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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10034	A sermon preached at the funerall of Mr. Iosiah Reynel Esquire, the 13. of August 1614. in East-Ogwell in Deuon. By Iohn Preston Minister of Gods word in East-Ogwell	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1615 (1615)	STC 20282.5; ESTC S115167	16,154	28

A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FVNERALL OF Mr. IOSIAH REYNEL Esquire the 13. of August 1614. in East-Ogwell in DEVON By Iohn Preston Minister of Gods word in East-Ogwell LONDON Printed by Nicholas Okes for Richard Boulton and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery-lane 1615. TO THE RIGHT WORSIPFVL SIR THOMAS REYNEL SIR GEORGE REYNEL SIR CAREW REYNEL KNIGHTS Mr. RICHARD REYNEL Esquire Grace Mercy and Peace in the blessed LORD IESVS RIGHT WORSHIPFVL IT may seeme strange that I haue ioyned you all together in one Inscription when euery one of you seuerally are worthy of a better gift then here is exhibited or by me can be giuen yet herein I haue done no more then nature brotherly affection and Christianity hath done That I haue clothed this in the liuery of your Patronages I might haue giuen many reasons First for that you are louers of true religion and fauourers of all true professors Secondly because it was preached at the interring of your deere brother Thirdly because I had rtaher the whole world shold condemne me as vniust the curious and captious carpe at me then you should so much as thinke me vnthankfull I owe vnto you all a double debt of Loue and of Seruice Of loue the more I pay the more I owe though a debt once paid be no more due yet loue being paid is still due Seruice I will bee ready to pay to the vttermost though it come short of your great deserts and of my manifold desires I that yeeld to all in learning will yeeld to none in loue and seruice to you But to you right worshipful and worthy Patron I owe a treble debt of Loue of Seruice and Thankfulnesse Of loue for your extraordinary kindnesse in preferring me and for that countenance you haue continually giuen to my weake Ministerie Of seruice such as I can performe I will not faile daily beseeching God for the increase of his spirituall graces here and eternal glory hereafter both to your selfe and al such as are d●ere vnto you Of thankfulnesse in patronizing me being absent kindly entreating me present and for affecting me long before I was by you preferred Of some I shall be hardly censured of others thought ambitious in seeking mens fauours For this I care not so the well-affected Christian may think of the shortnesse of his life and thereby prepare to dye and being ready to bee willing to dye and you be pleasd to procure a quiet passage vnder your patronages for those few indigested meditations which were by Gods permission and his assisting Spirit first preached and now published I ascribe the patronage to you the vse to the godly and the successe to God The God of peace giue you the peace of God which passeth all humane vnderstanding and affoord you many comforts and ioyes in this life to the end and in the next his ioy without end Your worships in all faithfull seruice IOHN PRESTON A SERMON PREACHED AT THE FVNERALL OF Mr. IOSIAH REYNEL Esquire the 13. of Aprill 1614. in East-Ogwell in Deuon PSAL. 39. 5. Behold thou hast made my dayes as an hand bredth and mine age is nothing in respect of thee surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanity THE Princely Prophet Dauid who was a man after Gods owne heart 1. Sam. 13. 14. The chosen of God Psa. 78. 70. A man gratious with God Act. 7. 46 The seruant of God Ps 89. 20. The type of Christ. Acts 2. 25. Nay Christ is called the son of Dauid Math. 1. 1. The sweet singer of Israel a man that had tasted the full cup of Gods mercies and had beene plunged in many troubles insomuch as hee said Great are the troubles of the righteous Psa. 34. 19. Hee doth often complaine of his troubles and that with great griefe and bitternesse of minde and chiefly in this place This Psalme is partly narratiue partly precatiue In the first part Dauid declareth how hee had purposed with himselfe to take need of murmuring against God which might arise through the iniuries of men In the second part he desireth that God would certifie him of the vanitie of this life and therefore he saith Lord let me know my ●●d and the measure of my dayes what it is let mee know how long I haue to liue Psal. 39. 4. In another place hee saith Teach vs so to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts vnto wisdome Psa. 90. 12. Dauid in these words doth not desire death but he requesteth that he may be brought to a serious consideration of his mortality as is euident by the words Let me know my end that is the end of my naturall life of my daies which by thy decree I must liue in this world and then he saith Behold thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth and mine age is nothing in respect of thee surely euery man in his best estate is altogether vanity Here note 4 things 1 A note of attention Behold 2 A confession thou hast made my dayes as an hand bredth 3 An asseueration surely 4 An amplification euery man in his best estate is altogether vanitie It is as much as if the Prophet had said Behold I will shew and declare vnto you by a twofold comparison that the Lord hath made my dayes short for they are but as an hand bredth which is one of the shortest measures and the time of my life is as nothing or like to nothing and surely euery man not onely such as are of base condition but the mighty and the noble are vanity Behold This word behold consisteth of few letters lesse sillables yet very significant Sometimes it is a badge of admiration as Behold a Virgine shall conceiue and beare a sonne and thou shalt call his name Immanuel Esay 7. 14. Sometimes a signe of alteration as Behold I will make all things new Reu. 21. 5. Sometimes a token of gladnesse Behold I bring you tydings of great ioy that shall be to all people Luke 2. 10. Sometimes a point of demonstration Behold the place where they haue laid him Mark 16. 6. Sometimes it shewes a thing vnknowne Behold I will send you Eliah the Prophet Mal. 4. 5. Sometimes it is taken scornefully Behold the man that tooke not God for his strength but trusted in the multitude of his riches and put his strength in his malice Psalm 52. 7. Sometimes it is a note of attention Behold I stand at the dore and knocke c. Reu. 3. 20. Declaring his loue to the Laodiceans In this one word behold here is comfort for such as faint and Gods loue is shewed towards such as repent In this place it is a note of attention to put vs in minde of the breuity and shortnesse of our liues Here obserue that euery word in the Scripture is remarkeable and this word behold is not a word of course but a note to