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A45689	Old Jacobs accompt cast up and owned by one of his seed, a young lady &c., or, A sermon preached at Laurance Jury, Feb. 13, 1654 at the funerall of the honorable and most virtuous lady Susanna Reynolds wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds / by Thomas Harrison.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing H914; ESTC R28062	18,006	42

thred of his life drawn out to the full length according to the course of nature The goodliness of all flesh is like the flower of the field Isa. 40.6 not of the garden exposed to all hardships and hazards whatsoever 3. God in his wise providence hath set such limits unto our age least we should grow into extremities as namely into extremity of sinning in the beginning of the world men were more upright and innocent and then God lent them a longer time but afterward when iniquity began to abound he decreed to shorten their days least sin should be out of measure sinful Thou hast set our iniquity before thee saith Moses to God Psal. 90.8 and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance and then it follows our days are passed away in thy wrath even as a tale that is told and our yeers are but threescore and ten And our blessed Saviour foretelling his Disciples what persecution should befal them says unless those days of persecution should be shortened no flesh should be saved Mat. 24.22 there would be no living in the world the malice of their enemies would know neither bank nor bottom would not keep within any bounds There would be likewise extremities of miseries if men should live always in the world if our days indeed were good the more they were we might be the merrier but seeing they are so miserable it s well that God in his mercy hath made them so few Do but think with your selves if Adam and Eve our first Parents had been tyed to have lived until this day whether they would not have been the most miserable couple that ever lived they should have had a share in all the calamities that have light upon the world God therefore out of his goodness will shorten our days the sooner to put an end to our sorrows Object Some perhaps will here think that our life is not so short as we make it seeing many live till they be Seventy or Fighty years old which seems to be a long time Answ. To whom I answer that yet this is nothing in comparison of Eternity a thousand years with God are but as one day nay it is nothing in comparison of the time that the Fathers lived before the Flood to which it seems Jacob in this place had reference though he were an hundred and thirty years old yet saith he I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my Fathers In the days of their Pilgrimage some whereof lived seven some eight some nine hundred years and upwards Nay of that small pittance of life which we have there is a great part of it which deserves not the name As the time 1. Of sleeping that 's but a short kind of death as anger is a short fury and their names are promiscuously used Our friend Lazarus sleepeth Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead I found him dead said Epaminondas when he slew the sleeping Sentinal and I left him dead and this time is well nigh the third part of our lives Vitae fur malus ille mae saith Martial of sleep 2. Of Child-hood and Old-age Homo est fatuus usque ad anum quadragessimum deinde ubi novit se esse fatuum vita consumpti est said Luther its long before a man begin to live childhood and youth are vanity Eccl. 11.10 and when he grows in yeers he dies dayly as the old man Alexis in Stobaeus going easily upon his staff said to one that asked him whether he went pedetentem morior I am going step by step into my grave 3. Of Eating and drinking these are a repairing not an injoying of nature and yet how much is bestowed in these reparations Isa. 5.11 The Germans live as they pronounce vivere and bibere with them is all one thing and if we ply our liquor as we begin they are like to lose their Charter and how many rich gluttons are there among us who fair deliciously every day and so every day lose so much more of their life howsoever usually this time is one part of twelve 4. Of Recreations Amici diem perdidimus said he my friends we have lost the day which we spent in idleness yet how many stand all the day idle 5. Of Sining Ep. 2.1 You hath he quickened who were dead in sins and trespasses saith Paul to his Ephesians and he tells Timothy That a widow that lives in pleasures is dead whiles she lives 1 Tim. 5.6 6. Of Sickness or suffering non est vita vivere sed valere to live is not to be but to be well we say of some delights that a man cannot live without them Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life to the bitter in soul saith Job 3.20 as if he should say he had as good