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A07259	The flight of time, discerned by the dim shadow of Iobs diall, Iob. 9. 25 Explaned in certaine familiar and profitable meditations well conducing to the wise numbering of our daies in the sad time of this mortalitie. As it was delivered to his charge at Bloxham in Oxford-shire by the pastour thereof. R.M.	Matthew, Roger, b. 1574 or 5.	1634 (1634)	STC 17654A; ESTC S120930	13,637	23

swifter then a Post that Satan and sin shall have no more to do with us heaven misseth us as much as we earne for it God will shortly call for us the Angels shall carry us Christ Iesus shall intertaine us his Spirit shall welcome us his e Ps 17.15 image shall satisfie us Let this mitigate the sadnesse of humane life especially of the Saints being the Third and last consideration from the Text. They see no good The word good is of easie explication by noting how the word evill its contrary is in Scripture distinguished There 's one evill in the roote as it were partaking of that f 1 Iob. 5.18 Evill one Satan and that 's the evill of sin in relation whereunto it s said of wicked times g Ephes 5.16 the daies are evill There 's another evill in the branches and that 's the effect and fruit of sin viz. misery in which respect daies of sorrow are termed h Eccles 12 1. Evill daies So according to the rule of Opposites the word Good hath a double sense drawne upon it First as it participateth of the Good God in holinesse and righteousnesse so Godly works are stiled i 1 Tim. 6.18 good works Secondly as it partakes of Gods bounty in the prosperity comfort of the creature in which respect k Ps 34.12 prosperous daies are called Good and this is the proper sense of the word in this Text Iobs daies saw no Good that is much misery much losse in state much feare in his children much paine in his body much discouragement from his friends much horrour in his soule all which as Iob suffered by way of triall so all are sufferable by demerit which takes us out a Doct. 3 Third profitable though hard lesson viz. Our short swift time is subject to great and sore affliction Short and sweet were some mitigation but our daies are as sowre as short Swift and pleasant were some qualification but they are knotty and sad as well as swift All our daies are not faire long sommer daies but many gloomy short winter nippy daies among Iobs whole story to the last Chapter what i st but a ruthfull Martyrologie of affliction Iacobs story well concurred with his confession that his daies were l Gen. 49.7 few and evill The Patriarke David had his stint this way being exercised with m Ps 71.20 great and sore troubles and if the righteous are recompensed upon earth with troubles for number n Ps 34.19 many for measure o Iob 2.13 great p Pro. 11.31 how much more saith Solomon the wicked and the sinner Speake experience of what condition is the vanishing vapour of our life When we have made a hard scape from stifling in the wombe what 's infamy but a brak of discontents what 's child-hood but a schoole of restraint from without a very bridewell of frowardnesse within What 's youth but a pitcht field of passions and distempers What 's age but a meere hospitall of infirmities Our whole life worse than a tragedy for that begins with some mixture of delight wherein the first act is crying the second grieving groaning is the last Catastrophe No marvaile then if Iob calculate mans time to be not only short but q Iob 14.1 full of misery Reason 1 For why The Lord hath so appointed it as David and Hezekiah upon their sick beds acknowledge God hath layed this heavie yoke upon all the sons of Adam either for punishment or for tryall and ther 's no escaping a thing decreed Were it any way avoideable wisdome might discry some prevention Were these stormes only upon the land or upon the sea alone the advantage of ease might be taken by the place were they only without dores one might house himselfe within but be he where he can be he cannot avoid what he is borne to Man is borne saith Iob to trouble r Iob 5.7 as the sparks flie upwards Reason 2 Affliction is sins native brood if this hang on the other will not fall off its sin that makes mans time narrow as a well for breadth deepe as hell for bitternes why els doth ſ Ps 18.4 David and Ionah t Ionah 2.2 complaine of hellish sorrowes whosoever therefore followes sin becomes afflictions prey neither have the law and the Prophets noted any other chace for afflictions hunting but only the sinner If no man can say he hath clensed his heart from sin no man shall be able to rid his soule or body from sorrow Truth is sin hath no fitter meanes wherby to execute its own ends then this What aimeth sin at Death and destruction What breaks and battereth downe more forcibly then affliction Man made mortall must downe iniquity is the axe miseries the ordinary severall strokes that lay the sinner along Vse 1 Do all suffer or deserve to feele these stormes that passe the sea of this mortality Then this must first resolve what to trust to heere This world is not a meadow full of flowers but a wildernesse of brakes and briars now this affliction catches at us now an other at sins sute arests us now a foe dogges us anon a sicknes laies us up waking sleeping dreaming cares atches feares crasinesses and distempers as thick as u Iob 1.14.16.17 18. Iobs ill messengers haunt us Dreame of what ease and comfort thou wilt after thy state and condition so and so altered to thy mind how thou shalt live as merrily as the day is long to as your proverbe runs after thy yoke-fellow obtained to thy minde after all thy reversions outlived all thy purchases compassed preferments atchieved children placed deceive not thy selfe even after all those thou wilt flote upon a sea of sin and therfore no lesse then a sea of waves and rocks and shelves and stormes and pirats shall annoy and continually endanger thee Art Gods tree thou must be pruned art Gods tilth thou must be bowelled up with plow and harrow els thou wilt be fruitlesse art Gods childe chastised thou must be or graceles Art Gods enemy he notes thy prancks and is providing sowre sauce for thy pleasant morsels His hand is taking holt of vengeance he is furbushing his * Deut. 32 41. glittering sword that his arrowes may drink the blood his sword eate the flesh of thē that hate him Finally be thou good or bad set not to thy heart any descant of pleasant ditty whiles all the tune of thy life runs upon discords of iniquity if any comforts appeare they are but as the gleames of a March day beaten with stormes as fast as they glimmer forth and therefore as thou dost not unslate thy house when the showre is past but keepest it to award another so put not away faith and patience and watchfulnesse at the departure of any crosse but taking a short farwell reserve thy selfe to welcome the same againe or worse sith this is not the haven but the Ocean 2. Neither

