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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70241	The vanity of man at his best estate, and the vanity of Dives, his desire when at his worst viz. to have a preacher sent from the dead to his fathers house / discoursed of in two sermons, the first before the University of Oxon, the other at Ayno in Northamptonshire, at the anniversary for the foundation of the free-school there, by T.H., B.D., sometime rector of Souldern in Oxfordshire.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1676 (1676)	Wing H2325; ESTC R38792	37,311	52

contrary to the divine will and so wills in vain wills and cannot obtain 3. Further it wills and wills not it wills mutably and that is its vanity and infirmity We are like men in a feaver or like little children now we will have one thing and anon another we are not satisfied we will we know not what Our vain wills are blown about with every blast of vanity Yet lastly the will ofttimes wills wilfully impetuously violently 't is almost always in motion though a kinde of palsey motion which proceeds from its infirmity and vanity 3. There 's vanity in the affections 1. They are always busyed and yet alway idle like children playing in the market-place of the world when they should be labouring in Gods vineyard like Martha troubled about many things but one thing is necessary Our affections had rather like the Israelites be scattered all up and down the Egypt of the world to gather straw and stubble to make brick to build Cities for the great Pharach the devil then to follow Moses or Jesus towards the heavenly Canaan Again 2. There is in our affections the vanity of mutability they are constant only in inconstancy 4ly There 's vanity in the memory our memories like the stream carry down with them light matters but lets gold and silver and the more precious things sink to the bottom 't is a sieve of vanity it lets go the good corn and returns the dross and chaff of vanity 't is a crack'd cistern which lets out pure Chrystal water and retains only mud and dirt 5. Lastly there 's vanity in the Imagination the fancy is the Arch limner of vain shaddows and disquiets it self in vain this is the house and shop of vanity here dwells and here works vanity night and day here many chambers of imagery worse and worse are in every mans fancy before regeneration 2. And then as there is vanity in the powers of the minde so in the perfections of the body bodily health strength agility are not free from vanity they are vanishing perishing things soon gone of short continuance God puts no trust in the legs of a man neither in the strength nor swiftnesse of any man so let not us lean too much upon these pillars these strong men shall one day bow themselves neither shall any man rescue himself or his brother from the arrest of death 't is worth our taking notice of that which is observed by learned Mr Mede in his Diatriba upon Prov. 21.16 that Hell is set out to us in the Old Testament by this expression the place of the Gyants And as for our health set aside innumerable casualties and the principle of mortality within it hath 300 cremies viz. so many diseases to encounter it and our liablenesse to be spoyled by these is part of our vanity And thus much for the vanity of man in what he is the vanity of his nature 2. As man is vain in his nature in the saculties of his soul and perfections of his body so likewise in his operations 1. In his thoughts those inward works of the soul the soul is a mint and an Exchange of vain thoughts Mans heart in thinking runs like a swift Dromedary up and down the world and snuffeth up the winde vanity every where oh what a storehouse of foolish deceitful sinful and so of vain thoughts is every one of our hearts Oh how long how long shall vain thoughts be minded by us be lodged in us be hid within us and the precious thoughts of God and Jesus Christ stand without and have not where to lay their heads 2. There 's vanity in mens words and communication mens words are winde and sometimes like breath from corrupt lungs they are rotten putrid unsavoury words our mouths are an open Sepulcher which sends forth a stinking favour we may say to every natural man of his words thou sayest but they are but vain words vain because uselesse not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not for use because not for edification they are idle words unprofitable words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not working words Gods word is sincere milk profitable for nourishment mans words are like foam and froth vain and unprofitable for the most part and sometimes we spit out our venome in one anothers faces whilst we talk together 3. The Actions of a man whilst in his natural condition are vanity His natural actions his eating drinking sleeping c. are in vain because not done to the glory of God His moral actions his acts of civil justice c. although they be good for the matter of them yet they are done from a vain principle of inordinate self-love or in a vain manner and to a wrong end for vain-glory and therefore cal'd by the father but splendida peccata glittering sins And lastly his religious actions his fasting praying worshipping are mixed with much vanity God may say to them bring no more vain oblations to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrisices and services The very Gods of the nations are Idols are vanity and lyes in Scripture account and therefore their religion and worship must needs be salse and vain A natural man whether he eats or drinks or whatsoever he does I may say to him he sows the wind and shall reap the whirl winde he conceives vanity and shall bring forth a lie shall at last be disappointed of his expectation Surely man walketh in a vain shew or shadow dum unum imaginatur cogitat aliud succedit whilest he designes one thing another succeeds so the next verse to the text is expounced And thus much concerning the vanity of mans nature and the vanity of actions or operations his vanity in what he is and what he does 3. Lastly there is a vanity also in what a man hath the goods of this world which he hath in possession are also vanity The Heathens used to call these outward good things bona fortuna goods of fortune they thought them subject to change and vanity as undable as a wheel up and down here now and soon passed away in a moment in the twinkling of an eye Riches Honours Pleasures all are vanity great places great palaces delicious fare gorgeous attire a long train of attendants all these are vanity and will be found so in the using 1. These are vain things which cannot profit them that have them as they look to be benefited by them R●ches are thorns which are wounding tearing things they tear off the fleece instead of affording shelter many times and not only the fleece but skin and flesh and our very hearts are rent and torn away after them 2. Honours and great places c. they are vanity these things are winde apt to make men that have them to swell above their measure hence so many quarrels for elbow-room in the world the narrow way to heaven is not broad enough for many great ones they must be allowed a greater latitude and the great