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A86101 A sermon preached at Hievvorth at the funerall of Edmund Warneford Esq. By Thomas Hauskins minister of Gods word. On the 24. of August. 1649. Hauskins, Thomas. 1651 (1651) Wing H1152; Thomason E1286_3; ESTC R15019 15,521 43

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judgment the following Scriptures for the confirmation thereof may be alledged phil 4.5.1 Pet. 4. 7. lam 5.8 Rev. 22 20. There we read that The Lords coming draweth nigh is at hand that the end of all things is at hand that Christ will come quickly c. If it be objected that the Saints are ready to thinke and complaine that it is long ere Christ will in this sort come Rev. 6.10 that they do frequently say in respect of Christs coming to them in glory as David sates in respect of Gods coming to him in grace Psal 101.2 Lord when wilt thou come unto me I answer that the time betwixt and Christs coming to judgment however in some respects long yet may it be sayd to be short in the following respects First in respect of Gods accompt to whom a thousand yeares are but as one day 2 Pet. 3.8 As God sees not as man sees so he reckons not as man reckoneth Esa 55.8 Secondly in respect of the time already past in speciall in respect of the time since that his coming was prophecied of for his second coming was prophecied of by Enoch the seventh from Adam many thousand yeras agoe Jud. 5.14 in regard hereof our time now is said to be the the last time we are said to be the people upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Job 2.18 1 Cor. 10.11 Thirdly in respect of time to come if I may so speake and call that time after which time shall be no more but I meane that in respect of eternity succeeding Christs second coming the time betwixt and that is but short for suppose it were an 100 or a 1000 yeares afore Christ shall come to judgment yet what is that to eternity it is no more to eternity then a drop of a bucket to the whole Ocean or then the dust of a ballance to the vast mountaines it is no more then a finite thing to what is infinite Other considerations might be named with regard whereunto Christs coming to judgment may be sayd to be neere at hand but I shall passe them over and come to prove the second particular to wit Secondly That the time is short in respect of the neare approach of every ones death This is another thing which the Apostle aimes at in saying that the time is short he would give us thereby to understand that we have but a short while to live for proofe thereof view the following Scriptures Iob 14. 1. and 16.22 Psal 89.47 and 39.12 Heb. 13.14 wherein it is said That wee are of few daies that we have here no continuing city that wee are Pilgrimes and Strangers c. Before I make application I shall make answer to the following question to wit how short is our time Should wee heare such a question undertaken to be answered out of the pulpit we might perhaps at the first hearing of it imagine that the party so undertaking did intend to cast a figure and to tell fortune as we call it but if you will carefully attend to the three following answers which I shall make thereunto I doubt not but that you will judge it to be a Question not unfit for the most serious and sober Divine to resolve To the question then I answer First that to speake within some latitude and compasse of time or in generall wise it may well be knowne how short our time is in this sort I say the shortneste of our time may be knowne by those various Metaphors similitudes or comparisons wherewith in the following Scriptures man his life daies are set forth in the word of God Iob. 7.6 7. 9.25 26. Psal 38.39 103.15 16. 144 4. lam 4.14 Psal 102.3 There we read that man his life and daies are resembled to a wind smoake vapour grasse aflower c. Especially I shall mention Psal 39.5 because that scripture comes very neare to the Metaphor which Paul useth in the text there wee see That God hath rolled up our time so close and neare together that there is but the scantling of an hand-bredth lest unto us Secondly to speake punctually to a point or moment of time there is no man able to say how short the time is whether in respect of Christs second coming or in respect of his owne death First None knoweth the punctuall time day or houre when Christ shall come to judgement and for proofe thereof see Mat. 24.36 c 25.13 Mar. 13.35 2ly That none knows punctually the time of his owne death see the following Scriptures Pro. 27.1 lam 4.14 Eccl. 9.12 There we read that mand knowes not his time not so much as what shall be on the next morrow c. Thirdly I answer that the time is much shorter then the most people for the most part are aware of and this I affirme both in respect of death and judgment First That the time betwixt this Christs second coming is shorter then the most people for the most part are aware of may be proved by Luk. 21.35 where it is said that the day of judgement shall come as a snare upō the Inhabitants of the earth as also by Lub 17.26 27 c. where we read that most people shall be as sensuall as secure and as little looking for Christs coming to judgment when he comes as Sodome or as the old world did expect the desrtruction of fire or the deluge of water Secondly that the time betwixt this and our dying day is shorter then the most doe imagine may be proved by Eccle. 9.12 where it is affirmed that death comes and seizeth upon the most of men even as unexpectedly as the net or snare doth the Fish or Foule The truth of this is seen in sad and frequent experience for let it be observed and we shall find very commonly that God doth then cut short the thread of mens lives at what instant they think to live long as for example when people have undertaken more worldly imployment then ever they did afore when they have most yrons in the fire and are most eager in the pursuit of their worldly designes or when people have compassed all their worldly projsects and have go the things which in their hearts and soules they did most thirst after and do then think to live long with hearts ease upon the sweet of that which they have laboured sorely for beath their brains about I say at such a time God doth shorten and put and end to their time And for further proose hereof let the following Scriptures be considered Luk. 12.19 20. Mat. 24.48 Use I now come to the quod reliquum to what remaineth of the doctrine I meane to the use and application of it and surely this that remaineth is like the good wine in the Gospel though it comes last yet indeed it is best of all the life and soule of a Sermon being in the use and application of it Now for the use which we
chapter doth resolve certaine Queries or cases propounded to him by the believing Corinths concerning marriage and divorce and from thence he proceeds in the progressee of the chapter to give counsell and advice to Masters and Servants what his resolves caveats decisions were in the severall cases propounded I shall referre you as Christ did the young man in another case Luke 10.26 to what you find written and recorded in the chapter it selfe which you may read at your leasure Now in the close of these decisions the Apostle sayes down asserts a known truth the knowledge use whereof being of universall concernment he doth therefore direct and exhort all persons of all sorts both marryed and unmarryed rich and poore bond and free accordingly to improve it and this he doth in the words which I have read unto you in which words wee have two things considerable 1. The preface or introduction But this I say brethren 2. The substance or maine matter and that consists in the whole which followeth The preface or preamble is in these words this I say or this I affirme or openly avouch To insist largely upon this preface were to make a businesse of a by-matter and to rest or sit down in the porch which was built for a more sigtly and convenient entrance into the House and therefore I shall lightly passe it over onely by telling you that the scope and end of such preambles or introductions is to beget the more diligent and exquisite attention as if the Apostle had here sayd what was usuall with Christ to speake in his Sermons and what is frequently sayd by the Spirit to the Churches of Asia He that hath an eare to heare let him heare And let this be the use which I shall intreat you to make of this preface let it awaken and quicken your attention upon the hearing of these words from the mouth of Saint Paul This I say brethreen I shall desire you to be as erect as attent as intent as was Samuel upon the calling and recalling of his name saying speake brother speake Paul speake Lord and speake to both eares for with both eares thy servant heareth And let so much suffice to be spoken as in passage to the substance or matter of the words in which are three things considerable first a doctrine or an assertion The time is short secondly the use and application of that doctrine It remaineth that both they that have Wives be as if they had none And c. Thirdly a motive or argument to enforce or set on the sayd severall uses of the doctrine For the fashion of this world passeth away The word translated fashion is emphaticall and signifies the visage out-side accidentall external figure of a thing without reall substance as if all the things in the world were but a meere surface a vain and empty outside the word trāslated passeth away signifies likewise to cozen or subtily to deceive so that if the words had bin thus rendred The visage of the world deceiveth the translation had beene sufficiently suitable to the originall and very agreeable to the truth and very profitable to edification it being as well true that the world doth deceive us as that the world doth vanish passe away which of these two translations is more agreeable to the context and to the mind of the Apostle in this place seemes to me very hard to determine especially if we consider all circumstances which I cannot now stand to mention and much lesse to debate Let it be sufficient to tell you that the world doth soone vanish and passe away and by its sudden vanishing and passing away it doth usuall cozen deceive us and therefore we should So weep and so rejoyce as if we did not weep and rejoyce There are in deed according to diversities of copies some different readings of the words but because the differences are very small to wit about the placeing and pointing of the words which will not vary the sense I will not therefore spend any scruple of this short time in the mentioning or relating of differences so inconsiderable but will comeforthwith to the doctrine of the text set downe in these words The time is short The word translated short doth properly signify Contracted it being a Metaphor as say the learned in that language taken from Sailors who when they draw nigh the shore use to contract or role up their sailes or from a peece of cloth rolled up into a little compasse onely a scantling l●f● at the end so that the word according to its significancy might thus be rendred The time is curt or curtaild and to signify how curt the time is the Apostle doth curtaile or cut short his speech for the verbe is not expressed in the originall wherein we onely read the Substantive and Adjective without the Copulative Time short but is left to be understood and it is as if Saint Paul had more fully told us That our time is reduced or brought into a a very narrow conmpasse we having but a short remnant or scantling of time The doctrine is as you plainly perceive like the time very short If you desire to have it enlarged I shall thus deliver it with reference to the context in the following words to wit Whatsoever our state relation or condition be in this world whether we be married or unmarried rich or poore bond or free the time with all of us is but short This doctrine is a truth so unquestionable that any one without breach of modesty may boldly avouch it in the very phrase of the Apostie saying This I say the time is short for bare conviction it is enough to say it without offer of any farther proofe But because it is both usual usefull especially for the making of a due impression upon the affections not to passe over plaine and confessed truths without some proofes illustrations from Scripture I will therefore not so much to convince as to affect you demonstrate and illustrate the truth here asserted by declaring in what respects Saint Paul doth here avouch the time to be short for which purpose know you that Saint Paul affirmes the time to be short in two respects first in respect of the neere approach of Christs coming to judgement Secondly in respect of the neare approach of death I The time is short betwixt and the coming of Christ to judgment There is reason to conceive that this is a prime part of the Apostles meaning in the text for besides that it is the judgment of some learned Interpreters that Saint Paul doth immediately aime at this let is be farther considered that it is ordinary with the Apostles to presse Christians to duty with arguments taken from the propinquity of Christs second coming for which see Phil. 4.5.1 Pet. 4.7 Now if this be the meaning of the Apostle in saying that the time is short to wit That Christ will ere long come to