John Trapp on Psalms 49:7

Verſ. 7. None of them can by any means redeem his brother] And therefore all Mony that hath been given for Maſſes, Diriges, Trentals, &c. hath been caſt away: ſeeing Chriſt is the only Redeemer, and in the other World Mony beareth no Maſtery, neither can a man buy off death, though hee would give never ſo much. Death will not regard any Ranſome, neither will he reſt content though thou giveſt many gifts, as Solomon ſaith in another caſe, Prov. 6.35. Fye quoth that great Cardinal Beanford, will not Death be hired?Act. & Mon. in H. 6. Will Mony do nothing? Wherefore ſhould I dye, being ſo rich? If the whole Realm would ſave my life, I am able either by policy to get it, or by riches to buy it, &c. Lewis the Eleventh would not hear of death all the time of his laſt Sickneſs, but when he ſaw there was no remedy, he ſent for the Holy Water from Rhemes, together with Aarons rod, as they called it, and other holy Reliques,Epit. Hiſt. Gall. Balth. Exner. Val. Max. Chriſt, p. 391. thinking therewith to ſtop Deaths mouth, and to ſtave him off; but it would not be. O Miſer (ſaith one thereupon) hoc aſſidue times quod ſemel faciendum eſt.? Hoc times quod in tua mann eſt ne timeas? Pietatem aſſume, ſuperſtitionem omitte; mors tua vita erit, & quidem beata at que eterna.