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truth_n	scripture_n	speak_v	word_n	9,140	5	4.5911	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06686	A funerall sermon, preached at the buriall of the Lady Iane Maitlane, daughter to the right noble earle, Iohn Earle of Lauderdail, at Hadington, the 19. of December. 1631. By Mr. I.M. Together with diverse epitaphs, aswell Latine, as English, written by sundry authors	I. M., Mr.; Maitland, John, fl. 1617-1637, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 17142; ESTC S108302	20,077	52

A FVNERALL SERMON Preached at the buriall of the Lady Iane Maitlane daughter to the Right Noble Earle Iohn Earle of Lauderdail at Hadington the 19. of December 1631. BY M. I. M. Together with diverse Epitaphs as well Latine as English written by sundry Authors IN MY DEFENCE GOD ME DEFEND EDINBVRGH Printed by the Printers to the KINGS most excellent Majestie 1633. A FVNERALL SERMON PREACHED AT THE BURIALL of the Lady Iane MAITLANE IOB 14.14 All the daies of my appointed time will I wait till my change come IT is said that it is better to be in the house of mourning than mirth if ever I trust now you are in a house of mourning and mourners mourners not so much with their doole and mourning cloaths as with mourning hearts and weeping eyes I pray God this mourning caused by this more than mournfull object may draw us to a mourning for our selves and for our sins And that this change may leade us to the practise of Iob his resolution here All the dayes of my appointed time will I wait till my change come I make it the ground of my speech since of a mourner I must be a speaker Loth was I to it But how should I how could I detrect it this being the least dutie I can the last I ever shall perform to the never-to-be-forgotten memory of this Honourable young Lady Repressing therefore and smothering my own grief for a time I will proceed having first called upon God who onely can direct me how to speak you how to hear and both to his glory THis change to her al 's joyfull as to us sorrowfull cals upon us with Iob all the dayes of our appointed time to wait till our change come Few words yet large matter which at this time is rather a trouble than an ease to the speaker of whom you cannot expect Scholastick speculations flowres of Fathers broken sentences of Poets such elaborate and painted discourses as they are more for shew than profit so to this time altogether unsutable It shall suffice me if tempering my speech with brevity perspicuity I can enforce upon you the practise of what Iob resolved All the dayes of your appointed time to wait till your change come And thus I enter upon my text by way of 1. explication 2. application 3. exhortation For explication as I will not detain you with the dependence and deduction of the text so I will not be curious in cutting and dividing the words onely in generall I take them as running on three points 1. Life 2. Death 3. Preparation in life for death Of life you have two things one expressed That the time thereof is appointed the other implied That it is short rather to be measured by dayes than years Death and the preparation thereto are set down in two words of large extent death is a change and our preparation a waiting for this change ☞ Our time is appointed not by our selves not by man not by any other creature but by the creator of all His we are in our coming staying leaving this world from him is our time here and change hence what ever besides within us without us gets the name of prolonging our time or hasting our change it is subordinate to his appointment 2. Our time is appointed Some have years some months some dayes some houres all appointed and measured forth by God One comes to his change by a burning fever another by a lingring consumption one meets it in his bed another in the street thousands at once in the field and all by appointment If the sparrows falling or flying one haire of thy head it 's growing or falling be appointed how not our time and change by appointment 3. Our time is appointed by him who knowes what is best for him what for us our time is from him and should be for him As our coming is not by chance so neither our going We are all set here for some busines which being done then our appointed time leads to our change Thus for the appointment of our time All the dayes of my appointed time Here the next the brevitie of this time a point so cleare by the light of Scripture reason and daily experience that it might seeme a vain expense of our appointed time to insist upon it And surely if mens inward conceits and outward practises did comply with their verball profession I should wrong both you and my selfe to make a pause here But alasse what ever be the confession of the daies of our appointed time yet I am sure our carriage speaks that we dream not of dayes but of years yea many years of our appointed time Whence I intreat you is the casting away of so much of our appointed time in doing nothing in doing evill whence the tyring of our wits to finde out new wayes to the spending thereof whence the too-long spun-web of our ambitious avaritious thoughts whence those many delayes whereby we shift knowledge repentance faith All grace and goodnesse and this waiting for our approaching change whence all those but from our conceit not of dayes but of years not of short but long life Yet the truth is howsoever we may deceive and are deceived Iobs words must stand All the dayes of my appointed time spoken by a man of truth and inspired by the spirit of truth Scripture is so copious in this argument that hardly can you turn over many pages but you will meet with one or other passage or word sounding this way Neither onely will you finde positive speeches but great varietie of resemblances whereby Gods Spirit would set forth these daies or shortnes of our appointed time Hence these comparisons of a flower a shadow a vapour appearing for a while and then vanishing a dream an Eagles flight in the aire a cloud blown away with the winde or else dissolved a span measured in an instant with many such like David cals it vanitie which is nothing yea not onely his time and dayes but him selfe because of them Every man in his best estate is altogether vanitie Psal 39.5 where each word is emphaticke man every man every man in his best estate is vanitie is altogether vanitie And Psal 62.9 The children of men are vanitie the chief men are lyes to lay them upon a balance they are altogether lighter than vanitie And how I pray you can we count that long which is in continuall consumption the more time we have the nearer we are to our change yea our change begins in a manner with our time no sooner living than beginning to die Yesterday is not to be recalled what is past is perished the shadow of our time is still in motion this glasse still running this ship still sayling while we are eating drinking sleeping walking talking we are still carried to this change and to close this point there is nothing makes our time seeme long but the expectation of hope of long time and the longest time once