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spirit_n	law_n	life_n	power_n	7,129	5	5.5274	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45689	Old Jacobs accompt cast up and owned by one of his seed, a young lady &c., or, A sermon preached at Laurance Jury, Feb. 13, 1654 at the funerall of the honorable and most virtuous lady Susanna Reynolds wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds / by Thomas Harrison.	Harrison, Thomas, 1619-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing H914; ESTC R28062	18,006	42

OLD Jacobs Accompt Cast up and owned by one of his Seed A young Lady c. OR A SERMON PREACHED At Laurence Jury Feb. 13. 1654. At the Funerall of the Honorable and Most Virtuous Lady SVSANNA REYNOLDS Wife to the Honorable Commiss. Gen. Reynolds By THOMAS HARRISON Preacher of the Gospel LONDON Printed by J. Macock for Lodowick Lloyd H. Cripps at their shops next to the Castle in Cornhill and in Popes head Alley 1655. To the truly Noble Commissary-General Reynolds Honoured Sir I Account this Discourse as holding no proportion with the Greatness of the Occasion which brought it forth nor with the rest of that Evening-Service on which it was brought forth there-being nothing mean in that Funeral but the Sermon so also unmeet to make one amongst so many already extant upon this subject And the truth is unless the Law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Iesus set in with it to free us from the power of sin and to prepare us for death This wil 〈◊〉 prove to some a● present an Object to provoke their contempt and hereafter a Witness to aggravate their impenitency However I resist not its going forth so our Lord may in any sort serve himself therewith Any of his find any sweetness or helpfulness in it My great observance towards your self be attested by it and the lustre of her Name and Memory not darkened from it Who really was and universally was known to be one of the chiefest Ornaments of her Sex in this Nation Sir You have it now not onely under my hand but before many Witnesses that I am SIR Your affectionate Servant to love and honor your Person Graces and Virtues T. H. Dunstans in the East this 16th of 12th Mo. 1654. Old Jacobs account cast up and owned by one of his Seed a young Lady c. GEN 47.9 Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the yeers of the life of my Fathers in the days of their Pilgrimage THese are the words of the Patriarch Jacob and with what evidence of truth might that Daughter of Abraham whose Exequies we now celebrate stand up and say them after him Few and evil have the days of the yeers of my life been c. Yea excepting the number of his yeers in that indeed more happy then he I think we may all repeat them after him as will better appear in the sequel A subject not unseasonable for our thoughts at any time for our whole life should be as Philosophers could say a continual meditation of death much less then unseasonable when God doth offer unto us either in our selves or others about us some eminent occasions and provocations to such meditations The words do present unto your consideration our common condition and we may resolve them into these three Propositions or Conclusions 1. Our life here is but a Pilgrimage 2. The days of this our Pilgrimage are but few 3. These few days of our Pilgrimage are evil To begin with the first of these from the last word in the Text Our life here is but a Pilgrimage this was shaddowed out in the continuall flitings of the Patriarchs they dwelt but in Tents and Tabernacles and did never stick to confess that they were but Pilgrimes and strangers upon earth as the Holy Ghost bears them witnesse Heb. 11.13 Aye they might well say so may some think for they had not yet obtained the Land of promise but was it so afterwards yes mark what David says when he was King of the Country King I say of that country in comparison of whose Inhabitants al Nations besides were strangers and that not then when he was out-lawed by Absalom and went weeping up the Mount of Olives but in the time of his solemn joy and festivity when his Son Solomon was installed as his successor 1 Chron. 29.14.15 All things saith he come of thee and of thine own have we given thee for we are strangers before thee and Sojourners as were all our fore-Fathers And therefore he calls the Church a Tabernacle Psal. 15.1 Lord who shall dwell in thy Tabernacle And Peter the time of our life a being in this Tabernacle 2. Pet. 1.13 Our Lord Jesus whose members we are was born in an Inn a lodging for strangers in his life time he had not a house where to lay his head and when he was dead he was buried in another mans Sepulchre and the price of his blood did buy a field for the burial of strangers nor were these onely strangers in Israel for we may all subscribe in the same schedule every man is an Hebrew a Passenger a Gersham a stranger in the Land Hebraei i.e. transitores from Gnabar migrare And no marvel for while we are here we are absent from our Fathers hous whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 and from the best of our friends our elder brother Christ Jesus and all our fellow brethren the glorified Saints and Angels we are absent from our own home our house is in Heaven When this Earthly Tabernacle is dissolved we have a building of God an house not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens 2 Cor. 5.1 Houses indeed we have here as Foxes have their holes and Birds their nests and Bees their hives to be chased and driven from them but here we have no continuing City In my Fathers House saith Christ are many Mansions or settled dwellings there must be our abode that 's our long home Beth Gnolam our house of Eternity and there lyes our means that Inheritance that fades not away is reserved for us in the Heavens Nany profitable instructions we learn from hence As Use 1. Not to seek great things for our selves 't is the same Use that God by Jeremy makes upon the like occasion Jer. 45.4.5 saith he to Barach I will break down and pluck up this whole Land it shall be given up into the hands of strangers thou must but Sojourn a while in it and seekest thou great things for thy self seek them not Travellers do not seek for honours and offices in the way as they go all their care is how they may pass well and quietly on they do not look over every Pale nor step aside into every corn field when as they have enough at home if we have but as much as will bear our charges by the way as will carry us to our journeys end we need not care much or if they do traffique buy or sell in the way it is but for some Viands some necessaries in the way or to advance their estate at home We who are Citizens of another corporation must meddle no more with the world then needs must if we have any thing to do with it it must be to get some competent provision for the way or to make us a fairer and surer estate in our Country to further