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A45689	Old Jacobs accompt cast up and owned by one of his seed, a young lady &c., or, A sermon preached at Laurance Jury, Feb. 13, 1654 at the funerall of the honorable and most virtuous lady Susanna Reynolds wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds / by Thomas Harrison.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing H914; ESTC R28062	18,006	42

our reckoning there Phil. 4.17 2. Not to take too much pleasure in the things of the world Travellers do not set their hearts upon their Inn which they know they must leave the next morning The Rechabites that lived in Tents as strangers would not drink wine or strong drink to make their hearts merry If we had all the comforts of this Inn yet we must rejoyce but sparingly remisly in it as if we rejoyced nor as Paul doth counsel us 1 Cor. 7.30 Let them that rejoyce be as though they rejoyce not for the fashion of this world passeth away it is at the best but a feast of Tabernacles do not stay too long upon any thing Arise depart this is not your rest Micha 2.10 3. To abstain from fleshly lusts and this use the Apostle Peter would have us make of it 1 Pet. 1.11 Dearly beloved saith he as strangers and Pilgrimes abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul these like thieves will wound us in our travail these were they that undid the People of Israel as they were going to Canaan they fell a lusting after the daughters of Moab and so fell short of their Country 't is not for Travelers to lye guzling in every Ale-house 't is not for these Travellers to go a whoring after these earthly things 4. To look for hard entertainment Dogs will be barking at strangers be they never so honest and Travellers must look for foul weather and ill way and homely fare and strange usage all these must we look for in this life many a cursed Doeg will be barking at us many a Shimei will be cursing much hard measure and much foul weather must we have with the world and yet we must ride on and in patience possess our souls and to that end consider we that our God hath provided us some comfort to wear out the tediousness of the way He hath given us his Statutes to be our songs in the house of our Pilgrimage Psal. 119.34 To make merry within our journey as David speaks Nay he himself will go along and sojourn with us as he promised to go down with Jacob into Egypt his Cloud his presence shall be our defence and we may send home every day by our prayers for such things as we want here and for setting forward our business at home Christ our Joseph is gon before us to make all ready for us and we may have an answer at any time from him we hear from him every week and we are within sight of home and he wil at length entertain us into those Mansions which he is gone to prepare for us Ioh. 14.3 5. To set our minds and hearts upon Heaven Travellers do not much mind mens sayings or doings by the way they hear some chiding see others dancing others building others plowing they may perhaps cast some light glance upon them but these they do not heed much as your clients in Tearm time going to Westminster do not much mind whom they meet or whom they pass by they have other business in their heads Animus vere pius non vacat ad laudes opprobria a truly pious mind should not be at leisure to think of any thing but its Country our desires should still run upon home our conversation should be in Heaven our earnest groaning should be to be clothed upon with that house there is our treasure there should our hearts be also when Nehemiah was in the King of Persias Pallace yet his heart was at Jerusalem and Daniel opened his windows towards it every day when he was in Babylon why should not we spend our best meditations upon our Jerusalem which is above why should not we open our eyes the windows of our souls and cast them upon our Heavenly Canaan at least once every day as Moses on Nebo did once upon that earthly one and so with those worthies mentioned in the Hebrews declare plainly that we seek a Country A City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God and that the rather because 2. Conclus The days of this our Pilgrimage are but few Hence it is that our life is compared to things of the shortest continuance by James 4.14 to a Vapour that appeareth for a little season and then vanisheth away By Hezekiah Isa. 38.12 to a Shepherds Tent set up for a night whose cords perhaps are slacked the next day and the covering folded up By David to a flying shadow Psal. 102.11 To a fading flower which grows up and is green in the morning but is cut down dryed up and withered in the evening Psal. 90.5.6 To a morning dream which is as soon ended as begun Psal. 73.20 To a tale that is told or a short meditation Psal. 90.9 To dust that is blown away with every blast Psal. 103.14 To a wind that passeth away and cometh not again Psal. 78.39 By Job to the motions of a Weavers Shuttle Job 7.6 to the riding of a Post to the Sayling of a Ship to the flying of an Eagle when she hasteth to the prey Job 9.25.26 The Holy Ghost hath picked out all the choicest similitudes whereby to express our momentary condition and if there had been any other more emphatical t is like he would have used it Hence it is also that Jacob in this place calls the years of his life but days The days of the years of my Pilgrimage he reckoned them but days not by longer measure on purpose to signifie the shortness of them And hence it is also that the book of the Chronicles where the ages Raigns and successions of all the Kings of Israel and Judah are set down is called but verba dierum words of days Nay indeed our whole life is but as one day and therefore our Saviour wils us to work while it is day that is while we are alive the night will come the bell of our evening song will tole ere long and then its past working time Joh. 9.4 One reason of this may be taken from the matter whereof we be made and whereon we consist and that is Earth Tabernacles you know are soon taken down or overthrown because they are but a covering they have no foundation to settle upon so saies Eliphaz of our bodies they are houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust Job 4.19 aclay cottage if it were well underpind and had a good grounsil it might last a pretty while but having no better materials no stronger foundation no marvel if they so soon moulder away and that matter likewise is compounded of contraries one continually fighting against another now a Kingdom or a house thus divided cannot long continue 2. To this we may add the many enemies that do beleagure us there are a thousand ways to goe out of the world though but one to come in so that many a mans candle is blown out before it burn to the socket many an apple plucked off before it be ripe not one of a thousand hath the