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A sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Arthur Vpton Esquire in Deuon. By Iohn Preston, minister of Gods word
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Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.
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that many of vs haue spent in reading praying meditating examining hearing and practising holy and Christian duties Let vs now returne to the Lord Iere. 4. 1. Let vs heare his writ while it is to day Heb. 3. 13. Let vs arise and depart for this is not our rest Mich. 2. 10. Let vs be more frequent in prayer more carefull in hearing more conuersant in meditation more painfull in seeking more diligent in examining and more studious in doing Let not God the author of time haue the least part of time spent in his seruice Let vs redeeme the time Coloss. 4. 5. Buy it with repentance vvatching fasting praying and with strong cries let vs make our peace fly from the anger to come Math. 3. 7. Let vs remember our Creator in the dayes of our youth Eccles. 12. 1. God vvill haue the first fruites and the first borne are due to him Let vs consider our latter ende Deut. 32. 29. and how quickly our life vvill be gone Our sinees cleaue so fast vnto vs that wee doe not remember our latter ende Lament 1. 9. Wee are carelesse in making our calling and election sure 2. Pet. 1. 10. It is sufficient for vs that wee haue spent the time past of our liues after the lustes of the Gentiles walking in wantonnesse lustes drunkennesse in gluttonies drinkings and in abominable idolatries 1. Pet. 4. 3. Our gray haires our sickly bodies our weakenesses and infirmities the shortnesse of our liues the iudgements of God on others and his mercies toward vs should make vs alway aboundant in the workes of the Lord 1. Cor. 15. 58. That is we must proue our constancy in faith and our loue to God and our neighbour by earnest study endeauour and zeale not that our workes can bee superogatory and more then due but that we ought to excell in the things that are due Let vs double our imploiment in reading the Scripture Prayer must bee sent before vnderstanding desired the continuance of meditation giuen that the Scripture might transforme vs into it selfe after a sort In reading the Scripture the guide oft to be the grace of God study and diligence must be giuen that all may be referred to edification In meditation which putteth life and strength into all other duties Wee must meditate on Gods maiestie aboue vs on our nature within vs on the vanitie of the world without vs on the shortnesse of life behinde vs and on heauen which is set before vs. In hearing of the word preached which is the meanes of knowledge and faith and of all grace with the blessed and prosperous grouth and increase thereof In conference in mortification and in mercy The life of all wise men is the meditation of death Is outward glory soone gone I for the glory of man endeth with the life of man It is hard to bee gotten short of continuance and sorrowfull to be left It is giuen to men not that they should giue themselues to it or to affect it too much Be not thou afraid saith the Prophet when one is made rich and when the glory of his house is increased For hee shall take nothing away when he dieth neither shall his pompe descend after him Psalm 49. 16. 17. Salomons glory ended with his life so did Hamans Herodes and Neroes The affecting of outward glory doeth cause many to fall from God The loue of the world made Demas for sake Christ 2. Tim. 4. 10. The loue of money made Iudas sell Christ Math. 26. 15. The loue of riches made the couetous man loose Christ Luk. 12. 20. And the seeking of vaine glory maketh many men neglect Christ. Seeke Christ and yee shall liue Amo. 5. 6. Seeke him while hee may bee found Esa. 55. 6. He that hath I sachar his burden must needes couch Gen. 49. 14. He that hath rent his net will take nothing Luk. 5. 5. They which are laden with thicke clay cannot mount vp before the Lord Habak 2. 6. They can neuer bee faithfull disposers that are faithlesse workers 1. Cor. 4. 2. They will say and doe not Math 23. 3. So they which labour much for vaine glory will hardly attaine to true glory And the place thereof shall knowe it no more When the flower is cut off or withereth the roote is greene in the earth but man when hee is once dead shall liue no more here hee shall liue no more vpon earth Hee shall bee seene no more here hee shall liue no more in this world The place where a flower hath growne shall know it no more so the place shall know no more where man hath liued That man being onee dead shall liue no more on earth Who of all our fathers departed this life haue liued againe a naturall life wee shall goe to them they shall not com to vs they triumph wee fight they at their iourneyes ende wee trauailing they in the hauen wee on the sea they at rest wee in trouble Remember that my life is but winde and that mine eyes shall not returne to see pleasure The eye that hath seene me shall see me no more thine eyes are vpon me and I shall be no longer As the cloude vanisheth and goeth away so hee that goeth downe to the graue shall come vp no more He shall no more returne to his house neither shall his place knowe him any more Iob. 7. 7. 8. 9. 10. As if Iob had said after death I shall not liue here on earth enioying my riches my dignities and power I shall not come againe to eate and drinke to haue children and to be restored to my former estate I shall not command seruants nor bee commanded by any higher power on earth my life shall bee a communion with the blessed Trinitie my ioy the presence of the lambe my exercise singing my dittie praise yee the Lord my consorts Saints and Angels the place the heauen of heauens 1. Kin. 8. 27. The Paradise Luk. 23. 43. The bridegromes chamber Psal. 19. 5. They which now see me shall see me no more on earth my soule at the time of dissolution shall returne to God that gaue it Eccles. 12. 7. and my body to the dust dust I am concerning my body Gen. 3. 19. There is hope of a tree if it be cut downe that it will yet sprout and the branches thereof will not cease Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth and the stock thereof be dead in the ground Yet by the sent of the water it vvill bud and bring forth houghes like a plant But man is sicke and dieth and man perisheth and vvhere is he Iob 14. 7. 8. 9. 10. Hee that is once dead naturally cannot bee repaired againe hee cannot returne to liue on earth An house that is fallen may bee built againe a tree that is fallen may bee vnderpropped and staied vp againe but