The sermon begins with the metaphor of buildings being supported by their foundations, buttresses and contignations that prevent them from falling or be destroyed easily. This metaphor continues to be connected to the Church and religion, and the main foundation of this building being that the God is the salvation and the issue of death is in God’s hands and the acceptance of this brings deliverance from death.
The sermon continues with the telling of the inevitability of death, deliverance of death doesn’t mean the prevention of death, but the presence of God and His help at that moment, and this part represents the buttresses in the building metaphor. The last part of the metaphor, the contignation of the building, is described as deliverance by death and relates to the death of Jesus Christ, the God. To consider the issue of death as a deliverance from death is to hope for a good issue of death from God because death is inevitable.
The sermon continues with the further contemplation of death, death is present in all our lives, from the very beginning in a mother’s womb. Our presence in the womb is the presence of death, and staying there over our time will mean death to both the mother and us, meaning that everything is created as it’s supposed to be. The deliverance from death in the womb represents an entrance into another form of death, the daily deaths of life. A person is delivered from the womb and wrapped in the winding sheath that foreshadows the grave. The crying of the baby foreshadows the imminent death, and people come into the world that lasted for many ages, but the human body doesn’t last that long.
The sermon continues with the comparison of the human life to that of a pilgrimage, a journey that is bound to come to an end. Birth, infancy, youth and age die, until the very final death. Further on, the sermon continues with the telling of corruption and sin, and of death after death, the death in the grave and the decay of the flesh being eaten by worms.
The sermon is brought to an end with a reminder of the sacrifice of Christ, dying for the sins of men, and the necessity to remember and hang upon him and lie in his grave until a passage is granted into the Heaven paid by the price of his blood.
