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A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

is aboue Their affections be in heauen though they be on earth their treasure is in heauen and therefore their hearts are where their treasure is and death to them is a passage to life They feare not death hauing a good measure of faith to warm them at the heart they change not their countenance nor haue their colour any whit abated but a● it is recorded of Mistris Ioyce Lewis at the stake sundrie other Christians euen of the fearfullest by nature sexe looked as fresh cheerly at the houre of death as at their mariage But if men which are aged do not feare God they wish to die to be freed from paines but they passe from litle paine to great from easelesse to endlesse from corporall to eternall Hell is Deaths Page Follower attending him where euer hee goes among the wicked sort It is miserable to see how boldly blindly such men venture on death Theramines wrote books in praise of Death as the end of all calamities Augustus dies iesting calling for a Plaudite Tiberius in dissimulation Diogenes hearing Antisthenes cry out in his pains who shall ease mee offers him a knife to dispatch himselfe withall Caninus called to execution bids this fellow remember hee had the best of the game The Earle of Kildare seeing his Writ of death brought in when hee was at shouel-boord throwes his cast with this in his mouth whatsoeuer that is this is for a huddle If such men idid know the follower of Death they would neuer iest so and vse such idle mirth Vse Hath old age many miseries which accompanie it so that there is no pleasure in it but euerie day is a day of wrath an euill day subiect to some iudgment or other this should make the children of God lift vp their hands and hearts desiring to enioy that life wherein neuer a day shal passe away in wrath but all in loue fauour and glorie and wherein the dayes of our life shall not be a returning to death but a going on from life to life and ioy to ioy when we shall liue to liue and the longer we shall liue the longer we shall haue to liue and that in happinesse and glorie which daies and times shal neuer waste If we had hearts to consider of things as they are there is neuer a day goes ouer our head but yeeldeth matter of sighing and groaning vnder some act of Gods wrath doe we the best we can If we had the greatest causes of comfort both for this world the world to come that the world can affoord or that euer any man had yet when he shall summe his accounts he shall find the daies he liues here are but daies of euill and he shall see more cause of sorrow mourning then of ioy Let the bitter of Gods wrath here make vs the more seeke after the daies of eternitie where there shall not be the least crosse nor affliction Mans life in this life is nothing else but a returning back againe vnto death Euery man whiles he is here walkes to the house of his graue and though he be a little longer in going backe vnto the earth then he was comming from it yet he doth nothing while he is here but goe back to it A tale is quickly told a word is soone spoken a thought is soone conceiued so the yeers and daies of man are quickly spent It may teach vs euerie day to meditate and thinke seriously of our death and the graue It is the place we are continually trauiling vnto Which way so euer our faces are we mooue thitherward Euery day we are going to the place of execution A Malefactor that is going to suffer death thinks no other thing but death were going to the place of execution wee should still mind death and euerie day prepare to die As Dauid said of Aphimaaz let him come and welcome c. 2. Sam. 18.27 so the faithful Christian wil say of death he is the messenger of Christ he is welcome he bringeth to me the ioyful newes of eternal life They are blessed which die in the Lord Reu. 14.13 And one day of a blessed death wil make an amends for all the sorrowes of a bitter life FINIS

A CHRISTIAN CAVEAT FOR AL ESTATES OR A Sermon preached by that Religious seruant of GOD Master GEORGE HOCKIN Bachelor of Diuinitie Fellow of Excester Colledge and Preacher to the Towne of Totnes in Deuon PSAL. 105.5 Remember yee his maruellous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1622. TO The vertuous and truely religious Mistris P. I. encrease of all spirituall grace and true comfort here with assurance of eternall glorie and happinesse hereafter THese holy and heauenly Meditations were by the Author of them at first conceiued vpon the occasion of the decease of a religious Gentleman with whom hee was much conuersant Good Wine needeth no Garland it will praise it selfe so I perswade my selfe will this ensuing Sermon which a learned holy and faithfull Seruant of God formerly Viua voce in publique sounded in your eares and in the eares of many others which it furnisht with the best and rarest things which Canaan Greece and Rome doth yeeld There is scarce in the Booke of God a Mine that is more rich and abundant in exhorting men to remember their Creator then the Text handled in this Sermon This Treatise will affoord good helpe to those that will deigne diligently to peruse the same For herein the learned shall meete with some things not common perhaps not to encrease yet to renew his secret knowledge and whet his iudgement and also the godly