be without it and speaking of the day of his birth which was the beginning of his misery vers. 6. Let not that saith he be joyned unto the days of the yeers let it not come within the number of the Months and Noahs Ark wherein he was imprisoned is called his Coffin or his ten Months Sepulchre and the men in Hell are said to die the death to wit because of their sufferings though there shall be alway a conjunction of soul and body in them Now when all this is abstracted after all these deductions from the time of our life that which remains will be little or nothing our days will be shrunk into a narrow compass The meditation of the shortness of our lives this fewness of our days will be useful to teach us 1. Use Not to be too much taken with the things of this world Not with Honours when Samuel was to annoint Saul God gave him for a sign that he would have him for a Prince over his people that as soon as he was gone from him he should find two men neer unto Rachels Sepulchre 1 Sam. 10.2 God might have given him some other sign but he chose rather to give him this it may be to quel the pride and haughtiness of his new preferment that the ashes of so fair a creature as Rachel was should mind him what he should be afterward Not with wives and children these which are now the pleasures of thine eyes shall shortly be loathsome and stinking carcases insomuch that Abraham shall desire that his beloved Sarah might be buried out of his sight that he may not behold her and therefore Isaac on the night of his Nuptials placed his wives bed in the Chamber where his Mother did dye to temper their Nuptial delights with the remembrance of death Gen. 24.67 Are these the things ye look upon said Christ to his Disciples when they told him of the goodly buildings of the Temple there shall not be left one stone upon another which shall not be thrown down so do ye look upon the world and the glory and beauty and pleasure in it these you must soon

part withal the time is short as Paul saith 1 Cor. 7.29 and Esau excuseth the selling of his Birth-right because he saw his death was so nigh I am at the point to die saith he and what good will this Birth-right do me Gen. 25.32 so shalt thou say ere long of all the Titles the houses the riches the relations thou enjoyest let therefore those that have wives be as though they had none those that buy as though they possessed not those that use this world as not abusing it modicum non videbimur a little while and we shall not be seen our places shall know us no more 2. Not to be too much cast down with adversities if our affliction be great it shall be but short Sigravis brevis though it hold out to the end of our life yet this will not belong with this you may comfort your selves in all your troubles tarry and wait the Lords leisure a very little and he that shall come wil come and wil not tarry though the way of your Pilgrimage be tedious and wearisom yet the days thereof are but few 3. Not to make our lives shorter by neglect or abuses of them a man may speak as much in few words as in many and a man my live more in a day then another doth in a yeer our life consists in action so much as we doe so much do we live and so much of our life as is unprofitable so much of our life death possesseth take heed therefore of melting away so many hours in pleasure he that lives in pleasure is dead while he lives though he thinks with the Italians that onely he and such as himself know how to live 1 Tim. 4.6 4. Not to defer our repentance our turning to him who is our life the length of our days Deu. 30.20 to him who is the resurrection and the life Joh. 11.25 seeing our time is so short there were certain fools in Pauls time that said Let us eat drink for to morrow we shal die of the same humor is the Devil who hath great wrath because his time is short but the holy Apostle made no such consequence but the contrary Let us awake to live righteously and cease to sin 1 Cor. 15.34 and 't is the misery of these times also though we all row forward to deaths shore yet like Watermen we look backward we dare not look death in the face nor trouble our selves with thinking of it It may seize upon us before we be aware Old and young like Peter and John we both run to the Sepulchre our life is a race thither and sometimes John the younger out-runs Peter and comes first to it God may take you away while you are in the heat and fury of your youth and while your wanton blood boils in your veins therefore what manner of men ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness how should we with Job 14.14 All the days of our appointed time wait tell the change came 3. Conclus So we have done with the second Conclusion The days of our Pilgrimage are but few few in comparison of Eternity of the first fathers and few in themselves the greatest part being diverted