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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59599	Adam Abel, or, Vain man a discourse fitted for funeral occasions, but serviceable to men in all ages and conditions of life to make them humble and heavenly-minded / by Samuel Shaw ...	Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3034; ESTC R9572	39,662	130

ADAM ABEL OR Vain Man A DISCOURSE Fitted for Funeral Occasions BUT Serviceable to Men in all Ages and Conditions of Life to make them humble and Heavenly-minded By SAMVEL SHAW Minister of the Gospel PSAL. XXXIX 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and 3 Crowns in Cheapside 1692. Reverendo in Christo Patri THOMAE TENNISONO D. Episcopo Lincolniensi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ERuditionem multifariam virtutes quae D. Opt. Max. Gr. in te plurimae sunt ornatissimae praeses celebrare vel celibratum ire esset culpâ deterere ingeni Gratias agimus Deo misericordi vicegerenti ejus serenissimo Guilielmo qui te tuique similes Ecclesiae nostrae praefecerint Diu intersis praesis populo Anglicano 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 serus in coelum redeas Visum sit humanitati benignitati tuae lucubrationibus hisce qualibuscunque patrocinari Quae licet non olent lucernam coelum tamen immortalitem spirant genium licet non ingenium sapiunt Dulce decorum est pro patria mori At multò certè dulcius decentius moriendo ad patriam remigrare Oh quam juvat videre animam origine planè divinâ in carceratam pulvere vanitatem suam agnoscentem mundanas sordes excutientem patriae suae coelesti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inhiantem in intimos artissimos centri sui amplexus trepidantem Habeat Ecclesia Romana suos Quietistas Sed habeat Ecclesia reformata animas planè inquietas donec revertantur in sinum patris coelestis Cujus amori suavissimo omnipotenti gratiae quam humilimè commendat reverentiam tuam Cultorum tuorum summus licet infimus S. SHAW Ashby de la Zouch Mar. 16. 1691 2. Adam Abel OR VAIN MAN c. PSAL. xxxix 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Profecto vir ambulat in imagine Surely every man walketh in a vain shew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I Do not know of any one Temptation that in all Ages has more sollicited and perplex'd the Minds of Good men than that which springs from the Prosperity of the Wicked a Scandal that the best of Men have been ever apt to take against the Dispensations of God himself Quod malis bene fit bonis bene it hath therefore pleased God in compassion to the● 〈…〉 frequently to obviate this Temptation by causing many parts of holy Scriptures to be written purposely upon this Argument amongst which this 39th Psalm is one the main Proposition of which is an Exhortation that we beholding the Prosperity of the Wicked do not doubt of the Divine Care and Providence Be not broken in our Minds do not murmure against God nor fall away from him but patiently endure Adversity and hold fast our Profession I shall not spend time to analize the Psalm and shew the methodical and artificial Composure but directly fall upon the Illustration Confirmation and Application of the Words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Profectò surely or verily an Adverb of Asseveration But what is not every Word of God sure and true and equally true What then needs any Note of Asseveration to one more than another Though every Sentence of Scripture be equally true yet some Sentences are harder to be receiv'd and believ'd than others Durus hic sermo said the Disciples Joh. 6. 60. concerning the Doctrine of spiritual Manducation and some are of greater weight and importance than others In these two Cases especially the Adverb of Asseveration is wont to be prefix'd as may appear by many Texts both in the Old Testament and the New you have an Example of the first Case in Mat. 26. 34. Peter was confident of his own faithfulness and stedfastness and would not believe any thing to the contrary Though all men should be offended because of thee yet will I never be offended To whom our Saviour answers with this Asseveration Verily I say unto thee that this night before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice Of the latter Case there are abundance of Examples in the Old Testament take that famous Text Psal 58. 11. Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth And in the new take that as famous Mat. 18. 3. Verily I say unto you except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven This most important Doctrin is twice again usher'd in with the same asseveration Joh. 3. 3 5. Verily verily except a man be born again c. And upon both these accounts it is well used here for there is no Doctrine that vain Man is slower to believe nor more necessary to be believ'd than the Doctrine of his own Vanity Man i. e. every man By a Hebrew Idiom Man is put to signifie any man or every man Thus both the words Ish and Adam are used So that Man here is no less than Mankind or as it is rightly translated in the Text Every man So Job 14. 1. Man that is born of a Woman is of few days and full of trouble The Greeks imitate the Hebrew Idiom in this as in many other things What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Mat. 16. 26. And again Mar. 8. 36. What shall it profit a man c In short it cannot be better exprest in English than by every man or by Mankind which comprehends Women as well as Men. Surely all Mankind walketh in a vain shew Betselem in imagine in a shew or shadow This word is put in opposition to substantialness or to duration in both sences man walketh in a vain shew He seems to be something when indeed he is nothing We talk much of Apparitions of the Dead certainly every living man is but an Apparition he comes upon the Stage of the World and acts one part or other but he is not that which he seems to be And as to his duration he is a shew or a shadow too soon passing away Apparentia subito evanescens says the learned Ravanellus He fleeth as a shadow and continueth not That Text of the Apostle 1 Cor. 7. 31. comprohends both these sences 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Fashion or Scheme of this World passeth away It is but a Scheme a Draught a Resemblance of something and that soon passes away too So that there is neither reality nor durability in Mankind Walketh This in the Hebrew Idiom signifies lives or converses and the word here is of a conjugation that makes it signifie very briskly it is verbum not only efficax but frequentativum and is as much as to be busie and make a great bustle even as when Jupiter in Homer look'd down upon Men conversing upon Earth and saw them buying selling working playing trading fighting c. thought they resembled a company of Pismires running to and fro about a Hillock So indeed it is Man bustles and makes a mighty stir