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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55916	A sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs Mary Dawes at Great Bardfield in Essex, January 15. 1690. By Thomas Pritchard, M.A. and late rector of West-Tilbury in Essex. Imprimatur. C. Alston. Nov. 16. 1692.	Pritchard, Thomas, d. 1692.	1693 (1693)	Wing P3526; ESTC R220530	12,337	33

Forefathers were Strangers and Sojourners and absent from our Country This is the present State and Condition of all Men in this World we have here no continuing City I come now to the second Thing which I observed in the Words II. Our Hope 's an Expectations as to another we seek one to come That there shall be a continuing City that we shall after this Life is ended enter upon an eternal State where good Men shall be unspeakably Happy and wicked Men unspeakably Miserable I shall not doubt ye so little Christians as to stand to prove Life everlasting being an Article of our Creed which we all profess to believe taking therefore that for granted which Christianity commands you to believe and which the time now forbids me to insist on the Proof of I shall only deduce this one practical Inference Since we have here no continuing City but look for an abiding City an eternal State hereafter let us prepare for it and to quicken our diligence in this so important an Affair consider that this Life as short and as uncertain as it is is the only time we have to seek this abiding City which we look for 't is here alone we must seek this City 't is here we must secure to our selves an happy Eternity or no where when this life ends when we are in the Grave it will be too late there as Solomon assureth us is no work counsel nor device in the grave whither we are going that as Job describeth it is a land of darkness itself and of the shadow of death without any order and where the light is as darkness No delay therefore is to be admitted sure I am there is nothing so well deserveth our Care as this this is our main Concern the chief Business of our Lives and shall we then neglect it shall we drudge toil and labour to make Provision for a short frail Life And shall we do nothing at all take no care for a long eternal one shall we mind Time and disregard Eternity This one would think is such egregious Folly as no rational Creature could possibly be guilty of but alas we see how busie Men generally are about the things of this Life and how they scarce trouble their Heads with the Thoughts of another how vainly do most Men deceive themselves with the Hopes of a long Life thinking they shall have time enough hereafter to seek this abiding City But to cure if possible such Mens fond Presumption let them consider what I before said of the uncertainty of our State in this World let 'em consider how short how frail a thing Life is What is your Life saith S. James it is a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth quickly doth it pass away soon is it gone wherefore so weighty an Affair as this ought not to be put off to so uncertain a thing flatter not then thy self O vain Man that because thou art now Young and Lusty in perfect Health and Soundness that therefore thou hast yet many years to live and that it will be time enough in thy old Age when thy Strength is decayed and thy Days are almost expired to seek this City for thou seest many as Young and as likely to live in the World as thy self suddenly snatcht away and carried into the other World in the very midst and prime of their Days and how knowest thou O presumptuous Man what assurance hast thou it may not be thy own Condition When thou seest or hearest daily of Thousands that fall besides thee and Ten Thousands at thy Right Hand what security hast thou that the Arrows of Death shall not come nigh thee to strike thee What Seal hast thou upon thy Door that the destroying Angel should pass by thy Habitation as he did those of the Israelites of old and destroy thee not Neglect nor then so great a Concern hazard not thine eternal State at so great an uncertainty thou knowest not but that this frail life of thine may end before this Work be done and then with what Dread and Horror wilt thou leave this World having nothing to comfort thee at thy dying Hour no hope of any Happiness in another Life but dreadful Apprehensions of those grievous Torments which thou must there suffer for ever how wilt thou then bewail thy Folly and when it is too late wish that thou hadst taken care to have provided for thy eternal State Now them while thou hast time take care of this great Concern and prevent what will otherwise undoubtedly be thy dismal Fate none of us all but must be sensible that our time passeth away apace that the Day of our Death hastens it then greatly concerneth us all to prepare for that Eternity which is drawing nigh how soon we may launch forth into that vast Ocean we know not ere long we are sure we must let us not then delay our preparing for it but what we do let us do quickly and with all our Might I have done with the Text and come now as may most justly be expected to speak of this most highly deserving Lady to whom we are now paying our last Respects who is now quickly to be laid in her Bed of Dust there to repose 'till that great Day cometh when all that sleep in the Dust of the Earth shall be awakened and called forth when all the Dead shall be brought to Life again then shall she be raised from thence and her Body being made immortal incorruptible and glorious shall be reunited to her Soul never to be separated from it any more but to continue together both Body and Soul in unspeakable Felicity and Glory I have ever declared my self no friend to Funeral Encomiums nor should any thing have prevail'd with me to give one now but the extraordinary Merit of this deceased Lady to whom I should be highly injurious should I refuse it I know very well how difficult a thing it is to give a Character of any Person which some or other will not be displeased with but this must not discourage me I shall say nothing but what I my self knew to be true or have had from very credible Hands This Lady was descended as is known to many in this Auditory from very worthy Parents her Father Sir Jonathan Dawes a wealthy Merchant an eminent and well known Citizen her Mother one of the Daughters of Sir Thomas Bendish a very antient Baronet in this Neighbourhood Her Education was suitable to her Extraction which her pious Mother her Father dying when she was very young took great care of educating her gentilely and virtuously in all those fine Accomplishments which became her Sex which she improved to the utmost but that which I chiefly remark is her being betimes acquainted with God her being early instructed in Religion which grew up with her which being happily accustomed to she made it her daily Employment finding a great deal of Pleasure Satisfaction and Sweetness