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A10034	A sermon preached at the funerall of Mr. Iosiah Reynel Esquire, the 13. of August 1614. in East-Ogwell in Deuon. By Iohn Preston Minister of Gods word in East-Ogwell	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1615 (1615)	STC 20282.5; ESTC S115167	16,154	28

participatton here and by fruition in heauen Our Sauiour said I will be with you to the end of the world Math. 28. 20. that is hee will be with the godly as long as any be on earth and hee will be with them for euer in heauen Christ will not be light to the wicked in this life and therefore he will be no light to them in the life to come Hee will bee life to none that are appointed to death nor the bread of life to such as had rather the Onions and Garlicke of Aegypt then Milke and Hony in the heauenly Canaan To whom God doth giue the light of Grace heere to them hee will giue the light of glory in heauen to whom hee denyeth the one hee will neuer giue the other If God make vs partakers of Christs Ignominy he will make vs pertakers of his Glory Secondly seeing all things are mutable in this world let vs lay vp our rest in the world to come There is nothing vnder the Sunne which is perpetuall but all subiect to diuers mutations kingdomes are subiect to mutability as we may see by Israel and Iudah how did they flourish for a time now they are gone and their Kingdomes possessed by others How often hath the gouernement of Rome beene changed Famous Citties haue come to nought One Generation passeth and another succedeth Eccl. 1. 4. In another place he saith Surely the light is a pleasant thing and it is a good thing to the eyes to see the Sunne Though a man liue many yeares and in them all he reioyce yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse because they are many all that commeth is vanity Eccl. 11. 7. 8. Man is not perpetuall for man is borne to die as we see daily by experience Houses built with great cost and charge become ruinous Trees haue but a time and then wither What is there vnder the Sunne that is perpetuall The light of our eyes is but for a time but the happinesse of the godly lasteth for euer The rich man can haue his riches but for a time nor the great man his honours nor the King his Crowne nor the wanton his pleasures but the godly mans happinesse lasteth for euer The true difference betweene earthly things and heauenly consisteth in this earthly things are much desired but being obtained they content little heauenly things are desired little but once gained satisfie much and therefore lay not vp treasure vpon earth where the moth and canker corrupt and where theeues dig through and steale Math. 6. 20. Surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanity Euery man of what sort or fashion so euer hee bee is vanity Salomon saith All is vanity Eccl. 1. 2. and Dauid saith The children of men are vanity the chiefe men are lies to lay them vpon a ballance they are altogether lighter then vanity Psal. 62. 9. And man is like to vanity Psal. 144. 4. That is vaine which is subiect to diuers changes which is mutable fraile and passing away so euery man rich and poore noble and ignoble Prince and people are changeable like a bubble made of vanity This doth teach vs that all sorts of men and all sexes are fraile and changeable To day liuing to morrow dead as some of our neighbours round about vs to day rich to morrow poore as Iob. 1. 21. To day in honour to morrow in the dust One cryeth mine head as the Shunamites child did 2. Kin. 4. 19. another is sick with a fall as Ahaziah was 2. Kin. 1. 2. Another cryeth in his feet as Asa. 2. Chro. 16. 12. Another sicke to death as Hezekiah Esa. 38. 1. Anothers soule panteth as Dauids did Ps. 42. 1. As that part of the wheele which is highest is presently lowest againe so that man which the world lifteth vp one while anone after casteth downe againe so mutable is the estate of euery man All things in the world wil either leaue vs or else we must leaue them They will leaue vs Riches taketh her to her wings as an eagle Pro. 23. 5. Honours leaue many as Haman dignities as Bellisarius We leaue them As the Partridge gathereth the yong which shee hath not brought forth so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leaue them in the middes of his daies and at his end shall be a foole Ier. 17. 11. The vse of this doctrine serues to humble all sorts and sexes that they wax not proud Art thou a king thou art subiect to mutability thou art vanity Art thou noble art thou rich thou art but vanity like a Venice glasse soone broken thy daies are but as an hand bredth thy time is nothing if it be compared with the eternity of God and thou in thy best estate whether youthfull or in prosperity thou art fraile and subiect to diuerse mutabilities and changes thou art mortall and thou must die And now beloued least I should tire my selfe and your Christian patience I will but lap with Gideons souldiers Iudges 7. 6. and touch the hony as Ionathan with the tip of my rod. 1. Sam. 14. 43. and so brifly will speake as the present occasion and your expectation requireth that as I haue hitherto spoken of death so now I may say something also of this dead subiect presented here before your eyes This worshipfull Gentleman descended from worshipfull parents who were well knowne to many liuing among vs. His education was in learning first in schooles in the countrey then to Oxford where he became so studious that he excelled many of his ranke From thence hee was sent to the Innes of Court there he made such proceedings that hee might haue been inferior in nothing to such as are right honorable if he had continued but he chose rather to liue priuately with contentation then in great places where contentment is hardly to bee found I will speake with your fouourable patience somthing of his learning of his life and so of his death First touching his learning he was a good Grammarian he did both write and speake good latine touching his writing his booke written in latine dedicated to the Kings Maiesty will testifie the truth thereof Touching his speaking of latine readily such as haue conferred with him can relate He was a good Phylosopher a good Historian some Grecian a man well read in Physicke and for distillations and secrets few can second him Touching diuinity he had read the Bible and expositors thereon both old and new ancient and moderne Diuinity was his study now for the most part wherein he did so busie himselfe that he intended if it had pleased God to haue printed a booke of the grounds of Christian religion collected in latine wherein hee shewed great reading good iudgement and multiplicity of knowledge It were to be lamented were it not that the good pleasure of Almighty God was such that