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A12203	The spirituall-mans aime guiding a Christian in his affections and actions, through the sundry passages of this life, so that Gods glory, and his owne salvation may be the maine end of all / by the faithfull and reverend divine, R. Sibbes ... ; published by T.G. and P.N.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1637 (1637)	STC 22513; ESTC S1655	25,951	96

food such as we must leave vaine and emptie things Will not this therefore make us seek the maine the food that indures to everlasting life and labour to bee in Christ more and more labour to cherish Communion with Christ that Everlasting Bond VVhat is the Sacrament but the Food of our Soules our Everlasting Manna that will continue for ever and make us continue for ever Christ if we have him hee continues for ever and hee makes us continue for ever too And therefore considering that all things else are vaine I beseech you let the consideration of that that hath beene spoken bee as sowre herbes to make the Passeover to make Christ relish the better Oh! Are all things vaine and shall I not labour to have my part in that that shall never die in him that is my Husband for ever and my Lord for ever Shall I not labour to strengthen mine Interest in him that hath all good things in him What if all the earth should fayle If I have Communion with Christ I have all If I marry Christ I have all with him All is my Ioynture if I have Christ once All things are yours if you are Christs If I have Christ what can I want when I receive the Sacrament having Communion with Christ Let this strengthen my desire to come to the Sacrament in this that I have spoken that all other things fayle our communion with Christ is Everlasting Therefore looke to that Christ is the food of the soule all other food the sweetnesse of it is gone within a quarter of an houre The sweetnesse is gone presently and the strength within a day or two of all other food that wee take but this food Christ the food of the Soule Christ offering himselfe unto death and shedding out his bloud and giving his bodie to bee crucified for us This food feedes our soules to everlasting life VVee cherish our Faith in the assurance of the favour of God to everlasting the sweetnesse the strength and the comfort of this food indures for ever And therefore considering that all other things are food that perisheth labour for that that will feed us to everlasting life And then wee shall make a right use of the alteration and change of all things A heathen man can say this Text all that I have set Brethren aside a heathen man could tell you The time is short And the fashion of things passe away Hee sees them and thereupon could inferre the Negative part therfore wee should not be worldly for the Negative part by the light of Nature a man that hath no Religion may bee sound in that and therefore not to care much for earthly things considering that wee must bee gone A Heathen man could speake very sweetly this way as Plutarch and Seneca and the rest what fine speeches had they this way Oh! but the Positive part that is when we see all things here are vaine and fading to know what wee must cleave too that is proper to religion to know Christ the good we have by Christ when we have him we have al he is the of our soules these things are proper to Religion and therefore let us arise from the consideration of the Vanitie of all things to the positive part to interest our selves in that that is better then all things Which if we have we have all and then we shall make a right use of this FINIS A Table of the severall Heads contained in this Booke WE must know Particulars in our journey to Heaven pag. 2 1. Doctrine A very good way to satisfie cases of Conscience in particular is to have in our minde the maine p. 3. Reason why none but a sound Christian can carry himselfe moderatly in the things of this world p. 5. 2. Doctrine Religion meddles with all matters p. 6 Religion is a skill that fits a man for a further end p. 7. Religion guides all to the maine p. 7. Time is short 13. The world is short Our life is short Opportunitie is short Time uncertaine 14 Time irrecoverable p. 15. Time hath three maine parts p. 17. Time past in ill repent ibid. Time present doe good ibid Time to come get into such an estate as is not lyable to time p. 18. Advice to youth to age p. 19. Neglect of time makes us worse than the Divell p. 20. Marriage lawfull p. 21. A liberty to marry p. 24. Who brought in a base esteeme of Marriage p. 25. A danger in Marriage p. 25. Those that have Wives to be as if they had none how understood p. 27. Bonds in Religion above all bonds p. 28. Weeping lawfull p 30 For what wee are bound to weep p. 31. Wee ought to grieve p. 31. Danger in weeping overmuch for crosses p. 32. God takes it vnkindely when wee over-grieve for the losse of worldly comforts ibid. Though our weeping be for sinne there must bee a moderation p. 34 What to doe when we are tempted to overgrieve for any earthly thing p. 35. Ioy lawfull p. 36 Danger in over-joying p. 37. Religion is seene especially in moderating the affections p. 39. Many Christians intemperate in their griefe and joy not having learned to schoole their affections ib. Affections of Christians mixed p. 41 A carnall man is in simples if merry hee is mad ibid. Grace tempers the Affections in a godly man ibid. Buying is lawfull and why 42. Danger in buying 43. Buy so as not to neglect the best possession p. 44. Vsing the world lawfull p. 46. Danger in using the word p. 47 What it is to abuse the world p. 49 Labour to use it as not abusing it ibid. The world is a fashion or a shew p. 51. Things of this life are a shew p. 53 Things in Religion reall p. 56 The world passeth away 61 Reasons why it passeth away 1. Because they were made of nothing p. 63. 