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A48314	A moniter of mortalitie in two sermons, by a consideration of the manifold and uncertaine surprizalls of death, guiding the pace and passages of a temporall life, towards the obtainement of life eternall, occasioned by the death of that hopefull young gentleman John Archer Esquire, sonne and heir to Sir Simon Archer, Knight of Warwickshiere and by the death of Mistris Harpur, a grave and godly matron, (wife to Mr. Henry Harpur of the city of Chester,) and of the death of their religious daughter Phabe Harper, a child of about 12 years of age / by Iohn Ley.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1884; ESTC R228694	42,269	56

55.23 nay it may be not halfe a day for how soone is this vapour of life vanished away or if they be suffered to runne their race to the utmost length it is but as the Amorites were suffered to make up the measure of their offences to the full If then such wicked thoughts for sinfull plots in time to come arise in our hearts let us give them the check in some such words as these What doe I meane to project and forecast for sinne afarre off and to fore-speake an evill purpose and as it were to threaten God before hand for every sinne is an actuall affront of his Majesty and every fore-purposed commission against him is in effect a commination of him when my life is but a vapour and so much in Gods disposall so little in mine owne that I should promise to doe nothing but with the Lords premised leave as the Apostle taught in the Verse next beyond my Text You ought to say if the Lord will we shall live and doe this or that Jam. 5.15 The like limitation to this precept you may observe in S. Pauls practice Act. 18. 1 Cor. 4. 1 Cor. 6.16 Heb 6. and Socrates the wisest of the Heathens taught Alcibiades to be so mannerly in his language towards God as to use the like * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Socrates to Alcibiades reservation of his will and prelation of it before his owne if this phrase were familiar in our mouthes it would not only give present repulse to any evill purpose for the time to come but would be a powerfull charme against the returne of it and indeed a man dares not say of any future sinne I will commit it if the Lord will for if he so far respect the only unerring rule the will of God as to make respective mention of it he cannot admit of any notion against it The 4th Application of this transient uncertainty of mans temporall life may be a curbe to immoderate concupiscence and doting delight in worldly things whether Riches Honours or Pleasures which are the three great I dolls of carnall-minded men for why should any one much set his heart upon them either in longing for them or taking too much joy in them when so small a matter as the want of an empty complement congey or gesture of reverence may so imbitter many temporall contentments of the choisest kind and of a very high degree as to make them vanish into nothing even before the vapour of a mans breath and life be vanished away as the history of Haman sheweth whose temporall delights were but as a vapour by his owne confession of shorter continuance then his life Esth 5t. from the 10th vers to the 13. though that were shortened by a penall execution c. 7. v. 10. And if they should hold out as long as a man liveth they were not worthy of that estimation that many worldly men have set upon them but when a mans life vanisheth as a vapour and they vanish before how foolish a fondnesse is it to let loose our affections towards them and to fix them upon them when evill dayes and yeares may come wherein we shall take no pleasure in them as Solomon saith Eccles 12.1 but so much paine perhaps as may make a man so weary of life that the passionate expostulation of Job may be applyed to his case Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life to the bitter in soule which long for death but it cometh not and digge for it as for hid treasure which rejoyce exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave Job 3. v. 20 21 22. But to the particulars first for Riches If a man were so rich as he would say he hath enough as few rich men will doe for most mens covetousnesse is like a Dropsie which makes a man though he drinke never so much to be ever thirsty yet to say nothing of the uncertainty of riches noted by the Apostle 1 Tim. 6.17 which as Solomon saith make themselves wings and flye away Prov. 23.5 without taking leave of the owner and leaving nothing but the print of talons in his heart to torment him they cannot availe to prolong the continuance of this transient vapour nor can they adjourne a mans removall to his long-home whether to Heaven or Hell for one day no not for an houre for Death is such a rigid Sergeant as will not be bribed by the richest Mammonist to put off his Arrest witnesse that rich and wretched Cardinall and Bishop of Winchester and Chancellour of England Henry Buford in the Reigne of King Henry the sixt * Fox Martyr vol 1. pag 925. Col. 1● who perceiving he must dye and that there was no remedy murmured at death that his Riches could not reprieve him till a further time for he asked Wherefore should I dye being so rich if the whole Realme would save my life I am able either by pollicy to get it or by Riches to buy it fye quoth he will not death be hired will money doe nothing No nothing at all on this side the grave for a rescue or reprieve from death and beyond it below it as far as Hell the money that would buy the whole Vintage of wine throughout the whole world will not purchase a drop of water to coole an hell-scorch'd tongue Secondly for Honour as the morall Philosopher saith it is not in the honoured but in the honourer and not in words of praise and gestures of reverence which may be presented in hypocrisie or with derision but in the opinion of the head and affection of the heart and who can certainely tell what men thinke of him how their hearts are disposed towards him and if he know them for the present to be such towards him as he desired how fickle are mens fancies and favours how soone changed from reverence to contempt He hath read but little who hath not met with many instances of this kind in sacred histories and profane and observed little if not very young if he have not noted some in the experience of his owne time besides who knowes not that many men have been honoured with eminent Titles and Offices for that for which such as are truely worthy in whose acceptation is the truest and surest honour have abhorred them and if they have beene conferred as the reward of vertuous persons and so they should be or they are misplaced how much envy watcheth over them to find some meanes to bring them under and how potent that quick-sighted and sharp fanged Malignity is we may guesse by the question of Solomon Who is able to stand before Envy Prov. 27.4 If any man say this may be the condition of subordinate Honour as of the Favourites of Kings but that which is supreme is so excellent that as some have said with as much cruelty as vanity that for a Kingdome they would wade up to the chin in blood I answer First That