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A03419	A Christian caueat for al estates. Or A sermon, preached by that religious seruant of God, Master George Hockin, Bachelor of Diuinitie, Fellow of Excester Colledge, and preacher to the towne of Totnes in Deuon	Hockin, George, b. 1569 or 70.; I. C., fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 13542; ESTC S116598	26,164	49

it is a reproofe of those who forget God and cast the remembrance of him behind their backs for what else doe they who sweare at euery word and the more they sweare the better men they account themselues If they did remember God who saith Sweare not at all Matth. 5.34 And the words of the Apostle Iames Before all things my Brethren sweare not Iam. 5.12 If they did remember Gods Truth Iustice and Power his Truth that he is a Defender of his Iustice that he is a Reuenger of the breakers of it his Power that he is able to execute his Vengeance if they sweare falsely they would neuer sweare vainely First the matter of an Oath must be Truth Secondly the manner must be in Iudgement Thirdly the square in Righteousnesse all these the Prophet rehearseth Thou shalt sweare the Lord liueth in Truth in Iudgement and in Righteousnesse Iere. 4.2 If Sabbath breakers did remember God they would not commit sacrilege in stealing from him three parts of his Sabbath to their owne vses and for the fourth as good neuer a whit as neuer the better If they did remember the Commander God the matter commanded which is the sanctifying of the Sabbath and spending of it in holy exercises they would not spend it so prophanely as they doe seeing it is a signe that God is their God that doth sanctifie them a solemne holiday wherein hee declareth his loue and care ouer them a Day wherein hee offereth vnto them his holy things as his Word Sacraments and all heauenly and holy riches a principall meanes of their sanctification and saluation a Day which hee hath appointed wherein euery one should professe their Faith Loue and Obedience to his heauenly Maiestie If they did remember God which commit adulterie they would be ashamed of such behauiour they would not doe it for a world for it is most hurtfull most vnfruitfull most shamefull most abominable and most damnable It hurteth First the body Secondly the soule Thirdly the estate Fourthly the good name Fiftly the life It ariseth first from an vnregenerate heart which is the harbour of filthy lusts for out of the heart proceed adulteries fornications Matth. 15.19 Secondly from originall Concupiscence which is like a home-borne Traitor lurking secretly vnder-mining couertly creeping priuily entising vehemently betraying treacherously into the hands of the Deuill a woman would not commit adulterie if shee remembred first the Commandement Thou shalt not commit adulterie Exod. 20.14 Secondly her husband to whom shee is married who is one flesh with her Gen. 2.24 Thirdly the Couenant which she hath made forsaking all others and cleauing vnto her husband Matth. 19.5 Fourthly the punishment which is damnation without true repentance Text. Thy Creator As if he should say he made thee therefore thou must remember him or else thy sinne will be the greater in forgetting him The Oxe knoweth his Owner and the Asse his Masters maunger Esa 1.3 and will not Man know his Creator And God said Let vs make Man Gen. 1.26 hee did not say Let Man be made as he said Let there be Light neither did hee command the Elements to bring forth Man as hee commanded the Earth to bud forth Herbs Grasse and such like or the Waters to bring forth Fish but as it were consulting he saith Let vs make Man The Creation of Man was the worke of the whole Trinitie so was the Regeneration of Man We are baptised in the Name of the Father because he adopteth vs to be Sonnes in the Name of the Sonne because he hath bought vs with his Bloud in the Name of the Holy Ghost because by him wee are Sanctified Our Creator must bee remembred aboue all because hee is aboue all and before all God is so the Creator that hee is the alone Creator Doct. That Mans creation bindeth him to remember God Remember thy Creator hee did make thee an excellent Creature Hath not one God created vs Malac 2.10 He alone fashioned vs in the wombe Iob 31.15 Vnto vs there is but one God which is the Father of whom are all things 1. Cor. 8.6 He that hath built all things is God Heb. 3.4 There is none besides me I am the Lord and there is none other I forme the Light and create Darknesse I the Lord doe all these things Esa 45.6 7. I am the Lord that made all things and spread out the Heauens aboue Esa 44.24 He alone spreadeth out the Heauens Iob 9.8 From all this we may gather that the creation of man and of all things else must bee attributed to God onely Nature bindeth Children to remember their Parents Duetie bindeth Schollers to remember their Tutors Charitie bindeth Christians to remember the poore the Law bindeth men to eschew euill and sinne Sinne as it hardens so it weakens the Gospell bindeth men to beleeue and the Creation bindeth men to remember the Creator Reas 1 First Mans creation bindeth him to remember God because Man hath his being from God It is proper to God to produce a Thing from no Being to a Being for he calleth Things that are not as if they were by his Almightinesse God is of infinite power able to doe whatsoeuer he will and to hinder whatsoeuer hee will not haue done by his respectiue power and by his absolute power able to doe more then he will Some Creatures haue a being onely as Heauen and Earth Meteors in the one and Metals in the other Some a Being and Life also as Plants and Beasts which with Life haue Senses ioyned Some Being Life Sense light of Vnderstanding and Reason as Angels and Men. Man hauing his breath from God for God breathed into him the breath of Life Gen. 2.7 that is a liuing Soule by the vertue of the eternall Spirit was inspired into an Elementarie body to vse it as an instrument should make Man remember his Creator Man hauing from God his being and his breath his life and liuing his motion and mouing should remember his Creator Reas 2 Man should remember God his Creator because he made him an excellent Creature compleat and full of the true knowledge of God and of holines without any the least want or defect As in the first Adam mankind was made so in the latter it was restored the Elect came from Christ by Regeneration as all men from Adam by Generation Though Adam did fall grieuously yet Beleeuers are more happy in the second Adam rising then in the first Adam falling in Christ sauing then in Adam sinning God made Adam plaine but they sought out many conceits Eccles 7.31 And so doe their children in all folly In that God made Man and Christ regenerateth Man and restoreth that which was decayed in him this should moue Man to remember his Creator The first vse may reproue such men as know not Vse 1 their Maker Many weare Gods cloth that know not their Master that neuer did good worke in his seruice hee hath many Retayners that weare his Liuerie for

