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A11162	A sermon preached at Richmond before Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie, vpon the 28. of March, 1596. By the reuerend father in God Anthony Rudd, Doctor in Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of S. Dauids	Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615.; R. S., fl. 1603.	1603 (1603)	STC 21432; ESTC S103177	19,634	62

others to teach vs for Moses requireth the Deut. 6. 7. Israelites to whet the commandements of the Lord vppon their children that they might imprint thē more deeply in memory And Saint Paul commaundeth parents to bring Eph. 6. 4. vp their children in the instruction and information of the Lord. Daniel made shewe in his childhood what Dan. 1. he was like to proue in his age for zeale in religion honesty of life and wisedome in gouernement As Iohn the Baptist being a child grew Luk. 1. 80. in body so he waxed strong in spirit Timothie knew the holy Scriptures of 2. Tim. 3. 15. a child and was thereby made wise vnto saluation We must be dedicated to the Lord from our tender age 1. Sam. 1. 28. as Samuel was If our sanctification went before our birth as in Ieremy Ier. 1. 5. our duty is to serue God from the first breath to the last gaspe Yea we are the Seminarie and nurserie of the Church and common wealth euen the hope of the future stay of them both in time to come Wherefore good Lord teach vs so to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts vnto wisedome The young man which is in the prime of his age and the vigour of his strength may in the numbring of his dayes discourse thus with himselfe Though I be now young and liuely fresh and gallant yet I haue often heard it vttered out of the pulpit and I beleeue it to be true That al Isa 40. 6. 7. flesh is grasse which withereth and all the grace thereof is as the flower of the field which fadeth This life of mine what is it but an hand breadth Psal 39. 5. Iob. 7. 7. 9. 6. or a spanne long or like the puft of a wind that passeth and commeth not againe or as a cloude that vanisheth and goeth away My dayes are swifter Psal 73. 20. then a weauers shittle they are as a tale that is told as a dreame when one awaketh We are but of yesterday Job 8. 9. and therefore ignorant in many things howbeit for certaintie knowing this that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadow or rather as the dreame of a shadow Though looking in the glasse I see much that delighteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pind. Pyt. Od. 8. me yet I consider that fauor is deceiptfull and beautie is vanitie I thinke my selfe now quicke witted but I may liue till the yeares of dotage Pro 31. 30. 2. Sam. 19. 35. wherein I shall not be able to discerne betweene good and euill Though I were deemed now as valorous as any of Dauids Worthies yet 2. Sam. 23. the time will come if I liue to it that feare shall be in the way Be it I were Eccl. 12. 5. Iud. 15. 15. as strong as Sampson who slue a thousand men with the iaw bone of an asse and carried away the gates of Azzah vpon his shoulders with the Iud. 16. 3. posts and barres thereof and by mayne strength pulled downe a great and strongly built house standing vpon Ib. vers 29. 30. pillars in the ouerthrow whereof there perished the Princes of the Philistims and others of that vncircumcised race to the number of three thousand yet the brawne of these my puissant armes will one day fall away and the keepers of the house Eccl. 12. 3. that is the hands which keepe the bodie shall tremble and more then that it must cost me my life or else at length ere I die the grassehopper Ib. vers ● shall be a burden What if I be now sharpe sighted as an eagle certainely hereafter they that looke out by the windowes that is the eyes will waxe darke and call for helpe of the spectacles And if I were as speedy on foot as Asahel who was as swift as 2. Sa. 2. 18. a wild Roe yet in the end the strong Eccl. 12. 3. men that is the legges will bow either leaue to execute their function at all or else be able to performe but a snailes pace Though I now eate drinke with delight yet in time to come the grinders that is the teeth shall cease and the doore that is the Ib. vers 4. lippes or mouth shall be shut without by the base sound of the grinding when the iawes shall scarce open and not be able to chew any more The vse of musicke seemeth now very pleasant but one day shall al the daughters of singing be abased that is the wind-pipes shall not be able to do their office nor the eares be apt to heare the sound either of voice or of instrument witnesse the example of Barzillai the Gileadite who 2. Sam. 19. 32. 33. 34. 35. being very aged did for these defects refuse to feede with king Dauid at the Court in Ierusalem Be it farre from me to let myne heart cheare me in Eccl. 11. 9. 10. the dayes of my youth and to walke in the wayes of mine heart and in the sight of mine eyes seeing that childhood and youth are vanity neither ought I to be ignorant that for all these things God will bring me to iudgement Suppose I do now excell in the well proportioned lineaments of the bodie and rare qualities of the mind euen therefore I must bestow these excellencies on him who gaue them glorifying God in my bodie and my spirit because they 1. Cor. 6. 20. are Gods by a triple right of Creation Redemption and Sanctification Assuredly if I know not God in my youth he will not acknowledge me in mine age If I doe not consecrate to God the flower of my young yeares he will scorne the dregges of mine elder yeares How should I thinke to bestow vpon Sathan the beautie strength and nimblenesse of my youth in hope that God will be pleased with the wrinkles infirmities and feeblenesse of my latter age Wherefore I will now remember my Creator in the dayes of my youth Eccl. 12. 1. while the euill dayes come not nor the yeares approach wherein I shall say I haue no pleasure in them And I am not the first that shal beginne this course for many haue troden the same path before me namely Moses who from his youth after Heb. 11. 25. 26. that he came to the yeares of discretion abandoned the moment any pleasures of sinne because he had respect to the recompence of an eternall reward Ioseph also was in his florishing Gen. 39. 12. yeares when he left his vpper garment in the hands of his masters wife who laboured to allure him vnto lewdnesse Likewise Iosiah entring into the kingdome in the eighth 2. Chr. 34. 1. 3. 8. 14. 31. 33. yeare of his raigne began at 16. years old to seeke after the God of his fathers in the twentieh yeare of his age he reformed Religion and in the 26. thereof he repaired the temple by which occasion the booke of the lawe

