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A04608	Certaine sermons preached of late at Ciceter, in the countie of Glocester vpon a portion of the first chapter of the Epistle of Iames: wherein the two seueral states, of the riche and poore man are compared and examined, the differences in quality, and duety betwixt them shewed, both directed to such Christian parts and offices, as the sufficiencie of the one may, and ought to performe, and the wants of the other do necessarily require. Penned at the earnest requests of diuers well affected inhabitantes of the place: and now published as wel for the vse of others, as for the further profit of that particular congregation. By Philip Iones, preacher of the word of God in the same towne. Allowed by authoritie.	Jones, Philip, fl. 1589.	1588 (1588)	STC 14728; ESTC S119440	57,767	138

abhorred of the generations to come Well it remayneth now onely to stand vpō the the third last part of our diuision contayning by amplification a reason of the former speech of the Apostle wherfore the rich man is not to trust to his welth nor to depēd vpon the strēgth of his riches the reason is because the same as Salomō speaks Pro. 23.5 is as an Eagle which suddēly takes her wings flyeth into the heauē It is a flying thing a thing subiect to corruptiō chang no surer then the flower of the grasse which alwayes perisheth and vanisheth away There are in scripture many swift thinges to the vncertayne qualities whereof the nature of wealth and riches is likened and resembled as sometimes to a shadow which of it selfe in substance is nothing but the bare glymse of the body being interposed betwixt the sun the earth sometimes to a post and speedy messenger who cōming in post departeth in hast either in some seruice from the prince or in carriing newes to the court Wis 5 9.10.11.12 sometimes to a ship which passeth thorow the waues of the water the trace whereof being once gone cannot be found nor the path thereof seene in the floods sometimes to a byrde that flyeth in the ayre and no man can see any token of her flight sometimes to an arrow which is shot at a marke which deuideth the ayre for a time but it commeth together againe immediately so that a man cannot know where it went thorowe and sometimes to the dust which is blowen away by the winde al these things naturally and liuely expressing the hopelesse condition of riches and the trustlesse prosperitie of this life But amongst al other fit and proper things to this purpose the same comparisō which the Apostle vseth in this place is not the least nor the last in conueniencie and aptnes making an equalitie betwixt the riche man a flower of the grasse which although for a time it be very glorious and beautifull yet all the glory thereof is weake and all the beautie thereof vaine and subiect to a sudden chaunge And as in this place riches so in other places such things as are in their prime and gallantnesse are compared with this flower and amongst the rest the time of youth and yonge yeares is tearmed by the name of the flower of a mans age because then the body is lusty the limmes strong the proportion comely the blood stirring the wittes fresh the memorie quicke all the powers perfect and nothing in nature wanting for inwarde and outward sufficiencie But most commonly in scripture such things as be short in continuance and in state transitorie are resembled to this flower as in the booke of Iob that holy and patient man entring into a description of the miserable state and course of mans life from his byrth day to his dying day affirmeth that man being borne shooteth forth as a flower Iob. 14.2 and is cut downe hee vanisheth also as a shadowe and continueth not Quickly come and quickly gone soone ripe soone rotten as the prouerbe is The crying voyce in the prophet Esay doth make a difference betwixt the state of a grasse and of a flower the one being of longer continuance Esay 40.6.7 though all be but little then the other All flesh is grasse but the grace of flesh that is the beautie excellencie wisdome and power of flesh is as the flower of the fieeld the flower is more orient and elegant then the grasse but the grasse is more durable and permanent then the flower both are subiecte to decay and corruption but yet the one droppeth to the earth sooner then the other Which thing is to be applied to the wordes of our text and to be regarded of the riche man with some speciall diligence for as much as himselfe is heare by the Apostle resembled not to the grasse but to the flower therof which of the two makes most speede to consumption The holy Ghost by the prophet Dauid doth of purpose describe a flower or grasse shewing what it is and of what force and time for continuance For hauing spoken in the former circumstances of the Psalme of the fragillitie and weakenesse of the breuitie and shortnesse of mans life proouing it to be of no longer perpetuitie then a day a floode a watche a sleepe a thought and last of all a grasse hee doth thereupon inlarge that last similitude by expressing the state of the same grasse in the morning sayth hee it florisheth and groweth 〈…〉 the euening 〈◊〉 is cut downe Psal 90.6 and 〈…〉 Which is all one with that further description which Iames makes heare in the next verse of this chapter where amplyfying this reason which wee haue now in hande hee sheweth the maner of the decay of the riche man by the degrees of corruption wherunto the grasse is subiect For as when the sunne ariseth with heate then the grasse withereth and the flower falleth away and the goodlye shape of it perisheth euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his wayes In which words he toucheth the general course of increase decrease in al vegetatiue growing things which as they haue their beginning so they haue also their declination and ende and cannot alwayes continue in one state so in riches there is a beginning and that sometimes base and simple and as small as the beginning of a roote of a grasse or of the seede of a flower which is not great in the greatest We see and knowe amongst our selues many who now are rich and welthy and in sufficiencie farre beyond many of their neighbours who began the world but with a smal stock with little or nothing yet by the blessing of God their own diligēce their stock is increased their state bettered and their roome and place nowe reuerend amongst vs. Which beginning originall of theirs I could wish many to reuoke and call backe to memorie who are now so farre gone with pride and arrogance by reason of their present prosperitie that they forgette the place from whence they came the parentes from whom they discended the simple seede from whence the great measure of their wealth hath spong and their owne vnworthinesse euery way without Gods mercie to receiue any such blessinge Which thing being remēbred and aduisedly considered I doubt not will worke that good effect which is nowe wanting in those whom their fulnesse hath made drunke and obliuious of their owne progenie and the graces and fauours of God towardes them extended namely thankefulnesse to God for the same care of his honour respecte of his true seruice humilitie lowlinesse of minde and tendernesse of hearte towards those who feele nowe the sharpenesse of that want and necessitie whereunto themselues in the remēbrance of many were sometimes subiecte But by reason of the common neglecte of Christian dueties in this case we see howe in iustice the Lorde doth deale