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A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

there is nothing vnder the Cope of Heauen except the Soule of man which is not subiect to change and corruption Man cannot alwaies continue in one state but man groweth old It is dangerous to waxe old in sinne for the sinner that is an hundred yeeres old shall be accursed Esa 65.20 It shall not be well to the wicked Eccl. 8.13 Old age hath sufficient deformities of it selfe therefore they should not adde such as proceed from Vice As the labours of old men diminish so the exercises of the soule should increase Seeing no man knoweth what shall bee let men Vse 2 vse wel the present time whether it be youth or age If thou bee religious in thy youth old age will bee welcome to thee and the daies will not be euill the troubles weaknesses will seeme as nothing which accompanie old age Thou wilt be willing to die for Death will not carry thee to prison but to the Saincts feast Reuel 19.9 To the participation and fellowship with Christ in his heauenly ioyes and blisse when the Church his Spouse shall be fully blessed Death wil come to carry old religious men to Paradise a place full of pleasures As a man riding takes vp one behind him and carries him to this or that banquet so Death takes vp the religious old man behind him vpon the pale Horse and carries him to heauen Reuel 6.8 Worke therefore while it is day the night commeth when no man can worke Ioh. 9 4. All that thy hand shall find to doe doe it with all thy power for there is neither work nor inuention nor knowledge nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest Eccl. 9.10 Paul saith Whiles we haue time we must doe good to all specially to those which are of the house-hold of Faith Gal. 6.10 Wee may not assigne the Lord in what place state condition or in what companie we would liue but as Strangers waite on him euen as the hand-maid on her Mistris for whatsoeuer he will allow vs we are readie most commonly to bee called away by death before we be fit or haue learned how to liue Looke what care conscience zeale loue and reuerent estimation of good things thou haddest when first thou embracedst the Gospel the same at last retaine and be sure thou keepest still afterwards The more knowledge that thou hast take heed thou be not more secure Wee shall not enioy the grace which we had at the first except we be as carefull now to keep it as we were then to come by it All our life ought to bee a prouiding for a good death and a keeping away of woe which cōmeth by sinne We cannot promise to our selues one day for Time is Gods and Times and Seasons he hath put in his owne power Act. 1.7 therefore euery day wee ought to prepare our hearts to seeke the Lord and keepe them fit and willing thereto Take heed Brethren lest at any time there be any of you an euill heart and vnfaithfull to depart away from the liuing God Heb. 3.12 Oh! that there were in them an heart to feare me and to keepe all my Commandements alway Deut. 5.29 Our Sauiour saith Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart Matth. 22.37 Euery day our thanks must be continued for benefits receiued they are renewed euery morning Lam. 3.23 Euery day we ought to watch and pray for stedfastnesse and constancie Euery day we must hold and keepe our peace with God and lie downe therein Psal 4.8 Text. And the yeeres approach of which thou wilt say I haue no pleasure in them Solomon meaneth before thou waxe old Old age of it selfe is a disease if no other disease beside happen What pleasure can old men take when strength faileth them when they are not able to helpe themselues Their life in this life is nothing else but a returning backe againe vnto death for whiles they are here they walke to the house of their graue Their dayes passe away in such a manner as if a man being a child should suddenly be made a man and after that should presently goe backe againe and bee a child The more men grow in strength and yeeres the neerer they draw to the place from whence they came Moses saith The strength of old men is labour and sorrow Psal 90.10 Their dayes are dayes of sorrow and their strength brings nothing vnto them but matter of labour and paine Doct. That the many discommodities and miseries of old age plainly testifie that there is no pleasure in it Such as are full of dayes as Iob was Iob 42.17 are full of miseries Man that is borne of woman is full of miserie or full of vexation Iob 14.1 The description of the last age is admirable and hath need of a good Anatomist to helpe the true vnderstanding of the same Then the Sunne is darke and the Light and the Moone and the Starres And the Clowdes returne after the Raine Eccl. 12.2 The Keepers of the house tremble the Strong men bow themselues the Grinders cease because they are few and they waxe darke that looke out by the windowes Eccl. 12.3 And the doores shall bee shut by the street with the base sound of the grinding and a Man shall stand vp at the voyce of the Bird and all the Daughters of Musick shall be brought low Eccl. 12.4 And men will dread euery high place and feare will be in the way and the Almond tree will flourish and the Grasse-hopper will bee a burthen to it selfe and all lust will be dissolued and a man goeth to his long home and Mourners goe about in the street Eccl. 12.5 The siluer Cord is loosed and the golden Ewer broken and the Pitcher burst at the Well and the Wheele broken at the Cisterne Eccl. 12.6 And dust returne to the Earth as it was and the Spirit returne to God that gaue it Eccl. 12.7 By the Sunne and Starres darkned