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A21104	A sermon preached at the funeralls of that worthie and worshipfull gentleman, Master Thomas Dutton of Dutton, Esquire who yeelded to nature the 28. of December. By Richard Eaton Bachelour of Diuinitie, and pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire.	Eaton, Richard, 1563?-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 7468; ESTC S100229	18,744	30

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FVNERALLS OF THAT WORTHIE AND WORSHIPFVLL GENTLEMAN MASTER Thomas Dutton of Dutton Esquire who yeelded to nature the 28. of December By RICHARD EATON Bachelour of Diuinitie and Pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire Deut. 39. 29. Oh that they were wise then they would vnderstand this They would consider their latter end LONDON Printed by Iohn Legatt for Samuel Man dwelling at the signe of the Ball in Pauls Church-yard 1616. TO THE HONOVRABLE AND HOPEFVLL YOVNG GENTLEMAN SIR GILBERT GERRARD KNIGHT OF the Noble order of the Bath The Ladie Elenour his wife together with her right Worshipfull mother Mistris Thomasin Dutton all increase of true happinesse SYR being called vpon to prepare this sermon for an impression and finding a necessitie laid vpon me to satisfie the importunitie of some friends it came into my minde to tender the same to you And I doe more then hope that you will kindly accept it from me and entertaine it as a testimonie of my loue because it was both preached in your hearing and at the funerall of that worthy and Worshipfull gentleman Master Dutton your father in law And I am the rather incouraged to commend it to your vse and to write your name as it were in the front of it because albeit you liued not vnder my Ministerie yet in as much as out of that part of your faire inheritance which lyeth here I receiue some part of my maintenance and sustentati●● I must needs thinke it my duty to bestow some spirituall gift by which I might euidence my care of your soules health and something further you in your passage towards that Countrey which I trust you seeke Let it not displease y● therefore that I haue presented you with these few notes bu● vouchsafe them a roome of lodging among your bookes I confesse in this scribling age many are carried with a busie h●mour making the times surfeit with their needlesse papers ● would be loath that anie man who hath in him anie true worth and is of a right religious vnderstanding should so thinke of me● wherefore to cleere my selfe to euery sober iudgement this I say I was drawen into this course in presenting this sermon to publique view by the earnest request of some friends and by the good approuement of sundrie fearing God The matter of this sermon is excellent if the workemanship were suteable I might boldly say It were no disparagement to you to afford your patronage and to haue your name prefixed Whatsoeuer my defect maie be I beseech you be pleased to accept from me this small present small not in respect of the matter of it for no man can treate of a more worthie subiect But in regard of the manner of handling Accept it I saie as an vndissembled argument of the sinceritie of my affection as a testimonie of my well wishing to your soule and as a pledge of my setled purpose to labour to deserue your loue And to be a continuall petitioner to the throne of grace that you and your good Ladie your Worshipfull mother in law with the rest of your line and familie maie be kept by the power of God through faith vnto saluation From Great Budworth in Cheshire Yours in all readinesse to doe you my best seruice in Christ Iesus RICHARD EATON PSAL. 90. 12. Teach vs so to number our daies that we maie applie our hearts to wisedome THis Psalme was compiled by Moses at what time the spies returning from the land of Canaan discouraged their brethren and the Lord for the murmuring of the people pronounced that all aboue twenty yeares old Caleb and Iosua only excepted should die in the wildernes Now whē Moses heard this general sentence of death denounced both against himselfe and all those that ●ame out of Egypt with him he frameth this Psalme and praieth thus for him selfe and all the rest But I may not insist in generalls the foundation of my speech shall onely rest vpon this 12 verse The words are so plaine and manifest that I may say of this Scripture as Augustin speaketh Desiderat auditorem Tract 50. in Iohannem magis quàm expositorem It requires rather an attentiue hearer then a skilfull expositor I will draw the substance of mine intended speech vnto two generall heads the first a prayer of Moses Teach vs so to number our daies The second a reason why he prayed thus That wee maie applie our hearts to wisedome Out of these two generall heads I will distinguish fiue seuerall conclusions First Death is the hauen of euery man Moses maketh this prayer in the plurall number Mans time is set and his bounds appointed which he cannot passe Peach vs to number our daies there is a number of dayes Mans time is short Moses mentioneth not yeeres nor monethes nor weekes but dayes Although mans time be short yet he remembreth it not for we are apt to forget death If we could remember death it would cause vs to apply our hearts vnto wisedome Thus you see how this Scripture naturally brancheth and deuideth it selfe into these particulars I wil not offer any violēce in the handling of this text I will not set any of these points vpon the Racke I will not proffer to stretch mine arme higher then my stature may carry it I will not trouble you with Idle curiosities I will returne therfore to the head of the race where I first began Doct. 1 The first conclusion to be examined and the first doctrine to be extracted is this That death is the hauen of euery man What man liueth saith Dauid And Psal 89. 48. shall not see death The Apostle saith It is appointed vnto all men to dye once Heb 9. 27. And if we looke into the catalogue of those long liued Fathers before the floud though some of them liued 700. some 800. some 900 yeers and vpward yet at length this Epitaph was written ouer euery one of their heads Mortuus est He died Though euery day of our life were Gen. 5. as long as the day of Iosua when the Sun stood stil in the midst of the heauen yet the Sunne will set and go Iosh 10. 13. downe and it will be night at last Euery man must acknowledge with Iob Corruption is my father and the worme is my mother therefore Esay witnesseth that ●ob 17. 14. Esay 40. 6. All flesh is grasse All these testimonies as a cloud of witnesses confirme this doctrine There are also two reasons to inforce the same Reason 1 First all men are dust in their originall the matter whereof we are made is the dust of the earth And therefore to dust we must againe returne And this Gen. 3. 19. reason is vsed Gen. 3. 19. Reason 2 Secondly all men haue sinned and are depriued of the glory of God Man at the first was created to immortality and if he had neuer sinned he should neuer haue died But when sin entred death followed as the wages doth the worke as God threatned Gen. Gen. 2. 17. 2. 17. And the Apostle Rom. 5. 15 By one man sinne Rom. 5. 12. entred into the word and death by sinne And so death went ouer all men in whom all men haue sinned Vse