Jeroboam's sons decease a funeral sermon on part of 1 Kings 14. 17. By…Ieroboams sonnes decease a funerall sermon on part of 1 Kings 14. 17. By…

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Use 1 1. To discover their folly, that presume of long life, in regard of health and youth. They are but ⟨p. 13⟩young yet, and therefore they may live long and see many a good day. And they are healthy and strong, and may therefore hold out as well as others, as long as any. Yea, but there is none of those that thus say or think, so young, but they have seen many younger go; none so strong, but that they may have seen as strong, if not stronger, go than themselves. ^mMans life is as a day. And as we see that days are not all of one length; there are Summer, and there are Winter days; some longer, some shorter; some of more, some of fewer hours: So is there no less variety in the length and size of mens lives, according to that time that God hath pleased to allot each. But herein again there is great difference between this natural day and the day of mans life; that ⁿthe natural day, be it never so short, it hath a morning, a noon, an afternoon and an evening; whereas the day of our life may have a morning, and no noon, or a noon and no after-noon. ^oThe Sun (as the Prophet speaketh in another sense) may set with us at noon day. We may be suddenly snatched away ^pin the flower of our youth, in the prime of our age, in the height of our health, in the chief of our strength. Yea, the ^qSun may set with us, so soon as it is up; it may but peer out, and twinkle awhile with a twi-light, and in the twinkling of an eye instantly go down again. It is a vain thing therefore, for any in regard of youth, to presume of long life, when as length of life no way dependeth upon youth, and we see young go as well, yea as oft as old do.