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A32179 A glimpse of eternity very useful to awaken sinners and to comfort saints : profitable to be read in families / by A.C. A. C. (Abraham Caley) 1679 (1679) Wing C290A; ESTC R31283 161,448 236

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speech of Marcus Aurelius upon his death-bed When we begin to live we imagine our life will endure a whole world but when it is ended it seemeth to us to be but a puffe and blast of wind The Scripture somtimes expresseth the term of mans life by years (i) Psal 90. 10. The dayes of our years are threescore years and ten sometimes it is reduced to moneths (k) Job 14. 5. The number of his moneths are with thee sometimes it is confined to dayes So teach us to number our dayes (l) Psal 90. 12. sometimes it is limited to a day (m) Job 14. 6. That he may accomplish as a Hireling his day A man that hath some great work that must of necessity be done and but one day for the doing it had need work hard it is so with us only we are upon a far greater uncertainty the shortest day hath its morning noon afternoon and evening so that he that hath work to do knoweth before-hand what time he hath for doing it but it is otherwise in the day of our life some have a morning but no noon they are born and forthwith dye step from one grave to another from the grave of their mothers womb to the grave of the earth the common mother of all some have a noon but no afternoon their sun sets at mid-day when their bodies are full of strength and their bones full of marrow some have an afternoon but no evening and which of these may befall us we know not There was a Jewish youth that went to a Rabbie desiring him to instruct him in the Law the Rabbie asked him how old he was he answered eight he told h●m he was too young to understand the Law willing him to stay till he were eight years older and then if he came he would instruct him The youth replyed Sir I have been often in the Church-yard and have observed that there are as many graves shorter than I as there are longer and if I should dye before I be eight years older what will become of my soul if I be ignorant of the Law That many are snatched away by death in the morning of their age we see by daily experience what befalleth them may befall any of us and how sad would it be if Death should take us out of this world before we have made provision for another It was a cutting speech of Caesar Borgius While I lived I provided for every thing but death now I must dye and am unprovided to dye What provision we make for this world whether we have more or less is no great matter our abode here being for so short a time the great thing is what provision we make for death and Eternity that follows it and seeing the time of our life the only time of providing for it is so short infinitely concerneth us to im prove this short time to the best advantage to work the work we have to do while it is day 6. When this short time is once past there is nothing to be done in this great work If a man dye shall he live again (n) Job 14. 14. It is an affirmative interrogation and hath the force of a strong Negation he shall not live again as to a natural life this life is called an earthly house (o) 2 Cor. 5. 1. being once dis●olved it shall not be inhabited from generation to generation it is a Tabernacle in the same place A Shepheards Tent Other Tents are taken down and set up again but when this is taken down the stakes thereof removed and the cords broken it is never set up again till the Resurrection It is a Candle The spirit of man is the p Isa 38. 12. Candle of the Lord (q) Prov. 20. 28. if it be once put out it is never lighted more the sun of our life being once set it never riseth again after the evening of its setting there is never till the last Resurrection a morning of its up-rising the Glass of Life being run out it is never turned again we are as water spilt upon the ground which cannot be gathered up again A wind that passeth away and cometh not again (s) Psalm 18. 39. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more (t) Job 7. 9 and As the Flood decayeth and dryeth up so man lyeth down and riseth till the Heavens be no more (u) 14. 11 12. It was the saying of Charles the fifth I have spent my treasure but that I may recover again I have lost me health but that I may have again but I have lost a great many brave souldiers and them I can never have again the like may be said here other things may be lost and yet recovered again Joh lost his whole estate yet God blessed his latter end more than his beginning Hezekiah lost his health and fell into a grievous sickness yet God added fifteen years to his life but if the time of life be once past it is past all recovery to weigh the fire to measure the wind and to call back a day that is past are three things mentioned by the Angel of the like impossibility (w) 2 Esdras 4. 5. While the sheep liveth though the wool be clipt off every year it groweth again to the like weight but clip it off when the sheep is dead and there never cometh any more while life lasts though much of our time be wilfully lost and much snatcht away against our will yet by our Repentance and future care we may regain it as that expression redeeming the time implyeth but if the term of life be once past there is no redeeming of lost time being once entred upon our eternal condition there is no returning back to the enjoyment of formerly neglected r Sam. 14. 14. opportunities When a few years are come I shall go the way whence I shall not return (x) Job 16. 22. After death there is no returning back to do any of these works we might have done here Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with all thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest (z) John 9. 4. I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no man can work I might shew it in all those works we are to do in reference to securing eternal happiness are we to secure it by praying as Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved (a) Rom. 10. 16. that is not to be done after death Because he hath enclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live (b) Psalm 116. 10. implying when he should cease to live he should cease to pray Are we to secure it by hearing as Hear and your soul shall live (c) Isa 55.