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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93743	Jeremiah VI.4. Wo unto us for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1700 (1700)	Wing S5121A; ESTC R184558	19,699	26

Jeremiah VI. 4. Wo unto us for the Day goeth away for the shadows of the Evening are stretched out THE word Wo is often mentioned in Scripture especially in the Old Testament and is a relative Term significant of Evil and Misery to come For ●●at same Wo which is now denounced against such or ●●ch People will after this Life is ended fall down upon ●●em in Punishment and Misery Hence doth arise that ●●et Thought and Searching of Heart in the Creature to●ards the Creatour who is the Lord our God A doubt ●●d fear doth naturally spring up in our minds as if God ●ould inflict pain and make us miserable in the future State ●●d thereupon from this thing of Death which is the Inlet ●●d Entrance thereinto we expect no Good but Evil. Here a●●in our Spirits may be quiet and satisfied for it is evident ●●●re are several things which we are greatly afraid of at 〈◊〉 first apprehension and thoughts concerning them But ●●●●er we have experienced the very same thing it self we ●●d no dreadfulness or Evil at all in it but rather good ●●d conveniency So that according to the common say●●● herein We are more frightened then hurt and such may ●ath be Yea certainly so it is to the Children of God ●●o are Heirs of Salvation which includes in it self both 〈◊〉 and Immortality There is a visible reason of that natural fear of Death ●●cause it is altogether evil and to be abhorred what is seen to befall the Body as Pain Languishing Weakness distortion of countenance and then lying in the Grave and seeing Corruption and such like And yet all these Evil 〈◊〉 Terrible things do no more touch nor yet affect the man himself that is his Soul than when the Angel of the Lord smote Peter on the side and raised him up and his Chains fel● off from his hands As all this was no great hurt to th● Soul nor yet to the Body of Peter Even so it wil● be when the Angel of Death shall knock off these Chain of Flesh wherein and wherewith at present we a●● holden and fettered then also the Soul is Raised up o● of its earthly Habitation see Zech. 2. 13. and returns an● ascends up to God that gave it Nevertheless still there being a Wo pronounced in th● Text indefinitely against us which signifies as if it di● pertain to all Mankind both good and bad Saint an● Sinner and every one whither Godly or Ungodl● finding within himself some grief and vexation fe●● and anguish at this consideration of his present li●● going away and at last it will come quite to an en● We must not flatter nor delude our selves as if the●● was nothing at all to be feared in it for this Wo pr●nounced by the Spirit of God doth seem to presuppose a●● relate unto some future Evil. Again whatever is Nature General and Universal in every one as the fear of Dea●● is This same thing can never be in vain but there ●● some reality to which it hath Respect The Apostle saith As touching Brotherly love ye n●●● not that I write unto you for ye your selves are taught ●● God to love one another So here it may be reason●● There is no need to be taught out of the Scriptures H● that our present life and time goeth away For by t●● common knowledge and experience that God hath giv●● to every Man they are sensible already Nay t●●● must know it whither they will or not that their l●●● and their Time goeth away But God willing more bundant to shew unto the heirs of promise the Immutab●● of his counsel herein As also that the common and 〈◊〉 multitude of Mankind may be more without exc●●● if they have not provided for their latter end I● concerning this as here it too commonly happens that Man also knoweth not his time As the fishes that are taken in an evil net and as the Birds that are caught in the Snare so are the Sons of Men Snared in an evil time when it falleth suddenly upon them To give yet more repeated warning of all this God hath ordered it to be written also how that our Life and our Time goeth away For so it is expressed in the words of our Text Wo unto us for the Day goeth away for the shadows of the Evening are stretched out The words are Metaphorical and signifie the very same as what is aforementioned that our life goeth away But the Metaphor seems to be borrowed from the Sun that greater light which God Created and placed in the Firmament to Rule ouer the Day and to divide the Light from the Darkness For as long as that is above our Horison than it is Day but when it moves beneath the Horison then the shadows of the Evening are stretched out and the Night comes on Again it is not unknown to any one that is understanding in the Scriptures that the time of Mans present Life is often expressed by this manner of speech his Day If thou hadst known in this thy Day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes To Day if ye will hear his voice harden not your heart as in the Day of Provocation and as in the Day of temptation in the Wilderness I have spread out my hands all the Day unto a Rebellious people For he saith I have heard thee in an accepted time and in the Day of Salvation have I succoured thee Behold now is the accepted time Behold now is the Day of Salvation In all these and alike places the word Day signifies all the time of Mans present life here on Earth And so it doth in this place of Jer. 6. 4. I shall not confine my self to the primary intent or exact coherence of the words as they are in the Text but I shall treat of them in the large and common signification aforementioned How that our Life and Time here on Earth passeth away and because I am given to understand that several do impute it as a fault and defect in my preaching In that I go on altogether in one continued discourse But I do not so much make mention of the words First Secondly Thirdly as other Ministers and Preachers do which as they say is more for help of the memory and for the edification of the hearers Therefore I who have thought good to become all things to all Men that I might gain Some have thought good to handle this our present Text in the following method of these two propositions and afterwards I may draw from thence some Practical Inferences which is commonly called the use or Application From the words Wo unto us for the Day goeth away I shall endeavour to shew together with the Reason or Reasons thereof that it is a melancholy and sorrowful consideration in all people to consider throughly how that our present Life goeth away And this I gather from the first introductory word Wo unto us Secondly Because

