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A15385	A paire of sermons successiuely preacht to a paire of peereles and succeeding princes The former as an ante-funerall to the late Prince Henry, anno Dom. 1612. October 25. The first day of his last and fatall sicknesse. The latter preacht this present yeere 1614. Ianuar. 16. to the now liuing Prince Charles, as a preseruer of his life, and life to his soule.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1614 (1614)	STC 25661; ESTC S120035	36,572	96

no art or labour euen Paul himselfe who so many yeeres had laboured himselfe to God yet complaines and cries out as if hee had done nothing VVretched man that I am who shall deliuer mee from this body of death Rom. 7. and yet we who haue done nothing make our selues secure against sinne and Satan as if one houre were enough to conquer all vnto this had the righteous respect when they complained of the shortnesse of their liues and prayed to haue their daies prolonged not for that they feared to die or loued this fraile life for it selfe wherin they saw nothing but misery and vanity but because they feared lest death should preuent them before they were prepared as thinking all their daies too few to learne repentance in perfection Vnto this had S. Paul respect when he exhorted the Corinthians not to drowne themselues too deepe in the affaires of this life this I say because the time is short 1. Cor. 7. that they which haue wiues be as if they had none and they which buy as if they possessed not and they which vse the world as if they vsed it not and all this he exhorted because the time is short It is a wonder to see how men plant and build and buy and sell as if there were no other life but heere It is fearfull to consider how prodigall men are of the time and lose these golden daies which they ought to redeeme while in the meane time heauen flies away and hell hastens on them Sed sicut capillus de capite sic nec momentum peribit de tempore saith Bernard God is so mercifull to vs as to keep vs to a haire of our heads hee shall also bee so iust with vs as to presse our account to a moment of time misimployed by vs. The last point generall of the text is our miserable pilgrimage and endurance in the world we come in poorely we goe out quickly and while we continue wee continue carefully it is not short and sweet neither only short and swift but it is short and sharpe Full of trouble Some translate and carie it thus Satur ira Man short in daies full of wrath or anger which may be ment either passiuely by reason of the wrath of God vpon vs for our sinnes for as it is Psal 90. VVee are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath we are troubled and what are all the plagues of this life but the execution of Gods wrath vpon vs for our sinnes or or else it may bee vnderstood more actiuely by reason of the troubles which man himselfe being a turbulent creature moueth in the world for wee rage at God himselfe when he doth but a little punish vs wee are still at warres and at law one with another and as Balaams Asse could tell the verie beasts are not free from our madnesse and crueltie and therefore Tremellius translateth it Satur commotione Man borne of a woman short in daies and full of commotion as if all mankind were in a tumult and vp in armes and so wee are indeed at warres with God Esa 9. and at warres with one another Ephraim against Manasses and Manasses against Ephraim and both against Judah Wee are not quiet in the wombe but as Jacob and Esau wee spurne and kicke at one another we are not borne into the world but with a cry and exclamation and when wee come into it we stamp and stare like Furies on the stage and with the King of Babylon wee make the earth to tremble Esa 14.16 and if there were no outward thing to trouble vs yet we haue a pitcht field in our selues still vexed and pained with our owne vnruly passions Looke into the seuerall sexes of men and women and see if either of them bee free from trouble Jn sorrow shalt thou bring firth in subiection shalt thou liue and thy husband shall rude oner thee saith God to the woman and then he turneth to the man Because thou hast eaten where J forbad thee Jn sorrow shalt thoa eate thy bread the earth is accursed thornes and thistles are multiplied c. He must labour in wearinesse both hee and shee must die at last and haue their fill of sorrowes in the meane time she to sorrow at home and in the house hee to sorrow abroad and in the furrowes of the field she to sorrow in bringing forth of children he to sorrow in bringing vp of children shee to sorrow in her subiection to him and hee to sorrow yea a great deale of sorrow in passing his time with her that lest they should lacke trouble they should bee a cause of mutual trouble to themselues and sorrow in their very comforts as Lot was plagued in Sodome which hee chose out for his pleasure Againe is there any time or age free from trouble surely none for in sorrow shalt thou eate thy bread saith God All the dates of thy life Gen. 3.17 Begin with childhood and can any misery or trouble bee there yes sure the things which are most necessary are miserable to a child the mastering and breaking of his will seemes oppression to him but the shaking of the rod is flat persecution light sorrowes you wil say in respect of the greater troubles which ensue It is true they are so yet a little trouble is great where there is neither reason to conceiue the necessity nor patience at all to beare it But then comes on youth headdy aduenturous voluptuous passionate and prodigall youth wherein al our actions and courses whether good or euill yet minister matter of vexation to vs For labour wee indeed our youth is the time of our labour yet our very labours spend vp our strength that had wee not a seuenth day to rest from the sorrowes of the sixt wee should faint and die Againe studie wee an easie trade an idle kind of life The world saith to vs Exod. 5. as Pharaoh to the Jsraelites Ye are too much idle yet Salomon said that Much reading was a wearinesse to the flesh Eccles 12. Againe resist we as young men ought to doe our euill lusts and desires 1. Ioh. 2.14 Oh how sweet are the lusts of youth how strong are the temptations and what a paine it is to resist the things which are pleasing to vs But play wee or follow wee our pleasures indeed that is the naturall trade of youth as Eccles 11.9 Reioyce O young man in thy youth c. yet are wee no way more vexed and plagued then by our pleasures for as a theefe robbes in feare and an adulterer though the dores bee fast lockt yet is afraid still so is there a checke of conscience which bites the most riotous in the midst of their riot Againe if our pleasure bee in prodigality our end must be beggery that sin being peculiarely a scourge to it selfe and many times before the Prodigall can spend vp all the prison the presse or the halter do spend vp him miserable is the