is meant the dayes losing their light so that all things seeme darke vnto them euen the Sun it selfe And the Clowdes returne after the Raine that is after they haue wept a long time there passe before their eyes as it were clowdes being nothing else but grosse vapours which grow thicke and foggie The keepers of the House tremble that is the ribs and breast which keepe the inward parts and compasseth them about The strong men shall bow that is the knees and legges shall lose their strength which are the Pillars vpon the which the whole building is set The grinders shall cease they are few that is the Teeth the mouth being as a Mill old mens teeth are few in number and those that are weake and so the grinding ceaseth And they waxe darke that looke out by the Windowes that is the eye in the head like Windowes in a House like two louers which giue light in order And the doores shut without by the base sound of the grinding that is the Lips shall be shut because the

is aboue Their affections be in heauen though they be on earth their treasure is in heauen and therefore their hearts are where their treasure is and death to them is a passage to life They feare not death hauing a good measure of faith to warm them at the heart they change not their countenance nor haue their colour any whit abated but a● it is recorded of Mistris Ioyce Lewis at the stake sundrie other Christians euen of the fearfullest by nature sexe looked as fresh cheerly at the houre of death as at their mariage But if men which are aged do not feare God they wish to die to be freed from paines but they passe from litle paine to great from easelesse to endlesse from corporall to eternall Hell is Deaths Page Follower attending him where euer hee goes among the wicked sort It is miserable to see how boldly blindly such men venture on death Theramines wrote books in praise of Death as the end of all calamities Augustus dies iesting calling for a Plaudite Tiberius in dissimulation Diogenes hearing Antisthenes cry out in his pains who shall ease mee offers him a knife to dispatch himselfe withall Caninus called to execution bids this fellow remember hee had the best of the game The Earle of Kildare seeing his Writ of death brought in when hee was at shouel-boord throwes his cast with this in his mouth whatsoeuer that is this is for a huddle If such men idid know the follower of Death they would neuer iest so and vse such idle mirth Vse Hath old age many miseries which accompanie it so that there is no pleasure in it but euerie day is a day of wrath an euill day subiect to some iudgment or other this should make the children of God lift vp their hands and hearts desiring to enioy that life wherein neuer a day shal passe away in wrath but all in loue fauour and glorie and wherein the dayes of our life shall not be a returning to death but a going on from life to life and ioy to ioy when we shall liue to liue and the longer we shall liue the longer we shall haue to liue and that in happinesse and glorie which daies and times shal neuer waste If we had hearts to consider of things as they are there is neuer a day goes ouer our head but yeeldeth matter of sighing and groaning vnder some act of Gods wrath doe we the best we can If we had the greatest causes of comfort both for this world the world to come that the world can affoord or that euer any man had yet when he shall summe his accounts he shall find the daies he liues here are but daies of euill and he shall see more cause of sorrow mourning then of ioy Let the bitter of Gods wrath here make vs the more seeke after the daies of eternitie where there shall not be the least crosse nor affliction Mans life in this life is nothing else but a returning back againe vnto death Euery man whiles he is here walkes to the house of his graue and though he be a little longer in going backe vnto the earth then he was comming from it yet he doth nothing while he is here but goe back to it A tale is quickly told a word is soone spoken a thought is soone conceiued so the yeers and daies of man are quickly spent It may teach vs euerie day to meditate and thinke seriously of our death and the graue It is the place we are continually trauiling vnto Which way so euer our faces are we mooue thitherward Euery day we are going to the place of execution A Malefactor that is going to suffer death thinks no other thing but death were going to the place of execution wee should still mind death and euerie day prepare to die As Dauid said of Aphimaaz let him come and welcome c. 2. Sam. 18.27 so the faithful Christian wil say of death he is the messenger of Christ he is welcome he bringeth to me the ioyful newes of eternal life They are blessed which die in the Lord Reu. 14.13 And one day of a blessed death wil make an amends for all the sorrowes of a bitter life FINIS

