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death_n	day_n	die_v	eat_v	5,786	5	6.8715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67031	Chous epitreohomenos, or, The dust returning to the earth being a sermon preached at the interrment of that excellently accomplisht gentleman Tho. Lloyd Esq. late of Wheaten-Hurst in the county of Gloucester upon Tuesday the 22nd of December, 1668 / by Tho. Woolnough.	Woolnough, Thomas, ca. 1630-1675.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3530; ESTC R27625	15,883	23

but have a care of a knock keep it whole as long as thou canst for if once it fall asunder it is no longer of any worth the matter of it is but Earth good for nothing however the form of it may for a time commend it both to thy self and others Let young people think of this especially in whom the sin of Pride is wont to be most predominant When thou art dressing thy self at thy Glass O young person admiring thine own form and ready with Narcissus to fall in love with thy self think then What do I take all this pains for to deck a piece of Earth my body is no better And as Humility within our selves so let us learn it with reference unto others from this consideration Who are we that contemn our poor Brethren Are they ragged and beggerly Are they mishapen and deformed what then Their Bodies are made of no worse matter than our own all are but Earth Much less let any of us dare to magnifie our selves against the great God adventure to take up the Cudgels against Heaven Will the Terrae filii the Sons of Earth make war with Jupiter yea though Gyants great in strength and stature Alas poor Earth Shall the Clay magnifie it self against the Potter Good God! that ever Earth should be so proud as to defie its Maker What are we all the men of the world joyn'd together but so many Earthen Vessels Let but God smite us and we crumble to dust yea how easily can he dash us to pieces one against another Let not Earth then dare to incur the displeasure of the Almighty let us in all humility reverence and obey him O Earth Earth Earth hear the Word of the Lord. Let us serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling as Psal 2. 11. least we be broken with a rod of iron and dasht in pieces like a Potters Vessel as v. 9. Again Are our Bodies of Earth then 2 Let us not make our selves slaves to them What shall the Divine Soul serve the Earthen Body for shame This is for Servants to ride and Princes to go on foot Let us not make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof as Rom. 13. 14. Let us curb and check the Body when it grows malepert and domineers let us make Earth know it self Do we come hither think we into the world for naught but to gratifie our Bodies to eat and drink and sleep c. These bodily services how much of our pretious time do they take up Some they must as we are men but as little as may be they should as we are Christians Let it not be said of any amongst us Dum comuntur aluntur annus est How many are there who make Idols of their Bodies who worship an earthen god the grossest and most stupid Idolatry imaginable Some make their back their god others their belly these we read of Phil. 3. 19. Whose God is their belly who mind earthly things The things of the Body are and must needs be earthly things for the Body it self is but Earth Let us mind the Body less and the Soul more Let us not feed the Swine and starve the Child The Soul is the Treasure which we have in these Earthen Vessels as they are call'd 2 Cor. 4. 7. Let us secure the Treasure and not be much solicitous about the Vessels 3. Are our Bodies Earth We might from hence too take notice of the infinite Wisdom of God the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle calls it who of such rough matter can frame such excellent pieces This commends the Workmans art that he can make Earth so glorious Let us take notice of this not to make us proud which we have been already caveated against but to cause us to glorifie God with these Bodies of ours By the way too Let us be hence confirmed in our belief of the Resurrection if God cou●d of very Earth make such Bodies as these why can he not of Earth raise them up again No matter what the stuff be if God be the Workman 4. See we hence the necessity of death or something aequivalent to it that change mentioned 1 Cor. 15. 51. Why we have Earthen Bodies and these are not fit for Heaven What should Heaven do with Earthen Pitchers The azured Windows of that Imperial Pallace need no such Flowre-Pots No This corruptible must put on incorruption this Earth must be refined from its dross and dreggs e'r it be fit Company for Angels Again 5. Let us learn not immmoderately to fear them that can onely kill the Body break an Earthen Pot a great matter who cannot do as much as that Neither is the Conquest great on their part nor the loss much on ours Let us not fear the wearing out of our Bodies in Gods Service or the laying down these Earthly Tabernacles in his Cause for his sake and at his Call Little will we do for him upon whom we will not bestow a piece of Earth A Crown of Glory is a good reward 'T is a thriving way of negotiation thus to barter with God to get Heaven for a piece of dust laid out But I hasten and pass from this to the later Branch of the Proposition The Body must to Earth again As it was saith the Text. Had it not been for the sin of Man the Body should have been immortal it was sin that brought in death In the day that thou eatest thou shalt die Gen. 2. 17. Yet this immortality of the Body would have been not ex natura sed gratia The Body is made of dying ingredients Earthen Ware will crack one time or other The Pitcher goes not so often to the Well but it comes broken home at last To die is in Nazianzen's Phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To pay a Debt to Nature There are then two reasons why the Dust must to the Earth 1. The natural frailty of Mans Body which declines towards the Grave 2. Gods Decree for the punishment of sin To the Earth the dust must such is its Nature and to the Earth it shall such is Gods determination Well Learn we hence too 1. Not to be too fond of these Bodies of ours not to tiddle them to satisfie all their wanton appetites and desires to live like Epicures How will that delicate Body do to lie down in the Grave which here even tires the Soul to invent ways of making much of it Yet this it must come to nolens volens The wind must not blow upon thee O Man or Woman here what a care thou hast of thy self This and the other is not good enough for thee to eat nor this or that to wear Thy Luxury must rifle no less than 3 Elements yea thy Eye must be fed as well as thy Belly Quasi gula crapulae non sufficeret etiam oculis caenamus ipsis oculis est gula saith P●…tean And remotest Countries must be ransackt to furnish thy Back and why