keep those things ●hich are written therein for the time is at hand Even nearer ●hen ever it vvas yet And further Blessed is he that doth according to all those thoughts of Goodness and Truth vvhich the Lord doth from time to time vvhen he wakeneth Morning by Morning put into our Soul Again on the other hand a Wo or Curse belongs unto them vvho do not For the time is at hand even just before us or as it is in the vvords of our Text The day goeth away and the shadows of the Evening are stretched out It is but a very little vvhile and the day vvill be quite gone avvay and the shadovv of Death vvill be upon our eye lids and each of us shall say or vve shall find it so Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherds tent I have cut off like a weaver my life He will cut me off with ●pining sickness from Day even to Night wilt thou make an end of me Which as the everliving God doth by us poor dying Creatures We should strive and work together with his grace vvhich vvould work in us mightily if vve are obedient to it that as our outvvard Man perish the invvard Man is renevved day by day Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing FINIS Practical Books Written and Published by Richard Stafford OF Happiness Wherein it is fully and particularly manifested That the greatest happiness of this Life consists in the fear of God and keeping his Commandments in opposition to the Pleasures of Sin or the pretended conveniency of Disobedience Rules and Directions for the preventing of and Recovery out of Sickness A Discourse against Partial Obedience Or that dangerous deceit so universal amongst them who call themselves Christians of keeping some of the Commandments of God and neglecting others Some Thoughts of the Life to come With a brief account of the State of Religion as it is now in the World The great Benefits of Christ to all that believe on and obey him Being a Treatise on Hebrews 2. 15. Wherein it is shewed and made known how People may be freed and delivered from that slavish fear of Death whereby they are subiect to Bondage throughout their Life-time and also how they may be saved and preserved from the Evil and danger of Death when it shall approach nigh an● come actually upon them An earnest call to all the inhabitants of the Earth to Turn immediately to the Lord their God An Exhortation unto all Dissenters however they are distinguished or named to return into the Communion of the Church o● England So far as all things are done therein according to the Pattern shewed to us in the Gospel Six several Sermons Preached on Isaiah 38. 1 Wherein that great Duty of setting our Body and Soul in order for we shall die is a● large opened and explained The doctrine of the Cross or the Duty of Christian suffering in a Sermon on Mat 13. 20 21. A Sermon on 1 Chron 29. 18. And another on Mark 8. 36. The Nature of God's Kingdom and Dominion over Men in a Discourse on Deut 8. 2. Divine Arithmetick Illustrated in the Right and Exact Numbrin● of our Days or a Discourse of the near and continued approache● of Death unto every one whatsoever The Extensiveness and Comprehensiveness of the future Judgment of God A Discourse of the Misery of Hell and Happiness of Heaven Grounded from Mat. 25. 46. A Discourse of God's hearing Prayer Grounded from John 9. 31. The observation of the three Great Festivals asserted in the Christian Church and also the Right manner of the observance of them made known in a Sermon on Col. 3. 1 Preached on easter-Easter-Day A Sermon Preached unto the Inhabitants of the Town of Thornbury in Glocester-shire March 20. 1697. on Psal 143. 8. Two several Sermons on Phil. 4. 11 12. The necessity of keeping unto the Ordinances of Religion Prayer Hearing the word Baptism and the Lord's Supper in a Sermon on Acts. 6. 4. A Sermon of the devices of Satan on 2 Cor. 2. 11. The exceeding Great Comfort and Benefit of having walked before God in Truth and with a Perfect Heart and of having done that which is Good in his sight Set forth in several Discourses on Isaiah 38. 2 3. Another Sermon on Isaiah 38. 4 5. And another on Jer. 6. 4. Three several Discourses on Rom. 9. 6. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect For they are not all Israel which are of Israel Two Discourses on Coloss 3. 1. and another on Acts 2. 11. The cause and cure of Divisions Or the way and means for all Christians to come to Unity The Great Useful and Blessed Duty of a Contentment Willingness and Desire to Die Set forth upon true and assured grounds Any of which aformentioned Books may be had at the Author 's Hired House in Ewers Street Southwark Advertisement THese are to give notice That I have several other Practical Sermons or Discourses of mine own Composing lying by me in Manuscript Which if they who have the Plenty or Competency of this World's Goods would According to their several Ability Acts 11. 29. Thus Consecrate some part of their gain and substance unto ●he Lord Micah 4. 13. So as to be ready to distribute and willing to Communicate towards the outward Labour and Charge of the Printing and Publishing of them it would be for the Glory of God in making known his Truth Isa 38. 19. And for the Edification and Benefit of his Church and People and consequently it would be a Good work in such Persons who shall be helpful and any ways assistant herein for which they would be rewarded by God in the Life that is to come And I say unto you Make to your selves Friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into Everlasting Habitations Luke 16. 9. Charge them that are rich in this World that they do Good that they be Rich in Good Works ready to Distribute willing to Communicate laying up in Store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on Eternal Life 1 Tim. 6. 17. 18. 19. This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain Good Works these things are Good and Profitablsi unto Men Titus 3. 8.