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A13270	The royall passing-bell: or, Dauids summons to the graue A sermon preached (lately) in the parish-church of Orchard-Portman in Sommerset. At the funerall of the most hopefull, and truely-noble, Sr. Hugh Portman, baronet; the great losse and sorrow both of his name and countrie. By Humphrey Sydenham, Master of Arts, late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1630 (1630)	STC 23571; ESTC S118111	24,485	48

grew-vp wee had him only in the morning in the blooming of youth when the Damaske and the Lilly daunc'd in the cheeke Before his noone he is reapt away and his sheafe bound-vp and now he is gone gone like the day you heard of the yesterday or the watch or the shadow or the dreame or the grasse or the fraile flower nothing remayning but the memory that Hee was And why Vniuersa vanitas omnis home surely man is vanitie euerie man is vanitie euery man in his best state is vanitie euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie So the words runne in the next part Euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie Euerie man in his Parstertia c. THe translations here runne diuersly so doe the faucies on them Vniuersa vanitas omnis homo August Musculus Mollerus Iun. Trem. in locuin so Saint Augustine omnis vanitas vniuersus homo so Musculus mera vanitas omnis homo so Mollerus and omnimoda vanitas omnis homo so Iunius and Tremelius Euery Translation is double-strung and harp's altogether on the plurall The Prophet sayes not I am vaine or man is vaine or man is vanitie nor that men are vaine or vanitie but the whole series Aynsworth in Psal 39. and descent come within the chorus Euerie man is vanitie nay euery man is euerie vanitie all mankind all manner of vanitie so the Root All Adam all Hebeb all mankind all vanitie There is nothing within the round of this little world the whole circuit of flesh and bloud whosoeuer whatsoeuer or how great soeuer but it is vaine Bolduc in cap. 11. Ioh. v. 11. vanitie all vanitie And therefore some Commentators perusing that of the eleuenth of Iob vers 11. God knoweth vaine man reade it nouit Deus hominum vanitatem God knoweth the vanitie of men or as others more nimbly nouit Deus homines vanitatis God knoweth the men of vanitie So Saint Augustine paraphrasing on that of the Preacher Eccles 1. Vanitie of vanities all is vanitie will not reade the words Aug. lib de vera Religione cap. 21. Vanitas vanitatum but vanitas vanitantium as if men made the vanitie and not vanitie the men so Neque frustra additum est vanitantium saith the Father quia si vanitantes detrahas non eritcorpus vanitas sed in suo genere quamuis extremam pulchritudinem sine vllo errore remonstrabit in his Booke de ver a Religione cap. 21. And indeed we too much iniure and disparage not only the times we liue in but also those of our Predecessours crying out on the vanitie of either when the Stoyicke tels vs hominum sunt ista Sen. Epist 56. non temporum the vanitie is in the man and not in the Age or if it were there and the vanitie of all creatures within it man would ingrosse it all so the same Saint Augustine expounding the Apostles Aug. in cap. 8. Ro. cap. 53. vanitati subiecta est creatura the creature is subiect vnto vanitie Rom. 8. First put 's all vanitie into the creature and then all creatures into man and that without the least calumnie or iniustice so he professes omnem creaturam in ipso homine sine vlla calumnia cogitemus in his tract vpon the Romans cap. 13. And indeed it was iust that he who had the glory of all creatures whil'st he stood cloathed in his integritie should haue all their frailtie too when hee was disrob'd and so it fell out at length that hee that was the occasion of all vanitie man was all vanitie himselfe Verse 4. There was a time when he was but like vnto it Man is like vnto vanitie Psal 144. now He is vanitie it selfe 't is his essentiall and proper qualitie not in part or resemblance only but altogether vanitie man is altogether vanitie And what is that Aug. in Psal 38. Totum hoc quod transit vanitas dicitur Euerie transitorinesse is a vanitie That which reside's not we call vaine because it vanisheth so doth a vapour we say or a smoake and man is both and therefore a vanitie and a vanitie or if you please once more a vanitie of vanities for that which the Septuagint read's so in their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hierome and others would haue read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vapor fumi and aurea tenuis the vapour of a smoake or a thinne aire Hebel a soone vanishing vapour as the breath of ones mouth or nostrils so Viues note 's vpon the Father in his twentieth De Ciuitate Dei cap. 3. T' is true then whatsoeuer vanisheth we call vanitie and man that vanisht vanitie insomuch that hee seeme's to bee a fraile creature indeed some what lesse then vanitie or beyond it Psal 109.23 And therefore our Prophet doth not only compare him to a shadow which must as a shadow vanish but to that shadow when it declineth Psal 109.23 and it seemes this is not enough neither and therefore Psal 102.12 Psal 102.12 Dies mei similes vmbrae declinatae I am gone ae a shadow declin'd He is gone and declin'd not declining as if his passage were rather coniectur'd then discern'd And therefore in Scripture we seldome finde man's Age resembled to a shadow but there is a fugit with it fugit velut vmbra Iob. Iob 14.12 14.12 Hee sties as a shadow flie's with a nimble wing so nimbly that sometimes Hee out-doe's the acutenesse of our sight I be held him say's Dauid and hee was gone Psal 37.37 I sought him and hee was no where to be found so also dies nostri quasi vmbrae super terram 1. Chron. 29.15 nulla est mora 1. Chron. 29.15 Our dayes are as a shadow vpon earth and there is no stay they passe along nay they flie flie so swiftly that they are gone when we thinke them going like a gasping coale which in one Act glare's and dye's or the rude salutations of fire and powder which but meet and part touch and consume And indeed if we but obserue a shadow is not so proper a resemblance of our life as of our death or rather something betweene both T' is an vnequall mixture of light and darknesse or rather a light mask't or vayl'd-vp in darknesse so that the greater part must be obscuritie and that resemble's death what remayne's of light is screen'd and intercepted and so look's but dimly towards life Euerie shadow is an imperfect night and euery night a metaphoricall death Sleepe and Death haue beene long since call'd two sisters and Night the mother of them both Moreouer as euery shadow is an imperfect night so euery life is an imperfect death The greater the shadow is the nearer vnto night and so is the life protract'd vnto death And therefore our Prophet knowing that his earthly Tent was a little wind-shooke and obnoxious to daily ruine wil haue his age emblem'd by a shadow that is declin'd ad