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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53330	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of George Payne, jun Son of George Payne, an apothecary. March 6. 1699/700. At Midhurst in Sussex. And publish'd at the request of his friends. By Richard Oliver, curate of Midhurst.	Oliver, Richard, b. 1651.	1700 (1700)	Wing O280; ESTC R219355	10,021	24

afford some Ingredients of Joy and Comfort in it My Brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience James 1.2 3. And why should we be concerned for Light Afflictions for a moment which will work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory 2 Cor. 4.17 3. The time of our Life and Continuance in this World is short Man that is born of a woman is but of few days Job 14.1 If he lives to the utmost extent of Nature his Time is but short in respect to the first Ages of the World much more in respect of God Mine age is nothing before thee says David Ps 39.5 What is Sixty or Eighty Years to Eternity And of this short time how much is consumed and spent in Childhood in Vanity in Sleep Sickness and Bodily Decays We are destroyed from morning until evening Job 4.20 From the Morning of our of Birth or coming into the World till the Evening of our Death and going out of it We are declining and wasting soon after we arrive at our full Strength and shall be so till we come to the Dust of Death And how often is this short Life still made shorter by Accidents Some stumble at the Threshold dropping from the Womb into the Grave Some continue a little longer but go out of the World before they knew why they come into it And how many are taken off in the Prime the Bloom and Height of their Strength The Consideration of which will afford us these Practical Uses 1. The shortness of Life considered with the Evils Afflictions Miseries Snares and Temptations of it should teach us to be contented and thankful that it is no longer When Xerxes wept that the vast Army which he was carrying against Greece should all be dead in the space of an Hundred Years Artabanus told him That they would meet with so many and great Evils that every one of them would wish himself dead long before If the shortness of our Lives afflicts us in that it puts a speedy Period to our Joys and Possessions it makes us amends for this by putting an end to our Miseries and Troubles too If our Days be evil it is no small Comfort to think that they are also few The World is a Store-house of Evils the Regions of Storms and Tumult a Vail of Tears a large Hospital in which we may see the melancholy Effects of Sin and Mortality Man a Map and Complication of Miseries the Road he is to take lies through heavy and miry Ways variety of Snares many Tribulations his Life is Labour and Sorrow and for this Reason we have no great Cause to complain that it so soon passeth away and we are gone Psal 90.10 It is the Complaint of many That the Life of Man is the Entrance and End of a Tragedy a Web of unhappy Adventures a Chain of Miseries that Man's Life and Troubles are Twin-Sisters and almost individual Companions that Life and Misery are two different Names for the same thing that no Man would accept of Life if he knew what it is that it is well he knows not whether he is coming lest he should draw back and start at the entrance that to live here is to be harrass'd with variety of Evils under different Names to meet with hard Usage distemper'd Humours bodily Sickness shameful Reproaches vexatious Disappointments besides Dangers Temptations Disquietude and Anguish of Mind This is the common Cry from weeping Infancy to querulous Old Age to this doleful Ditty most Tongues and Voices are tuned of Poets Philosophers Historians Laity Divines Prophets Kings and who not What is it then we complain of in short Life That we have not had time to go through and experience the several sorts of Evils that are in the World Or that we have not the Opportunity to repeat and go over them again That we are but a short time upon the Rack That our Day-labour is soon done That Death delivers us from our Miseries and sends us to a happy Eternity too soon If our Life and Condition in this Word be so full of Misery we have reason to bless God that our time in it is so short and to look upon Death if it succeeded a Vertuous Life as our Friend and Deliverer the end of our Miseries the Haven of Rest a Sanctuary and Refuge from Danger and Temptation a safe Port after a Tempestuous Voyage the welcome Deliverer that inlarges us from Prison ends our Labours discharges our Debts wipes all Tears from our Eyes dispels all Anxiety from our Hearts and is our Passage to endless Felicity and everlasting Rest 2. The Shortness of Life considered with the Frailty and Uncertainty of it should teach us to be always prepared for our Departure out of it The Emperor Maximilian was so sensible of the Shortness and Uncertainty of Life that it is said he always carried with him among his Robes whatsoever was necessary for his Funeral that he might never be unfurnished of that which he might every Day be in want of O that Men would be thus mindful of their Mortality and always carry about them those good Dispositions and Qualities which are not only necessary for a peaceable Departure out of this Life but also for a happy Entrance into the next That they would always have their Souls provided with those Vertues and good Habits which will make Death welcome as it ends a mortal troublesom Life and much more so as it is the Door and Passport to a more happy and glorious one Our Life in this World is only in order to another it is the time of Trial and Probation in which we stand Candidates for a happy or miserable Eternity it is the time allowed to make our Peace and to work out our Salvation and for this it is long enough though in other respects it may be short and yet how deligently do Men usually employ their time or rather how prodigally do they squander it away in any thing but this great and important Work Till they receive a hasty and speedy Summons from Death a sad and unexpected Surprize O how do they then lament their Folly that they had spent this short time of their Lives upon their Sins and Vanities and have now scarce the shortest Point of it left for the saving their Souls which should have been the chief Employment of the whole of it Archimedes a famous Mathematician of Sicily when the Romans took Syracuse was killed by a private Soldier as he was poring on his Mathematicks and drawing Schemes in the Dust How often do we see this verified and acted over again in our own Times While Men are busie and bustling about some mighty Affair of this World as they fancy it the Rich Man in the Gospel in pulling down and building his Barns bigger the Merchant in compassing Sea and Land the Ambitious Courtier in projecting for Places of