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A11162	A sermon preached at Richmond before Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie, vpon the 28. of March, 1596. By the reuerend father in God Anthony Rudd, Doctor in Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of S. Dauids	Rudd, Anthony, 1549 or 50-1615.; R. S., fl. 1603.	1603 (1603)	STC 21432; ESTC S103177	19,634	62

for the present stewardship or disposing thereof after their death Iacob also rightly numbred the Gen. 47. 9. 4. 6. dayes of his pilgrimage to be few and euil while he sequestred himselfe and his ofspring in the land of Goshen from the company and customes of the superstitious Aegyptians Samuel likewise cast a right account 1. Sam. 8. 1. of his yeares who when he was become olde made his sonnes Iudges of Israell because he was not able to beare the charge Semblably Eleazarus one of the principall 2. Mach. 6. 23. 24. 25. Scribes in Iury would not vnder the persecution of Antiochus for the safety of his life dissemble in a point of Religion to the hazzard of others by his bad example because it became not his age and the excellency of his auncient yeares and the honour of his gray haires being ninetie yeares olde Moreouer Polycarpus the Bishop Euseb lib. 4. cap. 15. of Smirna being persecuted vnder the Emperour Verus about the yeare of our Lord 170 made a good audite of his yeares to moue himselfe to constancy For when the Proconsull of Asia sayd vnto him Spare thine age I will let thee go if thou wilt sweare by the fortune of Caesar and raile vpon Christ he made answer thus These 86 yeares haue I serued him and he neuer did me any hurt at all how then can I reuile or speake ill of my Sauiour And the golden mouthed Doctor aduised the flocke committed to his charge to Chrysost tom 3. in serm de Euchar. reckon how many houres they found in a weeke namely 168 that they might out of that number take some few at the least to be employed in publike prayer and hearing the word preached Beside this in ciuill policy the Lacedaemonians Plut. in Lacon institut renowmed for martial mē were accustomed to decline thēselues through three tenses of the Indicatiue moode For in their solemne assemblies the first Chorus was of old men saying We were once 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 renowmed in the wars In the second rancke marched their lustie gallants brauing it and saying We are such men make triall if you dare And in the third Pageant came the boyes with great signe of militarie towardnes saying We shall be one day farre more strong and valiant And surely considering the termes wherin we stand at this time it is meet for euery man to fall a numbring his yeares that he may exactly know what place of seruice is assigned vnto him for the defence of the Realme according to the Greeke verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristoph Gram. Which by some hath bene Latined backward thus Vota senum consulta virorum facta iuuentae As if I should say in plaine English Let yong men be valiant in action let men of middle age be wise in consultation and let old men be deuout in prayer for the good successe of the warres either defensiue or offensiue against the common enemies of this Church and common wealth But commending the war-causes to Gods prouidence the wisedome of the Councell boord and the valour of them that professe Armes and to speake of manners meete to be exercised in the times both of warre and peace regarding aswell the number of our yeares past as also the breuitie frailtie and vncertainty of the yeares to come let vs consider one Heb. 10. 24. another to prouoke vnto loue and to good works We must do the works of God while it is day that is while Ioh. 9. 4. oportunitie and the season serueth the night commeth when no man can worke And till the long night of sleepe do come from the which there shall be no awaking of the body before the trumpet shall sound at the day of iudgement in the meane while dearly beloued I beseech you 1. Pet. 2. 11. as straungers and pilgrimes abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule Yea whiles we haue time let vs do good to all men but especially Gal. 6. 10. vnto them which are of the houshold of faith And this I say brethren because the time is short hereafter that both they which haue wiues be as though they had none 1. Cor 7. 29. 30. 31. and they that weepe as though they wept not and they that reioyce as though they reioyced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that vse this world as though they vsed it not for the fashion of this world goeth away Wherefore loue not the world neither 1. Ioh. 2. 15. 16. 17. the things that are in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life which are not of the father but of the world And surely the world passeth away together with the lusts thereof Also considering the season it is now time that we should arise from sleepe for Rom. 13. 11. 12. now is our saluation neerer then whē we first began to beleeue The night of ignorance is past and the day of the knowledge of God is come let vs therefore cast away the workes of darknesse and let vs put on the armour of light that is godly and honest maners God heareth men in a 2. Cor. 6. 2. time accepted in the day of saluation doth he succour them behold now the accepted time behold now the day of saluation The holy Ghost sayth To day if you will heare his Heb. 3. 7. 8. voyce harden not your hearts as in the prouocation according to the day of tentation in the wildernesse Exhort one another while it is called Ib. vers 13. to day lest any of you be hardened through the deceiptfulnesse of sinne Boast not thy selfe of to morow for Pro. 27. 1. thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Remember that the rich Luk. 16. Glutton once might and would not heare Moses and the Prophets afterward he would and could not The foolish virgins which wanted oile in Mat. 25. 1 to the 14. their lampes at the entrance of the bridegroome into the wedding roome could neuer after that obtaine fauour to haue the doores opened vnto them And when as Esau Gen. 25. 29. to the end had once sold his birth-right for a messe of red pottage and a morsell of bread ye know how that afterward also when he would haue inherited the blessing he was reiected For he found no place to repentāce though Heb. 12. 16. 17. he sought the blessing with teares Wherefore ô Lord who art the ordainer and gouernor of all times and seasons vouchsafe to teach vs in fit and due time to number our dayes so that we may apply our hearts to wisedome Children vpon this point of numbring their yeares may enter into meditation thus This age of ours is meetest to be Catechised that which is now taught is soonest receiued and longest kept We know what we are to learne by that which is inioyned