quakes to looke vpon the danger so wee when wee looke backe to our birth and thinke on the dangers in it onely we can say with Dauid Thou O God and not our selues thou art he that tooke me out of my mothers wombe Psal 22. When we are borne what then we fall if not hand hold vs to the feete of her that bare vs that is wee fall from the wombe to the ground from one earth to another So naturally at the first doe wee finde the way to o r last home euen as God said to Adam at the first Out of earth wast thou taken and to earth thou shalt returne Gen. 3. And oh that wee might see or could we but remember with what pompe and glory wee are borne into the world Naked as wormes crawling like snakes that there is not amongst the creatures so weake and helplesse a creature as man the mother a misery to thinke the mother that hath newly borne vs lieth by vs indeed but halfe slaine by our birth and least able to helpe vs so we are borne like Beniamin with hazard of her life that gaue vs life and we seeme halfe murtherers so soone as we are borne when wee are taken vp what then we fall a crying as either repenting of our change or wishing our selues vnborne againe or as if we did foresee the sequell of the text the troubles which ensue In the middest of this our moaning wee are as Ezechiel speakes chap. 16. of his prophecy we are washt and bathed and swadled in clouts No doubt goodly gallants and great cause to bee proud if wee thought of our selues in our first pollution when wee are thus swadle and prankt vp like puppets a dainty lump of liuing earth What pleasure feele wee nay what feele we what sense or feeling haue we saue now and then of weakenesse and sicknesse the pangs and smart of the parents sinne We are then brought to the mother to looke vpon and she as a theefe when he is pardoned lookes backe to the gallowes or to the halter that had like to hangd him so lookes shee on her son on her sonne as on her death if God in great mercy had not preuented it when the mother hath lookt and kist we are brought to the father too and to looke vpon too and while the father looks euery one cries out Behold the father looke vpon the child see see and behold how like they looke while indeede they looke more like then they should and it were well for the child if it were not so father-like or mother-like as it is and what get both father and mother by looking but to looke as Salomon saith of the rich man and his money Eccles 5. VVhat good comes to the owners thereof but the beholding of it with their eyes So looke the carefull parents on a wofull child sometime laughing with hope of that it may be sometime distressed with feare of that it may bee watching in the day wakeing in the night somtime merrie somtime sorrie sometime angrie that it were not possible for them to passe through so much patience if God had not infused animpregnable affectiō of loue to ouercome it thus are we borne in teares and sorrow to our selues in perill and sorrow to her that beares vs in nakednes and shame to all that looke vpon vs here is nothing yet to boast on But is our case amended or is our birth magnified by her that bare vs Man that is borne of what of a woman as much as to say like nest like bird like mother like child but why not as well Man begot of a man as Man borne of a woman perhaps because the woman is the weaker vessell and the meaning chiefly was to abase man in his owne might or perhaps because sinne was first inuested in the woman and since wee stand so much vpon our antiquity wee are only sinners by antiquity rebels by prescription and rebellion rooted in our first blood sinners by the father but first by the mother as by the surer side or perhaps it is because sinne hath more vniuersally preuailed ouer women Eccles 7. for Salomon counting a thousand women one by one by that account to finde one good one found one good man indeed but that man was Christ but not one good woman among them all And whether by the woman wee vnderstand the first woman the mother of mankinde or else the mother of euery seuerall man it comes all to one end Iob 25. for how can hee bee cleane saith Bildad which is borne of a woman If wee looke to Eue our great grandmother what haue we to pleade for her Adam was called Pater viuentium the father of al men liuing and Abraham was called Pater credentium the father of the faithfull or of all the beleeuing but Eue might as well bee called Mater peccantium the mother of all sinners and what receiue we by right of such a mother but blushing at her pride and feare of her confusion If wee looke backe to her that last bare vs the rocke whereout wee are hewen oh how little are wee amended by her for Jn iniquity was J borne saith Dauid and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me Psal 51. Sinne came from Eue A longe the date is so old as wee haue forgot how we came by it but the mother that last bare vs shee hath stampt it anew with her owne hands shee hath powred it out into vs more naturally then milke out of her paps yea euen as a poyson new tapt and fresh out of the vessel so by our grandmother wee haue sinne translated and giuen as at the second hand but by our mother wee haue sin reuiued and newly incarnate in vs and haue we not great cause then to be proud of her that bare vs euery man thinkes deepely what good hee hath receiued by his parents what inheritance what countenance what blood hee hath by them yea the very name of our ancestors seemeth precious to vs but yet no man considereth that all this is poysoned with sinne and that the whole summe of the good doth not counteruaile the least part of the euill which commeth by them You will say you were borne of a woman but what had you by her you receiued life by her true a temporall life but you receiued withall the reward of sinne eternall death and it were better neuer to be borne then to bee borne to such a death you sucked and receiued your foode from her so did you your poison too you receiued your wrapping your clothes and raiment by her so did you your nakednesse your shame and sinne too summe vp your gettings with your losse and see vpon the account what cleerely you haue gained therefore vainly said the Iewes wee haue Abraham to our father and idly say you you haue a princesse a Countesse or a Lady to your mother Sonnes of men in Scripture are neuer spoken of but with