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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26904	A sermon, or, The survey of man taken by J.B. as it was delivered at his father's funeral, September 4th, 1638.	J. B.	1652 (1652)	Wing B123; ESTC R32846	17,502	24

Chrys Olymp. Jobi uxorem ad suam virique vitam sustentendam ostiatim mendicasse Wife from door to door had begged it who 2 Tempore multo transacto as it is in the Septuagint after his fifteen 3 If Theodoret speak true Chap. 3. vers 1.3 c. years continuance in this calamity said unto him Doest thou still retain thine integrity curse God and dye Lo here the malice of the Devil which had left him nothing but his Wife and Tongue that with the latter he might blaspheme the Lord and the former might serve as an instrument for to tempt him to it Notwithstanding this Job did not sin But although he did not curse his God yet he did his birth-day in his third Chapter neither blame him for it for the anguish of his soul was exceeding great that at length burst forth into this or the like most doleful exclamation Ah me most miserable let that night be never had in remembrance when it was said a man childe is conceived Cursed be that day with darknesse wherein I was born let not God regard it from above that the clouds may cover it as a Canopy with blackness to make it terrible let not the Sunshine come neer it no not so much as the twilight of the lesser stars because it hid not these grievous sorrows from my weeping eyes Alas why dyed I not before I saw my being Better it had been for me to have perished in the Haven then thus to have lanched forth into this sea of troubles O that I had been buried before I was born and my Mothers Womb would have proved my Tomb then should I sleep at quiet and have been at rest but now my dayes are lengthened to encrease my sorrow Deliver me O God out of this distress O spare me a little before I go hence Chap. 14.7 and be no more seen For there is hope of a tree 8. although the spreading top thereof be lopt and the whole bulk cut down yet it will spring again and not cease to send forth his tender Branch 9. yea though the root wax old and die yet by the sent of moistning water it will bud again and flourish like a new set plant But we must needs die and are as water spilt upon the ground 2 Sam. 14.14 which cannot be gathered up again A man dieth and wasteth away yea a man giveth up the Ghost and where is he Man giveth up the Ghost and where is he Text. These words will bear a double consideration Division One is Relative 1. Relative and so they have dependance on the three precedent verses of this Chapter and thus my Text were a piece of Jobs comparison setting forth the distressed estate of a dying man by the new and hopeful growth of an old consuming tree But this is not that which now I intend to follow The other is Absolute 2. Absolute and in this respect if you will be pleased with me to look upon the words at the first view 1. Affirmative Proposition you may behold First an affirmative Proposition Man yieldeth up the Ghost Secondly words of Consequence 2. Inference or a sleight Inference by way of Questioning or Quere where is he In the Proposition you have 1. The Subject Man 2. The Act of this Subject yieldeth up Man yieldeth up 1. Part. 3. The object of this Act or the Depositum which is the Ghost Man yieldeth up the Ghost In the first I shall take a short survey of man before he die From the second you may learn the necessity of man to die And in the third the nature of our Life and Soul and what it is for a man to die Lastly I shall conclude with an answer to the Quere 2. Part. and will tell you as neer as I can where a man is when he shall die Of these in their order according to my Method of Division And first of the first The Subject of this Discourse Man MAN We will take a Survey of Man before he die The last thing that received any Breath from God was Man First Part. not that he was least but perhaps because the Lord should have made so great a Prince in vain if he had had no place wherein to rule When the Lord had drawn out that large and real Map of the spacious world he did then abridge it into the little Table of Man which alone did consist of Heaven and of Earth of Soul and of a Body The Body of Man That the Body was created of Earth I think that there is none doth doubt thereof yet saith Arias Montanus it was not Ex qualibet humo sed pinguissima Ghaphar Adamah that is the Original of a reddish soft and the fattest Earth Nor is it so that God made an Image moulded out of Clay but out of it by the power of his word came blood flesh and bones with all the other parts of man whose body is compounded of the four Elements and doth partake of all their qualities though earth predominates and nominates whereunto the flesh doth bear resemblance his vital Spirits agree with Air and Fire his humors to the Water yea there is no piece so small in the whole Frame of man wherein every one of the Elements do not intermeddle their power although one of them doth alwayes command above the rest and bear the sway Now as the parts of man are many so the principal is the head there dwell those majestick powers of Reason that make a man The Senses as they have their original from thence so do they all agree there to manifest their Vertue How goodly proportions hath the Lord set in the face of man in the Breast the Arms the Legs and the whole structure of every member all as decent as necessary It were long for to speak of the Homogeneous or similary parts which are nine the Bone Ligament and the Gristle Sinew Panicle and the Cord or Filament the Flesh the Artery and the Veins How hath the Lord disposed of all the inward Vessels for the offices of Life nourishment and egestion there is none of those forementioned idle there is no piece in this exquisite frame whereof the place the use and the form do not admit wonder and exceed it The Soul But what is this Bodie if compared to the Soul no more then a clay wall that encompasseth a treasure or a mask to a beautiful face Man was made last because he was the worthiest the Soul inspired last because yet more noble God that breatheth upon Man and gives him the Holy Spirit the same God did breath upon this Carkass and gave it a living spirit He alone did create our souls in their infusion and infused them in their creation Our knowledge in the beginning and our righteousness was perfect like the first Copie from which we were drawn O too too happy estate of man had not