Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	heaven_n	live_v	world_n	5,521	5	4.6131	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21104	A sermon preached at the funeralls of that worthie and worshipfull gentleman, Master Thomas Dutton of Dutton, Esquire who yeelded to nature the 28. of December. By Richard Eaton Bachelour of Diuinitie, and pastor of Great Budworth in Cheshire.	Eaton, Richard, 1563?-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 7468; ESTC S100229	18,744	30

taught in the Temple and no man laid hands on him for his houre was not yet come Doct. 3 The third conclusion now followeth to be discussed Mans time is short in this world Moses speaketh of daies not of yeeres nor of months nor of weeks but vseth the shortest diuision in nature There are as many little skuls in Golgotha as there bee great ones Parents doe as often mourne for the death of their children as children doe for the death of their Parents Iacob when Pharaoh asked him how old he Gen. 47. 9. was answered that his daies had beene both few and euill The Hebrewes were wont to reckon their life thus first they did deduct the time of their sleep so that if our dayes bee threescore and ten by this reckoning fiue and thirtie are stricken off at one blow because we spend halfe our time in sleepe Secondly from the remainder they tooke away the time of youth which Salomon saith is vanitie as Eccl. 11. 10. though it were not worthy to be called life but vanitie Thirdly they did subtract the daies of sorrow because all that time a man findeth no sweetnesse in life but is still ready to propound Iobs question Why Iob 3. 20. is light giuen to him that is in miserie and life to them that haue heauie hearts So then these three being ●ducted to what a smal epitome is mans life brought ●oses may well speake of daies and of numbring them ●o for by this time Iacobs proposition will be found ●●e that the daies of our pilgrimage are but few Da●d it seemes was well acquainted with this manner of ●ckoning when he tooke so short a mete wand to measure his life by a cubit is too long a span is enough Behold thou hast made my daies as an hand Psal 39. 5. breadth and mine age is nothing in respect of thee Psal 39. 5. There are foure reasons why God hath appointed mans time to be so short The Rauen the Eagle the Elephant the Lion the Hart fulfill their hundreds But man dieth before his eye be satisfied with seeing or before his eare be satisfied with hearing Reason 1 First lest they should deferre to do good as our manner is vpon hope of long life Reason 2 Secondly to withdraw our hearts from the loue of this world Reason 3 Thirdly because so long as we liue in this world we ●e absent from the Lord. 2. Cor. 5. ● Reason 4 Fourthly because this world is full of miseries Iob ●4 1. The pleasures of this world are but the painted ●●ce of Iezabel euen but an outside of pleasure Indeed the wicked seeme to liue a pleasant life none like them but there is a worme that gripeth and gnaweth them inwardly they haue many times a trembling heart and the King of feare doth almost kill them in their secret chambers The pleasure of this world is but like lightning simul oritur moritur it suddenly appeareth suddenly againe vanisheth away It is sweete but withall short like hunting and hauking much cost ●nd care for a little sport Vse 1 Our conuersation then must be in heauen euen while we liue heere on earth and we must vse this world as though we vsed it not There is but one way of comming into the world Vnus introitus but a thousand waies of going out of the world Mille exitus Our life is full of holes and we● are readie to take let in water at a thousand breaches Ferro peste fame vinclis algore calore Mille mod●● miseros mors rapit vna viros Our time slippeth away with great velocitie It was a worthy answere of Artabanus to Xerxes that mightie Emperour of Persia when the Emperor had viewed his great armie athousand thousand drinking riuers dry as they went hee fell a weeping because it came into his mind that within the space of an hundred yeeres not one of that goodlie companie should be left aliue I would that were the worst said Artabanus It would grieue a man viewing at this present so great a congregation of so many worthy and worshipfull persons so many of our good friends and honest neighbours to consider that within an hundred yeeres peraduenture fourescore or threescore and tenne for the Psalmist saith Mans age Psal 90. 10. is therabout to consider I say that not one in this assembly shall be left aliue but another Preacher in this Pulpit and other hearers in those pewes and seates sitting and treading vpon your dead bodies where you now you sit and tread vpon others but I would that were the worst Vse 2 Secondly because our time is short we must worke and walke while wee haue the light the night commeth Iohn 9. 4. wherein no man can worke we haue a great taske and a short time allowed we had need to listen to the clocke and to count the houres your life is short and the art of saluation is long in learning The way to heauen cannot be trodden in a short time Astronomers say that the space betweene heauen and earth is nine hundred thousand miles some speake of much more The ascent then will aske both time and labour ease and delay neuer brought any thither Our Sauiour when he found his Disciples sleeping said vn●o Math. 26. 4● them What could ye not watch one houre So may ● say Can you not be contented to feare God to heare his word and to pray vnto him for a few dayes It may bee thou hast yet twentie yeeres longer to liue in this world and wilt thou not bee contented to serue God as a Christian for twenty yeeres that thou maist liue as an Angell for a thousand It may bee thou hast but ten yeeres to continue in this world and wilt thou not addict thy selfe to the honourable seruice of God for ten yeeres that thou mayst liue and raigne for euer with Christ in his presence Thou wouldst for a worldly preferment serue tenne yeeres and canst thou so far vndervalue eternall glorie as to thinke that any thing on earth deserues more cost and paines in the seeking and obtaining then the ioyes of heauen do But it may be thou art an old man hast one foote in the graue already then I say as Bias one of the seauen wise men of Greece said of a Mariner Nec inter viuos ●ec inter mortuos Thou art not to be reckoned among them that liue nor among them that be dead And as Paul speaketh of a widdow liuing in pleasure that she 1. Tim. 5. 6. ●● dead while she liueth When wil ye begin to abound and to be rich in good workes Is it not time to begin to be religious when the pillars of your house begin to shake when your windowes begin to bee darke doe you meane to goe away in a sleepe and shall your life passe away like a dreame Came ye naked of goodnesse from your mothers wombe and will ye goe backe againe naked brought

