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A Believer's Last Day, His Best Day
A Puritan funeral sermon sets death in its true perspective.
Compiled and introduced by Leland Ryken | posted 4/22/2009 04:36PM
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Christians! what is your whole life—but a day to fit for the hour of death? What is your great business in this world—but to prepare and fit for the eternal world? It was a sad speech of Caesar Borgia, who being on his deathbed said, "When I lived, I provided for everything but death! Now I must die, and am unprovided to die." Ah, Christians! you have need every day to pray with Moses, "Lord, teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom," Psalm 90:12 … .
See that Christ be your Lord and Master, … and then your dying-day shall be to you as the day of harvest to the farmer, as the day of deliverance to the prisoner, as the day of coronation to the king, and as the day of marriage to the bride. Your dying-day shall be a day of triumph and exaltation, a day of freedom and consolation, a day of rest and satisfaction!
Leland Ryken is professor of English at Wheaton College.
The text of Thomas Brooks' sermon is readily available online here. In the six-volume Works of Thomas Brooks, published by Banner of Truth Trust, the sermon appears in volume 6 (pages 339-408).
You can learn more about the English Puritans and the American Puritans by visiting our archives.
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