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A15385	A paire of sermons successiuely preacht to a paire of peereles and succeeding princes The former as an ante-funerall to the late Prince Henry, anno Dom. 1612. October 25. The first day of his last and fatall sicknesse. The latter preacht this present yeere 1614. Ianuar. 16. to the now liuing Prince Charles, as a preseruer of his life, and life to his soule.	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1614 (1614)	STC 25661; ESTC S120035	36,572	96

reproch The sonnes of men are vanity the chiefe of men are liers Psal 62. and the harts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do euil Eccles 8. Thus we glory in our shame yea if we consider wel what sinners our parents were we shall be as much ashamed of them as Adam and Eue were a shamed of themselues wee haue nothing to boast of but the grace of God By the grace of God saith Saint Paul J am that J am 1. Cor. 15. though otherwise of the tribe of Beniamin an Hebrew of the Hebrewes c Though he had fought with beasts at Ephesus and was rapt vp into the third heauens yet he was nothing of himselfe but all by the grace of God yea as hee that findes a young Serpent killes it for his very kind though it haue done yet no harme so may we feare damnation euen by our parents though wee had done yet no actuall sinne of our owne euen as the sonnes of the wicked Saul were hanged for the cruelty of their father vpon the Gibeonites 2. Sam. 21. albeit they were not guilty of it Well here is our sicknesse that wee are borne of a woman what is the remedy that we be borne anew by Christ for as the woman with the bloodie issue being ill handled by her Physitians came vnto Christ to be physiqued anew so we who be ill borne and base borne at the first must come vnto Christ to be borne anew Naturally saith Saint John we are borne of blood supernaturally therefore wee must be borne of water ordinarily wee are borne of flesh extraordinarily therefore we must be borne of the spirit Iohn 3. for except a man bee borne of water and of the spirit hee cannot enter into the kingdome of God Where by new birth wee must not grosly fancy a retiring into our mothers wombe againe as Nicodemus did our mothers wombe gaue the matter of our first impurity but wee must become new men Ephes 4. that is we must haue new affections another spirit a better will a loathing of the world and a loue to God but this wee haue onely by the worke of God and nothing at all from our mothers wombe After our lamentable entrance comming into the world the next thing noted is our speedy passage and going out Short in continuance or as it is originally Short in daies In which three words foure things are to be considered first that the daies of our life are short secondly how they come to bee so short thirdly how being short yet they seeme by errour to bee so long and fourthly what vse is to bee made of the shortnesse of our daies The life of man is short whether by the life of man we mean he life of nature the age of euery particular man or whether wee meane the life of fame that life whereby wee liue euen when wee are dead or whether else wee meane the life of all mankind which is the age of the world If wee speake of the life of nature it is not here measured out vnto vs by yeeres nor by monethes nor yet by weekes or Sabbaths but onely by daies Short in daies lest with the rich man Luk. 12. wee take our measure too long and make account to liue out many yeeres when the reckoning is Hac nocte no longer to liue but to make an end at night Euery mā can tell how many moneths go to a yeere how many weekes to a moneth and how many daies to a weeke but no mā knoweth iustly how few or how many be the dates of his life My daies are but a span saith Dauid yea my daies are nothing in respect of thee Psal 39. yet let vs go to it by yeeres and imagine from God a lease of the longest date and see how we are deceiued in that Psal 90. The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten saith Moses or set it vpon the tenters and racke it to fourescore though not one in euery fourescore ariue to that account yet can we not bee said to liue so long for take out first ten yeeres for infancie childhood which Salomon calles the time of wantonesse and vanity Eccles 11. wherin we scarce remember what wee did or whether wee liued or no and how short is it then Take out of the remainder a third part for sleepe short in daies saith Job hee speakes not of the night the time of sleepe wherein not like beasts but like blocks wee lie senselesse if not liuelesse and how short is it then Take out yet besides the time of our carking and worldly care wherein we seeme both dead and buried in the affaires of the world and how short is it then And take out yet besides which must not haue the least allowance our times of wilfull sinning and rebellion for while we sinne we liue not but we are dead in sinne Ephes 2. and what remaineth of that yea how short is it then so short is that life which nature allowes and yet wee sleepe away part and play away part and the cares of the world haue a great part and sinne the greatest part that the true spirituall and Christian life hath a thing of nothing in the end If we speake of the life of fame the Memoriall life whereby euen dead men are said to liue fame hath her wings not onely to flie about the world but suddenly to vanish and fly cleane away for how many haue there been of wonderfull note in their times yet now not remembred so much as by name that no man now can say heere was their trace here haue they trod or set a foot Where are they now that led the world in a string they at whose becke both men and beasts both sea land did bow they that subdued kingdome after kingdome and set one crowne vpon another they that pitcht vp their Pyramyds and Images of fame vpon the earth and set vp for perpetuall memory their brazen pillers in the sea they who while they liued were adored as God and thought when they were dead to bee Calendred among the Gods yet time and enuie hath eaten out their very names and where are they now This is it we call eternall and euerliuing honour yet how soone doth it die and we are gone nay let worldly fame go and let vs bee sought but in the mouthes and thoughts of our best and dearest seeming friendes and good God how soone are we forgotten when we are once gone that euen they who seemed while we liued to loue and honour vs yet now haue buried their loue with our bodies while you liue oh how wise how worthy how wonderfull are you yea it is your matchlesse wisedome your incomparable valour your equitie piety and Princely Maiestie your excellence and immortall honour but when the Lion once is dead then euery Hare dare dance vpon his carkase and dogs dare barke and Poets then dare raile and rime with pen