and otherwise employed and it were well that the old Text were bound up in a lesser and better Volume their silver changed into gold if our lives as shorter so were happier then theirs but it is not so with us even these few days of our Pilgrimage are also evil which is our third conclusion as there is want of days so store of miseries Iob who was wel seen in this Theme tyes these two conclusions both together Job 9.25 My days are swifter then a Post they fly away and they see no good and as of himself so of other men Job 14.1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and ful of trouble If we look upon Jacob we shal find him a very Map of misery experience he had of many wearisome winters in his younger years in his Fathers house he lived in continual fear of his brother Esau and at last was freed to fly the country afterwards he endured a long and hard service under his Uncle Laban who changed his wages ten times in the day the draught consumed him and the frost by night and then had a trick put upon him in his marriage heard every day the bitter contentions and emulations of his wives when he comes home the first welcome is the death of his Rachel then follows the news how his Joseph was devoured that Dinah was defloured that Simon and Levi had murdered the Shechemites that Ruben had defiled his own bed I might tell you likewise of David and all his troubles as he calls them Psal. 132.1 But why should I instance in two or three as if it were not a common condition every man is a Benoni a son of sorrow It is a lot which every one must draw in their course every man hath his task of affliction We come weeping into the world tears are the first presage of our future condition Nundum loquiter infans saith Austin tamen prophetat Tears are our first Rhetorique before we can speak we prophesie and by a dumb kind of divination wail out the story of our after life And when we have done our lives we go weeping or groaning out our Genesis and our Exodus our entrance and our ending do both agree Nor is that little point of time that runs betwixt these any whit happier Our life as you hear before is a Pilgrimage subject to colds and draughts exposed to dangers of beasts and robbers and a thousand such like a continual warfare upon Earth where we are encompased with enemies a Navigation calamity follows upon calamity as one wave treads upon the heel of another a very Babylonish captivity The days of our age threescore years ten saith the Psalmist and just so long lasted the captivity of Israel We have sold our selves for nought as slaves and the world is no better then an house of correction where every one of us is set to his labour and every one of us must look for his stripes no state or condition of man is exempted even Kings Crowns are so full of cares that if a man knew them indeed he would not take one up though he found it lying upon the ground The life of the Student which some account a fair idle life is called by Solomon a sore travail Ec. 1.13 which God hath given to the sons of men to exercise or to afflict them withal as it is in the Margent and verse 18. He that encreaseth knowledg encreaseth sorrow much sorrow and vexation it costs before he have got it and when he hath got it it brings many with it a wise man finds many defects foresees his miseries and so makes them longer can look into all the corners of them and knows how to aggravate them he sees many things

semina vitae Ne scia solae ne cis quae Sanctâ pascitur aurâ Possumus interne nullum mortale videre Sed quod ad huc maneat post vani tempora mundi Creditur aeternii hominem vixisse diebus Si deerant maculae Quae sunt hôc pectore mendae Pulchra Venus naeros circumtulit Inclyta nullas Continet Haec sorces animo ut sic corpore pura Mors injussa venis non est tibi lata potestas Ut sponsa dirimas In me convertito telum Quid facii ah jaculi fi sit mea pectora tentet Adsum qui morior me me tua spicula sternant Siccine faeminio gaudes vicisse triumpho Siccine deliciam nostri prosternis amoris Viscera quid solitas servatis corpore fedes Turgida quid fugiunt cordis ligamina ruptum Quid rutilas ocule extinguatur luminis ictus Vel si gratus eris Domino sis fletibus aptas Vivere quid valeat pereunt cum gaudia vitae Vita corona decus summi quoque gloria vote Interit Ah! possis non atque marite perire Et juvat possum poteris nec morte revelli Te sequar ô conjux tumulo tumulabimur uno Et quae vita negat tumulo solatia carpam Dixit innexis haerens cervice lacertis Jam moriturus erat dilapsum luctibus istis Sustentat sponsae Genius Charissime dicit Salve qualis amor dolor aut quoe gratia rara Impulit ut scociam me sub discrimine tanto Queras ah conjux tua sum tua dicar oportet Exanimata licet Te per lata oequora actum Quaesivi cupiens junctissima junctior esse Oraque nostra tuum frustra clamantia