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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

meanes to escape Gods wrath is to remember him God gaue Israel a Law to bee continued to their posteritie namely to remember God and keepe his Commandements that so they might not bee a faithlesse and stubborne Generation who set not aright their hearts and whose spirit cleaueth not stedfastly vnto God like their fore-fathers and the children of Ephraim who kept not Gods Couenant forgetting God and his wondrous works Psal 78.5 to 12. Here wee may see plainly that the remembrance of God is a meanes to escape his wrath When the Lord had giuen the Israelites abundance and plentie of all things lest they should fall into pride vnthankfulnesse and other sinnes he giueth them this caueat saying When thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwell therein and when thy Heards and thy Flocke and all thou is multiplied beware and take thou heed thou forgettest not the Lord thy God and lest thy heart be lifted vp and thou forget the Lord thy God but remember the Lord thy God Deut. 8.10 to 18. The Apostle Iude writing against the wicked Seducers that liued in his time prescribeth this as a remedie to escape Gods wrath Remember the words of the Apostles of Iesus Christ Iude 17. Dauid shewing what a combat hee had with Diffidence and Distrust acknowledgeth this to be his remedie whereby he got the victorie the remembrance of God and so after confession of the combat he saith And I said this is mine infirmitie but I will remember the yeeres of the right hand of the most High I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy works Psal 77.10 We must remember to serue and walke with God by dayes not by weekes and moneths onely Psal 90.12 As the chiefest meanes to escape Gods wrath is to remember the Lord so the speediest meanes to draw downe his iudgements is to forget the Lord. Now consider this yee that forget God that is him and his iudgements against sinne lest I teare you there is the greatnesse of their iudgement and there be no Rescuer that is no hope of deliuerance Psal 50.22 The wicked shall turne into hell and all the Heathens that forget God Psael 9.18 When the people forgate the Lord their God he sold them into the hand of Sisera Captaine of the Host of Hazor and into the hand of the Philistims and into the hand of the King of Moab and they fought against them 1. Sam. 12.9 Seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children Hos 4.6 If men forget God hee will forget them forget to shew mercy but he will remember to execute iustice and wrath Thou hast forgotten the mightie God that begate and hast forgotten God that formed thee what then the Lord saw it and was angrie Deut. 32.18 19. If Gods words can worke vs to his will he will spare his blowes Hee hath as little delight in smiting as wee in suffering Hee reioyceth in his owne goodnesse grieueth at our wretchednesse God amplifieth this sinne of forgetfulnesse Can a Maid forget her ornaments or a Bride her attire yet my people haue forgotten mee dayes without number Iere. 2.32 as if he had said their Ornaments Iewels and Rings are but toyes and trifles Is there any Ornament like me Is there any Iewell amongst them all that can be compared with me Men remember their friends often and call them to minde An old man will remember his bagge yet hee will forget God shall such things take vp mens memories and shall God bee thrust out Reas 1 First Wee must remember God our Creator hee made vs happy but mutable but Satan by deceit did cast vs from that happy condition whereby besides the losse of that felicitie we were plunged into extreme miserie which consisteth in two things First in sinne Secondly the curse following vpon it Through sinne the Vnderstanding is filled with blindnesse the conscience wounded seared and defiled the Memorie forgetting good things or not remembring any thing aright the Will captiue of no strength to good but onely to euill the Affections altogether disordered the Cogitations about heauenly matters are errors falsehood and lies the Wishes and Desires of the Heart are earthly and fleshly The Curse maketh vs subiect to Deathes and Famines in Body to sicknesse and other paines Wee should remember God because he promised the Messiah Gen. 3.15 because he hath bought vs with a price 1. Cor. 7.23 because hee hath preserued vs and in the end will glorifie vs. If a man be sanctified with the diuine Nature in which glorie is begun he is iustified if iustified then called according to purpose if called then predestinate if predestinate to meanes then foreknowne as one chosen to the end euen to glorie Of God we receiue euery good thing Iam. 1.17 therefore we should remember him Euery ache and paine is a memento to put vs in minde of God How great is our sinne if we forget him Wee should remember God because of his all-seeing Reas 2 Wisedome for hee seeth all things wee doe though neuer so secretly hee heareth euery word we speake though neuer so tacitely He that planted the eare shall he not heare or he that formed the eye shall hee not see Psal 94.9 Hee knoweth vaine man and seeth iniquitie Iob 11.11 Thou knowest my sitting and my rising thou vnderstandest my thoughts afarre off Thou compassest my pathes and my lying downe and art accustomed to all my waies For There is not a word in my tongue but loe thou knowest it wholly O Lord Psal 139.2 3 4. We should remember his Iustice he is righteous and must needs punish he is a mightie God and is able to punish There is nothing wanting in him which is fit to bee in one on whom wee are to place our trust He is able to helpe vs because he hath power what a power is that which keepes vs to saluation who haue so little strength and lesse wisedome whereby we might stand nay he is Omnipotent Gen. 17.1 He is willing because he loues vs so dearly Ioh. 3.16 Nay to the death Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.15 He is skilfull because all the treasures of knowledge and wisedome are hid in him Coloss 2.3 He is mindfull because his eyes are alwaies open vpon vs he doth neither slumber nor sleepe Psal 121.4 He is carefull because he is Lord and King ouer all he is the King of Kings 1. Tim. 6.15 And he biddeth vs cast all our care vpon him 1. Pet. 5.7 Wee cannot search these things to the full for to see things vnuisible and search things vnsearchable are alike vnpossible Reas 3 We should remember God for he hath giuen vs many helpes of memory First hee hath giuen vs the Scriptures his Word an Epistle sent vs from Heauen that by reading and hearing it wee might remember him