God more honour the truth more credit and our selves more ease by musing upon mercies by comparing eternals with temporals by considering the shortnesse of thy life and so confesse and praise the Lord for thy short afflictions unlesse thou wilt in foolish peremptorinesse say a Iob 1 5 9 thou wast the first man that was borne and wast made before the hills sufferedst ever since and resolvest to suffer for ever after thy departure hence Thirdly have we but short daies heere to spend What shall we doe better then to strive with God in prayer and our selves in practise First with God in commending our requests to him in these daies of our flesh after our Saviours example he alone is the meats-man of our daies b Iob 7.1 setting forth an appointed time to man upon the earth Pray him in Davids words with Davids spirit to c Ps 85.47 remember how short our time is and to remove all hinderances of mispending and improve all his owne offred meanes and furtherances for the well-spending our short abode heere and for our selves let 's often season all outward passages with thoughts of our approaching end mixe them with our marriages tradings purchases journeyes all field en and domestick labours especially with our recreations and delights take heed of engrossing and griping after more time or temporall things then the Lord affords bethink how fraile thy selfe art how short thy time of what manner thy abode thy daies as David told thee are but of a d 1 Cron. 29.15 pilgrim thy mansion is not thy home thy house but an Inne thy family and neighbours are but fellow-passengers if thy corruptions within or Satan and the world without beare thee in hand with enough layed up for many yeeres give them all the lie with the tongue of this Text and be sure that though thou must converse in the world yet to keepe thy selfe free from the e 2 Pet 1.4 corruptions of the world as Saint Paul stiles them It s hard Bernard but much discourse of temporall things will gnaw the conscience as the rivers fret their bancks but holy circumspection and moderation will ease that difficulty the blinde want though versed all in the earth still preserves its velvet coat faire from the filth of the earth thou hast thy eyes about thee nor needst thou delve so deepe so converse thou in earthly matters that thy conscience be not defiled and beware thou suffer not the earth so to bury thy soule before thy body die but that thou maist use thy eyes to discrie death peeping over thy shoulder whiles thou lookest upon thy worldly matters or if farther off to ken it in its full gallop and flight to overtake thee and that 's the second part of this taske viz. the swiftnesse of mans life in the Post hast or rather flying of the same My daies are swifter then a Post they flee away from whence who cannot spell forth this lesson Doct. 2 Mans life is swift as well as short Our daies seeme wing-footed Iob seemes doubtfull whether they run or flee The swiftest rider is too slow to make expressure the fowles wings best Emblems forth lifes quick dispatch and that when it makes to the prey and that of the f Iob 9.26 Eagle not only for swiftnesse but strength which no humane obstacle of either youth wit wealth honour or physick can stay or hinder from its appointed goale The proverb drops too short that saith Time and Tide stay not Tides creepe on but slowly and have their interstices stay somwhat when they have their stints chalenge their returnes Time is neither so nor so The Prophet speakes more home Our time yea the g Ps 90.80 strength of it is soone cut off we flee yea we flee away and that without either h 1 Chron. 29.15 abiding saith David i Iob 7.9 returning as Iob hath it The Holy Ghost is ample for comparisons as before resembling mans sliding state to things ever upon the rode of hast To a k Es 40 7. floure that fades apace To l Ps 12.14 water that runs apace To a m Iob 9.26 ship that sailes apace To a Post and an Eagle as ye see that rides and flees apace There 's no keeping pace with time but upon the wings of the n Iob 7.7 Winde that whirles apace But how comes this to passe that man in his best estate though in honour is thus altogether a flying vanity and abideth not Reason 1. If natures reason may carry it the subject and foundation of time runs as it were all on wheeles the heavenly Orbs of swifter motion then of any flying bullet from the strongest Ordenance whirle the times about amongst which the uncessant circuits of the Sunne and Moone are appointed by him that o Es 40.22 sits upon the circle of the earth and meteth out Heaven by the span to measure forth these earthly yeeres p Vers 12. moneths and dayes till all time be swallowed up into eternity and these heavens be no more How then can our daies be slow 2. Doe not sinne and sinners make quicke worke in the world How speedily do men breake into it Even q Ps 58.3 from the wombe With what eager pursuit doe men follow sinne Even like Iehues furious march swiftly r Pro. 6.18 their feet are swift in running to mischiefe some faster some slower all too fast How would wickednesse tyrannize might it in this heat have while to roote and spread and seed according to the lust of sinfull men And who shall hinder swift sinners from bringing upon themselves swift destruction 3. Neither is experience so senselesse of the reason a parte post as they say by a touch of after-wit that perceives every minute of time so flight that it prevents the quickest catch gives the heedfullest attention the slip and out-strips the speediest chase The time to come is but only in conceit the time is fled in instants who can say of any time present now it is sith it out-runs thy thought Vse 1 This shreds off the superfluous desires of many men male-contented with their present states who like infants after youth and youth after riper age are ever liquering after future times Oh were such a quarter day come or such a yeere or time expired they were made Why what hadst gotten by this catch if thou couldst finger some thred of time before the Sun can spin it First thou shouldst get but a wilde foule a shadow a puft whose hasty vanishing would more vexe then its approach did please Secondly is the thing for which thou so over-reachest good or evill If thou hast such a greedy worme under thy tongue for that which is evill that like ſ Gē 85.30 Esau for the pottage or Elies sonnes for the flesh thou wilt needs have it t 1 Sam. 2.16 Now or in a sort wilt take it by force hearken what the next verse