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A68607	A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Arthur Vpton Esquire in Deuon. By Iohn Preston, minister of Gods word	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1619 (1619)	STC 20282.7; ESTC S115170	22,369	38

vncertaine fraile and brittle condition censuring them all with one iudgement vanitie of vanities all is vanitie Eccles. 1. 2. Came not Craesus the rich Prince to misery for all his wealth Xerxes the King of Persia for all his pompe and glory discomfited Did not Dionisius the King of Siracuse fall from a King to be a schoolemaister Did not Bellisarius fall from a giuer to bee a receiuer from a rich man to be a begger Came not Iob from great riches to miserable pouertie for a time Doe not many florish to day in wealth and to morrow come to extreame pouertie Are we all as grasse and wormes meate why then doe wee make so much of the flesh which shall perish and doe not adorne and decke the soule with vertues which shall be presented to God in the day of iudgement We doe not regard our soules but prefer our bodies before them It is a great abuse when the mistresse shall become an handmaide and the handmaide mistresse so it is a great abuse when the soule is not regarded and the body preferred before the soule Seeing our bodies shall perish as grasse let vs say Christ is to mee in life and death aduantage Phil. 1. 21. When we die we shall be deliuered out of two prisons at once the one so much worse then the other as it is worse to be with-held from perfect blisse then from the libertie of a most painfull and tedious pilgrimage We now liue to die but then wee shall die to liue for euer now liuing we are continually dying but then once dying neuer to die more Wee shall leaue a ruinous and base cottage passe to a most glorious and blessed pallace whose pauement is pure gold and whose gates are pearles Reuel 21. 21. By this wee may ghesse what roomes wee are like to finde where our Sauiour prepareth the place Ioh. 14. 2. Had the Prodigall sonne cause to sorrow when he was to depart from this dirtie village and the company of swine to his fathers house Who would not bee able to cast off a sacke of dunge to receiue long white robes Reuel 7. 14. I hope we shall haue neither oxen to try nor farme to see nor wiues to with-hold vs from going Luk. 14. 18. 19. 20. Wee haue had toile enough in the seruitude of Egypt we haue wandred long enough in the desert in continuall battaile with Gods our enemies and in death the time is come to take our repose and inioy the felicitie of the land of promise Wee haue beene in the mount Sinai with Moses when thundrings began to be heard lightnings to flash and a thicke darke cloude to couer the mount but wee shall come to enioy his glory whose terror we haue already sustained This may reproue such as feare death The sting of death is taken away O death where is thy sting 1. Corint 15. 55. Some would die but they would not die a violent death What cause haue we to feare death wee haue but one life and but one can we loose Goliah was as much hurt by Dauids litle stone 1. Sam. 17. 50. as Sampson by the waight of a whole house Iudg. 16. 30. Ely had as much harme by falling backward in his chaire 1. Sam. 4. 18. as Iezabel by being thrown downe from a high window 2. King 9. 33. All they that stoned Stephan to death tooke no more from him Act. 7. 59. then an ordinary sicknesse did from Lazarus Luk. 16. 19. One death is no more death then another and as well the easiest as the hardest taketh our life from vs. Let vs bee willing to leaue this sinfull world desiring to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ Philip. 1. 23. Why should wee feare that which cannot be auoided The very necessitie of death should make vs not vnwilling to die and the remembrance of our mortalitie should make vs litle feare when experience sheweth vs that we are mortall Liue well and die well we may if please God but liue long not die we cannot We should not thinke our life shortened when it is well ended He dieth olde enough that dieth good and life is better well lost then euill kept Wee goe but that way the which all the world before vs hath gone and all that come after vs shal follow beare vs company 4 If we bee not warned neither will take it for a warning that we are as grasse death may come before we are aware and surprise vs when wee shall not haue time to learne to die Wee must be prepared Luk. 12. 40. We must watch Mark 13. 37. How soone is the grasse cut downe and so how soone doth man die The day of death will come suddenly as thiefe in the night 2. Pet. 3. 10. A thiefe giueth no vvarning vvhen he vvill come but commeth vvhen men are asleepe so the day of the Lord commeth suddenly vvhen men are altogether vnprouided Before a ruinous house fall the rafters cracke and giue warning At a strangers comming the dogge barkes and giues warning before a storme the cloudes giue vvarning and the trumpet biddeth men prepare to battell but the day of death commeth suddenly all the time from the birth to death is a time of preparation When the bird thinketh her selfe safe then is she nearest to death when the ship-master is in sight of land hee may be in greatest danger for commonly in the range or harbour is the Shippe lost the want of care drowneth the Shippe the want of skill is the ruine of the souldiers the want of foode starueth the sheepe and the want of preparation to die casteth thousands into perdition As a flower of the field so florisheth hee Mans life is compared in the Scripture to a span for the shortnesse thereof Psal. 39. 5. To a shadow Psal. 102. 11. First for the cause for as the shadow is formed oflight and a body so is man of an intellectuall soule and a humaine body Secondly for the figure and likenesse as the shadow is sometimes long and sometimes short so some men liue long some but a short time Thirdly for the flight the shadow is changed with the moouing of the body so is the life The shadow in the morning is not as it was at night and the health of the body in the morning is not as it was at night The shadow flieth from a man following it and it followeth a man flying from it hee that looseth his life shall saue it he that will saue his life shall loose it Fourthly for the measure the longer the day the shorter the shadow and the shorter the day the longer the shadow so the higher the day of prosperitie the shorter the life and the shorter prosperitie is the longer mans life seemeth to be Iobs prosperitie was short therefore his life seemed long I will saith hee speake in the bitternesse of my

