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A70235	The vanity of self-boasters, or, The prodigious madnesse of tyrannizing Sauls, mis-leading doegs, or any others whatsoever, which peremptorily goe on, and atheistically glory in their shame and mischief in a sermon preached at the funerall of John Hamnet, gent. late of the parish of Maldon in Surrey / by E.H. Minister ...	Hinton, Edward, 1608 or 9-1678.	1643 (1643)	Wing H2066; ESTC R7444	51,429	56

over sin with the name of vertue and boast of it under that name Take some instances Such are those which lest they should lose friends or credit dare not openly professe how good they are at lies yet will they affirme that hand some lying is but policy and boast how many they have over-reacht with thi their policy Perjury by no meanes will they justify yet will they tell you that it is the part of a wise States-man in case that the keeping of an oath hinders a project to invent some cleanly shift whereby it may be eluded and boast how excellent they are at these shifts Luke-warmnesse a Laodicean temper may not be countenanced yet this will they call moderation boast themselves in this their moderatiō Obstinacy in a wrong way t were shame to patronize yet this will they call a brave spirit and boast of their own stout hearts they will praise a Iosiah for going on peremptorily in a way contrary to Gods command though he gets nothing therby but his own death and their empty commendation (l) 2 Chron. 35. v. 21.22 23. Conspiracy which is a plot against the Common-wealth as Peter Martyr hath defined it this they call fighting for the Protestant Religion and yet impudently affirme what Augustine of Heretiques Nihilaliud laborant nisi non invenire quod quaerunt m August Tom. 1. p. 516.1 that the end of their sweat expence and hazard is not to enjoy what they seeme to fight for viz. the Protestant Religion in its truth purity and universality and there are I dare say many thousands of Papists and Libertines now in armes which were they put to their oathes would confesse thus much 'T was madnesse say they and barbarous in Nero to set Rome on fire and afterwards sing and rejoyce at the flames yet these very same men Iesuites happily and Iesuited persons have of late set three Kingdomes on fire and whether they laugh at the flames I know not sure I am they continually adde fuell to them yet this cumbustion they call a pretended reconciliation and boast themselves in it To delude and misuse a sweet and fast friend hath somewhat of Iudas in it say they yet so to intangle their best and greatest friend as Darius his base Courtiers entangled him quod eo rerum ventum est ut tam periculosum non credere suis quam falli (n) Q. curt l. 5. That it is equally dangerous to him not to beleeve them and to be deceived this they call their master-piece of wisedome and boast themselves in it these these are they which are come to such a height of Atheisme which a re so much beaten and hardened in their subtle hypocritical maximes that they will not move one step out of the way which the Devil Machiavill have chalkt out to them and so resolute and petemptory too in that way that we may say of them as Erasmus of Heretiques facilius eos vinci quàm persuaderi (o) ●rasa● ad Hier. lib contra Lucif 'T is easier to overcome then alter them Thus have I made some discovery greater might have beene had I not promised brevity of the mad prodigious desperately for lorne boasters of our land that you might admire and lament the miserable condition of our times But oh take heed that you be not so lost in admiration that you forget to lament like a gazing childe made forgetfull of his chiefest errand for to this end was the discovery made God knowes my conscience not to make them a laughing but a mourning stocke that you might be humbled in behalfe both of them and our land For hereby shall you secure your selves howoever they escape or the Kingdome for their sakes (p) Ezek● 14. ad 6. And so much of the second Question I should now forward to the third and last but the time hath much over-run me let us therfore take up here from this Text forward to that other before me a Text like wise speaking the frailty and nothingnesse of man For if you desire farther ground for these questions Lo this spectacle of mortality may be it a wise able strong Gentleman suddenly cut off which tels you that our footing in this world being so slippery 't is folly for such fraile weak men as we are to boast which tels you that wealth wit and friends in the last needfullest times failing 't is folly to boast of them which tels you that now he is gone the common voyce neither hurts nor pleasures him neither lessens nor addes to his joy 't is folly therefore to hunt after it Saint Paul wishes us so to run that we may obtaine so to runne not as one that beateth the ayre in vaine for the applause of the giddy multitude but for a prize for an incorruptible Crown r v. 25. Again so run our life here compared to a reace not onely for its shortnesse which is a few paces but for its trouble somenesse also 't is a running which is no ordinary paine and toyle Truly therefore spake the Patriarch not onely few but evill also are my dayes (ſ) Gen. 47.5 this race some give over at their first setting out children dying in their Gradles others after a pace or two past in their youth some in the mid-way in their best man-hood are cut off most as this our friend are out of breath ere they reach the stayed paces of threescore yeares Let us not therefore boast canere ante victoriarn vaunt as though we had obtained the prize ere we come to our journies end but let us so run so zealously and so humbly working forth our salvation with feare and trembling that we may obtaine If you are not yet satisfied but desire more ground for my Questions Loe here a spectacle of humility before you And thus am I fallen upon my last message a message I am confident God wisht me to deliver namely to recall and make known somethings excellent and exemplary from the life and death of my worthy friend I say it againe my worthy friend I may not boast my Text forbids it but I joy in our past relation * Amabatur a me plurimùm nec tamen vicius Plin. l. 2. Ep. 13. And here I would not be mistaken conclude not so unworthily of me that his wealth place or friends put mee on this discourse though to speake truely so runnes the fashion of the world if a man be poore though never so good and holy yet shall he passe away in silence as we find nothing said of Lazarus but that he dyed whereas it is said there of the rich man not onely that he dyed but that he was buried too t Luk. 16.22 saith a Commentator of ours there was noyse and pompe much done and said at his Funerall So many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall you have many Hackney praisers in black which at the Funerals of great and rich men though they departed

