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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57579	Practical discourses on sickness & recovery in several sermons, as they were lately preached in a congregation in London / by Timothy Rogers, M.A. ; after his recovery from a sickness of near two years continuance.	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.; Woodford, Samuel, 1636-1700.	1691 (1691)	Wing R1852; ESTC R21490	114,528	312

to languish on a sick Bed for many Years together without help or ease As we do not say a Ship that has been in a Storm for many days has failed long but the Ship has been long tost So life attended with innumerable Vexations and heavy Crosses were not so truely to be called Life as one continued Act of Dying To live to see nothing but Desolations to hear nothing but ill Tidings and to feel nothing but Pain these and many other things would make a long Life to be an Affliction and such as these made Jeremy to say Why died I not from the Womb To have Life and to have no Comfort with it to have such Diseases it may be as will not allow us to take any Delight in what we eat and drink in the Society of our Friends and good People or good Books when we have no other Language but Complaints no other work but to sigh and to groan and it may be Pains which we cannot bear Life with these Companions looks but as a poor and sorry thing but Life as it includes a Recovery from Sickness a Recovery from Distempers that hindred us either from the doing or the receiving good so indeed it is a Blessing and may be prayed for thô when we do so we must request it 1 st With great Submission to the soveraign Disposer of Life and Death to do with us so as may serve most his Interest and Kingdom in the World 2 dly We must in the desires of long Life propose to our selves great and honourable ends Some desire to live long that they may with more Freedom indulge and gratify their Appetites Some that they may get great Estates make some stately Buildings and Houses that they design to call by their own Names and hoping thereby to perpetuate their Memory These are the Desires of Men in whose Hearts the World bears too great a Sway and who are little acquainted with the Nature of Religion for this will teach us to make the Glory of God the Edification and Profit of our Neighbour and the Welfare of our own Souls the only end in our Desires of long Life and then we must inform our selves in the right Notion of long Life We commonly think that 70 or 80 is the duration of a long Life but it is not to be measured by the number of Years so much as by our Proficiency in Heavenly Wisdom He has lived long and well too that has attain'd to the end of Living that has got that Knowledg and those Graces which enable him to live to the Glory of God here and to enjoy him for ever and a Sinner that is an hundred Years old will be accurst Isai. 65. 20. if he arrive not to this he has been indeed a great while but has not truly lived at all And though the best are but Loiterers and have not that esteem of time which its real Preciousness does require at their Hands Yet he that hath an hundred Years time and loseth it all lives not so long as he that hath but twenty and bestows it well It is too soon to go to Hell at an hundred Years old and not too soon to go to Heaven at twenty Baxter's Saints Rest p. 613. Barely to live is a thing no way considerable for Birds and Flies and Gnats and other Animals live as well as we nay and many of them have a more delicate Pleasure in Life as wanting the Bitterness of our Griefs and the Fears of a sad Futurity but we then desire long Life aright when we beg it for this reason that we may live to God 't is what is very desirable in this respect though we ought not to promise it to our selves for we must always work with Zeal and Fervor as not knowing but we may have only a little time wherein to work I believe there is scarcely one among us all but hopes to live long and to attain to the Years of some of our old Progenitors and does not question but he shall do so When we see very aged People even in our dangerous Youth we hope that we shall live till our greener Heads be cover'd with the Winter and the Snow of Age. 'T is indeed a thing greatly to be desired where one is planted in the Vineyard of God not to be removed thence till the time of Harvest and not to have our Fruit blasted with rude and unseasonable Weather but that we may come to the Grave in a full Age Like as a Shock of Corn cometh in his season Job 5. 26. It was indeed a Blessing more insisted on and more largely promised in the Old Testament than 't is in the New for that Oeconomy was chiefly managed with respect to temporal Advantages and Prosperity They had in many Promises the Discovery of another happy Life though not so clear and distinct as that which the Gospel gives to us yet they had the Belief of it and their Belief was without doubt confirmed by the Translation of Enoch and the Rapture of Elias for they might easily think that God would not remove two Men so very good and so very useful unless it were to place them in a better State than that was which they had on Earth Long Life is a great Blessing but not such an one as God is always pleased to give to the best of Men Good Josiah the Glory of all the Kings in those Days did not live so long as many other worse than he All Israel was forced to lament his early Death whom to have seen alive would have been their greatest Joy Our good King Edward the 6 th that was in his tenderest Youth so great a Scholar so good a Christian and so excellent a King so hearty an Enemy to the Pope and so sincere and true Friend to the Reformation and so great a Promoter of it he died alas very young The Divine Providence is mysterious in its Conduct and far above our Thoughts For what Good might two such great and holy Men have done the one in Israel and the other in England They did much Good in the few years while they lived and might have done abundance more had they lived very long these excellent Kings were soon taken away whilst many Tyrants have waxed grey amidst the Hatred and the Curses of the People When we think of two such excellent Men as Mr. Joseph Allein and Mr. John Janeway and how soon they died that were less in Degree but as great in Grace as the former two we must needs be silent and adore the Providence that we do not understand we must needs conclude that there is something much better to be enjoyed in the next World than long Life in this otherwise such holy Men so full of Self-denial so very laborious for the Glory of God and the Good of Souls should have lived very long They were taken away by Sickness from that Work in which their Souls delighted and which in