nomen Implerun gemitus Quorum suspiria corpus Orbarunt animâ Christi quae brachia versus Tendit cui solo sis conjux chare secundus Cujus ob amplexus sperno tot gaudia terrae Ipse mihi Sponsus propero Mi Chare valeto Terrea terrenis liceant magnalia capto Surge age da plausus lugubres exue vestes Die Caelis Christum Terris me habuisse Renoldum Hoc juvat Angelici resonent connubia caetus Jo Christe veni decoratum suscipe sponsm Laeta dies Jani terrâ caelisque benigna Postera me terris junxitque novissimae caelis Postera erat faelix bao sed faelicior istâ Talia fata fugit Sed non revocanda vocatur Sponsa mane Sponsumque tuum laeto ore saluta Quae servare potes num Tu cruciabis amantem Plura dolor prohibet Sed junctis corpore pennis Illa fugit Christi tenerisque amplectitur ulnis Quae discessa tegit maesto velamine vultus Cordaque tantorum quorum sit digna parentum Quae libet haud potuit miseros mens discere luctus Et patris matrisque suae fratrumque sororis Conjugis at fixum remanet sub pectore vulnus Formam quod violat maciemque in corpore fecit Nec studiosus amor fuit hic de more parentum Si quis enim reliquus tanti sit digna doloris Sic quoties ponto properat Sol lucidous alto Discessu fuscum Nox induit atra colorem Sed valeant planctus valeant suspiri● nosmet Dilecta propere Satagamus jungere Christo Sub umbrâ conjugis pientissimi Sic flevit J. M Epitaphium Vivere non volui Potui nec fata subire Me trahit hinc sponsus me trahit inde Deus Est Mihi sponsus amans mihi sunt charique parentes Omnibus at melior Tu mihi Christe veni A Funeral Elogie on the death of his Dear Sister Mrs. Susanna Reynolds WHat meant your dim ey'd Moralists to praise The home-spun virtues of their former days Or what vain Poets when they Deifie Their gay clothed Nature with Eternity Had they but seen thy life and fall They 'd burn their Books and turn Atheistical Away Bablers here you all may see Your Goddesse stained with Mortality Here 's Constance Prudence every Deity Enthrald by death as much as Piety Here 's Greatness Goodness or what ere you term Your Summum B 〈◊〉 num found to be infirm Your active virtues in its operation Hath found an exile by Imposthumation Nay more here 's Heaven joy and Earths delight Robb'd of her being stole away by night O Covetons Jales thus to impropriate The worlds treasure to your own estate Stand off prophaner Orgies wee l lament Our saddest loss in love call'd penitent Since that our joy center'd in one Our loss admits no consolation Yet glorious is that Loadstone sweet that love That thus extracts her soul for joys above Unhallowed conversations disagree With her whose Element is Piety If that an Inquest on her lives accompt Had but been made you might have found her moun Each day degrees first in affectation And then in a spiritual conversation Long since she was above and now shee 's gon To take compleat possession Not that she wanted here blind fortune nere Was more propicious to the worlds Heir To say shee 's blest is vain t is but to croud Her vast enjoyments in a breathed Cloud Thus weak ey'd Mortals cannot well descry In bodies chain'd her state and gallantry Yet if the curious fancy dives to know Her further Bliss then let him go For only vision can describe the story Of her Immence Eternal weight and glory Yet whilest we see what she contem'd we guess Her portions great that counted this the less She to Christ Coll's gon where Saints commerse Where Christ such blest souls take sweet convers. Whose thred of life Nature so finely spun It burst asunder whilst the Glass did run Sic flevit Hen. Milden A sad Memorial on the much lamented death of the Right Virtuous Lady SVSANNA REYNOLDS Wife to the Honourable minded Commander Com. Gen. REYNOLDS who exchanged her frailty for a Crown of Immortality Anno 1654. JAM CHRISTI SPONSA PHOENIX MORIENDO REVIVISCIT HEnce true Adorements let Us see no more Of Mortal favours set upon your Score Droop droop Spectators Canopy each face While Tears like Floods run their Curranto race If that you did but rightly understand This losse of losses you would straight command If that it lay within your reach that all That Virtue does bestow might have a fall Had we not better see that Precious Gold No sooner kept but quickly turn'd to Mold Alasse we Mortals like the Flower are tost No sooner blown upon but we are lost It is no wonder nor admir't as strange That Sublunary things must have a change Observ't that fatal death strikes at the best And Goodnesse here can never be at rest Whilest Rarenesse strives for to preserve it self Leaves Us at losse and gains it self by stealth And which is most belov'd doth glide away And turn our joys into a mournfull day Now speak your Minds freely can you not weep This losse wil make a Heart of Stone to break Could greater Virtue have sustain'd suspence By gashly Deaths overture and