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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78140	A sermon preached at the funerall of the Right Honourable and most excellent lady, the Lady Elizabeth Capell dowager. Together with some brief memorialls of her most holy life and death. By Edm. Barker, late chaplain to her Honour, and now rector of Buriton in Hampshire.	Barker, Edmund, b. 1620 or 21.	1660 (1660)	Wing B766; Thomason E1046_14; ESTC R38546	36,267	67

written if possible with a pen of iron and the point of a Diamond Ier. 17. 1. that so nothing might be sure ever to blot it out but that considering at what uncertainties we do here continually live we might the more seriously and effectually apply our hearts unto wisedome and in time seek out and make sure of somewhat that is certain and that somewhat what other is it but heaven and happinesse eternity and immortality yea too and the way to obtain this is sure and certain also and the holy Scripture have plainly told it us and we cannot be ignorant of it viz. by applying our hearts unto wisdome by the exercises of a pious and holy life the reformation of sinful courses and practises the mortification of our earthly members and the like This briefly for the third and last importance of this duty of numbring our dayes implying recogitationem incertitudinis a frequent recogitation of the unconstancy and uncertainty of ovr present beings Come we now to the fourth and last thing considerable in the Text the design and scope of Moses his prayer So teach us that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome See here a good prayer and for a good end also and that too not barely an end of speculation onely to know the certain number of our dayes and no more but an end of practicall improvement and edification so as to be improved and grow every day better by knowing Vt adducamus cor ad sapientiam that we may apply our hearts unto wisedome S. Paul in his Epistles takes notice of several sorts of wisdome as viz. a wisdome of words 1 Cor. 1. 17. again the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 2. 19. again 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fleshly wisdome or the wisdome of the flesh 2 Cor. 1. 12. but neither of these is the wisdome here in the Text oh no! This it is that very wisdome which the Apostle S. Iames chap. 3. 17. calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wisdome which is from above or divine and heavenly wisdome and then the adductio cordis the applying our hearts unto this wisdome consists particularly in these three things First In minus diligendo in an holy weanednesse from this present life in expressions of lesse love and affection to the world every day then other not suffering our hearts to be as it were glued to it or our affections over much set upon it but loving it as strangers and Pilgrims do the place and countrey of their pilgrimage with a passing transient love The Apostles advice to this purpose is good 1 Cor. 7. 29. This I say brethren 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the time is short the time of our worldly comforts and enjoyments that is short and to be sure the time of our present lives and continuance here that is short how short the Lord onely knows we do not and then mark what an inference of pious abstinence and mortification he raiseth from hence it remaineth that they that have wives be as though they had none and they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoyce as though they rejoyced not and they that use this world as not abusing it See these severall affections of love and sorrow and joy and possession of the world how we are to expresse them Loving as not loving that is with that sobriety of affection as if we loved not again weeping as not weeping that is with that moderation of passion as if we wept not again rejoycing as not rejoycing that is with that mortification of joy as if we rejoiced not again using as not using that is with that indifferency and unconcerndnesse of desire as if we used not Wilt thou sayes Solomon Prov. 23. 5. set thine eyet upon that that is not Now riches are not and honours are not and so in like manner of all our worldly comforts and enjoyments here They are not In actuall possession it is true for the present they are but in security of continuance in certainty of possession and enjoyment They are not And so long let holy David counsel you Psal 62. 9. If riches encrease and so also if honours or children or friends or whatsoever else of the world do encrease and come in flowing upon you what then Nolite cor apponere set not your hearts upon them do not covet them do not love them at all if possible but not excessively not immoderately not overmuch to be sure for remember you have but slippery hold of them they are passing transient injoyments and when you enjoy them most you cannot tell how soon either they may be parted from you or you from them Cornel. A Lapide's rule Com. in 1 Cor. c. 7. is good Taliter utenda est res sicut res est Every thing is to be used as it is For example if it be a thing lasting and permanent such as are onely sprituall and heavenly comforts then use it lastingly and permanently Dwell upon the use of it But if otherwise and it be a transient and momentany enjoyment such as are life health riches honours children and all our worldly comforts whatsoever then you know what the Apostles counsel is Col. 3. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Set not your affections upon it be not glued in your desires to it but love it and use it altogether in transitu as travellers do Innes in a journey for a short bait but no long stay This for the first application of our hearts unto wisdome consisting in minus diligendo in expressions of lesse love and affection to the world every day then other A second instance layes In cautius vivendo in living warily and cautelously in more exactnesse of dutie in more watchfulnesse over sin in more circumspection and observation of our actions for the time to come You know the Apostles Item to this purpose Eph. 1. 15. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time And why it is but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but a short time you see but a very little while that we have to tarry here oh then let us loose none of this little let us loiter away none of this short time upon which so much depends nay but as our Saviour commanded his Disciples concerning the broken meat in the Gospel let us gather up all these fragments that nothing be lost improve every small portion of our time in continual exercises of piety and devotion of abstinence and mortification as not having the least assurance of a next day when this is once spent or if we had yet can we not certainly tell whether it will be a day of grace to us or no or that we shall have the heart to repent of our losse of time and the sin which we committed the day before And in case Death should come hastily upon us and surprize us either in the actuall commission of sin or before we have finished our repentance for our sin Consider and tremble