ye nothing into the world with you of the best and blessedst riches and will you cary nothing out A great many of you heere present are brought to the eleuenth houre of the day and there is but a twelfth a few minutes between you and iudgement what do you tarry to be started with the shrillest Trumpet that euer blew or to be awakened with the fearefullest voice that euer sounded The night is comming wherein no man can worke Then there will be euerlasting throbbings and throwes of the heart for endlesse miseries then the eies will labour for teares which shall euer runne downe and then the teeth will grinde one another without ceasing Oh saith our Sauiour that you had knowne in this your day and thus Luke 19. 42. much for the shortnesse of mans life Doct. 4 The fourth doctrine that is remarkable is this that man is more apt to forget death then any thing else Moses was willing to remember death but still his mind did turne from it and it did slip out of his mind Solomon bids vs remember that we must come to iudgment Eccle. 11. 9. and yet the wicked pleade against it saith S. Peter It is a strange kind of Arithmeticke that no man 2. Pet. 3. 4. can learne it except God be the schoolemaster and teach it Men can number their Coine their Cattell their corne and their land But no man without the assistance of Gods Spirit can number his dayes as though our daies were infinite This prayer of Moses may seeme strange Men are able by art to measure the Globe of the earth and the Spheares of heauen the quantitie of the Starres with their longitudes latitudes altitudes motions and distances from the earth Flectere per varios docuit qui nomina Casus Heu cadit hunc casum flectere non potuit The Grammarian that declineth all Nounes and euery case cannot decline death in any case It is a hard matter to remember Death and we striue to forget it Teach vs to number our dayes Oh no! hold your peace wee may not remember Amos 6. 10. Teach vs to number our dayes Amos. 6. 10. nay teach vs to multiply our dayes Teach vs to remember Death nay teach vs to forget death to prolong life is the common language of our times Men cannot abide to thinke of death they are sicke to ●eare the name of it they say to death as Pharaoh said Exod. 10. 28. ●o Moses Get thee out of my sight There are two reasons why we ought to remember ●eath and there are foure reasons why we do forget it Reason 1 The first reason why we should remember it is be●ause when death comes the greatest matter that did ●●er concerne vs will then be in question to wit the ●erlasting Saluation or else the euerlasting condem●ation of our soules Reason 2 Secondly then it will bee too late to repent to a●end to pray and to obtaine pardon The rich man ●ryed Oh Father Abraham send Lazarus to lip the t●● Luke 16. 42. of his finger in water to coole my tongue Desidera●●t guttam saith Saint Austin qui non dedit micam ●●e de●ired a droppe of water that would not giue a ●●um of bread but it was too late Hee should haue beene picifull repented and prayed in his life time before his death For in death there is no remembrance Psal 6. 5. of thee saith Dauid and in the graue who shell praise thee Reason 1 The first reason why many doe forget Death is because Death commeth oftentimes like a ●aylour to ●ale to prison Reason 2 Secondlie the remembrance of death maketh a man sinne fearefully and taketh away the pleasure of sinne Reason 3 Thirdly Death is against nature a dissolution of nature and therefore no man naturally can delight in it Reason 4 Lastly the diuell gaines much by forgetfulnesse in this kinde and therefore will be sure if by any meanes he can to put that conceit out of mens heads They are hence to be reprooued that will not suffer this meditation to settle in their hearts Behold you despisers and wonder at the hand of God you ●hat are in league with death make a couenant and truce with the graue you that say to your soules Tak● your ease and liue at rest for many yeares your lif● Luke 12. 19. Amos 6. 3. hangeth by a small thread Put not the euill day farr● from you which the ordinance of God hath put so neare walke not alwaies with your faces towards the East sometimes haue an eye to the West where the Sunne goeth downe sit not alwaies in the prow of th● shippe sometimes goe to the sterne stand in your watch towers as the creature doth in the 8. to the Romanes and waite for the time of your deliuerance Rom. 8. 19. your bodies are not brasse your strength is not the strength of stones The earth is the wombe tha● hath bred you and the earth is the wombe that will againe receiue you Searecloathes spices Balme the Immuring stone or lead or a timber coffin cannot so closely hide you but the earth will challenge you for her naturall children and say You are my bowels the earth I say your naturall mother will know you againe and receiue you into her possession Remember 2. Tim. 3. 4. your mortalitie you that are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 louers of pleasure more then louers of God when Adam and Eue became subiect to death because of their Gen. 3. 2● sin God cloathed them with the skins of dead beasts So that the cloathes we weare vpon our backes and the graues vnder our feete and the meate which goeth into our bodiesies crie vnto vs that we must die like the fishes fowles and beasts which a little before were liuing in their elements and are now dead in our dishes Vse 2 Let vs pray as Moses did That God will giue vs grace to meditate vpon our last end Though we forget other things though we forget our owne names and to eate our bread yet our memorie doth sufficiently stand vs in stead if we can remember our last end Sathan perswaded our first parents that they shold Gen. 3. 4. not die at all Now though he cannot make vs beleeue that yet he perswades many that they shall not die ●t yea though they be at the brinke of the graue and ●t a steppe betweene them and death Many there be ●●t are condemned in hell and there doe suffer the ●ngeance of eternall fire who would giue the whole ●orld if it were in their power for one day or houre in ●is world that they might repent and turne vnto God What they wold do if they might let vs do while w● may their glasse is already runne and ours stands ●●t still yet a little while and the time of hope grace and mercy will be past Let vs not then be so much our o●ne enemies as to forget what belongs to our peace