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A23806	A funeral handkerchief in two parts : I. Part. Containing arguments to comfort us at death of friends, II. Part. Containing several uses which we ought to make of such losses : to which is added, Three sermons preached at Coventry, in December last, 1670 / by Thomas Allestree ...	Allestree, Thomas, 1637 or 8-1715.	1671 (1671)	Wing A1197; ESTC R14326	214,765	404

Eternal Judgment Heb. 6.2 If Felix trembled to hear of judgment to come as you may read he did Acts 24.25 How will wicked men tremble when Christ comes to execute Judgment upon them as you read he will Eccles 11.9 12. last vers 2 Thess 1.7 8 9. Jude 15. Wicked men will then cry to the Hills to fall upon them and hide them from the face of him that sits upon the Throne c. Rev. 6.16 17. They would then count it an happiness to be able to die but alas They shall seek for death but they shall not find it and they shall desire to die but death shall flee from them Rev. 9.6 So then wicked men shall rise again but it will be to their everlasting shame and misery Dan. 12.2 They shall come forth to the Resurrection of ● Damnation John 5.29 And they shall have bodies to be tormented in which Devils have not and they shall be miserable as long as God is happy and that is to all eternity and for ever Mat. 25.46 These shall go away into everlasting punishment Sinner and Hell-fire shall never be parted This word never breaks the heart of a sinner and gives new life to those insufferable torments which exceed all expression or imagination When ten hundred thousand millions of Ages are past the misery of the damned is as fresh to begin as it was the first moment they entred upon it If there was any hope of an end 't would something ease the heart but Eternity is intolerable O Eternity Eternity Eternity Methinks the dreadful terrors of Eternity should strike fire out of a Flint and make the hardest heart to melt into tears for sin and quicken the dullest soul to Godliness Death which is the end of all things Ex hoc momento pendet Aeternitas shall bring Man to a condition that shall never end Vegetative and sensitive Creatures when once dead they have no more a Beeing But Man when this life is ended shall live again and that to eternity either in bliss or misery Where are mens wits or what think they on that they do not prepare Wherefore Courteous Reader as David said to Solomon in another case so say I to thee 1 Chron. 22.16 Arise and be doing and the Lord be with thee Amen FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epaphroditus's Sickness AND RECOVERY In three Sermons The First Preached at St. Michaels in Coventry upon the 14th day of December in the morning being the Lecture day And the two other Preached the Lords Day following being the 18th of the same instant in the same Church Anno Dom. 1670. By Thomas Allestree M. A. Rector of Ashow in the County of Warwick I was brought low and he helped me Psal 116.6 The Lord hath chastned me sore but he hath not given me over unto Death Psal 118.18 Nè umbrâ quidem corporis nedum vivo ac sano corpore dignus est quisquis usque adeò Stoicus est factus ut vitam ac sanitatem corporis quâ utraque ad gloriam Dei uti poterit non sentiat donum esse divinae munificentiae sed susque deque faciat sive sanus sit sive aegrotet vivatne vel moriatur Musculus in Psal 102.3 4. LONDON Printed for the Author Anno Dom. 1671. To the Right Worshipful Mr. Thomas King Mayor with the Aldermen his Brethren and the rest of the Inhabitants of the City of Coventry The Author wisheth continuance of health with increase of grace and peace SIRS THese three following Sermons though conceived elsewhere were first brought forth in your Ancient Honourable City The subject matter of them is seasonable for these sickly times Though you in your City as I am informed by * Mr. Feak and Mr. Wanley your present Ministers those who have best reason to know have been this last year as healthful as at other times a mercy which you can never be too thank-full for yet the Towns and Villages about you yea the most part of this Nation I hope you are sensible of it have been sorely visited with sickness I therefore at the importunity of some Friends thought good to make these Notes publick The Word preached is too soon † Vox audita perit sed litera scripta manebit forgotten and reacheth but to few but Printed may be seen by many and perused at pleasure I hope these Sermons that found acceptance with many when Preached will being Printed find the like acceptance with the sober Christian You have that here presented to the eye which was delivered to the ear for I have made little or no alteration onely I have inserted several Latine Sentences which I did not mention in the Pulpit partly because I would avoid the suspition of vain-glory and partly because they would have taken up too much of that little time alotted every Sand of which we should frugally improve to the profit of the bearer You that understand Latine may read these Quotations to your better satisfaction You that like them not because you cannot understand them may over-look them These Sermons like the Author come forth in a plain dress My desire was not with elegant cadencies of words to please an itching ear but with plain Scripture-evidence to affect an honest heart And strong-lines could not reasonably be expected from one so weak as I then was being but lately recovered of a grievous sickness Well dear Friends whatever they be I humbly present them to your acceptance as a testimony of my thankfulness and to shew how willing I am To serve your Souls in what I may T. Allestree Ashow March 27. 1671. Epaphroditus's sickness First Sermon PHIL. 2.27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death but God had mercy on him THE Philippians to whom St. Paul wrote his Epistle were Inhabitants of Philippi which was a chief City of Macedonia and a Colonie Acts 16.12 It was the Metropolis of that part of Macedonia and a Roman Colonie whose Inhabitants came from Rome to dwell there vers 21. * Musculus in Phil. 1.1 Coloniae sunt gentes ad terram aliquam habitandum missae saith Musculus It was formerly called Crenida 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of the fruitful Fountains that issued from the Hill on which it was built Eò quòd circa collem cui inaedificata fuit uberrimi Fontes promanarent Muscul in Phil. 1. v. 1. Some * Itinerarium totius sacrae scripturae p. 539. say there were veins of Gold found close by it Philip King of Macedon Father of Alexander the Great caused it in the year before Christ 354. to be reedified and enlarged and then after his own name called it Philippos or Philippi Hanc Philippus Rex Macedoniae munitiorem reddidit propter vicinos Thraces ac in nominis sui memoriam Philippus vocavit Muscul Muscul in Phil. 1.1 It was enriched with many priviledges much Gold found there but it was not so happy in that as in Pauls praying

