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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

pray bids vs pray thus giue vs this day our daily bread Mat. 6. 11. As if we should reckon the continuance of our life no longer than a daie And againe God calling vpō sinners sayth To day if you 〈…〉 his voice a day consisteth but o● 〈…〉 an euening and a noone som● 〈…〉 way in the morning of their life 〈…〉 ●ot the heate of the day and h● 〈…〉 ●t the line of his life vntil th● 〈…〉 but al the day 〈…〉 ●es the life of man to th● 〈…〉 ●asse whose glory enduret● 〈…〉 ●t is greene in the morning an● 〈…〉 night 〈…〉 ●t is within and without vs are s● 〈…〉 remembrances of death all things cry 〈…〉 to vs that we must hence as Christ cried 〈…〉 ●am not of this world The Sunne rising in the East and falling in the west and al in one day shewes our rising and falling our comming in and going forth of this world The apparell wearing vpon our backes the meate disgested and egested and returning to putrefaction the graues shrowding so many corpses vnder our feete to be short Time the mother of al things and the changeable state of times euen winter and summer colde and heate seede time and haruest all doe crie vnto vs that we shall weare and di● and corrupt as they who were liuing are now dead and lie in the dust First we waxe drie then olde then colde then sicke then dead so is earth turned into earth We are not skilful numberers of our daies like Dauid til we haue learned to recount the dangers and casualties and vncertainties of our corruptible condition A spider being able to choake vs and a As it did Pirrus haire to stifle vs and a tile falling vpon our heads to extinguish vs and that in a moment of time when we least expect so sodaine calamities we reade of Anacreon that he died in eating of an egge Fabian a senator was choaked with an haire Pope Hadrian with a flie if Iacob counted his time but short hauing alreadie liued an hundred and thirtie yeares what reckoning may wee make of our time which is farre shorter In the time afore the floud the age of man was great Adam liued 930. yeares Noah Gen. 5. Gen. 5. 26. 950. Methusaleh 969 almost a 1000 yeares But after the floud in Terah his daies who was father to Abraham the age of man was a great deale shortned from 900. it was brought down to two hundred and vnder Terah liued 209. Abraham his sonne not Gen. 11. 32 so long 175. Moses 120. Iosua an hundred and ten In the Prophet Dauid his time it was scanted yet shorter by much halfe in halfe Psal 90. he counted the yeres of men to be threescore and ten All hath this vse it teacheth vs to looke backe into our liues and to learne to redeeme the time by a timely repentance To draw to a conclusion life it selfe is but an harbenger of death and we liue to die God that numbered the haires of our head hath numbred our yeares also and we can not passe them whether in middle age or in olde age or in infancie when and where and how we know not for the issues of death are in the hands of God When our end and finall dissolution shall come is therfore concealed from vs because we should be alwaies prepared and thinke euery moment vpon death the end of all flesh As a bird guideth her flight with her traine so the life of man is best directed by a continuall recourse vnto his end Now the Lord of life and death in whose hands is the breath of euery liuing thing so direct vs by his holy spirit of grace that we may learne to number our daies that we may run out this shorte race of our sinful pilgrimage in godlinesse and much pacience looking to Iesus the author and finisher of our faith that when we shal haue finished these daies of sinne we may be translated to a better life in the kingdome of glorie which God hath purchased to vs in the bloudshedding of his beloued sonne to whome with the father and the holyghost bee rendred al glorie maiestie power and dominion now and euer Peters repentance So hee went out and wept bitterly Mat. 26. 75. IN regard of the dissolutenesse of the present age wherein we liue and general iniquitie of these the worst and last times wherein the sins of men are multiplied being growne to the full and vnrighteousnesse is increased vpon the earth as was fore-tolde by our Sauior Christ in the 24. of Mathew his Gospel for that we are all better acquainted with sinne than with the remedie for auoidanc● of sinne which is repentance without which we neither can haue peace of conscience no● yet the fauor of God who is a father to none but the penitent such as are truly humbled vnder the burthen of their sinnes and do● carrie a purpose of amendment I haue indeuoured at this time to lay before your eies the true portraiture and the liuely Anotomie of a repentant sinner in this example of S. Peter you shall behold him chaulking out the waie that leadeth to repentance whose foote-steps you must follow foote by foote and steppe by steppe if you will come where he is where is perfect peace and ioy such ioy as shall not be taken from vs greater ioy and glorie than Peter Luke 9. had on mount Tabor where Christ was transfigured Peter wept here for a time and that but a short time in respect of eternitie but there he reioyceth continually without ceasing his ioy hath no terme nor limitation of time So is it verified which was spoken by our Sauior Christ in the 5. of Mathew happie Mat. 54. are ye that mourne for ye shall reioyce Peters mourning is turned to mirth his sadnesse to solace his pain to pleasure his repenting to reioycing for Christ hath wiped away al teares from his eies because with him the first things are past alreadie and now he is crowned with glorie like the Angells And this he hath now in heauen because God loued him walking a good disciple here on earth shewing himselfe to be indeede what he was in name videlicet Simon an obedient hearer He is also called Peter videlicet confident and strong in faith like a rocke inuincible And in this place we find him penitent his obedience is testified in the historie of his life for at Christ his commandement he for sooke his calling and became his disciple his strength of faith our Sauior himselfe proueth where he saith vpon his confession of him Thou art Peter and vpon this rock will Mat. 16. 18. I build my congregation He was penitent the words nowe read vnto you doproue the same for after he had sinned he went out and wept bitterly O that euery Christian man were thus qualified like Peter these three graces repentaunce faith and obedience are better welcome vnto God than the three presents Mat.