Christian shall not want wherewith to feed his deuoutest Meditations and enkindle his best affections toward God But lest I doe seeme like some deceitfull Broker Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces Horat. to set worth on worthlesse Wares by goodly words I will leaue the proofe hereof to the judicious and not fastidious Readers I lighting vpon this Sermon of that both learned and godly Diuine Master George Hockin of whose gracious abilitie in preaching Gods Word and of whose conscionable care in performing his Ministeriall office many can witnesse as a poore Orphan Babe of a deceased Friend for the memorie of its Author haue aduentured to shew my selfe so farre on this Theater as to set it forth to publique view and to make it common for the benefit of others I presume good men will both accept my good meaning and conne me thanks who haue set vp for them such a faire and cleere light to light them on-ward in the way that will leade them to eternall blisse The Lord grant that it may haue that successe in such as are religiously affected which he that gaue first life vnto it in studying and brought it forth by preaching intended and I in consenting and causing to haue it Printed desire so shall young and old the feeble weake and doubting Christian be taken by the hand and we all shall be of the number of them which follow Faith to the conseruation of our soules which the Lord for Iesus Christ his sake grant Amen Yours in his best desires I. C. A CHRISTIAN CAVEAT FOR ALL ESTATES ECCLESIASTES 12.1 And remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth before the euill dayes come and the yeeres approch of which thou wilt say I haue no pleasure in them SOLOMON was Sonne vnto the worthiest King that euer swayed Scepter vpon Earth he was the Sonne of a King a King himselfe and the Father of a King and Predecessor in the royall Line vnto the Sonne of GOD and for Nobilitie matchlesse He was King of Ierusalem which was the Citie of GOD the Lady of the World the holy Citie the perfection of Beautie and the ioy of the whole Earth In speculatiue knowledge he excelled the wisedome of all the Children of the East and all the wisedome of Egypt He was able to discourse from the Cedar tree that is in Lebanon euen vnto the Hyssope that springeth out of the wall He was the most fit and absolute man that euer liued both for abilitie and vnderstanding abundance of riches and sufficiency of all Creatures This King exhorteth young men to remember GOD in their youth The flower of youth will vanish away therefore Remember thy Creator in youth it is the best way and the onely way to turne away anger and euill alwaies to remember the power goodnes and iustice of GOD the Creator The dependance these words haue on the former is in this sort Solomon hauing exhorted Youth in their youth and prime-time to remember their Maker He said before take away griefe out of thy heart that is all those things which prouoke the anger of GOD cause euill to depart from thy flesh that is all punishment which comes from GODS anger And remember thy Creator This Text contayneth two things First An exhortation to godlinesse in youth And remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Secondly A reason taken from the manifold infirmities of old age Whiles the euill dayes come not nor the yeeres approch wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them The summe and sense is this Solomon a man experienced willed young men to remember GOD that made them and that in their youth not that they should forget him in their old age but they should begin betime to know GOD and so continue whiles they continue on earth there is good cause so to doe for he made them brought them into the world and bought them too and they should remember him here that hee might remember them hereafter before old age weake age and dote-age come before weaknes sicknes sorrowfulnes and other infirmities happen which accompanie old age Or Solomon puts the dissolute young man in minde of iudgement there hee shewes him how to escape it by auoiding the anger of GOD namely to remember Iehouah Thus you haue seene Solomons meaning now to speake of some such profitable instructions as these words shall afford And remember Text. The true and serious remembrance of GOD is an especiall remedie against sinne and the forgetting of GOD a cause of sinne GOD himselfe commandeth it in the Scripture saying Remember Iehouah thy God for it is he which giueth the power to get substance Deut. 8.18 Dauid from GOD willed the people not to forget GODS Works but to keepe his Commandements Psalm 78.7 Here wee may see plainly that the remembrance of GOD keepeth vs from sinning as the wicked doe GOD commandeth Ioshuah to remember him continually that hee might liue well and prosper saying The booke of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that so thou maiest obserue to doe all things therein and then thou shalt make thy wayes prosperous and haue good successe Iosh 1.8 Remember that those are commonly the best opportunities of mercy and pardon which are most early offered and these are hardly recouered when through wilfull contempt or slight negligence carnall and foolish ease they haue beene long contemned Let all remember their Creator in their youth Doct. 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