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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10874	Life after death Containing many religious instructions and godly exhortations, for all those that meane to liue holy, and dye blessedly. With the manner of disposing ones selfe to God, before, and at the time of his departure out of this world. With many prayers for the same purpose By Francis Rodes.	Rodes, Francis, Sir, ca. 1595-1646.	1622 (1622)	STC 21140; ESTC S112044	39,083	228

it He shootes not well that lookes not on the marke and hee cannot liue well that hath not an eye to his death The happinesse of this life consists not in the length of time but in the well vsing of time for the vnprofitable part of mans life is death Our life is not to be measured according to the time but according to our actions it imports not how long we liue but how well Non quàm diu sed quàm benè Life is long enough if we can but tell how to vse it In the longest life of all the time which wee doe truly liue is the least of all considering how much of our life is spent in griefe how much in cares how much in sicknesse how much in feares how much in our young and vnprofitable yeeres and briefly how much in sleepe wherin in a manner we spend a moity of our liues We receiued not a little short life but haue made it so our selues euen as great wealth when it comes into the hands of an vnthrift is wasted in a moment and meane riches on the contrary increase by the good imployment of one that is thrifty euen so this our age is wonderfully extended by him that can dispose well of it The swiftnesse of time is incomprehensible and so it appeares principally to those that looke backward to it and considering the swift and violent course of time it is most strange that the greatest part thereof should bee imployed so much in superfluous things of pleasure or delight So swift is the flight of time as that the time we liue is but as it were a minute and lesse then a minute if it were possible and yet notwithstanding as little as it is Nature hath distributed diuided it into many degrees whereof part she hath allotted vnto Infancie part to Adolescencie part to middle age and part to old age the next neighbour age to death Infancie is scarcely perceiued youth is quickly ouer-blowne middle age stayes not old age is not long Of all ages of our life onely old age is not limited but all the exercises of precedent times and the delights and pleasures of youth do end and vanish in old age why then should any thirst after this life which in effect is no better then a labourers worke spent in toyle and trauell consuming it selfe in vanities ebbing away in words hauing a mansion place in dust and a life in slime and clay without resolution or constancy What pleasure then can there be in this life when the pleasures thereof are nothing but vanities and all the felicity thereof only splendida miseria a shining miserie nay which is worse affliction of spirit for where the loue of this world enters there is no longer rest or quiet of minde but warre of desires vexatiō of thoughts feares cares and vnquietnesse of soule which in deede is a most miserable and pittifull affliction of spirit All the commodities of this world are mixed with discommodities lest wee should loue them too much and all the delights thereof are counterpoized with discontentments the grieuous counterpoize wherof makes the miseries of this world most intolerable which made Iob to detest the very day of his birth saying Let the day wherein I was borne perish and made Salomon to cōmend the condition of the dead before the liuing and to hold him better then them both that neuer was borne by reason he neuer walked in the vanities of this life nor euer saw the wicked workes that are committed vnder the Sunne O miserable and most deceitfull world whose miseries are voyd of all consolation and whose happinesse is mingled with all kinde of misery It deceiues them that trust it afflicts them that serue it damnes them that follow it and soonest of all forgets them that labour most of all for it It is a very Iudas for whom it kisseth it betrayeth vnto Satan The delights of sinne goe downe pleasantly as wine doth at first but at last they bite like a serpent Oblectant sensum sed interficiunt spiritum they delight the sence but slay the soule If we be not moued to leaue this life in respect of the miseries whereof it is full yet ought wee to be willing to forgoe it in regard of the infinite happines which death brings vs vnto in the world to come Here we are but members of the Church militant where is nothing but cōbating there wee shall be parts of the Church triumphant where is nothing but reioycing Here wee sowe in teares but there we shall reape in ioy All the riches and pleasures of this life are nothing in comparison of eternall felicity for no tongue created either of Man or Angell can expresse the ioyes of heauē no imagination conceiue nor vnderstanding comprehend them for Christ himselfe saith Nemo scit nisi qui accipiet No man knowes them but he that enioyes them such is the infinite value glory and maiestie of the felicity prepared for vs in heauen which is the accomplishment of all our hope Thus recounting the vanity of this world the miserable state of this life and the inestimable blessednes of the life to come let vs with the Apostles and Prophets cry O miserable man that I am who shall deliuer mee from this body of death My soule thirsteth for thee O God when shall I goe and appeare before the presence of the liuing God I desire to be dissolued and to be with Christ Come quickly Lord Iesus come quickly The GOD of all power and mercie increase in our hearts a desire of this learning that wee may liue in his feare and die in his fauour whereby wee may liue for euer Amen CHAP. 13. Against the loue of the world which is the second cause that lets vs from dying willingly THe loue and respect man beares to the pleasures and vanities of this world is not onely of it selfe a strong impediment and let to our willingnesse to death and to the seruice of God but a generall cause also and as it were a cōmon ground to all other impediments whatsoeuer other excuses are pretended for when the Noble men of Iewry refused to confesse Christ openly Saint Iohn vttereth the true cause thereof to be for that they loued the glory of man more then the glory of GOD Iohn chap. 12. This may be confirmed by that most excellent Parable of the Seed The exposition of the Parable of the Seed which concernes three sorts of persons 1. High-way the first sort of which our Sauiour compareth to a High-way wherein all seede of life that is sowne either withereth presently or else is eaten vp by the birds of the Ayre that is by the Diuels in such carelesse men as contemne whatsoeuer is said vnto them 2 Rocky ground The second sort are compared to Rockie grounds in which for lacke of deepe roote the seed that falleth continueth not whereby are signified light vnconstant persons that now chop in and now