2. Because there is a sentence of mutabilitie passed on it p. 64 Not to grieve for the losse of things below p. 65 Learne to bee content with little p. 66. Be moderate in desires p. 67. Prouide for better things after all these things are gone p. 68. The world to low for a Christians thoughts p. 71. Why Christians are excessive in outward things the grounds p. 72. 1. They looke not on them as past ibid. 2 They compare them not with Eternitie p. 74. 3 They forget their better condition p. 74. Reason why men aime not at the maine p. 79. Application to the Sacrament p. 80. How wee ought to labour for things certaine and not fading p. 82. Perlegi hanc Concionem dignamque iudico quae Typis mandetur THO. WEEKES R. P. Ep. Lond. Cap. Domest We must know particulars in our journey to heaven Doct 1. Looking to the maine helps particulars Doct. 2. Religion reacheth to other callings Religion guides all to the maine The five particular directions The time is short 1. Of the World 2 Of our life 2. Of opportunity 1. Time is short 2 Time is uncertain 3. It is irrecoverable 1 Repent the time past in ill 2. For time present do good 3. For time to come get into such a state as is not lyable to time Advice to youth A memorandum to old age Our neglect of time makes us worse than the Divel Marriage lawfull 1 A liberty to marry 2. Danger Those that have wives to be as if they had none how to be understood Bonds in Religion above all other Weeping lawfull Weeping excessive dangerous Excessive griefe argues want of trust in God Moderation in griefe for sin Ioy lawfull Danger in Ioy. Religion in the affections chiefely Affections of Christians mixed Buying lawfull Danger in buying Vsing the world lawfull Danger in vsing the world The world a shew Vse Things of this life shewes Things in religion reall It passeth away 1 Reason because they were made of nothing 2. They are accursed Rom. 8. Vse Not to grieve for the losse of them 2. Vse To be content with little 3. To be moderate in desires 4. To provide for better things The world too low for a Christians thoughte Why Christians are excessive in outward things 1. They looke not upon them as past 2. We compare not with eternitie 3. We forget our better condition Simile The reason why men aime not at the maine Application to the Sacrament

and Nobilitie is in some sort Nobilitie and so Possessions are in some sort Possessions But all this is but a Pageant as it were as a man that acts in a Pageant or in a Play hee is in some sort a King or a Beggar for the time But wee value him not as hee is then but as hee is when he is off the Stage And while wee live here wee act the part some of a Rich-man some of a Nobleman some of a Beggar or poore man all is but an acting of a part And there is a lesse proportion betweene the acting of a part in this life than there is betweene our life and eternitie All is but the acting of a part VVee are not rich in the grave more than others The King is as poore in the Grave as the base Peasant his Riches follow him not The worme and the grave know no difference when wee goe to that house there is no difference all acting and all differences end in the Grave And therefore considering that this world is but an Apparition but the acting of a part why should wee thinke our selves the better for any thing here Doth hee that acts the part of a Nobleman upon the Stage think himselfe better than another that acts the part of a Poore man No. Hee knowes hee shall goe off in short time and then hee shall bee as hee was before why are wee not thus wise in better things It is not hee that acts the greatest part but hee that acts well he that acts the part of a poore man may bee better than hee that acts the part of a rich man it is not the greatnesse of the part but the well acting of it all is but an Apparition If a meane man honour God in his condition and bee faithfull in a meane estate hee is a thousand times better then a great man that makes his greatnesse an instrument of iniustice as if all the world were to serve his turne and to make men Idolize him such a man is a wretched man and will bee when hee is turned off the Stage It is no matter how long hee hath lived or how great a part hee hath Acted but how well VVee value not men as they are when they are acting but as they are after If they were bad before they are bad after and they are praised after if they doe it well So it is no matter what a man acts if hee doe it well hee is for ever happie If hee doe it ill hee is forever miserable all here is but a Pageant If you talke of realtie it is in the things of Religion If you