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A15106	A godlie sermon preached the xxj. day of Iune, 1586. at Pensehurst in Kent, at the buriall of the late right honourable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight of the noble order of the Garter, Lord President of Wales, and of her Maiesties most honourable priuie councell, By Thomas White professor in diuinitie.	White, Thomas, ca. 1550-1624.	1586 (1586)	STC 25404; ESTC S101855	15,728	42

can I conueniently discourse of the godly whose condition is not better but rather worse than the rest For how so euer it goeth they are certayne of bitternesse in this life if they hée euill God wilbe vpon them if they bee good the euill will both hate and hunt and persecute them they are sure to bée exposed to the tyrants of the time the proude persons of the worlde and to all the sonnes of the Deuill If any spéede well in this life by all likelyhoode it is the Rich for they are the men of this worlde the day and time is theirs they rule and strike the stroke they liue and take their pleasure as they list and therefore is the world set in their heartes for where the treasure is there the heart will bee But yet notwithstanding if a man shall duely waigh the continuall vexations of spirit the sodaine reciprocations and chaungings as often as of the Moone the ircksomnes of pleasures themselues together with the vncertainty and shortnes of their breath which is as it were a hooke of God set in the nostrells of all the sonnes of men to restraine them with all he will soone gene his consent that the states and starres of this worlde are miserable for all their riches if not the more miserable which is most certaine For the greatest part of riche men they are miserable because whatsoeuer they enioy it is but as a dreame but as a shadowe whatsoeuer they followe after it is all vncertayne vnconstant yea as the Ship doth swiftly trace the Seas y e Birde with quicke winge doth fly in the Skies or as an Arrowe shot strongly at a marke so hasteth and passeth pleasure fast away and riches with Eagles winges doe often take the morning flight Wée see that great rentes and reuenewes doe not alwaies keepe vs company in our life and in death they are sure to depart they are but as the Aples of Sodom which if you touch them they turne to dust or as the Goord of Ionas which withered in a moment neither doe they redéeme the life from y e graue They cannot wisedome is not able to do it because time as a tiraunt casteth all downe and laieth all a longe yea being the appointed line and measure of euery thing it weareth out the very heauens as a garment and being swift in all other thinges it is both swift short in the life of man Wherfore the prophet saith our life is but a span long 49. Psalm You haue heard the difference that Isay gaue betweene the grasse the flower The flower is more orient but not more permanent yea sooner fadeth the flower than the grasse and though in corruption there be no difference yet to corruption there is greater spéede in the one than in the other as y e Sunne the eye of the worlde can testifie And as soone as soddayne as often and as miserably dieth the Riche and honourable person as the poore and naked soule which thing this presēt spectacle can demonstrate The reason is because all the grace and glory of the fleshe it is but as the grasse or flower of the field I haue said you are Gods but you shall die like men Psalm 82. 6. Wherefore if a man coulde possibly bee as glorious as y e sunne yea though he were y e crowned king or second to the king his son or as one of the Princes fellowes so that for his excellency and beauty he might well bee compared to that glittering Image in the Prophet Dan. 2 31. whose head was of golde his breast and armes of siluer his belly and thyghes of brasse and legges of Iron yet his féete are alwaies parted with brickle clay This is the foote of all fleshe claye and this is their only way into the earth in the which way wée are all caried with continuall motion And as all the Riuers doe runne into the Sea from whence they sprange so by a decree hasteth Adam into the earth from whence hee came and stayeth no where from the byrth vnto the graue For as we all increase wée doe decrease and in vaine doth a man expect his death to come a great part whereof is past to him that hath liued many or any yeares Singular therefore is the Metaphor of the flower to florish out the nature of the great ones of the earth who in scripture are vnder these termes otherwise commended to them selues as by vapoures shaddowes blastes of winde bladders of water not onely vanitye but vanitie of vanities so quickly in the turninge of a hande nay in the twinckling of an eye commeth man to naught And as the great worlde in the closing vp and conclusion of nature shall at once euen in a moment receaue a chaunge so in an instant Adam y e litle worlde falleth and commeth to his end for too day a man too morrow none nay now a king and now a piece of clay Wherefore if the dayes of man vppon earth were as the dayes of an Duke if his height were as one of the Cedars of Lybanus so y e his excellency might mount vp to the heauens his heade reach vnto the cloudes if hée were alwaies as gréene and fresh as the Lawrell or fat as y e Olyue if all y e daies of his yeares were euery one as longe as the day of Iosuah when the sunne stoode still in the middest of Heauen yet it must bee night at last Our fathers lyued longe yet sawe the graue at length many of them continued nine hundred and odde yeres but none no not Methusaleth reached out the thousande yeare Gen. 5. The poore man laboureth for his liuinge and the riche man for his life and whose cōdition is better iudge you for both are resolued quickly into ashes and doe loose their bones euen the pillers of their bodies in the dust Nowe if the greatest parte of our life past may iustly séeme vnto man to bee but yesterday so soone it is spent and gone why shall not the least parte remaining appeare but as too morowe especially séeing it may be consumed this very day or houre For besides the shortnes of our spirites the vncertainety is woonderfull when there are a thousand waies and meanes to geue a man his ende and to cutte the corde or thred the very line of life But men are for the most part carelesse and secure in life and too too timorous fearefull in their death and so Adam is alwaies in extremes therefore after the prouerbe many had rather choose to bee lyuing dogges than to be dead Lyons I doe not speake this as if it were not lawfull to feare that which Christ himselfe hath feared And if a beaste made for the slaughter doth yet abhorre to dye howe much more shall man doe it vpon whom this euill cōdition came after he was made to liue but spirituall fortitude doth alwaies become a christian man both in his life