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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80236	A commemoration sermon: or, A discourse on II Cor. V.I. Occasioned by the death of a most religious young lady Mary Hampson the onely daughter of Sir Thomas Hampson, of Taplow, in Bucks, ... who died August the 14. 1677. Together with a relation of her incomparable and exemplary life.		1678 (1678)	Wing C5545A; ESTC R174182	19,868	49

Our Souls dwell in a Tabernacle an earthly Tabernacle and sure such an Abode cannot be of long continuance A Tabernacle hath a Roof but it hath no Foundation it is an Ambulatory house which may be remov'd at pleasure Just so are our Bodies they have a roof they are overlaid with a thin skin but they have no Foundation they stand up on the sand any forcible thrust any Accident may overthrow them We are not only certain that the time of our Dissolution will come but we are uncertain of every moment Our earthly house is very weak we are sure it must fall but if it were never thrown down till it fell of it self we might hope to foresee its approaching Ruine But every blast of Winde every hail-stone or bigger drop of Rain may crush it into the flatness of a Grave Tres sunt Mortis nuncii Death is said to have Three Messengers either of which may come and tell us every moment That we must leave all and remove from hence Accidents Infirmities and Old Age. There is no man in whatever condition he be but may at any time be called or forc'd away by some one or other of these Senectus praesentem Old-Age sets us on the brink of our Grave and makes our Death present to us Infirmitas apparentem Sickness and Infirmities are the Prelude of our Mortality and the Fore-runner of a likely approaching Death Casus latentem but Accidents threaten us continually with an unseen and unexpected End and the number of the casual Deaths is great and we know not how it shall be with us Christians This should be seriously thought on for 't would be of great use in the whole mannagement of our Lives Meditatio mortis est vita perfecta Greg. Mag. The frequent Meditation of Death is the best Instrument of Holy-Living It would prevent and cure very many Sins and Follies if we had it oftner in our minds That our Earthly house of this Tabernacle must be dissolved that our Strength and Beauty must be laid in the Dust and that our long dwelling must be in the dark Chambers of the Grave Who would bestow their Cares and Revenues in the beautifying of a ruinous house whose rotten foundation doth sink continually and were it not that men will not be serious how could they spend their whole Time and Estates in adorring and pleasing their Bodies whose origine is from the Earth whose matter is but Clay whose End is Corruption which sink and decay every day and cannot be kept from Dissolution It is writen of John the Charitable Patriarch of Alexandria that he built to himself a fine Monument but left it unfinish't and commanded that his Servants should daily put him in mind to finish what he had began that so being frequently remembred of perfecting his Tomb he might think to fit himself for it and always have Death in his thoughts Happy were it if we also could find out some Art daily to put us in mind of our latter end We cannot all build a Sepulcher as the Patriarch no but we all carry the Corps that must be laid in This our earthly house must be dissolved and every thing whereby 't is now preserv'd is near a kin to Death We have many Remembrancers of our frailty if we would listen to their voice and mind their motions and truly 't is more a wonder that our bodies weak as they are should indure so long than that they should at last be dissolved for being made of so many various parts and joyned together with so small Ligaments and the whole being but dirt 't is next to a Miracle they should tumble up and down so long and not fall to pieces Eliphas in Job 4. 19. gives us this Description of mens frailness and their stupidity that they dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust and are crushed before the Moth they are destroyed saith he from morning to evening they perish for ever without any regarding it doth not their excellency which is in them go away they dye even without wisdom Sure if such men as are sensual proud and covetuous would now and then walk in a charnel-house and there take an account of those grandeurs and pleasures which are the worshipped Idols of the world it is not to be thought but that it would alay the heat of their unruly passions abate their sinful desires and reduce them to some Sobriety There is much to be learn't from that voice which the Prophet was bid to cry a loud Isa 40. 6. All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field For as the strongest stalk and fairest colour of flowers keeps them not from fading and being soon dried up and withered so the strength and beauty and all the accomplishments of men are no security against the dismal change of Death still they return to their first dust we must be as water spilt on the ground which is not gather'd up again Nay that our hearts might not be lifted up by any of those outward ornaments we observe in Scripture that several persons who had been allow'd the largest Portion of those natural endowments died soonest and in the worst manner The strongest Sampson the fair Absalom the swift Asael the wise Achitophel they all came to an unnatural end they were thrown in the dust by violence and force So true it is of all men even the strongest what we read Job 14. 1. Man that is born of a Woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth as a flower and is cut down he flees also as a shadow and continueth not I conclude this first point by applying to this matter the dissolution of our bodies St. Peters exhortation in another case 2. Pet. 3. 11. Seeing then that all these things must be dissolved all these members and comely parts of our bodies what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and Godliness Having now consider'd the sad Ruin and Fall of this our earthly House let us see in the second place what comfort we have against it How will it be with us after the Dissolution of our fleshly Tabernacle when this our prison our vessel of clay is fallen to peices then evadit intus reclusa columba our Soul flies away and goeth to rest there is a building of God a blessed receptacle fitted to receive it We are not left to the uncertainties of the Emperor animula vagula blandula c. Dear soul where art thou a going to wander in unknown places No our Blessed Lord Christ by the Gospel hath brought to light both life and immortality and praised be his goodness We know that when our earthly house of this Tabernacle is dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens There cannot be a greater comfort for a man forc't out of a poor Cottage than to be promis'd he shall