talke of true Nobilitie it is to bee the Childe of God If you talke of true Riches they are those that wee carrie to our death-bed those that wee carrie to Heaven those that comfort the soule those that inrich the soule with Grace and Comfort and Peace that is true Riches If you talke of true Beautie it is to have the Image of God stamped upon our soules to bee like Christ to be new Creatures If wee talke of true Strength it is to stand against Temptations to be able to serve God and to goe through the world without polluting our soules to beare Crosses as wee should that is the true realtie The things of this life are all but Apparitions and Pageants The greatest man in the world will say so when he lyes a dying as that great Emperour said I have runne through all things and now nothing doth mee good The realtie was gone that hee thought of and now there was nothing but a shew and Apparition when the realtie was gone nothing doth mee good Come to a man that is gasping out his life and aske him what doth honours doe you good What doth riches doe you good what doth possessions doe you good Solomon a wise man wise by the Spirit of God wise by experience because hee was a King wise by a speciall gift of God and the spirit of God and experience together with the spirit of God and a gift of Wisedome hee had all to inable him to give a true sentence hee that had runne through the varietie of all good things what doth hee pronounce but Vanity of Vanities he cannot expresse himselfe Vanity of vanities sayth Wise Holy experienced Solomon he that had all abilities that no man was able to say it so well as hee yet hee saith Vanitie of Vanities and that which is worse Vexation of Spirit if a man have not especiall grace to mannage them a right And therefore I beseech you Brethren doe but represent the things of this life even under the notion here they are but Apparitions they are but Pageants If wee be to buy any thing in this world wee pull off the trappings wee pull off the Masque or else wee may bee couzened in the thing So if we would iudge of the things of this world as they are What is within Riches is there not a great deale of care What is within government What is within the things of this life There is a goodly shew and Apparition what is within Pull of the Masque and then you shal see the things of this World The more you pierce into them and the more you know them the worse you will like them Like a picture that seemes goodly stuffe afar-off but neere-hand it seems baser so if you come neer these things there is emptinesse and not onely so but Vexation But in the things of heaven the nearer you are the more you will love them the more you will admire them the more a man knowes God the more hee may know him the more a man knowes Christ and loves Christ the more hee may there is a height and bredth and depth there all dimensions in the love of God in Christ and in the ioyes of heaven they are beyond comprehension The things that wee have in Christ they are larger than the soule wee cannot comprehend them There is nothing here but wee may compasse it it is inferiour to our knowledge and affections our affections and our knowledge are larger than any thin here the things of a better life are beyond all Shall wee stand upon apparitions that the more wee know them the more wee shall undervalew them And the fashion of this world passeth away It is a fashion it is but a fashion and then it passeth away Indeed they doe passe away experience sheweth that they passe even like a river As we see the Thames or any river the water passeth away it goes and goes along but it never comes so the things of this world they passe away but they never come againe they vanish away and wee passe away with them too Even as men in a ship whether they eat or drinke or sleepe or walke the ship goeth and they goe in it So it is in this world whether wee eate or drinke or sleepe wee passe away to death Every day takes a

part of our life away and every day wee live wee live a day lesse it is gone and past and never returnes againe as water which it is gone and whether wee walke or doe any thing the time passeth While you heare and while I speake the time passeth and never returnes againe so the fashion of this world passeth away All thinges are passing here VVhat is the ground of this that all things are thus passing Goods that are not stable we say they are moveables and indeed those things that wee call immoveables are moveables All passe away heaven and earth will passe away ere long And there will bee a new heaven and a new earth Kingdomes passe away and Kings passe away and States passe away VVhat is become of Rome VVhat is become of Ierusalem VVhat is become of Babylon and all those goodly Cities All are passed away they are all gone This experience speakes as well as Divinitie Now the ground of all this is not onely the Nature of things taken from the Nature of all things that are made of nothing and therefore subject to fall to their first principles againe That is the fundamentall reason why things may bee moove-able and passe away But that they are so it is not a sufficient reason for GOD might have suspended the mutabilitie of things if hee would as