V. 1In this great house of so great mourning, God hath been teaching you the short continuance of all relations: you have seen death taking Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children, Ministers from their people, and so Wives ⟨p. 84⟩from their Husbands, Children from their Parents, People from their Ministers. Those that had but one only Son. Plague and Death hath stripped them of him, and teared one relation out of the others bosom; fain they would have kept them, but death would not suffer them; they wept and cried, but death would not have pity on them, nor hear their cries, nor regard their tears, but said, this is your child, but I must have him; this is your husband, but I must seize upon him; God hath given me a Commission, and I always use to do according to the Commission I receive from God, if God will not spare you, in vain you look for pity at mine hands. I (saith death) am blind and cannot see the beauty of your child, that hath drawn out your heart so much towards him, I am deaf and cannot hear your pleadings for the continuance of your child, or husband, or friend; if God doth not hear you, I cannot, and if God doth not spare and pity you, I will not, therefore I will smite him, and stick my arrow in his heart, and dip it in his life-blood, and take him from you. Oh how many have thus experienced the dealings of death! and you have seen it, and will not you learn to sit looser in your affections towards your nearest and dearest relations? You have seen death hath seized upon them that were most beloved by their friends, and perhaps did therefore do it, because they were over loved; and took up too much of that love, and that delight which should have been more, and would have been better placed upon God. Your lesson ⟨p. 85⟩then is set down by the Apostle, for I would not teach you by rot, nor without the book of Gods word, 1 Cor. 7.29. But this I say, Brethren, 2the time is short, or rolled up, or contracted; a metaphor taken from a piece of cloth that is rolled up, only a little left at the end; so some. As Mariners near the Haven wind up their sails, or make them less. When the sails of time are thus contracted, it is a sign we are near the Harbour of eternity. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none, Vers. 30.
V. 1In this great house of so great mourning, God hath been teaching you the short continuance of all relations: you have seen death taking Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children, Ministers from their people, and so Wives ⟨p. 84⟩from their Husbands, Children from their Parents, People from their Ministers. Those that had but one onely Son. Plague and Death hath stripped them of him, and teared one relation out of the others bosome; fain they would have kept them, but death would not suffer them; they wept and cryed, but death would not have pity on them, nor hear their cries, nor regard their tears, but said, this is your childe, but I must have him; this is your husband, but I must seize upon him; God hath given me a Commission, and I always use to do according to the Commission I receive from God, if God will not spare you, in vain you look for pity at mine hands. I (saith death) am blinde and cannot see the beauty of your childe, that hath drawn out your heart so much towards him, I am deaf and cannot hear your pleadings for the continuance of your childe, or husband, or friend; if God doth not hear you, I cannot, and if God doth not spare and pity you, I will not, therefore I will smite him, and stick my arrow in his heart, and dippe it in his life-blood, and take him from you. Oh how many have thus experienced the dealings of death! and you have seen it, and will not you learn to sit looser in your affections towards your nearest and dearest relations? You have seen death hath seized upon them that were most beloved by their friends, and perhaps did therefore do it, because they were over loved; and took up too much of that love, and that delight which should have been more, and would have been better placed upon God. Your lesson ⟨p. 85⟩then is set down by the Apostle, for I would not teach you by rott, nor without the book of Gods word, 1 Cor. 7.29. But this I say, Brethren, 2the time is short, or rolled up, or contracted; a metaphor taken from a piece of cloth that is rolled up, onely a little left at the end; so some. As Mariners near the Haven winde up their sails, or make them less. When the sails of time are thus contracted, it is a sign we are near the Harbor of eternity. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none, Vers. 30.
- 1The uncertainty of all relations.The uncertainty of all relati•ns.
- 2[Greek or Hebrew] When they set forth to Sea, V•la da•t, when they have done their voyage, vela contra. hunt.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 When they set forth to Sea, V•la da•t, when they have done their voyage, vela contra. hunt.
