The common inn of all mankind – Thomas Brooks

“None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death.” Ecclesiastes 8:8

Death is the common inn of all mankind.

Death knows no difference between robes and rags, between prince and peasant. “All flesh is grass.” The flesh of princes, nobles, counselors, generals, etc., is grass, as well as the flesh of the lowest beggar who walks the streets. Never was there orator so eloquent, nor monarch so potent, who could either persuade or withstand the stroke of death when it came! Death comes into royal palaces, and into the poorest cottages, and there is not a man to be found, who can make resistance against this king of terrors, and terror of kings.

“It is appointed unto men once to die, and after that to face judgment.” Hebrews 9:27