the heavenly Angels are mutable because they are Created but God hath suspended there mutability world without end And therfore it is not sufficient that all things are of nothing it shewes that of themselves they may turne to nothing indeed But there is another reason behinde that now since the fall of man there is a curse upon all things There is a sentence of mutability and change and a sentence of passing is passed upon all this that all things that have a beginning shal have an end and that this world shal be a Stage of changes and alteration There is a sentence of Vanitie upon the Creature as Saint Paul saith Divinely The Creature is subject to Vanitie not of his owne will but because God hath subdued it to Vanitie Rom. 8. Man committed Treason and therefore the Creatures which are mans servants all mourne for their masters fall they all mourne in blacke as it were All the Creatures are subiect to Vanitie all the Creatures under the Sunne are subiect to mutabilitie and change but we may thanke our selves wee are the grand-traitors that brought this miserie upon the Creature that is the true reason why all things passe away and so why our selves have the sentence of death upon us wee passe away and the things passe away and wee in the use of them Thus you see the ground of this why things passe away in the sentence of mutabilitie and vanitie that God hath passed upon them If this be so beloved let us learne not to passe much for things that will passe away not to passe for them learne all the former directions The fashion of this world passeth away Shall wee grieve much for the losse of that that wee cannot hold Wee say if a glasse be broke is a man much angrie a frayle thing is broken If a friend bee dead shall a man bee therefore angry The fashion of this world passeth away A sentence is passed upon them Shall I be moved at that that God hath set downe a Law for that one generation shall goe and another shall follow after and there is a succession as in the streames of water Shall I oppose Cods sentence God hath made all things fraile and it is but the common condition of all since the fall So it should be a use of comfort and contentment with any thing in this world place or Riches or honour I must leave them I know not how soone and this will breed a disposition of contentment It is enough for him that must leave all I know not how soone have I little or much I must leave all here is enough for him that must leave all and therefore leave worldly things to worldly men leave all these vaine things to vaine men shall I build a fixed hope on vaine things Oh! no that should not be so As we must learne contentment so it should take us off from the hopes of this world and from promising our selves that which we have no promise in the world for nor experience VVho promised thee thou shouldest enioy thy wise long that thou shouldest enjoy thy children long thy place long haste thou a promise for this The nature of things fight against thee The things of the world are variable Have wee not experience of former times And have wee not Scriptures to shew that all is Vanitie Why should wee promise our selves that which the Word doth not promise us or that wee cannot see experience of in the world Why would wee have a condition severed from all men The seeing of things in a condition of fading as it should teach us contentment in the use of all things so it should teach us moderation and wisedome that Wee should not promise our selves any thing in this world And it should teach us to provide for stable for certaine things in changes and alterations Looke to somewhat that may stand by us when all these things are gone will all these things leave me and must I leave them How is it with me for world without end Shall I not therefore looke for those comforts and those graces and for that condition that will abide when I am gone hence what desperate folly were it Let us labour for a sanctifyed use of the passing away of these things that wee may provide for that which is not subiect to alteration and change The favour of God in Christ is for everlasting The Graces of Gods Spirit are for Everlasting The condition of Gods Children is for everlasting And therefore why should we looke after perishing things and neglect better For a Christian hath the realtie of things hee hath a Husband for ever Hee hath matter of ioy for ever he hath a possession for ever then there will be a new world All these things are but Shews the Christian hath the realty of al that never passes away and therefore considering that all things else passe away but the things that belong to a Christian as a Christian let Christians learne to make most of their best calling and value themselves as they are Christians and value others as they are Christians not as they are rich or as they are poore as they are noble or as they are great The fashion of this world passeth away value them by that they have of eternitie what of the Spirit is in them what of the Image of God is in them What Grace is in them are they new borne are they truely noble are they new Creatures value them by that and labour to get that stamped upon our children and upon our friends Labour to have Communion so