Seven sermons on several select subjects preached

1. Life is like a day for the shortness of it: men dream of a long life, saith Austin. Men they do think of such a thing as an earthly Eternity, but it is a short day. Infancy, that is day break: Youth, that is Sun rising: Full growth, that is the Sun in its Meridian: Old age, is Sun setting: Sickness, is Evening; and then comes the night of Death. Life it is a day; and is it so short? but a day; why do we then rather lose time, than live it?

2. Life is like a day for the vicissitudes that are in it. A day hath much alteration and change of weather; the Morning that shows clear and bright; at Noon, black Clouds and Rain: one part of the day is calm and serene, the other part it is blusterous and windy: Such is our life, it is like a day; what change of weather is there in Man's life? What sudden alterations fall out? sometimes health, sometimes sickness, sometimes prosperity, and sometimes adversity: Here is change of weather; sometimes we see the ⟨p. 4⟩White Lilly of Peace, sometimes again the Red Rose of a Bloody War appears: Here is change of weather.

2. Life is like a day for the vicissitudes that are in it. A day hath much alteration and change of weather; the Morning that shews clear and bright; at Noon, black Clouds and Rain: one part of the day is calm and serene, the other part it is blusterous and windy: Such is our life, it is like a day; what change of weather is there in Man's life? What sudden alterations fall out? sometimes health, sometimes sickness, sometimes prosperity, and sometimes adversity: Here is change of weather; sometimes we see the ⟨p. 4⟩White Lilly of Peace, sometimes again the Red Rose of a Bloody War appears: Here is change of weather.