multum navigare but multum jactari not to faile farre but to be much tost so old people may not so properly be said to live long as to be troubled long But grant that some old men have beene so healthy and happy that they never yet tasted the bitter of crosse or sicknesse and grant that with Wine good Company Cardes and a carelesse selfe loving heart they can merrily passe over the feares and miseries of Church and State grant that in such franticke jollity they attaine to 80.100 yeares yet that life is but vapor aliquanto diuturnior saith the Father a better lasting vapour t Austin in Psal 6. nay sitoto illo tempore viveres ex quo Adam è paradiso emissus est vsque in hodiernum diem videres vitam tuam sayes he non fuisse diuturnam quae sic avolasset if thou hadst beene borne when sinne slung Adam out of Paradise and lived to this present moment thou must necessarily confesse thy life may not properly be called long which is so swift-winged Seeing then our life is so short miserable and uncertaine may we not stand amazed at the generall pride that overspreades and oppresseth the whole Kingdome and aske almost every man we meet Why doest thou poor miserable nothing-man why doest thou boast thy selfe And thus much suffice for the proofe and illustration of the first branch of our first question let 's in the next place apply what hath beene said Applicati ∣ on No better use can we make of this first question and of the ground and reason of it thus open'd nor any likelier meanes to take us off from pride and boasting then by often and serious meditation of our earthy fraile and miserable condition to lay up against and to provide for death If our life at the best peaceablest and healthiest times be but a hands breadth u Psal 39.5 then certainly in these bleeding sicke and worst times we are fallen on 't is not onely before God but in it selfe nothing All of us now as David complaines x Psal 119.109 carry our soules in our hands or as our Divines y Ainsworth in locum with the Chaldee Paraphrast expound him being every day nay every houre through the destroying angels of Warre and the sicknesse raging amongst us in jeopardy of our lives it should make us again with David as Lorinus z Lorin in lib. Sapient 6.4 v. 7. and others expound him to carry our soules in our hands i. with meditation of the certainty of death and the uncertainty of its comming animam velutmanibus gestare ut Domino ad nutum offeramus so to carry our soules in our hands that we be ready willingly and preparedly to yeeld them up unto the Lord let him call for them never so suddenly And here bethinking my selfe both of the misery and carelesnesse of our times I am lost in the comparison If ever England were inhabited by people of Laish if ever we were lost in a Leathargie buried in security dull'd and deaded in a senselesse course of sinning then now especially What alatums and warnings have wee had and even now are bellowing in our eares and yet Behold joy and gladnesse slaying of Oxen and killing of sheepe eating of flesh and drinking wine a Psal 22. At such a carelesnesse the Prophet stands amazed even when judgement was threatned and for it the Lord assures the Jewes that they should be utterly destroyed this iniquity should not be purged away untill you die verse 14. Oh my Brethren how justly may we be lost then with the apprehension of the deadnes senselesse stupidity of our times and what a fearfull and utter destruction may we expect at Gods hands whose judgements are not onely threatned but in execution Oh! they fall thicke and heavy on us and yet are we still the same constant and carelesse trudgers on in the old sinnes of our nature cu●●ome and crimes nay we hate to bee reformed accounting those our enemies and misusers who would recall and better us Warre Civill warre the most bloody and lasting of any and the sicknesse rage amongst us the sad breach betweene the King and his great Councell not made onely but proclaimed the gappe growes daily wider the Drumme speakes louder and the sword drinkes blood thirstier then ever massacres burnings batteries besieges things not heard of for many many yeares in our Island are our familiar misery and discourse yet alas alas as if we could neither see nor heare we continue the same carelesse indifferent Christians We often heare and reade of the cruell suffering of our Brethren both with us and beyond the Seas especially in bleeding and dying Ireland such sufferings that 't would make the heart ake to thinke of them the eare tingle to heare them and the tongue faulter to relate them and yet still tooke with the sinnes and courses of the world with the vanities idolatries and superstitions of pastimes you never set about the making up of your accounts betweene God and your soules of the making even with heaven the Lord knowes how soone sooner 't is to be feared then the Devill will let us beleeve we may be made to drinke the dregs of that cup which our poore Brethren have begun unto us 'T is much to be wondred at that you which have so many arguments for praying against sudden death should make such no-preparation against it But doe you know what in that short ejaculation you pray for In it you doe not so much pray against theeves bloody persecuters the Pestilence Impostumes Apoplexies Palsies Fire Water Thunder Earthquakes the hazzards and dangers of Civill Warre onely the usuall messengers of untimely deathes but that you may by a blessed use of the meanes such as praying hearing meditation conference sanctified afflictions c. so confirme your faith and perfect your repentance that you may at all times be armed and provided against death which meanes if you neglect you live contrary to your owne pretended desire and consequently your prayer is vaine and hypocriticall an abomination to the Lord. But if your prayer be hearty and your endevours answerable that thereby you are prepared to meet the Lord whensoever he shall call for you death then can never be sudden let it come when it will and how it will or by whom it will So much truth hath that of Solomons in it c Wisd 4.7 Though the righteous be prevented with death yet shall he be at rest though he be tooke away sooner then after the ordinary course of nature he might expect in his youth happily full strength or best complexion yet being tooke so doing standing on his watch and guard by faith and repentance having made Christ his and by a continuall circumspection living in a constant expectation of death he dyes in full assurance of rest and happinesse whereas wicked d Psal 55. vit bloody and deceitfull men shall not live out halfe their dayes i