for the present stewardship or disposing thereof after their death Iacob also rightly numbred the Gen. 47. 9. 4. 6. dayes of his pilgrimage to be few and euil while he sequestred himselfe and his ofspring in the land of Goshen from the company and customes of the superstitious Aegyptians Samuel likewise cast a right account 1. Sam. 8. 1. of his yeares who when he was become olde made his sonnes Iudges of Israell because he was not able to beare the charge Semblably Eleazarus one of the principall 2. Mach. 6. 23. 24. 25. Scribes in Iury would not vnder the persecution of Antiochus for the safety of his life dissemble in a point of Religion to the hazzard of others by his bad example because it became not his age and the excellency of his auncient yeares and the honour of his gray haires being ninetie yeares olde Moreouer Polycarpus the Bishop Euseb lib. 4. cap. 15. of Smirna being persecuted vnder the Emperour Verus about the yeare of our Lord 170 made a good audite of his yeares to moue himselfe to constancy For when the Proconsull of Asia sayd vnto him Spare thine age I will let thee go if thou wilt sweare by the fortune of Caesar and raile vpon Christ he made answer thus These 86 yeares haue I serued him and he neuer did me any hurt at all how then can I reuile or speake ill of my Sauiour And the golden mouthed Doctor aduised the flocke committed to his charge to Chrysost tom 3. in serm de Euchar. reckon how many houres they found in a weeke namely 168 that they might out of that number take some few at the least to be employed in publike prayer and hearing the word preached Beside this in ciuill policy the Lacedaemonians Plut. in Lacon institut renowmed for martial mē were accustomed to decline thēselues through three tenses of the Indicatiue moode For in their solemne assemblies the first Chorus was of old men saying We were once 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 renowmed in the wars In the second rancke marched their lustie gallants brauing it and saying We are such men make triall if you dare And in the third Pageant came the boyes with great signe of militarie towardnes saying We shall be one day farre more strong and valiant And surely considering the termes wherin we stand at this time it is meet for euery man to fall a numbring his yeares that he may exactly know what place of seruice is assigned vnto him for the defence of the Realme according to the Greeke verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristoph Gram. Which by some hath bene Latined backward thus Vota senum consulta virorum facta iuuentae As if I should say in plaine English Let yong men be valiant in action let men of middle age be wise in consultation and let old men be deuout in prayer for the good successe of the warres either defensiue or offensiue against the common enemies of this Church and common wealth But commending the war-causes to Gods prouidence the wisedome of the Councell boord and the valour of them that professe Armes and to speake of manners meete to be exercised in the times both of warre and peace regarding aswell the number of our yeares past as also the breuitie frailtie and vncertainty of the yeares to come let vs consider one Heb. 10. 24. another to prouoke vnto loue and to good works We must do the works of God while it is day that is while Ioh. 9. 4. oportunitie and the season serueth the night commeth when no man can worke And till the long night of sleepe do come from the which there shall be no awaking of the body before the trumpet shall sound at the day of iudgement in the meane while dearly beloued I beseech you 1. Pet. 2. 11. as straungers and pilgrimes abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule Yea whiles we haue time let vs do good to all men but especially Gal. 6. 10. vnto them which are of the houshold of faith And this I say brethren because the time is short hereafter that both they which haue wiues be as though they had none 1. Cor 7. 29. 30. 31. and they that weepe as though they wept not and they that reioyce as though they reioyced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that vse this world as though they vsed it not for the fashion of this world goeth away Wherefore loue not the world neither 1. Ioh. 2. 15. 16. 17. the things that are in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life which are not of the father but of the world And surely the world passeth away together with the lusts thereof Also considering the season it is now time that we should arise from sleepe for Rom. 13. 11. 12. now is our saluation neerer then whē we first began to beleeue The night of ignorance is past and the day of the knowledge of God is come let vs therefore cast away the workes of darknesse and let vs put on the armour of light that is godly and honest maners God heareth men in a 2. Cor. 6. 2. time accepted in the day of saluation doth he succour them behold now the accepted time behold now the day of saluation The holy Ghost sayth To day if you will heare his Heb. 3. 7. 8. voyce harden not your hearts as in the prouocation according to the day of tentation in the wildernesse Exhort one another while it is called Ib. vers 13. to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceiptfulnesse of sinne Boast not thy selfe of to morow for Pro. 27. 1. thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Remember that the rich Luk. 16. Glutton once might and would not heare Moses and the Prophets afterward he would and could not The foolish virgins which wanted oile in Mat. 25. 1 to the 14. their lampes at the entrance of the bridegroome into the wedding roome could neuer after that obtaine fauour to haue the doores opened vnto them And when as Esau Gen. 25. 29. to the end had once sold his birth-right for a messe of red pottage and a morsell of bread ye know how that afterward also when he would haue inherited the blessing he was reiected For he found no place to repentāce though Heb. 12. 16. 17. he sought the blessing with teares Wherefore ô Lord who art the ordainer and gouernor of all times and seasons vouchsafe to teach vs in fit and due time to number our dayes so that we may apply our hearts to wisedome Children vpon this point of numbring their yeares may enter into meditation thus This age of ours is meetest to be Catechised that which is now taught is soonest receiued and longest kept We know what we are to learne by that which is inioyned