Teeth and Iawes make a base small sound in grinding the meat grinding it badly and weakely And he shall rise vp at the voyce of the bird that is he shall not be able to sleep or sleepe very little and be awaked with euery little sound euen the singing of a Bird this followeth their cruditie and rawnesse being not able to digest their meates All the daughters of Musicke shall bee brought low that is their voyces will faile them And men will dread euery high place and feares will be in the way that is they are afraid to goe vp into high places they are afraid to walke because a plaine way seemes rough vnto them a hillocke a mountaine a hollownesse a great valley And the Almond tree will flourish that is the head grow white He nameth the Almond tree for that doth first flowre of any tree as if he should say old mens gray haires come on with haste sometimes before they looke for them As the flowers of trees are a signe of instant Summer so the whitenesse of the head is a signe of instant death And the Grasse-hopper shall be a burthen that is the least creature shall bee a burthen light things shall seeme heauie vnto them And all lust will be dissolued that is all the desire to eate or drinke or otherwise shall decay because all the faculties both vitall and naturall shall bee weakned For man goeth to his long home that is goeth to his old house from whence first hee came forth The Graue is the house where the dead must dwell it is the way as Ioshua saith of all the world Iosh 23.14 that is I shall die shortly after the custom of all other men Dauid said I goe the way of all the earth 1. King 2.2 The Graue is the common house and receptacle of all humane bodies Euery one shall sleepe in his owne house Esay 14.18 that is in the Graue I know saith Iob thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all the liuing Iob 30.23 and the mourners goe about in the streetes that is weeping for the dead for weeping is not to bee reproued if it be moderate our Sauiour wept for Lazarus his friend Ioh. 11.35 Abraham lamented Sarah Gen. 23.2 The Hebrewes Moses Deut. 34.8 Ioseph Iacob Gen. 50.1 The Israelites Ioseph the Apostles Stephen It is not without much reason that Solomon doth giue counsell to goe to the house of mourning for there is perform'd that blessing which Christ promiseth Heathenish mourning is reproued which is without hope 1. Thess 4.13 but Christian sorrow is commendable The siluer Cord is loosed that is the Marrow of the backe which because it is white is called by the name of Siluer this beginneth at the Braine and goeth all along the bone this in old age strength decaying is lengthned and drawne out The golden Ewer is broken that is the Braine whose skin which compasseth it is yellow as gold which being broken or hurt man must needs die Nor the Pitcher burst at the Well that is the great Veine called the hollow Veine which cānot draw bloud any more out of the Liuer which is the common Store-house and Fountaine which watereth all the body in such sort that it yeeldeth no more seruice then a broken Pitcher By the wheele broken at the Cisterne that is the Head for that is like a wheele And by the Cistern is meant the Heart which is the chiefe dwelling of Life When all this commeth to passe then the body which is made of the dust of the earth shal turn into it againe through the sin of our first parents In death all things are recalled to their first beginnings And the spirit to God that gaue it hence is it that God is called the Father of spirits Heb. 12.9 that is the maker and giuer of soules He formeth the spirit of man within him Zech. 12.1 the soule is the hoast in the sin of the bodie not produced from the seed of the parēts nor from the soule of the parents but giuen of God that it might viuificate the bodie There can be no pleasure where so many troubles Reas 1 sorrows are It is better to die then to liue What pleasure is there in old age when old persons cānot put on or put off their clothes cannot feed themselues cānot rellish their meat nor know what day of the weeke it is nor discerne good from euill When Dauid would haue Barzillai come to him into Ierusalem that he might feed him Barzillai said vnto the King how many daies are the yeers of my life that I should goe vp with the King to Ierusalem I am this day fourescore yeers old and can I discerne between good or euill hath thy seruant any taste in that I eate or in that I drinke can I heare any more the voyce of singing men women wherefore then should thy seruant be any more a burden vnto my lord the King Thy seruant wil go a little way ouer Iordan with the King why will the King recompence it me with such a reward I pray thee let thy seruant turne backe againe that I may die in mine own citie be buried in the graue of my father and of my mother 2. Sam. 19 34 35 36 37. Barzillai vsed foure reasons for his refusall to go with Dauid First his age be being fourscore was not fit for trauell Secondly the defect of his sences and therefore not fit for a Princes court he could not iudge between sauourie and vnsauourie between sweet and sowre he could not discerne by tasting good or euill in meate or drinke or in any other such pleasant things neither did he here with pleasure Thirdly he was loth to be a burthen to Dauid In Princes courts such as wil not behaue themselues as others doe are burdensome if they will not be merry cōpanions if not drinkers they are a burden Kings will haue such men with them which can discourse but I am vnable to doe it and therefore vnfit to be a Courtier Fourthly it was pleasant to him to returne to thinke rather of his graue then of a Princes Court and therefore let thy seruant turne back againe old men should think not how they may liue but how they may die godly they should prepare in life for death and then death to them will be a passage to life Reas 2 Many aged persons are weary of the world because the world is so full of troubles they so full of paines and griefs Especially if they feare God for then euery houre is a day euery day a week euery weeke a yeere they liue They desire to be dissolued to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 1.23 They loue to remoue out of the body and to dwell with the Lord 2. Cor. 5.8 They be from home as long as they are on earth here strangers vsing this World as if they vsed it not setting their minds vpon that Countrey which