Teeth and Iawes make a base small sound in grinding the meat grinding it badly and weakely And he shall rise vp at the voyce of the bird that is he shall not be able to sleep or sleepe very little and be awaked with euery little sound euen the singing of a Bird this followeth their cruditie and rawnesse being not able to digest their meates All the daughters of Musicke shall bee brought low that is their voyces will faile them And men will dread euery high place and feares will be in the way that is they are afraid to goe vp into high places they are afraid to walke because a plaine way seemes rough vnto them a hillocke a mountaine a hollownesse a great valley And the Almond tree will flourish that is the head grow white He nameth the Almond tree for that doth first flowre of any tree as if he should say old mens gray haires come on with haste sometimes before they looke for them As the flowers of trees are a signe of instant Summer so the whitenesse of the head is a signe of instant death And the Grasse-hopper shall be a burthen that is the least creature shall bee a burthen light things shall seeme heauie vnto them And all lust will be dissolued that is all the desire to eate or drinke or otherwise shall decay because all the faculties both vitall and naturall shall bee weakned For man goeth to his long home that is goeth to his old house from whence first hee came forth The Graue is the house where the dead must dwell it is the way as Ioshua saith of all the world Iosh 23.14 that is I shall die shortly after the custom of all other men Dauid said I goe the way of all the earth 1. King 2.2 The Graue is the common house and receptacle of all humane bodies Euery one shall sleepe in his owne house Esay 14.18 that is in the Graue I know saith Iob thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all the liuing Iob 30.23 and the mourners goe about in the streetes that is weeping for the dead for weeping is not to bee reproued if it be moderate our Sauiour wept for Lazarus his friend Ioh. 11.35 Abraham lamented Sarah Gen. 23.2 The Hebrewes Moses Deut. 34.8 Ioseph Iacob Gen. 50.1 The Israelites Ioseph the Apostles Stephen It is not without much reason that Solomon doth giue counsell to goe to the house of mourning for there is perform'd that blessing which Christ promiseth Heathenish mourning is reproued which is without hope 1. Thess 4.13 but Christian sorrow is commendable The siluer Cord is loosed that is the Marrow of the backe which because it is white is called by the name of Siluer this beginneth at the Braine and goeth all along the bone this in old age strength decaying is lengthned and drawne out The golden Ewer is broken that is the Braine whose skin which compasseth it is yellow as gold which being broken or hurt man must needs die Nor the Pitcher burst at the Well that is the great Veine called the hollow Veine which cānot draw bloud any more out of the Liuer which is the common Store-house and Fountaine which watereth all the body in such sort that it yeeldeth no more seruice then a broken Pitcher By the wheele broken at the Cisterne that is the Head for that is like a wheele And by the Cistern is meant the Heart which is the chiefe dwelling of Life When all this commeth to passe then the body which is made of the dust of the earth shal turn into it againe through the sin of our first parents In death all things are recalled to their first beginnings And the spirit to God that gaue it hence is it that God is called the Father of spirits Heb. 12.9 that is the maker and giuer of soules He formeth the spirit of man within him Zech. 12.1 the soule is the hoast in the sin of the bodie not produced from the seed of the parēts nor from the soule of the parents but giuen of God that it might viuificate the bodie There can be no pleasure where so many troubles Reas 1 sorrows are It is better to die then to liue What pleasure is there in old age when old persons cānot put on or put off their clothes cannot feed themselues cānot rellish their meat nor know what day of the weeke it is nor discerne good from euill When Dauid would haue Barzillai come to him into Ierusalem that he might feed him Barzillai said vnto the King how many daies are the yeers of my life that I should goe vp with the King to Ierusalem I am this day fourescore yeers old and can I discerne between good or euill hath thy seruant any taste in that I eate or in that I drinke can I heare any more the voyce of singing men women wherefore then should thy seruant be any more a burden vnto my lord the King Thy seruant wil go a little way ouer Iordan with the King why will the King recompence it me with such a reward I pray thee let thy seruant turne backe againe that I may die in mine own citie be buried in the graue of my father and of my mother 2. Sam. 19 34 35 36 37. Barzillai vsed foure reasons for his refusall to go with Dauid First his age be being fourscore was not fit for trauell Secondly the defect of his sences and therefore not fit for a Princes court he could not iudge between sauourie and vnsauourie between sweet and sowre he could not discerne by tasting good or euill in meate or drinke or in any other such pleasant things neither did he here with pleasure Thirdly he was loth to be a burthen to Dauid In Princes courts such as wil not behaue themselues as others doe are burdensome if they will not be merry cōpanions if not drinkers they are a burden Kings will haue such men with them which can discourse but I am vnable to doe it and therefore vnfit to be a Courtier Fourthly it was pleasant to him to returne to thinke rather of his graue then of a Princes Court and therefore let thy seruant turne back againe old men should think not how they may liue but how they may die godly they should prepare in life for death and then death to them will be a passage to life Reas 2 Many aged persons are weary of the world because the world is so full of troubles they so full of paines and griefs Especially if they feare God for then euery houre is a day euery day a week euery weeke a yeere they liue They desire to be dissolued to be with Christ which is best of all Phil. 1.23 They loue to remoue out of the body and to dwell with the Lord 2. Cor. 5.8 They be from home as long as they are on earth here strangers vsing this World as if they vsed it not setting their minds vpon that Countrey which