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A65453	A sermon preached in St. Maries church at Gates-head in the county-Palatine of Durham at the funeral of George Johnson, Gent., deceased, May 29, Anno Dom 1683 / by Richard Werge ... ; whereunto is added, Anelegy by a friend.	Werge, Richard, 1624 or 5-1687.	1683 (1683)	Wing W1366; ESTC R8026	12,157	36

not who shall gather them Psal 39. Why should they accumulate riches and endeavour to grasp the world who in a short time must lay their heads upon a green Turf Our life is like the Macedonian Empire that was in and out like a flash Vita vitrea fumus umbra sumus Our life is like glass we are as smoak and as a shadow and therefore the Apostle exhorts thus 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31. Brethren the time is short it remaineth that they that have wives be as though they had none and they that weep as if they wept not and they that rejoyce as if they rejoyced not and they that buy as if they possessed not and they that use the world as not abusing it for the fashion of this World passeth away Why should frail man be in ordinately desirous after riches pleasures and honours of the world when he may be so quickly taken from them or they from him The Fifth Exhortation As the thoughts of man's frailty should diswade you from those sins of pride and covetousness so it should perswade you to several practicall duties 1 It should put you upon the study of true wisdom David desired to be instructed how to number his days and that time he had yet to live Psal 39. 5. And Moses learned in all the wisdom of the Aegyptians desired in the behalf of himself and others to be taught to number their daies Psal 90. 12. So teach us to number our daies that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom Neither David nor Moses desired to know in a literal sence what year or what day their life should end but in a spiritual sence how they might live so as that they might end their lives well any day of the year or any hour of the day There is no kind of learning more weighty than this 2. This should move you to repentance Hezekiah did so upon a message of death We cannot promise life to our selves till to morrow and therefore wee should repent to day Whilst a woman is with child none can tell what kind of birth it will be and so time travelleth with God's decrees and in their season brings them forth but little doth any man know what is in the womb of to morrow till God hath signified it by the event and therefore it is fit suddenly to set about repentance before days of darkness come 3. It should perswade you to a reverential fear of God Fear him who is able to kill both body and soul God is a God life and death he kills and makes alive he hath the Keys of death and hell Revel 1. 18. Who would but fear him who hath within him the power of life and death 4. This should perswade us to patience under all adversities and diseases Death will put an end to all such evils Many are the troubles of the righteous a particular instance hereof we have in paul whose sufferings are largly set out 2 Cor. 11. 23 24. If you should meet with the like consider that within a while death will put an end to all such evils and therefore you should bear up your Spirits now 5. Let this move you to desire and to seek after heavenly things There is no good foundation of hope nor any good ground of joy to be found here and therefore the frequent meditation about death should move you to desire after heaven and happiness Our conversation is in heaven saith the Apostle from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like to his glorious body One reading that Scripture that No man hath seen God at any time and lived cryed out thus O then that I might die that I might see him 6. This should perswade you to be willing to die Aliter se habere non potest necessarium said Aristotle That that is necessary cannot be otherwise And therefore be of his resolution who said Cum nequeo mutare aequo animo feram When I cannot turn aside an evil I will bear it patiently There is a necessity of all mens dying The extent and community of this condition sheweth the necessity of it The wise man dieth as the fool Eccles. 2. 16. The beggar died and the rich man died Luke 16. 22. Those who in respect of their office are as Gods upon earth shall die like men The mighty man and the man of war the Judge and the Prophet the Prudent and the Ancient the Captain and the Honourable man the Councellor and the cunning Artificer and the eloquennt orator these who are the stay and staff of a Nation shall be taken away Isai 3. 1 2 3. Therefore since Death cannot be avoided it is fit that men should cheerfully undergo it Thus did Elias he sate under the Juniper tree and desired that he might die and said it is enough Lord now O Lord take my soul for I am not better than my Fathers Thus died faithful Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace Indeed Christians do not desire Death as Death Paul in that respect would not be unclothed And Peter must be carried whither he would not but when Christians consider the decree of heaven the setled purpose of God the unalterable Laws of nature and the benefits they obtain by it then they should be ready to say now farewel world farewell relations and welcom death welcome Christ welcome heaven Queen Elizabeth professed that She preferred her Coffin before her Cradle and her Burial-day before her Birth-day And you should be cheerful in the thoughts of death which cannot be resisted and should account it an happy change to go from night to day from darkness to light from death to life from sorrow to solace from a troublesome world to a resting place in Heaven 7. Let this perswade you to be patient about the death of others When Galienus the Emperor was told of the death of his Father why said he I knew that my Father was mortal When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son he answered he knew his son was mortal Consider the greatness of Job and the goodness of Job he was the greatest of all the men of the east supposed by some to be the King of the Edomites and as for his goodness he was a perfect and upright man consider the sudden death of his seven Sons three Daughters consider with what contentedness thankfulness he did bear all Job 2. 21. Job in this case will be a worthy pattern of contentment to you in the like case and a strong inforcement to this duty When your Friends die you should not be as men without hope you should consider that their death could not be resisted nor can their life be recalled and that he that hath taken them away can provide for them better than you can do and can make an abundant supply of them to you another way and can be better to