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A50625	A sermon preached at the funeral of Alexander Fraiser of Doores, Knight and baronet, principal physician to the King of Great Britain &c. who died at Whitehall, April 28, 1681, in the seventieth and fifth year of his age, and was solemnly interr'd amongst his ancestors at Doores the 28 of July following / by John Menzies.	Menzeis, John, 1624-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing M1728; ESTC R28826	15,772	25

be without making right account and numbring of our dayes Secondly if we number not our dayes they will be numbered to our hands and that in wrath I remember to this purpose what the finger which appeared to Belshazzar Dan. 5.5 wrote on the wall ver 25 26. Mene mene that is God hath numbred thy Kingdom and finished it Will not we number our dayes and redeem them God will number them and finish them in his wrath Thirdly if now we will not number our dayes we shall be made to number them to our sorrow O! how do we think do damned reprobats in hell reflect upon their dayes here in a world O! what dayes had I on earth will the soul say to seek God and to serve him how many an opportunity had I both of receiving good from others and doing good to others But alas I improved not these dayes of my visitation and therefore am I now thrown to this place and state of torment for ever Fourthly if you will not number your 〈…〉 will get a harder sum to number and that to your everlasting horror to number the ages of Eternity how long shall this flame devour how long shall this worm gnaw how many ages yea millions and millions of millions of ages and when the soul considers these torments shall endure to eternity shall ever be beginning without any nearer approach to an end this cannot but swallow up the wretch into horror and desperation Fifthly Unspeakable are the advantages may be had in being faithful in this great duty of numbring our dayes I will only for brevities sake hint at two And first this would be a powerful mean to wean our hearts from things of a present world 1 Cor. 7.29 This I say brethren that the time is short It remains therefore that they who have wives be as if they had none they who weep as if they weeped not and they who rejoice as if they rejoiced not and they who use the world as not abusing it O the blessed effect of numbering our dayes which makes weeping as no weeping and moderates our affections in all things yea and engages the soul to the serious and universal study of mortification Hence is that other word of that same Apostle Rom. 13.11 Knowing the time that the night is far spent it is therefore high time for to awake out of our sleep to cast off the works of darkness and to put on the armour of light And then subjoins Let us walk honestlie as in the day time not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ When a sentence of death is past upon a most dissolute man he will not then readily debauch and whore much more the man who by serious numbering of his dayes is daily looking death in the face cannot but mind mortifying works And this 〈…〉 the other advantage flowing from this duty It would put the soul upon a constant preparation for death considering that it knows not but that every hour may be its last hour and therefore would make it walk by S. Bernards rule Si mor●urus esses illud faceres O my soul were thou presently by death to take thy farewell from the body wouldst thou do such or such a thing and this would make an abundant and comfortable entrance unto our Lord his everlasting Kingdom The soul that is much in minding death and preparing for it may say on better grounds then he did the bitterness of death is past whereas they who neglect this great duty are oft overwhelmed at the approach of death one crying out O that I might live though it were in a dungeon another Had I a world of wealth I would give all for one inch of time and another Inducias Domine usque mane Spare Lord but one morning more Might not these considerations quicken us to seriousness in this great duty What shall I add more All the dispensations of divine Providence call aloud upon us to number our dayes the revolutions of day and night weeks moneths and years the birth of some the death of others our mercies our rods the voice of all is that we should so number our dayes as to apply our hearts unto wisdom God hath numbered the hairs of our heads by his Providence and we ought to number our dayes for his service O that this Exhortation may be written as with a pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond upon all our hearts If then it be demanded how we may be helped faithfully to perform this great duty of numbering our dayes I only tender a few advices and so shut up what I have to say on the Text. First then we would consider the absolute necessity of this duty time and our dayes are a great Talent for which a severe account must be given Secondly we would reflect with all possible seriousness upon our failure in this matter how much precious time we have lost how little of our work is done though so much of our time be gone The moral Heathen when he had not improven a day to advantage would say Ah! perdidi diem Alas I have lost a day what cause have we to lament the loss of so many dayes Thirdly consider we as this work is necessary so also it is above our strength and therefore let us be fervent and frequent in prayer for the quickening and strengthening supplies of grace So teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom Fourthly let us support our selves that though the work be great and difficult yet blessed be God not impossible Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth me Though we oft come short in this duty yet upon unfeigned repentance there is forgiveness with our Lord the penitent thief mispent many dayes yet repenting sincerely found mercy I speak not this to encourage any in sin God forbid but to encourage the worst of sinners unto repentance if we repent as sincerely as he did we shall as assuredly find mercy Though he lived a very little time after his conversion yet he did much in it So as to him some way might be applyed S. Hieroms word concerning Nebridius Epist 9. ad Salvinam In brevi aetate multa complevit tempora In a short time he did the work of a long life Fifthly let us beware of these things that hinder the right performance of this duty particularly let us watch against the leting out of the heart inordinately after the things of the world that surely will divert from numbering of our dayes Do not presume as that great man who is said to have taken for his Symbole a double headed Eagle the one looking upward toward Heaven the other looking downward toward the Earth under which he wrote this Motto Vtrumque as if he could set his eye and heart upon both But we would remember as is well observed we have