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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

stirre vp our attention It is like the sounding of a Trumpet before some waighty Proclamation or like the ringing of a great Bell before the Sermon of a famous Preacher it is set downe to moue vs to attention to heare for afterward Esay 42. 23. One figure may stand for many hundreds one counter for many pounds one little boxe may containe many iewels So one word of the Scripture may point out vnto vs many things worthy our obseruation and what can bee greater then to heare to learne and to learne to know how short our life is Let him that hath an eare heare Reuel 3. 6. The vse may reproue such as will not be warned by any marke or note nor stirred vp to heare but become voluntary deafe Adders refusing the voyce of the charmer though he be most expert in charming Psal. 58. 4. 5. They will not heare Christ crucified Gal. 3. 1. They are enemies of the crosse of Christ Phil. 3. 18. who is able to kill our sinnes and quicken our soules When the balme tree is cut in summer that the sweete liquour drop forth the inhabitants preserue it in viols when the Word which is the spirituall baulme is diuided by preaching 2. Tim. 2. 15. the people should bring empty pitchers with them as the widdow did at the command of Elisha 2. King 4. 5. the empty pitchers should be attentiue eares but either they are without mouthes or without bottomes without mouthes to let in one drop of grace or without bottomes that when we haue put it in and looke to see it againe in your liues behold it is runne throughout as water through a siue and scarce leaues any wet behind it It is not enough to eate meate vnlesse the stomacke retaine it so it is not enough to heare vnlesse men lay it vp in their hearts as Mary kept the sayings of Christ in her heart Luk. 2. 51. We must haue eares of atention and hearts of retention In vaine doth the Preacher open his mouth vnlesse God open the heart when God opened Lidiaes heart then she attended to the things which Paul spake Act. 16. 14. As men come so they speed and as the affection is so is the profite If they bring empty pitchers they may be filled but if their vessels be full of wickednesse they can neuer be filled with goodnesse As we do Gods workes to holinesse so we shall finde comfort to holinesse It is to bee feared least many go home with vnfallowed Hos. 10. 12. nay with vnhallowed hearts Secondly for instruction to vs where God is an admonisher there let vs be admonished where hee is a Teacher there let vs be schollers and if he haue made our daies as an hand bredth then let vs resolue to die and prepare for death It is decreed in the high Court of Parliament that all shall die euen in heauen Heb. 9. 27. for we must die and wee are as water spilt on the ground 2. Sam. 14. 14. which cannot bee taken vp againe Wise Salomon godly Dauid religious Iosiah faithfull Abraham iust Lot righteous Noah zealous Moses trusty Ionathan dilligent Peter and carefull Paul haue dyed it is certaine we shall die but the time vncertaine and the place The time is vncertaine God came to Dauids child in his infancy 2. Sam. 12. 18. to the widdowes sonne in his yourh Luk. 7. 12. to Iacob in his old age Gen. 49. 33. God hath ordained and limited to euery liuing creature his appointed time wherein to liue and grow and next to decrease and die and as it pleaseth God to prolong or abridge their liues so he disposeth of the second causes and meanes whereby he will haue it brought to passe and so euery one hath his certaine limits and terme of life set him Iob saith Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth and are not his daies as the daies of an hireling Iob. 7. 1. Againe Are not mans daies determined the number of his months are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds which hee cannot passe Iob. 14. 5. In the same chapter All the daies of my appointed time will I waite till my changing shall come 14. God hath appointed how long euery man shall liue and though foure score yeares be no long course yet there are but few which hold out to the vttermost end thereof in regard of thē that stay by the way Some are cut off euen before they haue begunne their course and some in the mid-way and that through so many sorts of sickenesses with other inconueniences and accidents that a man cannot possibly comprehend or conceiue them all As death spares not any person so it respects not any place A man may be murthered in the field as Abel was Gen. 4. 8. A man may fall backeward sitting quietly in his chaire and breake his necke as Eli did 1. Sam. 4. 18. Or dye in the Temple as Senaherib did Esay 37. 37. Or at the Altar as Ioab 1. King 2. 34. While Iobs sonnes were feasting the house fals vpon them Iob. 1. 19. While the scoffing boyes were mocking Beares came from the wildernesse and deuoured them 2. King 2. 24. While Corah and his company were contending the earth opened and swallowed them vp Numb 16. 31. 32. While the Captaines and their fifties were fetching the Prophet perforce to the King fire fals from heauen and consumes them 2. King 1. 10. Thus death doth follow vs wheresoeuer we goe and is ready to ceize vpon vs wheresoeuer we are Thou hast made my daies as an hands bredth Some say thou hast set my daies short some thou hast made my daies mourning some thou hast made my daies of foure fingers wide Taphat signifieth the measure of the palme of the hand which is of foure fingers The meaning of the Prophet is this Thou Lord hast made my life short like the palme of an hand which is of foure fingars which is one of the shortest measures Seeing the life of man is but as an hand bredth it affoordeth this doctrine that mans life is short and of no long continuance Our life is compared to grasse Esay 40. 6. which withereth To a shadow which passeth Psalme 102. 11. To smoake that vanisheth Hos. 13. 3. To a bubble that is dissolued To a weauers shuttle for swiftnesse Iob. 7. 6. To a spiders web which is soone swept away To a cloud that goeth away Iob. 7. 9. To a flower that fadeth Iob 14. 2. To a vapour which is soone dispearsed Iam. 4. 14. Remember that my life is but a winde Iob. 7. 7. No meruaile if when the winde bloweth the leafe fall if when the death appeareth the night end There is one saith our life is an heauy sleepe fed with false and imaginary dreames and he calleth it a Comedy or rather in our daies