arrest Kings Potentates and rich men would not die for they would giue more then halfe their goods to liue If ignorance babbling in an vnknowne tongue might serue the Papists would not if strength the strong would not if skill the Phisitian would not if mirth the bone companion would not if smoake the bewitching vanitie of this time thē the greatest part of men would not in a word if any thing would serue turne then death arrest were not strong enough Death is such a Purseuant that hee will take no baile no bond no day for appearance but the party arrested must presently appeare before the tribunall seate of God 2. Cor. 5. 10. As an hearbe Or as some reade it as grasse or hay This similitude of grasse is vsed in diuers Scriptures to this end The Prophet saith all flesh is grasse Esa. 40. 6. Not by nature not by making not by condition but by similitude of fragilitie The holy ghost vseth this simily to shew the imbecillity of our nature and of our times And the Apostle saith All flesh is as grasse 1. Pet. 1. 24. The world of men may bee resembled to a field of grasse That man is like grasse for the breuitie of his life and suddennesse of his death The grasse is soone come and soone gone so is man soone come and many times soone gone as Ionah his gourd was Ion. 4. 6. The grasse when it is greene is beautifull bearing flowers but being cut downe withereth so man being young hath the greenesse of life then beauty and comlinesse but being dead withereth As the grasse is to day and to morrow cast into the ouen so man liues to day and to morrowe cast into the graue There is difference in grasse a thousand formes in one field yet all are alike in this that they must wither so there is difference in mens places in the world but no difference at all in death As dies the begger so dies the King It is granted he may haue better attendance and hee may haue more cost bestowed on him Healthy bodies must wither as well as sicke bodies The strongest must stoope as well as the weakest The godly must die as well as the wicked and the longest liuer must packe along as well as the vntimely birth As the mower can with few strokes cut downe thousands of grasse so God can easily with the sith of his iudgements cut downe a multitude of men This grasse may be brought to wither many waies if it be eaten by the beasts or troaden by the foote of man or burnt with fire or cut downe with sithe or sickle so man may bee brought to his ende many wayes by fire or water or strangling or murthering or the like When the grasse is cut and dried it is meate and fodder for the beasts of the field so when the flesh of man is laid in the graue it is meat for the wormes I shall say to corruption thou art my father and to the worme thou art my mother and my sister Iob 17. 4. Man shall sleepe in the dust and the wormes shall couer him Iob 21. 26. The moath shall eate within vs like a garment and the wormes shall eate them like wooll Esa. 51. 8. Herod was eaten of wormes Act. 12. 23. As a worme did eate Ionah his gourd Ion. 4. 6. So wormes shall eate our flesh The grasse will perish if it be neuer cut downe so man will become as a rotten leafe if he liue long This life is as a short misery Man that is borne of woman is of short continuance Iob 14. 1. I would haue no man say I haue so many yeares to liues yeares are not thine they are but lent thee This answere was made to one saying I haue fourteene yeares to liue thou doest mention fourteene yeares which thou hast not nor maist not haue but thou forgettest the many yeares which thou hast had Iacob saide fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life beene Gen. 47. 9. The time of our life is threescore yeares and ten if a man come to fourescore then there is nothing but weakenesse Psal. 90. 10. All come not to seuentie yeares or to eightie some liue an hundred but most die before they come to seuenthty Some die in their youth some in their old age God hath ordained to euery liuing creature his appointed time wherein to liue grow and increase so to decrease and die and as it pleaseth him to prolong or abridge their liues so doth he dispose of the second causes and meanes whereby hee will haue it brought to passe and so euery one hath his certaine bonds and terme of life set him yet none but God onely can attaine to the knowledge thereof Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hireling Iob 7. 1. Are not mans dayes determined the number of his moneths are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds which if he would hee cannot passe Iob. 14. 5. All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite till my changing shall come Iob. 14. 14. God hath appointed how long euery man shal liue though fourescore yeares be no long course yet there are but few that hold out to the vttermost ende thereof in regard of them that stay by the way Some are cut off euen before they haue begun their course and some in the midde way that through so many sorts of sicknesses with other inconueniences and accidents that a man cannot possibly comprehend or conceiue them all The first vse reproueth such as know their flesh is as grasse yet they seeke things for this life onely they wallow in wealth and haue all things at their wils they are cloathed in fine silke and purple they glitted and glister with gold and pearles their faces are couered with fatnesse Iob. 15. 27. they beate the people to pieces and grind the faces of the poore Esa. 3. 15. They swallow vp the poore Amo. 8. 4. They eate the flesh of the people and flay off their skinne Mich. 3. 3. They are attended with great traines and troupes of men they lead mightie Armies and are carried in Coaches like Princes for aboundance of all things they are as mortall Gods vpon earth yet are soone bereft of all their riches and glory and perish as the grasse what foolishnesse hath wrapt vp their vnderstanding what blindnesse hath possessed their hearts what vanitie hath bewitched and rauished their mindes what mist of error hath compassed them and ouershadowed the light of their knowledge that they seeing the frailtie of their owne estate and condition Can any thing in this life be either durable or very delightsome when life it selfe is so fraile and tickle a thing The Apostle saith The world vanisheth and the lust thereof 1. Ioh. 2. 17. Salomon concludeth all worldly things vnder a most