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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

may we omit one duty in respect of our deceased friend sorrow indeed becomes us considering what strange havock sin and death make of creatures so excellent howbeit in respect of the deceased what strange matter is befallen them What more usuall more naturall then for a man to die Yesterday saith the Philosopher I saw a pitcher break and to day I see a man die the matter is no more strange that 's befallen thy wife thy childe thy brother thy friend he is but gone the way of all the earth But what 's the alteration what hath the x Ios 23.14 party let fall to th'ground any more but nerves and sinews as the verse hath it ought els but a weak crasy putrefying body there to be perfumed against the resurrection What 's the losse but a losse of much sinne a losse of many sorrowes of more dangers and why should these divisions be such thoughts of heart What would we desire more in our friends behalfe then the Lord hath done for them in their happy translation if they lived and died in him Would we pull them back againe and hold tugge y 2 Sam. 18 33. as David for his Absolom against the Lord himselfe for them No. What then would you have them smart longer suffer longer Would you have the moth of anguish fret the garment of their flesh longer affliction grind their very bones longer Would you have Satans blowes to assaile them still sins poyson to endanger them for ever Mend this fault of over-grieving at friends departure so mourne as Abraham for deceased Sarah and to rise from our friends corps as z Gen 23.3 he did from hers View we our owne condition in the glasse of their mortality there 's no long time of division twixt them and us we must shortly cut over the same ferry and meet them on the other side of th' shore deaths boat was not appointed to carry all at once the ferry not made to land all at one tide stay the returne of the water for our turne and taking but a short leave of the deceased joying at their safe arivall using survivers better preparing to part with all pray for a prosperous gale In the meane husband we out uncertaine short and swift time well dispatch our works and willes against the tides returne and sith we have many talents committed to our traffique and barks of our owne to furnish le ts play the wise merchants not to load our little vessels with all ordinary lumber and trumpery which every seller saith is good more like to shipwrack us by the way then pleasure us at the shore but take up that which David preferres before a Ps 19.10 much fine gold bart for that which b Iob 28.18 corall pearles are not to be named with nor c Pro. 3.15 Rubies or any other desirables are to be compared unto buy the d Pro 23.23 Truth purchase that hid treasure commended by our e Luk. 13 44. Master if the selling of all we have will reach it and so ballace our small vessels with the choysest wares that an ever blessed thirst may welcome our arivall There our faith will leave us not our charity let that grace work by this vertue now for the best improving of al comforts for what 's our wit or state to procure continue use or misse the least of them and for the bearing of all crosses of this life for what 's our strength or naturall armour to prevent withstand remove or award the easiest of them Lay holt of the promises by faith in our Redeemers life f Iob 19.25 as Iob in his extreamities wrestle it out by prayer as g Gē 32 26 Iacob in his anxieties commit our selves to our h 1 Pet. 4.18 faithfull Creator get i Rom. 15.4 comfort in his word k Rom. 14.17 joy in his spirit and l Dan. 12.1 Prince Michael to stand up for us amongst the children of his people and then although it bee true m Ioh. 16.33 In the world yee shall have tribulation yet it is as true Christ hath overcome the world in him yee shall have peace FINIS