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A14114	A silver watch-bell The sound wherof is able (by the grace of God) to win the most profane worldling, and carelesse liuer, if there be but the least sparke of grace remaining in him, to become a true Christian indeed, that in the end he may obtaine euerlasting saluation. Wherunto is annexed a treatise of the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper.	Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1605 (1605)	STC 24421; ESTC S106042	114,862	276

and trauailes in short time they are compelled to giue place to their successors before they had wel warmed their seat Yesterday one raigned to day he is dead and an other possesseth his throne To morrow this man shall die and another shal sit in his seat none as yet could therein sit fast They all play this part as on a stage they ascend they sit they salute they descend and suddenly they are gone 7 Therefore deerly beloued mans life is a way and a seducing way to them which forget themselues that they are Pilgrimes and trauellers and do stand too much vpon those thinges which are oceurrent in their iourney with long delay For the night will come and it wil come quickly wherein no man can walke and these men shal not come vnto that heauenly Hierusalem but shall be a praie for the wilde beasts which walke in the night and for the infernall wolues For the which cause our Sauiour Christ crieth in the Gospel Iohn 12. Walke walke while ye haue the light lest the darknesse come vpon you 8 There is nothing that doth so euidently set before mens eyes the deceits of the world and the vanitie of thinges present as doth the due and diligent consideration of the incertaintie shortnesse frailtie and of other gréeuances and calamities of mans life For all humane pride and the whole glorie and aboundance of the world hauing mans life for a staie and foundation can certainly no longer endure then the same life abideth Witnes the death of many thousands of late amongst vs and let our mercifull deliuerance neuer O neuer be forgotten So that riches dignities honors Offices and such like which men here in earth haue in great regard do many times forsake a man he being yet aliue and do neuer continue longer with him then vnto the graue For then when the foundation faileth the whole building must néeds fall 9. These claie Tabernacles as Iob calleth them do faile daily The Prophet Dauid therefore compareth our life to the fat of Lambs which wasteth away in the rosting and to a new coate which soone waxeth olde and is eaten with mothes Isai to grasse and the flower of the field which to day florisheth and to morow is cutte down and withered Iob to the burning of a candle which in the end anoyeth then euery man crieth Put it out What thing els is mans life but a bubble vp with the water and downe with winde What then is to be thought of humane pompe and glorie the which is more transitorie and fraile then life it selfe 10 This consideration verelie Humbling themselues before the Lord in prayer hath opened the eyes of many and hath brought to passe in them that they begin to wonder at the common blindnes of men the which effect that it may worke in vs let vs call to minde a fewe things concerning the breuitie and miseries of mans life And to the end our meditation may haue an order and that we may kéepe the parts thereof in memorie it shal principally consist vpon the words of holy Iob written in the beginning of the fourtéene Chapter of his Booke where he saith thus Man that is borne of a woman is of short continuance and full of miseries He shooteth foorth as a flower and is cut downe hee vanisheth also as a shadowe and continueth not 11 To the end we might want nothing in this description of humane calamities it seemeth that his purpose was to begin with the verie matter it selfe of the which man was made For he saith not Vir but Homo that he might expresse the basenes of the matter of the which this most proude creature was made For hée is called Homo ab humo because he was procreated and made of the earth Neither was he made of the best of the earth but of the slime of the earth as the scripture testifieth being the most filthy and abiect part of the earth Among all bodies the most vile element among all the elements the earth is the basest among all the parts of the earth none is more filthy and abiect then the slime Wherefore man was made of that matter then the which there is nothing more vile and base 12 And wheras he saith that he was born of a woman he hath in fewe words comprehended many miseries of humane condition For first of all our very fashioning and originall is so impure and vncleane that it is not for chast eares to heare but to be passed ouer in silence as a thing most filthie horrible to be tolde This one thing I say mans conception is so foule that our most mercifull Lord taking vpon him all our sorrowes and calamities for our redemption would in no wise beare this although he vouchsafed to take vpō him our humane nature to suffer many reproches of his enemies as to be mocked blasphemed spit vpon bound whipped in the ende most shamefully crucified yet he thought it vnséeming his Maiesty to be conceiued in the womb of the blessed Virgin Marie after the same sinfull manner that other men be 13 Furthermore after that man is once conceiued doth he not indure great calamities in his mothers wombe as it were in a filthy and vncleane prison where euery moment he is in perill of his life At the last hée is borne naked weake ignorant destitute of all help and counsell not able to go to speak nor to helpe himselfe all that he can do is to cry and that is to set foorth his miseries for he is born to labor a banished man from his Country the enemy of God in possibilitie to liue a fewe dayes and the same fewe dayes full of miserie deuoide of all quietnesse and rest 14 Beholde then the very beginnings from whence man hath his first originall who notwithstanding thinketh himselfe to be born to pride who mingleth and cōfoundeth all things who ouerturneth troubleth and subdueth kingdomes he turmoyleth the seas and thinketh not the whole world sufficient for him 15 Iob saith further that man is of short continuance Behold another calamitie of mans bodie The building is scarce finished but it is readie to totter and to fall and sure it is ere long to fal Man is scarce entered into the worlde when as hée is admonished to remember his departure out of the same againe The dayes of man saith the Prophet Dauid are thréescore yéeres and tenne Psal 90. and though some be so strong that they come to fourscore yeeres yet is their strength thē but labour and sorrow c. Therefore the summe of our yéeres whereunto all do not attaine is theéescore yéeres and ten the stronger bodies sometimes continue till fourscore From which yéeres first of all we do deduct those yéeres which Infancie childhood spendeth for all that time we liue not like men neither are gouerned with a certaine violent motion like vnto bruite beastes which are deuoide of reason and vnderstanding If also we

