex alted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Job xxxiv, 14, 15. If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto All flesh shall perish together, and himself his spirit and his breath; man shall turn again unto dust.

eth away, and another generation Eccles. i, 4. One generation passcometh: but the earth abideth for

ever.

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 man? 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 there is no discharge in that war; he power in the day of death: and 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 reason of death.

PREPARATION FOR DEATH OF VARIOUS

KINDS.
I-SECULAR.

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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 days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isalah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Heb. ix, 16, 17. For where a testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of

force after men are dead: other wise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

II-SOLICITUDE FOR
SURVIVORS.

Deut. xxxi, 14, 28, 29. And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: selves in the tabernacle of the call Joshua, and present yourcongregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congrega. tion. Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that corrupt yourselves, and turn aside after my death ye will utterly from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because yo will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

1 Kings ii, 1, 2. Now the days of David drew nigh that he should son, saying, I go the way of all the die; and he charged Solomon his earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man.

endeavour that ye may be able 2 Peter i, 15. Moreover, I will after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

III. CHARGE IN REGARD TO BODY WHEN DEAD. Gen. xlvii, 29, 30. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: But I will lie with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said! I will do as thou hast said:

Gen. xlix, 29-33. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron

the Hittite; In the cave that is in | the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people Gen. 1, 4-6, 25.... Joseph said, Speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

2 Sam. xix, 37. Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my inother.....

1 Kings xiii, 31. And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

Heb. xi, 22. By faith Joseph. when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.

IV.-SPIRITUAL PREPAR

ATION, WHICH MUST ALWAYS BE MADE BEFORE

DEATH.

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

Ps. vi, 5. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? P3. xxx. 9. What profit is there in iny blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Ps. xxxix, 4. LORD, make me

to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Ps. xc, 12. So teach us to num

goest.

gather thee unto thy fathers, and Behold, therefore. I will thou shalt be gathered into thy shall not see all the evil which I grave in peace; and thine eyes will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

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

P3. xxxi, 5. Into thine hand I comme, O LORD God of truth. mit my spirit: thou hast redeemed

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

one to come.

1 Peter i, 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to 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 Jesus Christ. kingdom of our Lord and Saviour

HAPPY DEATH OF THE
RIGHTEOUS.

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

1 Kings ii, 10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

thine heart was' tender, and thou 2 Kings xxii, 19, 20. Because hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and 173

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

Prov. xi, 8. wicked cometh in his stead. The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the

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

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

of one's birth.

Isa. Ivii, 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 Abraham said, Son, remember also died, and was buried. But that thou in thy lifetime receivedst Lazarus ovil things: but now he is thy good things, and likewise comforted, and thou art tormented.

Luke xxiil, 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 sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they taking of rest in sleep. thought that he had spoken of

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

Lord: whether we live therefore, 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.

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

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

Rom. viii, 38, 39. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,

I shall be able to separate us from 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, 1 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 xxi, 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.

Ps. 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.

Ps. 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.

Acts xiii, 36. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption.

(See under Body, BONES.)

II-THE DEAD FORGOTTEN.

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

Job xviii, 17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

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

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

Ps. lxxxviii, 4, 5. I am counted

with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no 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 remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever.

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

Eccles. viii, 10. And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This is also vanity.

III. TOTALLY AND FOR EVER CUT OFF FROM THE

WORLD.

2 Chron. xxxiv, 28. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

Job iii, 17-19. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear The small and great are there; not the voice of the oppressor.

and the servant is free from his master.

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

Job xiv, 11,13-15,21. As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up. Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past; that thou wouldest appoint

Job xxi, 21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Ps. xlix, 10, 16-19. For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory

of his house is increased: For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him: Though While he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see

light.

darkness.

Job xvili, 18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job xxxviii, 17. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Eccles. xi, 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. Isa. xiv, 9, 10. Hell from be

neath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, eren all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

Lam. iii, 6. He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

Ezek. xvi, 20. When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living.

BODY PREPARED AND ANOINTED FOR BURIAL. Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons Lev. x, 4, 5. And Moses called of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

And they 2 Chron. xvi, 14. buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours, and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothiecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.

Jer. xxxiv, 4, 5. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; Thus saith the by the sword; But thou shalt die LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.

Matt. xxvi, 12. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

John xi, 44. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

John xix, 40. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as

the manner of the Jews is to bury.

Acts ix, 36, 37. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, by interpretation, is called Dorcas: this woman was which she did. And it came to full of good works and alms-deeds pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

SOMETIMES EMBALMED.. Gen. 1, 1-3, 26. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm

SCENES OF MOURNING.

Gen. xxiii, 2. And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron

in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Gen. 1, 10, 11. And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous fore the name of it was called mourning to the Egyptians: whereAbel-mizraim, which is beyond

Jordan.

Num. xx, 29. And when all the Congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

Deut. xxxiv, 8. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

2 Sam. i, 12. And they mourned and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

2 Sam. iil, 31-34. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and David himself followed the bier. mourn before Abner. And king And they buried Abner in HeVoice, and, wept at the grave of bron: and the king lifted up his Abner; and all the people wept. And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? Thy hands were not ters; as a man falleth before bound, nor thy feet put into fetwicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over

him.

2 Sam. xiv, 2. And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead..