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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

say which is sooner longer So grace advertiseth Christians by most significant comparisons expressing their short abode in this g Ps 146. ● their dust The Apostle Iames would scarce vouchsafe it any comparison h Iam. 4 1● What 's your life saith he twiting us with our false conceit of long life by a holy flout if it be saith he of any subsistence at all it s but like a vapour that appeareth for a litle time and then vanishes away What saith David to our daies They are saith he i 1 Chron. 29 15. as a shadow and ther 's no abiding And what is Hezekiahs opinion A● k Es 38.12 A shepheards tent of no long stay l Iob 7.6 A weavers shuttle is of no long race m 2 Cor. 5.1 a pilgrims tabernacle soone flitted So vaine a thing is man How long is wax in melting n Ps 22.14 So is life in the middest of its fortresse How durable is the state of o Es 40.7 grasse p Ps 90.5 We fade away suddenly like the grasse What 's a tales grace Shortnesse q Ps 90.9 Our yeeres passe away as a tale that is told a thing gone and past Yea as if these comparisons were yet defective the Prophet addeth a sleighter manner of similitude resembling mans life to a r Ps 73.20 dreame and that when its past when a man awaketh a thing gone before you can collect what it was and when it was it was but a thing or rather a just nothing of meere imagination But how is it that mans life is thus scantled Reason 1. The principall cause is God ſ Ps 39.5 Thou hast made my daies as it were a span in length saith David 2. The provoking cause is sinne That 's a sudden waster t Gen. 2.17 The same day thou eatest c. thou shalt surely die God hath sealed it with an oath surely 3. The working cause the consuming effects of sinne sorrow and misery both inward and outward a house of u Iob 4.19 clay so strongly beleagured cannot hold out a long siege 4. The materiall cause x Gē 3.19 dust he was appointed no long standing whose y Iob 4.19 foundation was laid in dust 5. The procreating cause of mankinde necessitateth a very short stay z Iob 14.1 Man that is borne of a woman hath hut a short time If he stand to his pedegree it cannot be that shee that hath no fee simple nor leasse of one houre can make over any long entale of time to her posterity The truth of our short abode thus confirmed rather by way of meditation upon a thing much usefull then for proofe of a point so plaine what better application shall we make then Vse 1 First by way of checke to rayne backe the outrunners of time in this luxuriant age of dingthrifts of time wastfull lavishers of their small allowance how many lay about them as if all their exhibition this way were flong them by talents and therfore spend it with like profusenesse as giddie yongsters newly leapt into their lands squandring away by pounds the comming in whereof they never knew by pence such licentious merchants of time trade in every countrey so wastfully as if they had more time then can be spent whiles good so prodigall of daies moneths yeares some upon doing nothing others upon nothing to the purpose many upon what 's contrary to what they should doe till they turne starke bankrupt both for time and grace Alas it s but winde they feed upon when they thinke they fat their senses with a conceit of living as long as such and such a long liver of their progeny forgetting * Gen. 11. ●8 Harans case and thousands more that die before their parents Foolish men that neither with all their wealth can purchase one minute of time nor with all their strength procure an houre of health nor with all their wit differ death much lesse prevent judgement yet will never season their thoughts with any meditation of weaknesse death or judgement Well the evill day is never the more distant for their putting it off sicknesse may come at an instant weakenesse will come death must come the longer the shadow of life seemes to be the neerer their sun is to setting their glasse is running their houre is at hand when they shall make audit before the impartiall judge for all these flatteries of themselves and for their intentions wherefore they thus deceived themselves for all the duties they have omitted for all the evills they have committed all the instructions they have neglected all the promises they have despised all the threatnings they have sleighted all the talents of youth health strength wit c. they have hidden and for all the creatures meanes and times they have presumptuously abused If any will surfet upon hopes of long joy and contentment in licentiousnesse and resolve upon that ground still to turne Gods grace of time yet afforded and meanes of conversion yet proffered into wantonnesse of sinning let him with his sweet conceits take this sorrow sop amids that his delights cannot be long and certaine whose life is but short and uncertaine God will shortly put an end to his pleasures and person death groans for him that sergeant is within one span of his bosome his judge begins to laugh as fast at his destruction as he laughes at his instructions time is at hand when his dullest sense shall feele to his woe what his faith now wil not beleeve that the joyes of this first life which he fansied to be eternall are but few and short but the miseries of the second death which he never dreamt of shall be numberlesse measurelesse easelesse remeadilesse and utterly endlesse In the second place this serves to reprove a generall fault in all whom the Lord pleases to afflict any whit more then ordinary it being the guise of impatient man to feed his melancholy distempers and to wast his spirits with meditations upon the length of his afflictions amongst whom a yeeres health is shorter then they can have while to feele but a moneths or weeks sicknesse is long and long and longer then they can beare If the Lord would glorifie himselfe in their faith in their assurance of eternall joyes for temporall short paines he shall not do it if he will gaine glory by their patience in any tedious durance he comes to the wrong house they had rather he lost his honour then they their ease No no benefits be of the shorter sise though they last moneths and yeares crosses of a day must be long though life it selfe be short What conceive we of those exquisite tortures which remaine the unrepentant idolater the impenitent blasphemer the resolved offenders of all sorts in eternall and inextricable wreck and misery without any ease or date And what intolerable impatience to murmure at the shorter when we deserve both these Mend this fault and do

telleth thee u Vers 17. Therfore thy sinne is very great before the Lord. But admit the thing bee good for which thou wouldst so faine steale upon the time to come assure thy selfe it would come so raw as Iacobs abortive blessing did that thou wouldst not relish the bitternesse that would accompany the tast of it for plucking Gods appointed season which onely ripeneth all to thy britle lusts besides so weake generally doe such men prove in the well-ordering of time so overgrip●e that when it s come they are as unable to use it as to hold it Vse 2 Secondly this aggravates the vexation of a worse sort of men whose anxiety is most for that their youth slips away so fast and their age comes on so closse that they feare least they shall not have all their sports in all their cups in all their pleasures and profits in time enough Oh that they could realize that x Ps 49 1●… inward thought of some that their houses shall continue for ever Oh that they could cause the shadow of their lifes diall to stand still two or three Methuselaes ages or goe backe to Adams time and take them along to eternity of pastime No no time is irrevocable for the past unstayable for the present their shadow is declining their glasse running their sunne setting apace Gods pursevant death is more then in poste-hast even like the Eagle towards its prey their pleasures swift as the Sunne and flie apace Gods wrath swift and comes apace swift death swift damnation treads upon the heeles of all impenitent hastening of evill workes and putting off of the evill day Vse 3 How much better to hasten with the time to a profitable instruction to redeeme the time past and improve the present If mis-spending of the time past be sufficient as that y 1 Pet. 4.3 Apostle saith what shall wee better set about then the z Eph. 5.16 redeeming it being suffered by us for want of due care and watchfulnesse to be carried captive by Satan to the servitude of sinne labour we by prayer and repentance and new obedience to make our evill daies good daies and so to rescue and recover our time into its liberty againe And for our present allowance of time if a Reu. 12.12 Sathan so much the more bestirs himselfe for evill by how much shorter time he knoweth he hath how much more should we bustle for good knowing how many hundred times shorter ours is in these cabbins of clay O then be we thriftie of our time being short and precipitate also and the faster we discerne our Sun to set the more hast like honest labourers and wise travellers le ts make to dispatch our worke and journey goe wee along with the day and let a day have a daies worke a weeke a weekes c. and proceed as fast in service as our daies in passage spend this speciall intrustment no faster then it comes in its best wisedome to take our daies before us not neglecting if young to remember our Creator b Eccle. 12. ● in the daies of our youth It cannot be denied but that its possible for an old sinner to repent and turne howbeit he is likeliest to bee richest as in wealth so in grace that begins betimes besides how unlikely that a man should be able to catch repentance at pleasure in age and sicknesse who hath beaten backe the Lords proffered grace in youth and health the Lord is likely to bee well requited for all his favours to have all the blade and floure of a mans age cast to his vtter foes and the refuse and stumps reserved for him and it s very likely wee shall fight a goodly field when for very impotency wee are ready to be turned forth of th'campe Oh then learne better while we have strength and memory to number our daies more wisely and with Vespatian the Heathen prince plucke our selves by the eare for every lost day and redeeme the next What a feast will it be to a mans conscience when hee hath spent according to his exhibition of time and having a price put into his b Pro. 17.16 hand hath not wanted a heart to use it Resolve upon it howsoever thou hast failed in thy former beginnings this way thy constant proceedings in well imploying thy short time will quit the cost and bring in comfort in sicknesse distresse temptation death when world of preferments profits and pastimes shall stand but as vexations before thy conscience As that mans state upon his deaths couch is miserable whose conscience then most of all will embolden disputes against him what he hath done with time why he melted the fat of it to ennimble the wheeles of his lusts for quicker dispatch of sinne objecteth why done so much evill so little good and now after so much sinne contracted so little grace gleaned what will now become of him when his time and hee are both at last cast So on the contrary how happie hee whose walke can shew him and his conscience witnesse with him that ever since he knew what time meant and perceived how fast it passed hath beene no looser by the use of good opportunities but as he felt them slipping away so he layed on better holt casting how to imploy the smallest mites of time some about his honest vocation other some in hearing reading meditating conferring and especially praying some for his own particular some for his family some for others all for the working and atchieving some true good for himselfe and as many as he can with what courage shall he look temptation and death in th' face and after all his painefull daies works in courses of piety shut up the windowes of his life towards a blissefull rest in happy immortality The second comfort belongs to all Gods children under any affliction their daies passe apace their sorrowes cannot stay long paine shal not long vexe foes shall persecute but a while The c 2 Cor. 4.17 Apostle summes up the afflictions of this life into a moment What speake we of those nibbling crosses of the body The kill-cow of all sinne shall make no long havocke in their soules not long bane their peace nor shipwrack their security pluck they up their hearts these stormes will over these sad daies will have a night of joy the time flies towards us when we shall have no time nor heart to grieve the Lord no time to provoke him to grieve us the d 1 Sam 31 4. sword that pierced Sauls brest was nothing to the weapon wherewith our Lord Iesus Christ hath wounded Satans head his spirits and sins vitals are bleeding forth apace meane time all that Satan and sin can do to us is but to make us more heedfull and watchfull in our waies all that death can do is but to turne the key and open the dore before us to a heavenly mansion Comfort one another in these words that the time hies apace even