Puritans on Death

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

— William Gurnall

The fear of death is ingrafted in the common nature of all men, but faith works it out of Christians.

— Vavasor Powell

There is none so old but thinks he may live one year longer; and though, in the general, he say, “All must die,” yet, in the false numbering of his own particular days, he thinks to live forever.

— Nehemiah Rogers

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

—Thomas Watson

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.

— Thomas Watson

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