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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67031	Chous epitreohomenos, or, The dust returning to the earth being a sermon preached at the interrment of that excellently accomplisht gentleman Tho. Lloyd Esq. late of Wheaten-Hurst in the county of Gloucester upon Tuesday the 22nd of December, 1668 / by Tho. Woolnough.	Woolnough, Thomas, ca. 1630-1675.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3530; ESTC R27625	15,883	23

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Dust returning to the Earth BEING A SERMON Preached at the INTERRMENT Of that Excellently accomplisht Gentleman Tho. Lloyd Esq Late of Wheaten-Hurst in the County of Glocester upon Tuesday the 22th of December 1668. By THO. WOOLNOUGH Rector of the Parish of St. Michael in the City of GLOCESTER 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Naz. In the SAVOY Printed by T. N. for James Collins and are to be sold by J. Jordan Bookseller in Glocester 1669. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR The Dust returning to the Earth BEING A Sermon preached at the Interrment of that excellently accomplish'd Gentleman Tho. Lloyd late of Wheaten-hurst in the County of Glocester Esquire upon Tuesday the 22th of December 1668. ECCLES 12. 7. Then shall the Dust return to the Earth as it was and the Spirit shall return to God that gave it MAn is frequently wont to be termed a Micro-cosme or Little World not without cause The great World consists of two general parts Heaven and Earth so doth Man of two parts not unlike Soul and Body The Heaven is superior both in Place and Nature of a substance pure and splendent and altogether Divine the Earth is both in site and dignity many removes off the matter of it sordid and ignoble the very sediment dreggs and settlings of the Chaos Thus is the Soul of Man a Spirit bearing the resemblance of God himself whom we call so Divinity in a less Volume a smaller Character The Body is but a heap of rubbish The Heavens are continually in motion so is the Soul of Man their motions are incredibly swift so are those of the mind The Earth is sixt and unmoveable and so is the Body in and of it self and for its motion is beholding to the Soul which acts it Thus then hath the Little World as well as the Great One its Heaven and its Earth which are no other in the Language of my Text than the Dust which returns to the Earth as it was and the Spirit which returns to God that gave it Various are the mutations and vicissitudes of Man's life yet after all our postures we come back to As we were Thousands of miles doth the Sun pass in the compass of 24 hours yet where he began his journey to day he will not fail to set out to morrow This circulation of humane life is and cannot but be visible even to the ordinary Observers of Nature in her course Our first Stage is Infancy thence we advance forward to Childhood thence to Youth so to Man's Estates to Middle Age at last we arrive at Old Age and when at that which is called Decrepit we are got to Infancy again come back to As we were yet is not this the last Stage neither there is one farther when Death approaching the Dust returns to the Earth as it was and the Spirit to God that gave it If we look into the Antecedent part of the Chapter we shall find Salomon giving young Persons good Counsel to make use of that Flower of their Age and to do betimes that Work by the leaving of which undone they will undo themselves To make Hay as we say while the Sun shines Old Age he warns them is coming and brings its indispositions along with it the clouds return after the rain v. 2. He that puts off the Service of God till then is likely to serve him but lamely at the best Whilst Blood is in our Veins and Marrow in our Bones Religion is to be minded God will have the best of our years or none When an aged Frost hath chain'd the Current of the Blood Devotion is hardly like to thaw it Now is the acceptable time now is the day of salvation To day if ye will hear his voyce Heb. 4. 7. Graphically doth our Preacher here describe Old Age and its infirmities and that at large in sundry verses ye may know Apelles by his Draught It were too tedious for me at this time to paraphrase upon the several elegant though seemingly mystical expressions hereunto accommodated He closeth all at the close of all and that is Death in the words of the Text He brings Man to the Grave and there he leavs him The Dust returning to the Earth c. The Words are then you see a Periphrasis of Death represented to us under the notion of a return twofold with reference to both its Subjects and Terms The Subjects of it are Soul and Body the Terms of it to the Earth to God Then shall the Dust return to the Earth as it was and the Spirit shall return to God that gave it That I may go plainly to work and not soar above the apprehensions of any I shall in this Verse take notice of but two things and they are The rise and tendency of Mans Body and Soul His Body's rise from the Earth its tendency to Earth Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt return Gen. 3. 19. His Soul's rise from God he gave it its tendency to God It shall return to God that gave it These particulars in the words easily resolve themselves into two Propositions One touching the Body of Man the other the Soul That touching the Body is this That it was from the Earth at the first and to Earth at length it must That concerning the Soul this That it had its being originally from God and to God ultimately shall it return Of which Propositions by way of Explication first as far as shall be needful and then by way of Application The Body was from the Earth how Our Bodies we now have according to the ordinary course of generation from our Parents they are not immediately made of Earth true But Adam's Body the Holy Story witnesseth was so made Gen. 2. 7. whence then the first Body came all are said to come his Body was from the Earth immediately ours from his and therefore mediately from the Earth The greatest of Men is but Terrae filius and may say to Corruption Thou art my Father as Job 17. 4. What signifies a long Pedigree In vain do men tire the Heralds to prove the antientness of their Descent whilest the rising one step higher might serve to bring down their Pride many steps lower put in but the Son of Earth too and Salomon will be found to have done them more right than Clarenceaulx One ap there is which even the Welshman hath omitted ap Dust Wouldst thou have thy Pedigree drawn out O Man or Woman who ever thou art Let me commend thee to this King at Arms and he will quickly tell thee whence thou comest even from Earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Then shall the Dust return to the Earth as it was The Dust Mark that too He vouchsafes the Body no better a Name than Dust upon good grounds Why should it be rather nam'd what it is than what it both was and shall be The reasons of this Appellation are two to one Dust A bold word