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A16906	A sermon preached at Westminster May 26. 1608 at the funerall solemnities of the Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Dorset, late l. high treasurer of England by George Abbot ... ; now published at the request of some honourable persons, very few things being added, which were then cut off by the shortnesse of the time.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.	1608 (1608)	STC 38.5; ESTC S555	25,872	37

turne afterwards but the first must yeeld to the latter when his time is once accomplished els he shall doe wrong to succession Yet this going away and departure out of this world God hath appointed to be the meanes to aduance men vnto heauen Our corruption is the way vnto our incorruption For God meaning for to crowne with the garland of immortalitie those that haue striuen lawfully doth not come downe to them to honour them vpon earth but calleth them vp to him so to glorifie them in heauen Which thing Saint Chrysostome well considered when he spake in this maner He would haue thee to striue below but he crowneth thee aboue for the crowne is not in this place where the striuing is but in a glorious place Doe you not see heere that such champians and cha●et-driuers whom they doe most honour are not crowned below in the place of trying masteries but the King calling them vp putteth on their garlands there God doth take with his children the verie selfe-same course Their fight must be on earth but their reward in heauen And thither they may not come till they haue put off this body Their flesh is as a veile which keepeth them from beholding the purity of that secret one In the tabernacle which Moses made there was a veile which was hanged vp betweene the holy place and the holy of holies This was made of foure substances that is blue silke and purple and scarlet and fine linnen which as Iosephus telleth vs and Saint Hierome after him did represent the foure elements of whom our flesh consisteth Such a veile was afterwards in the temple at Hierusalem which at the death of our blessed Sauiour did rent from the top vnto the bottome at which time a man might haue beheld the very Sanctum Sanctorum So when our flesh this veile which keepeth vs from beholding the inuisibilitie of that mightie one shall be rent and torne in peeces by dissolution and by death we shall behold our Creator but neuer vntill that time The old house must to the ground that so the tenant of it may ascend vnto God by a kinde of remooue till the building be new repaired 6 In the next place our flesh is compared to the grasse Grasse than which nothing is more common nothing more vile Which groweth and in an instant is cut downe and then withereth is either deuoured as fodder or if it be of a bigger size is burned in the ouen as Christ himself speaketh Dauid vseth the same comparison The daies of man are as grasse as a flower of the field so flourisheth he Which is thus expressed by Gregory Man may be compared to the grasse quia per natiuitatem viret in carne per iuuent utem candescit in ●●ore per mortem aret in puluere Because by his birth hee is greene in his flesh by his youth he is white in his blossome by his death he is drie withered in the dust Such is the shortnesse and vncertaintie of our life Saint Iames doth liken it to a vapour that appeareth for a little time and afterward vanisheth away Saint Peter compareth it to a tent or tabernacle which is soone vp and soone downe The old Egyptians called our houses by the name of Innes where we lodge for a night and are gone in the morning Tully termed our life a lodging Ex vita ista discedo tanquam ex hospitio I depart out of this life as out of a lodging Iob calleth it a shadow And in another place My daies are swifter than the shuttle of a weauer Saint Basil doth liken our life vnto a dreame where a man seeth glorious shewes and is wonderfully pleased with them but after a little while he awaketh and all is nothing Homer compareth men vnto leaues which peepe out of the tree and then grow bigger and bigger at last they are at the greatest fresh in shew and greene in colour but then they fade and decay and are driuen off with the winde Some other say that a man is but like vnto an apple which if it be let alone will at length be ripe and of it selfe will fall vnto the ground but peraduenture before that time it is shaken off by a blast or cropped off by a violent hand Lastly other haue likened our being heere in the world vnto a game at chesse where there be degrees of men Kings and Knights and common Pawnes amongst whom one is caught away and by and by another but howsoeuer on the boord they differ in their degree yet when the game is ended and they are swept all into the bagge there is none better than other the meanest lieth aboue and the greatest is vnderneath Thus both the spirit of God and the iudgement of wise men by significant similitudes would riuet it in into vs and fasten it as with a naile into our cogitations that our daies are but vanitie our continuance heere but momentame our abode on earth but vncertaintie 7 Now lest it should be said that with some it may bee thus but with other otherwise it is farther added that All flesh is grasse Men are all of the same molde and returne to the same substance The wise woman of Tecoah could speake in generall to Dauid We must needs die and we are as water spilt on the ground which cannot be gathered vp againe Heere shee ioineth herselfe with Dauid My Lord we needs must die you a man and I a woman you a Soueraigne I a subiect Dauid himselfe knew this when lying in his death-bed he spake thus vnto Salomon I go the way of all the earth Death is the way of all flesh So holy Iob I know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all the liuing So S. Paul to the Hebrewes It is appointed vnto men that they shall once die and after that commeth the iudgement Where the indefinite proposition is equiualent to a generall Death saith Seneca is the hauen whither euery ship must go some come sooner and some come later but there they all must ariue Perhaps when a ship is entring into the mouth of the hauen there commeth a blast of winde and driueth it out againe but that will not serue the turne it must backe to the same place The speech is true of all Vitaperpetuo auolat neque potest retincri mors quotidie ingruit neque potest resisti Life alway flieth away and cannot be held backe and death daily doth grow on and cannot be resisted In this one point all conditions are alike The yoong may and the old must The difference is no more but the one come vnto death and death commeth to the other Death saith Saint Bernard non miseratur inopiam non diuitias reueretur c. pitieth not the pouertie of one nor standeth in awe of the riches of another