Tent-maker compares the Body to a Tent or Tabernacle which is speedily taken down and removed St. James catechizing us in this point asks us a question and answers it himself Jam 4.14 What is your life it is even a vapour that appears for a while and then vanisheth away It is a vapour and that is such a thing as is next to nothing an apparition rather than reality and that apparition vanishing out of sight Moses tells us Psal 90.9 We spend our years as a tale that is told A tale is not long in telling Thus the Life of Man is short considered in it self but very short compared with the existence of God For as the same Moses tells us v. 4. A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night which is but three hours continuance Christ calls it an hour John 5.25 The Wiseman calls it a moment Prov. 12.19 so doth St. Paul 2 Cor. 4.17 Our life-time here is but as a watch in the night as an hour yea but a moment compared with the existence of God and duration of eternity David sets out Man in his fading colours Psal 39.5 Mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man in his best state is altogether vanity Selah Or according to the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Original it may be rendred All vanity every man living or every living man is every vanity Universa vanitas omnis homo subsistens by th Or Universa vanitas omnis homo stans Pagnin Take man standing on his Pantofles in all his beauty and bravery and he is no other than a compendium of all vanities under the Sun Name what vanity you can or will man is that call him any thing but vanity and you call him too much Some have comprized the vanity of man's life in these verses Somnus bulla vitrum glacies flos fabula foenū Umbra cinis punctum vox sonus aura nihil Man is not only vain but vanity in the abstract et abstracta sunt significatiora not vanity in the worst but best state nay not vanity only but altogether vanity There is not a verier vanity than vain man is And that we may not doubt it he ushers it in with a Verily and concludes it with Selah Which word growing of a root which signifies to lift up being added a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 elevavit by th shews we should lift up our minds seriously to consider the vanity of man Nay not only every man but all Nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity Isa 40.17 Yet though Man be so vain his life so short some are loth to acknowledge it Agnoscere nolumus quod ignorare non possumus Cyp. de mort David prayes Put the Heathen in fear that they may know themselves to be but men Psal 9.20 It seems they took themselves to be more than men So did Empedocles Deus immortalis haberi Dum cupit Empedocles Horat. Arte Poet. Dr. Prideaux his Introduction to Histories p. 198. And Domitian the Emperor arrogated to himself Divine Honours and would be stiled Dominus et Deus noster Our Lord and God to which afterwards the Canonists entitled the Pope But the Pope hath little reason to admit this title for as Dr. Prideaux observes else-where one year Introduc History p. 151. four months and three dayes made an end of four Popes viz. Sextus the 5th Urbane the 7th Gregory the 14th and Innocent the 9th Most know they must die but they seldome think of it Thoughts of the last end are the last end of many mens thoughts Witness that prophane Proverb which is much in use amongst us when we would express that we never thought of such a thing we say we thought no more of it than of our dying-day Most sad it is that where spectacles of Mortality are most frequent as in Cities and Corporations and great Towns there they are the least regarded Mr. Fuller tells us of a Bird peculiar to Ireland called the Cock of the Wood these Birds will fly many together in Woods and if one of them be shot the rest remove but to the next bough or tree at the furthest and there they stand staring at the Shooter till the whole company be destroyed As foolish as the Bird is it is wise enough saith he to be the emblem of most in point of mortality Death sweeps away one and one and one and the rest remain nothing moved at it or minding of it till at last a whole generation is consumed When we are in health we put Death far from us And when we are sick we are apt to say as our Saviour did of Lazaru's sickness Jo. 11.4 This sickness is not unto death Thus men spend their days in wealth or mirth for the Orig. will bear either and in a moment when they little think of it they go down into the Grave Job 21.13 We read of some Isa 28.15 that said They had made a covenant with Death and with Hell or the Grave were at agreement A League or Covenant is made betwixt Parties consenting but merciles Death makes a League with none so that there is no Covenant made indeed but only in the wicked mans imagination who without any ground for it thinks Death will not yet seize on him So those Epicures said Isa 56.12 They would fetch Wine and fill themselves with strong Drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant It is said of Jerusalem Her filthiness is in her Skirts she remembreth not her last end Lam. 1. ●9 So the rich Farmer sang a Requiem to his Soul Luke 12.19 20. Soul take thine ease thou hast Goods laid up for many years eat drink and be merry He reckoned on many years but reckoned without his Host and so was brought to a second reckoning far more sad than he thought on for God said to him Thou Fool this night shall thy Soul be required of thee He is branded with the name of a Fool for so doing to succeeding Generations So there were some in St. James's time James 4.13 That said To day or to morrow we will go into such a City and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain We read Isa 40.6 the Prophet was to cry All flesh is Grass This crying doth intimate that men drowned in security forget their own mortality Now the reason why many presume upon long life is either 1. Because they would have it so for facilè credimus quod volumus We are apt to believe what we would have come to pass Or 2. Because they reckon by false * See Mr. Patrick's Serm. on Ps 90.12 rules as 1. Some reckon by their Age They are young healthful and strong of good Constitutions and so think to live many dayes Whereas according to what a worthy * Dr. Walker in his Serm.