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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12392	The trumpet of the soule, sounding to iudgement by Henry Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22706; ESTC S1660	7,170	21

THE TRVMPET OF the Soule sounding to Iudgement By Henry Smith Eccle. 12.1 Remember thy maker in the daies of thy youth AT LONDON Printed for Iohn Perrin and are to be solde at his Shop in Paules Church yard at the signe of the Angell 1591. Ecclesiastes 11. Chap. 9. Verse The Text. Reioyce O yong man in thy youth and let thy hart be merry in thy young dayes followe the waies of thine owne hart and the lustes of thine eyes But remember for all these things thou must come to Iudgement WHen I should haue preached vnder the Crosse I mused what text to take in hand to please all and to keepe my selfe out of danger and musing I could not finde any text in the Scripture that did not reproue sinne vnlesse it were in the Apocrapha which is not of the Scripture this text bids them that be voluptuous be voluptuous still let them that be vaine glorious be vaine glorious still let them that be couetous be couetous still let them that be drunkards be drunkards still let them that be swearers be swearers still let them that be wantons be wantons still let them that be careles prelates be careles still let them that be Vsurers be Vsurers still but saith Salomon Remember thy end that thou shalt be called to Judgement at the last for all together This is the counsell of Salomon the wisest then liuing what a counsell is this for a wise man such a one as was Salomon In the beginning of his book he saith All is vanitie and in the end he saith Feare God and keepe his Commaundements in the 12. Chapter he saith Remember thy maker in the dayes of thy youth but here he saith Reioyce O young man in thy youth Here he speaketh like an Epicure which saith eat drinke and be merry here he counselles and here he mockes yet not after the manner of scorners although they deserued it in shewing their foolishnes as it is in the first of the Prouerbs He laughed at the wicked in derision As in the second Psalme God seeing vs follow our owne waves For when he bids vs pray we play and when he bids vs runne we stand still and when he bids vs fast we feast send for vanities to make vs sporte then he laughes at our destruction Therfore whë Salomon giueth a sharpe reprose and maketh you ashamed in a word he scoffingly bids you doe it againe like a Schoolemaister which beateth his Scholler for playing the truant he biddeth him playe the truant again O this is the bitterest reproofe of all but leaste any Libertine should misconster Salomon and say that he bids vs be merrye and make much of our selues therefore he shutteth it vp with a watchwoord and setteth a bridle before his lips and reproueth it as he speaketh it before he goeth any further and saith But remember that for all these things thou must come to Iudgement But if we will vnderstande his meaning he meaneth when he saith reioyce O young man repent O young man in thy youth and when he saith let thy hart cheere thee let thy sinnes greeue thee for he meaneth otherwise then he speaketh he speaketh like Michai in the Booke of Kinges 2. chap. Go vp and prosper or like as Ezechiel Goe vp and serue other Gods or as S. Iohn speaketh in the Reuelation Let the that be wicked be wicked still But if there were no ●udgment day that were a merry world Therfore saith Salomon when thou art in thy pleasures slaunting in the feelds and in thy braue rusts amongst thy louers with thy smiling lookes thy wanton talk and merry iests with thy pleasant games and lostye lookes Remember for all these things thou shalt come to Iudgement Whilste the theefe stealeth the hemp groweth and the hook is couered within the baite we sit down to eate and rise vp to play and from play to sleep and a hundreth yeres is counted little enough to sin in but how many sins thou hast set on the score so many kindes of punishments shall be prouided for thee how many yeres of plesure thou hast taken so many yeeres of paine how many drammes of delight so many pounds of dollor when iniquitie hath plaid her parte vengeance leapes vpon the stage the Comedye is shorte but the Tragedie is longer the blacke guarde shall attend vpon you you shall eate at the table of sorrowe and the crowne of death shal be vpon your heads many glistring faces looking on you and this is the feare of sinners when the deuil hath entised them to sinne he presumeth like the olde Prophet in the booke of Kinges who when he had entised the young prophet contrary to the cōmaundement of God to turn home with him and to eate and drink he cursed him for his labour because he disobeyed the commaundement of the Lord and so a Lyon deuoured him by the way The foolishe Virgins thinke that their oyle will neuer be spent so Dina stragled abroad whilst she was defloured what a thing is this to say reioyce and then repent what a blank to saye take thy pleasure and then thou shalt come to iudgement it is as if he should saye steale and be hanged steale and thou darest strangle sinne in thy cradle for all the wisedome in the world wil not help thee else but thou shalt be in admiration like dreamers which dreame strange thinges and know not how they come he saith Remember Iudgment if thou remember this alwaies then thou shalt haue little list to sinne if thou remember this then thou shalt haue little list to fall downe to the deuill though he would giue thee all the worlde and the glorye thereof Salomon saith the weede groweth from a weede to a cockle from a cockle to a bramble from a bramble to a brier from a brier to a thorne Lying breedes periury periury breedes hautines of hart hautines of hart breedes contempt contempt breedes obstinacie and bringes forth much euill And this is the whole progresse of sin he groweth from a lyar to a theefe from a theefe to a murtherer and neuer leaueth vntill he hath searched all the roome● in hell and yet he is neuer satisfied the more he sinneth the more he searcheth to sinne when he hath deceiued nay he hath not deceiued thee assoone as hee hath that he desireth hee hath not that he desireth when he hath lest fighting he goeth to fighting againe yet a little and a little more and so we slit frō one sinne to another While I preach you heare iniquitie in gender within you and will breake forth assoone as you are gon So Christ wept Ierusalem laughed Adam brake one and we break ten like Children which laugh and crye so as if wee kept a shop of vices now this sin and then that from one sinne to another O remember thy end saith Salomon and that thou must come to Iudgement What shall become of thē that hath tryed thē most be condemned most Reioyce