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A54841 Empsychon nekron, or, The lifelessness of life on the hether side of immortality with (a timely caveat against procrastination) briefly expressed and applyed in a sermon preached at the funerall of Edward Peyto of Chesterton ... / by Thomas Pierce ... Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. 1659 (1659) Wing P2182; ESTC R33405 28,827 44

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Thus we see the child of man or the man who is born of a woman is so full of Trouble to the brim that many times it overflow's him On one side or other we all are troubled but some are troubled on d every side Insomuch that they themselves are the greatest Trouble unto themselves and 't is a kind of death to them that they cannot dye We find King David so sick of Life as to fall a wishing for the wings of a Dove that so his soul might fly away from the great Impediments of his Body He confessed his Dayes were at the longest but a e span and yet he complained they were no shorter It seems that Span was as the span of a wither'd Hand which the farther he stretched out the more it griev'd him He was f weary of his groaning His soul did g pant after Heaven and even thirsted for God And he might once more have cryed though in another sense Woe is me that I am constrain'd to dwell with Meseck and to have mine habitation among the Tents of Kedar I remember that Charidemus in Dio Chrysoslom compared man's Life unto a Feast or Banquet And I the rather took notice of it because the Prophet Elijah did seem in some sense to have made it good Who after a first or second Course as I may say of living as if he had surfetted of Life cryed out in hast It is enough and with the very same breath desired God to take away for so faith the Scripture 1 Kings 19. 4. He went into the Wilderness a solitary place and there be sate under a Iuniper in a melancholy posture and requested of God that he might dye in a very disconsolate and dolefull manner even pouring forth his soul in these melting Accents It is enough now O Lord take away my life for I am no better then my Fa●hers And if the Dayes of Elijah were full of trouble how was Iob overwhelmed and running over with his Calamity when the b Terrours of God did set themselves in aray against him how did he c long for destruction O saith he that I might have my request that God would grant me the thing that I long for Even that it would please him to destroy me that he would let loose his hand and cut me off How did he d Curse the Day of his Birth and the Night wherein he was conceived Let that Day be darkness let the shadow of Death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let blackness terrifie it And for the Night let it not be joyned unto the dayes of the year Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark neither let it s●e the dawning of the day And what was his reason for this unkindness to that particular Day and Night save that they brought upon him trouble of being a Man borne of a woman for we find him complaining a little after why dyed I not from the Womb why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the Belly And then for the Life of our blessed Saviour who is call'd by way of Eminence The Son of Man as I observ'd before that it was short so must I here put you in mind that it was full of Trouble He was therefore call'd by way of Eminence Vir Dolorum a A Man of sorrows The Prophet adds he was b acquainted with Grief For the whole Tenor of his Life was a continuation of his Calamities The Time would fail me should I but mention the hundredth part of those men whose short Time of life hath seemed long to them even because they have felt it so full of Trouble But enough hath been said concerning the Doctrine of the Text And it lyes upon us to make some use First then let us consider that if man as born of a woman hath but a short time to live It concerns us to take up the prayer of David that God will teach us to know our End and the number of our Dayes that we like c Hezechiah may be fully certified how short our Time is It concerns us to take up the Resolution of Job All the Dayes of our appointed time incessantly waiting till our change cometh It concerns us not to say with the rich man in the parable we will pull down our Barns and build greater and there we will bestow all our fruits ' and our goods much less may we say with that other Worldling Souls take your Ease eat drink and be merry for you have much goods laid up for many years for alas how can we know silly creatures as we are but that this very Night nay this very minute either they may be taken from us or we from them there is such a fadeingness on their parts and such a fickleness on ours But it concerns us rather to say with Job Naked came we into the world and naked shall we go out of it Or it concerns us rather to say with David that we are strangers upon Earth and but so many sojourners as all our Fathers were for whilest we consider we are but strangers we shall as * Strangers and Pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul And so long as we remember we are but sojourners upon earth we shall pass the time of our sojourning here in fear And behaving our selves among the Gentiles as a chosen Generation a Royall Priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar People we shall shew forth his praise who hath called us out of Darkness into his marvellous Light Secondly let us consider that since our Life is uncertain as well as short inasmuch as we know not how short it is it concerns us immediately to labour hard in the Improvement of this our span into Eternity to employ our very short and uncertain Time in making a seasonable provision against them both I mean it's shortness and its uncertainty For shall we be lavish even of that which is so easily lost and of which we have so very little and every minute of which Little does carry so great a weight with it as will be either a kind of Pulley to help raise us up to Heaven or else a Clogg to pull us down to the lowest Hell Of whatsoever we may be wastefull we ought to be charie of our Time which doth incontinently perish and will eternally be reckoned on our account Per●unt imputantur the Epigrammatist could say of his pretious Hours Now the way to provide against the shortness of our Life is so to live as to dye to the greatest Advantage to be imagin'd and so to dye as to live for ever What Tobit said to Tobias in respect of wealth Fear not my son that we are made poor for thou hast much wealth if thou fear God and depart from all sin and do that which is pleasing in his sight He might