there is nothing vnder the Cope of Heauen except the Soule of man which is not subiect to change and corruption Man cannot alwaies continue in one state but man groweth old It is dangerous to waxe old in sinne for the sinner that is an hundred yeeres old shall be accursed Esa 65.20 It shall not be well to the wicked Eccl. 8.13 Old age hath sufficient deformities of it selfe therefore they should not adde such as proceed from Vice As the labours of old men diminish so the exercises of the soule should increase Seeing no man knoweth what shall bee let men Vse 2 vse wel the present time whether it be youth or age If thou bee religious in thy youth old age will bee welcome to thee and the daies will not be euill the troubles weaknesses will seeme as nothing which accompanie old age Thou wilt be willing to die for Death will not carry thee to prison but to the Saincts feast Reuel 19.9 To the participation and fellowship with Christ in his heauenly ioyes and blisse when the Church his Spouse shall be fully blessed Death wil come to carry old religious men to Paradise a place full of pleasures As a man riding takes vp one behind him and carries him to this or that banquet so Death takes vp the religious old man behind him vpon the pale Horse and carries him to heauen Reuel 6.8 Worke therefore while it is day the night commeth when no man can worke Ioh. 9 4. All that thy hand shall find to doe doe it with all thy power for there is neither work nor inuention nor knowledge nor wisedome in the graue whither thou goest Eccl. 9.10 Paul saith Whiles we haue time we must doe good to all specially to those which are of the house-hold of Faith Gal. 6.10 Wee may not assigne the Lord in what place state condition or in what companie we would liue but as Strangers waite on him euen as the hand-maid on her Mistris for whatsoeuer he will allow vs we are readie most commonly to bee called away by death before we be fit or haue learned how to liue Looke what care conscience zeale loue and reuerent estimation of good things thou haddest when first thou embracedst the Gospel the same at last retaine and be sure thou keepest still afterwards The more knowledge that thou hast take heed thou be not more secure Wee shall not enioy the grace which we had at the first except we be as carefull now to keep it as we were then to come by it All our life ought to bee a prouiding for a good death and a keeping away of woe which cōmeth by sinne We cannot promise to our selues one day for Time is Gods and Times and Seasons he hath put in his owne power Act. 1.7 therefore euery day wee ought to prepare our hearts to seeke the Lord and keepe them fit and willing thereto Take heed Brethren lest at any time there be any of you an euill heart and vnfaithfull to depart away from the liuing God Heb. 3.12 Oh! that there were in them an heart to feare me and to keepe all my Commandements alway Deut. 5.29 Our Sauiour saith Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart Matth. 22.37 Euery day our thanks must be continued for benefits receiued they are renewed euery morning Lam. 3.23 Euery day we ought to watch and pray for stedfastnesse and constancie Euery day we must hold and keepe our peace with God and lie downe therein Psal 4.8 Text. And the yeeres approach of which thou wilt say I haue no pleasure in them Solomon meaneth before thou waxe old Old age of it selfe is a disease if no other disease beside happen What pleasure can old men take when strength faileth them when they are not able to helpe themselues Their life in this life is nothing else but a returning backe againe vnto death for whiles they are here they walke to the house of their graue Their dayes passe away in such a manner as if a man being a child should suddenly be made a man and after that should presently goe backe againe and bee a child The more men grow in strength and yeeres the neerer they draw to the place from whence they came Moses saith The strength of old men is labour and sorrow Psal 90.10 Their dayes are dayes of sorrow and their strength brings nothing vnto them but matter of labour and paine Doct. That the many discommodities and miseries of old age plainly testifie that there is no pleasure in it Such as are full of dayes as Iob was Iob 42.17 are full of miseries Man that is borne of woman is full of miserie or full of vexation Iob 14.1 The description of the last age is admirable and hath need of a good Anatomist to helpe the true vnderstanding of the same Then the Sunne is darke and the Light and the Moone and the Starres And the Clowdes returne after the Raine Eccl. 12.2 The Keepers of the house tremble the Strong men bow themselues the Grinders cease because they are few and they waxe darke that looke out by the windowes Eccl. 12.3 And the doores shall bee shut by the street with the base sound of the grinding and a Man shall stand vp at the voyce of the Bird and all the Daughters of Musick shall be brought low Eccl. 12.4 And men will dread euery high place and feare will be in the way and the Almond tree will flourish and the Grasse-hopper will bee a burthen to it selfe and all lust will be dissolued and a man goeth to his long home and Mourners goe about in the street Eccl. 12.5 The siluer Cord is loosed and the golden Ewer broken and the Pitcher burst at the Well and the Wheele broken at the Cisterne Eccl. 12.6 And dust returne to the Earth as it was and the Spirit returne to God that gaue it Eccl. 12.7 By the Sunne and Starres darkned is meant the dayes losing their light so that all things seeme darke vnto them euen the Sun it selfe And the Clowdes returne after the Raine that is after they haue wept a long time there passe before their eyes as it were clowdes being nothing else but grosse vapours which grow thicke and foggie The keepers of the House tremble that is the ribs and breast which keepe the inward parts and compasseth them about The strong men shall bow that is the knees and legges shall lose their strength which are the Pillars vpon the which the whole building is set The grinders shall cease they are few that is the Teeth the mouth being as a Mill old mens teeth are few in number and those that are weake and so the grinding ceaseth And they waxe darke that looke out by the Windowes that is the eye in the head like Windowes in a House like two louers which giue light in order And the doores shut without by the base sound of the grinding that is the Lips shall be shut because the