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Is this that fleshe for the which I haue committed so many fornications so many wickednesses For the which I haue so many times giuen my selfe to gluttonie and carnal pleasures Is this that face which with so great care I haue kept from sunburning O vnhappy pallace for thy sake I haue wearied my selfe by land and by seas O vnfortunate belly how became I such a foole that I would worship thée for God Haue I lost the kingdome of heauen for this most abiect body for this most foule stinke of al filthinesse and haue purchased to my selfe euerlasting torments O ye furies O ye spirits of hel why doe ye stay why teare ye me not in péeces why doe ye not bring me to nothing These such like words shal the soule vtter against the flesh with excéeding rage and hatred the which notwithstanding it liued so wel when it was here vppon earth that it worshipped the same for a Lady and God and to fulfil the lustes thereof if feared not to violate and breake the lawe and commandements of God 23 And when all are risen againe and are gathered together into the place which God hath appointed for this iudgement then shal hée appeare in the clowdes of heauen with power and great maiestie whom God hath appointed to be the iudge of the quicke and dead And he shal not come alone but accompanied with an innumerable multitude of heauenly Princes 24 The feare which shal come by reason of that maiestie shal be so great that the prophet Isaias saith Isay 2. They shall goe into the holes of rockes into the caues of the earth from before the face of the Lord and from the glory of his maiestie when he shal arise to destroy the earth Apoc. 20. And the Apostle Saint Iohn addeth I sawe a great white throne and one that sat on it fron whose face fledde away both the earth and heauen For as when the flood of the Ocean swelleth they are wont to tremble which dwel vpon the shore and yet can take no harme euen so when the Lord beginneth to poure foorth his wrath and indignation vpon wicked men the Saints also and the Angels and men which are in no peril shal after a sort tremble and feare If therefore the iust shal feare and the pillers of heauen shal shake what shal the wicked and vngodly doe 25 And in very déed so soone as the Lord shal appeare there shal be heard immediatly a great cry and howling among the Nations Mat. 24. Apoc. 1. Zach. 12. for then as the Lord himselfe saith shal al the kinreds of the earth mourne and they shal sée him whom they pearced and they shal lament for him as one mourneth for his onely son and he sorie for him as one is sorry for his first borne O how many causes of wéeping howling shal miserable and vnhappy men then haue They shal wéepe because they shal sée that their euils and miseries are past all remedy They shal wéepe because they shal sée that their repentance is too late and vnprofitable They shal weepe because they cannot appeale from Gods sentence neither can flée the iudgement at hand and it shal séeme a thing intollerable to bée at the iudgement and to heare the sentence of euerlasting condemnation They shal wéepe because when they liued here on earth they despised those which forewarned them They shal wéepe because the pleasures which are gone as a shadow haue brought vpon them endlesse sorrowes and torments To be briefe as men beset on euery side and brought into ineuitable straights destitute of al counsaile and hope they shal wéepe because they shal sée that they cannot preuaile any thing at all neither with wéeping nor yet with scratching and tearing of themselues 26 Neither wil the Iudge bée moued by any meanes with these cries and sorrowes but wil rather seperate the wéepers from those that reioyce that is to say the wicked from the godly euen as a Shepheard diuideth the Sheepe from the Goates and shal set the godly on his right hand and the wicked on his left 27 And then hée wil beginne to discusse the cause of euery one and hee wil not forget any one offence For wée shal sée all things registred in perfect bookes by which bookes all men shal be iudged I sawe saith Saint Iohn the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life the dead were iudged of those things which were written in the bookes according to their workes So that al our workes are written in those euerlasting bookes Thou hast scarcely committed an adulterous thought but the same wickednesse is written in Gods booke 28 And not onely Church-robbings and sacrileges parricides periuries and such like faults but also impure thoughtes and idle wordes the neglecting of good workes or the same done to no good ende shal bée brought into iudgement For so great is the excellencie estimation of Christian integritie purity that no one or the very least vice that may be is not permitted to Christian men 29 The cafe standing thus whereof I beséech you commeth it that there is in vs so great loosenesse so great carelesnesse so great sloothfulnesse and such securitie Do we not flatter our selues when so great iudgement hangeth ouer our heades Holy was the prophet Dauid a man after Gods own hart and yet he so feared this iudgement that hée saide Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant O Lord for no man liuing shal bée iustified in thy sight Holy was the Apostle Paul and yet he saith I knowe nought by my selfe and yet hereby I am not iustified it is the Lord that iudgeth me as if he should say therefore I dare not pronounce my selfe iust because he that iudgeth me is the Lord. For such are the eyes of the Lord that the starres are not cleane in his sight and many times his eyes doe beholde wickednesse where we sée nothing but holines Holy also was the friende of God Iob. 31. Iob and yet he said What shall I doe when God ariseth to iudgement and when he maketh inquisition what answere shal I giue him Why doeth this man of God so commended of Gods owne mouth who was so iust and simple that hee could say without lying I was an eye to the blinde and a foote to the lame Iob. 29.27 and againe My heart doeth not reproue mee in all my life why I say is a man of such singular innocencie so afearde of Gods iudgement namely because he knoweth that God hath no eyes of flesh and that he iudgeth far otherwhise then men doe 30 Moreouer when all mens causes are diligently discussed and examined the Iudge wil pronounce against the wicked the irreuocable sentence of eternall damnation Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuell and his Angels O bitter word which wil