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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53926	A sermon preached at the funeral of Sir Henry Johnson, Kt. who was interr'd in the chappel at Popler, November the 19th. 1683 / by Samuel Peck ...	Peck, Samuel.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1037; ESTC R33040	13,357	29

Isa. 38. 12. a little pining sickness quickly dissolves and makes an end of it For our strength saith Job is not the strength of stones nor our flesh as brass No our Earthly House is not framed of such strong and lasting materials 2. And like a Tent or Tabernacle it stands in continual need of repairation being shaken with every wind and shattered with every storm Nor is our Food or Physick or any other means which we use as daily props and preservatives to this Earthly House sufficient to support it without the Divine Protection There are so many Thousand casualties we are daily subject to that nothing less than a Divine Providence could preserve these Tabernacles one day And when by Sickness or Age they are tottering and falling nothing less than the same Power can repair or restore them 'T is God only that brings down to the grave and then saith return again ye children of men No wonder therefore that the wicked who by their obstinacy in sin withdraw themselves from under the Divine Protection and Providence do not live out half their days as David observes Psal. 55. 23. 3. Once more As a Tabernacle hath no foundation so no certain continuance in any place 't is here to day and carried to another place to morrow shewing us that the inhabitants are but strangers No more can we assure our selves any fixed habitation or abode in the body We are here to day and gone to morrow standing this hour and pulled down the next growing in the morning and like the grass in the evening cut down and withered Our Souls are but strangers in these Tents I am a stranger in this Earth saith David And I beseech you saith Saint Peter as pilgrims and strangers abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. Nay our bodies in respect of continuance are more uncertain than any Tabernacle Other Tabernacles may be removed this must God will certainly take it down it shall not continue when this earthly house shall be dissolved it must be so no help for it no avoiding of it That Decree can never be reversed It is appointed to man once to dye and after this the Judgment Heb. 9. 27. 1. O how preposterous then is the Care of most men whose contrivance is chiesly for the body to gratifie and please the flesh and to provide for it For it's Covetousness Ambition Voluptuousness which the Apostle calls the lusts of the flesh As if God sent them into and continued them in the World for no other end but as Cooks to dress up their bodies as well as possibly they could for the Worms As if they believed these earthly houses should stand for ever contrary to daily experience or that there were no habitation for the soul after the dissolution of this Tabernacle contrary to Divine Revelation The universal cry of the World saith David Psal. 4. is Who will shew us any good What shall we eat and drink Or wherewith shall we be cloathed And how shall we do to live in this hard World Never once asking their Souls in good earnest Soul what wilt thou do for that Bread which came down from Heaven How wilt thou do to be saved What shall thy state be eternally And what hope or assurance hast thou of an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens And how wilt thou be made meet to be partaker of that inheritance of the Saints in light Col. 1. 12. These things are not in all their thoughts Awaken thy Reason O man Is not thy Spirit an Heavenly Plant the immediate product of the Divine breath of the Eternal Wisdom and Power of God Is it not the impress and image of the glorious Trinity in its immortality in its noble faculties and capacitiy of honouring and enjoying the chiefest Good And shall not the life of this Soul run parallel with the life of God and line of Eternity Or do you think our Blessed Lord overvalued it in saying it should profit a man nothing to gain the whole world and lose his soul Mat. 16. 26. And is not thy body earthly frail and fading Do you not find it now and then tottering as if it were ready to drop down And is not the welfare of thy body involved in the welfare of the Soul and that for ever What madness is it then to take so much care for the former and so little for the latter To make so much provision for the Flesh and none for the Spirit To prefer Dirt before that which is Divine that which is bruitish before that which is the Picture of Gods own Perfections To love and admire the Box above the Jewel the Clay walls above the Treasure and to let the Vessel sink and yet presume to preserve the Passenger that saileth in it Certainly were not men poysoned with Atheism drowned in sensuality or scared and become sensless it were impossible they should act so much beneath the principles of a right Reason as well as of all Religion 2. And as inconsistent is it with Religion and Reason to be proud of our bodies of our earthly tabernacles tho never so fairly built For their excellency saith Job passeth away their beauty fades daily the poor Cottage decays of it self and must shortly to the dust to the house of corruption and rottenness and become a prey to the most contemptible worms O who can be proud of so mean a thing as a moth can crush Job 4. 19. a Fly choak or a single hair destroy and dash in pieces Yet such are our bodies which we take so much eare and are apt to have so high a conceit of But which is more the Lord beholds every one that is proud to abase him To be proud of it will provoke God to abolish it If we dote too much upon our dwelling-place he can quickly turn us out for at the breath of his mouth we perish at the blast of his nostrils we are consumed Let not our hearts therefore be puffed up with pride of nor perplexed with over-much care for these tabernacles that cannot long continue that are no better than a vapour which appears a little while and then vanisheth away Jam. 4. 14. 3. But let us from henceforward reckon it a matter of no small import and concern to us all seriously to reflect and consider how we are provided for the fall and dissolution of these tabernacles of our bodies 'T is our Saviours advice Matth. 24. 44. to be always re ady Down they shall dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return and how suddenly we know not for at our best estate we are altogether vanity Psal. 39. 5. 't is prudence to consider it not enough to talk of it to say we know it we believe it but as the Wise man adviseth Eccles. 7. 2. to lay it to heart to cast and consult with our selves in this as in other matters saying Hence I must and whither then whither must my next remove