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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44967	Two sermons by Geo. Hall ...	Hall, George, 1612?-1668.	1641 (1641)	Wing H339; ESTC R19103	23,750	56

Michaelmas or Easter Terme Aquinas notes that buying or selling was never heard of till Abraham bought a burying place of Ephron the Sonne of Zoar and here by the way you may note that the first thing this good man bought was a burying place as if the end of his life had beene the beginning of his thoughts the River of God sayes the Psalmist is full of Water you have heard how this River keepes not within bancks but rejoyces to break out and runne downe with a mightie streame to make glad the face of the whole earth Thus much of the object in generall as the Creator I now come to the object in a more speciall notion with this restraint or appropriation thy Creator where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth saies God to Iob let the Poet make answer quâ non nata jacent were things that are not yet borne or conceived are that is just no where how much then dost thou owe to God that gave thee life when as yet thou couldst not aske it of him and when hee first gave thee life thou wast as thy dayes are but a span long and yet what a faire place did he make ready for thee even the wide and spacious world that when thou commest to yeares and mans stature thou mightest have elbow roome enough That God is the Creator and therefore Almighty is matter of feare and trembling but that he is thy Creator is matter of love and thankfull remembrance Did he not give thee a being yes but so he did to stocks and stones Did hee not give thee a soule and life thus much hee hath done for beasts and trees But did hee not give thee a reasonable soule to denie it were the best argument that hee did not But in that hee hath given thee a reasonable soule remember this thing that he hath done for thee The soule of Beasts is from the earth earthly the soule of man from the Father of Spirits and is spirituall the soule of Beasts is but for a time and then dyes with the body the soule of man lives after the body and returnes to God that gave it Some of the old Philosophers compare the soule of a man to a Circle for like as a Circle returnes to the first poynt and ends where it began so the soule of man returnes to God from whom it began to which may that bee well applyed which God sayes of himfelfe J am the beginning and I am the end But now though it bee true that the wise men said of old that the soule of man doth resemble a circle yet is there some disparitie and unlikenesse in the one and the other for every Circle returnes to the poynt from whence it begins but every mans soule doth not returne to God that gave it for the souls of the wicked go out from him and are lost in this world and never returne to him againe but the soules of the just are like the Dove which Noah s●●t out of the Arke which finding no rest for the sole of her foot returned back againe and hee put forth his hand and received her In this doe the soules of good and bad agree that they were all created by one and the same God that they are all for a time to be united to the body that they shall all at the end of that time be separated from the body that they shall all put on the very same bodies which sometimes they put off that they shall all come to judgement and here beginnes the woefull and lamentable difference some proving Chaffe some Wheat some Sheep some Goats some being set on the right hand and some on the left some marked out to eternall death and some to eternall life now that thou maist never feele the happinesse of the one and never feele the miserie of the other take with thee this Counsell it is the Counsell of a King of Solomon the King let it bee to thee as the Signet of thy right hand and as Jewells of gold about thy neck write it upon the Nayles of thy fingers upon the palmes of thine hands upon the posts of thine house and in every corner of thy heart Remember thy Creator The fruit that will spring from this remembrance will be much and rare from contemplation of his highnesse and thy low estate will spring humilitie from thought of this that hee gave to thee not onely when thou hadst nothing but wast nothing Charlie to the poore from his mercie hope from his Iustice a true ballance feare of his Name resolution and contempt of injuries from his immensitie and illimited presence in all places watch fulnesse and warinesse in all thy ways words and actions But because there is an appoynted time for all things a time for everie purpose under the Sun my Text does not only set downe whom we must remember but the time when we must remember him and that in three particulars First in our youth Secondly in the dayes of our youth Thirdly now in the dayes of our youth First of the first It was the superstition of the old Romans primam lanuginem Diis Consecrare to consecrate the first haire of their cheeks to their gods what was superstition in them will bee good Religion in us God will have our firstlings what are they the first borne male of thy Cattell and of thy sheep thou shalt sanctifie to the Lord thy God was the old Law But now I will take no Bullock out of thine house nor Goat out of thy fold will I eate the flesh of Bulls or drinke the blood of Goats Offer unto mee praise and pay thy vowes call upon mee but marke what followes in the day of trouble not in the night not after Sunne set wee must not deferre it so long and I say call upon him early betime in the morning and if not in the morning of the day yet surely in the morning of thine age that is in thy youth How many have thought to call in the evening who have beene cald away themselves at noone and beene benighted at mid-day for we are here but for a time and then must bee gone like Travailers or wayfaring men wee must pay our debt and reckoning to Nature and then away after we have eat and drunke here or like Tenants at will who must give up our Title and Land even that small portion of earth which we carry about us when God shall call as hee cald to Abraham exi de terratua goe out of thy Land and whither then to the place that Iob in his tenth Chapter speaks of darke as darknesse it selfe where there is no order where there is no place for repentance for as the tree falleth so it lyeth Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe in these thou must gather thy Manna if thou gather on the seventh it shall stinke and bring forth wormes never had man pardon of his sinne to whom