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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42640	A sermon of mortalitie preached at the funerals of Mr. Thomas Man at Kingston in Svrrey Feb. XXI, 1649.	R. G.	1650 (1650)	Wing G56; ESTC R40870	14,085	33

A SERMON OF MORTALITIE Preached at the Funerals of Mr. THOMAS MAN AT KINGSTON in SVRREY FEB xxi 1649. ISAIAH 40. VER 6 7 8. A voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry All flesh is grasse and all the goodlinesse thereof is as the flower of the field The grasse withereth the flower fadeth because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it Surely the people is grasse The grasse withereth the flower fadeth but the word of our God shall stand for ever LONDON Printed by RICHARD CONSTABLE for the Author 1650. To his honoured Freind Mr. ABRAHAM COLFE Minister and Pastor of the Church of CHRIST at Lewisham in Kent Honoured Sir IN reverence to your Person and in regard to your venerable Age J have made choice of you to be the Patron of this Funerall Sermon I present to your Eyes what lately you heard with your Eares It was Penned and Preached upon the occasion of your much esteemed Brothers death and at the solemnizing of his Funerals Your Christian VVisdome according to the pregnancy of your VVit and Apprehension hath approved hereof and recommended it to the Presse I intended it should have ended in the delivery of it but yeelding to your just importunity and the benefit of some private Freinds I have made it publique Besides these are dying Times and mine is but a Sermon of Death to the Living All that I desire is to mind us of our Mortalitie to mind us of our Condition that we are here as Strangers and Pilgrims that we have here no abiding nor continuing City that we dwell in houses of clay whose foundations are in the dust which shortly must be broken in peeces The Lord fit us for the day of dissolution and the houre of our departure The Lord grant that our last houre may be our best hour that our work may be done before our day be done That when we shall come to die we may have nothing else to doe but to die For the hour of death will be the busie hour then Satan will be busie and Conscience will be busie These things the Lord of Heaven and Earth root in our hearts Sir I desire the Almighty God to bless and prosper you the Lord accomplish unto you your honourable and charitable intentions And so I rest Yours in all Christian observancie truly devoted R. G. IN OBITVM Viri Amplissimi Integerrimi THOMAE MAN Civis LONDINIENSIS AD Dn. ABRAHAMVM COLFIVM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fratrem Ecclesiae Lewishamensis in Cantijs Ministrum Pastorem Vigilantissimum V. B. REIP. N. PRINCIPIBUS nasci claroque à sanguine Regum In fortuitis praedicant veteres Sophi At non Principibus diversus contigit ortus Quàm qui tenenti sarculū obdurâ manu Sed repetunt etiam prima incunabula illi Et sortiuntur funera cum plebe paria Nam neque fas Hominis prognatum semine quenquam Est quicquid Humanum à se alienum credere Huic quoque natus HOMO cùm sit tam Nomine quàm Re Obire certum est omnia vitae munia Extremo moriens igitur neque deficit actu Sed sup rema jura naturae subit Hoc voluit rerum series supremus ordo Et Universi lex stabiles servans vices AT met as inter longinquas mortis ortus Quid deceat Hominem publico natum bono Id verò obnixâ est sapientis quaerere curâ Et quo perennet maximè nomen modo Hoc docuit longo concessae tempore vitae Et mortuus quoque Noster hic adhuc docet Inprimis celebrare Deum Christique benignis Meritis reponere unicam fiduciam Dein Hominem natum sese meminisse nec ultrà Humana quâm quod vis queat contendere Et casus contra firmato incedere vultu Humanitúsque ferre quaecunque accidant Seque parem magnis praestare doloribus illos Frangendo mentis strenuae patientiâ Spargere per populos varia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 latè Quàmplurimis benefacere mortalibus Posse voluptates luxum spernere mollem Virtutis uti rigidum decet satellitem Pectora cui tandem sunt has exculta per artes Laticésque veri luminis vidit sacros Ille lubens gratánsque potest occurrere fato Haud esse fortuita Noster haec docet Ita censuit GVLIEL BVRTONVS Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 scripsit Regiovici ad Thamesim in Regnis A SERMON OF Mortalitie IOB 14. VER 14. If a man die shall he live againe All the daies of my appointed time will I waite till my Change come IN this Chap. tanquam in Speculo as in a Glasse you may behold Statum humanum Mans State and Condition His lamentable Ingression into the VVorld his sad Progression in the VVorld and his miserable Egression out of the VVorld The originall of this disquiet and trouble is GODS Curse on the Woman Man that is borne of a Woman is of short daies and full of trouble ver 1. In the following Verses he is likened to a Flower for his fading to a Shadow for his declining and his daies to the daies of a Hireling Nay hee sheweth mans bodily condition to be worse then a Tree for a Tree cut downe may grow againe in the same place but a man cannot Ver. 7. for there is hope of a Tree if it be cut downe that it will sprout againe and that the tender branch thereof will not cease Ver. 8. though the Root wax old in the Earth and the Stock thereof dye in the Ground Ver. 9. yet through the sent of water it will bud and bring forth Boughs like a Plant Ver. 10. But Man dyeth and wasteth away is weakned or cut off yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he In regard of bodily life he is not he lieth down and riseth not till the Heavens be no more they shall not awake nor be raised out of their Sleep This Verse that I have chosen for the present Occasion acquaints us with these three things 1. The Frailtie of this life present 2. The Certaintie of the life to come 3. Our Care and Watchfulnesse to be performed in the one that we may enter into the other First we have our fraile Condition in these words If a man die Implying by force of Logick this peremptory Proposition Man must die Secondly the Certaintie of our Resurrection in these words by way of Question Shall he live againe Where by a Question of Admiration he puts it out of all doubt and question That man dying shall surely rise and live againe Thirdly the Duty of waiting for this Dissolution and Restitution of the Body in these words All the daies of my appointed time will I waite till my Change come The words afford us three Doctrines First the End and Terme of life is appointed and die we must by ordinary Prescription and this is Mors in olla Death is our Lot Secondly a Change shall come by Death and there