not Ckrtgoi ° emen ought the fourth Sunday inLent. b Ser:Z9, men doenot confider, That ifthefeProphets didforgoe their folitude, it was more for the goodof others that lined abroad in the world,than themfelues, as alfo for the railingvpofthedead : And ifthey did receiue goodintertainment, it was no more thanwas neceffary for the fuftenance of theirbodies. Eli/ha wouldnone ofNáamansgold ; NorElias be feafted byKingAhab, and Iezabell his wife. It isathing worthythe confideration , That our Sauiour Chrift ha- uing not fo muchas one pennieof money wherewith to pay Cafar his Tribute, willed Saint Peterto open the fifhthat hehad takenwithhis angling rod. Our Sauionr permittedPeterthat he fhouldcatch fuchamultitudeof fifties, that the nets didbreake with the fulne(fe of them : But now heewould not haue him catch,butone onely fifh. ForaChurch -man ought to fifh forall the fifties that he can poflibly take ; and the morehe takes, hedoth God themore feruice: but for thofemoney-fifhes, that haue pence in their bellies hemuft takebutone onely, and that too for to pay Tribute,not forhimfelfe, nor to fatisfiehis owne couetous defrres,or his idlepleafures. Eccedefuntitte oferebatur. Beholdtherewas a deadman carryed out, &c. This word Lai'in the Scripture, requires theeyes ofthe body,andtheeyes ofthe foúle, infinuatingagreat deale ofattention. But tocome herewith an Eccè, it being focommon a thingin the world (as nothing more) to fee the dead dayly carryed forth to theirburiall, it feemetha fuperfluous labour, andaneedleffe kindofdiligence; efpecially,be- ing that this our life is no other thing but a continued Proceflon of the quickeand thedead. When tldarn faw Abel was flaine, and lay deadon the ground,being the firft manofwhom death had taken poffeffion, hewas fo heart- ftrucken , and fo amafed thereat, fo fearefull, fo forrowfull, and fo fad, that for many yeares after hee was not freed from this feare and horrour, nor were the yeares dryed vp from his eyes. For albeit that God had no- tifiedvnto him, That he was todyethe death, yet did henot as yet knowby ex- periencewhat kind ofthingdeathwas. But after that death had fleflit himfelfe inmans blood, cuttingdowne more lines than aSythe dothgrafle in your faire andgoodlymedowes; this his feare andhorrour beganby degrees to flackand fall off. An Eclypfeofthe fumedóthftrangely intertaine the fences attention, not onely forto fee fofairea Planet lapt vp inmourning weedes , butalfo for that it fofeldome hapreth : But the Eclypfesofmensliues;though they bbe the faireft funnesvpon earth,they fohourely,nayfomomentarily fucceede with vs, that we can fcarfe (whichway foeuerwe looke) turne our eyes afide from them. And not tofpeake of thofe lingring deaths, wherein through ficknes we lye lan- guifhinga long time, befides thofeoccafionedbyfamine,peftilence, andwarre: yet thole other fudden and vnexpeóted deaths whichdaily fucceed, may euery honre find our eyesoccupied. For wee feethem euer and anon written on the wall, as was that ofBalrhafar ; hangingon the oake, as that ofAbfalen ; dipt ina difhofmilke, as that ofSifara; reprefented in adreame,as that ofHolophernes;ap- pearing at a feaft, asthat oflobs children; put inthe porridgepot, as that of E- lifhaesDifciples, Morsinolla;in the bed,as thatofAdttlterers;andin theApo- plexie,as that ofyour Gluttons. Yet notwithftandingall this, andthat it is eueiydayes example, yet fuch and fogreat is the folicirude and care which the diuell takes to blotthe remem- branceofthedead fromoutthehearts and heads of the liuing, That at euery ffep we fee the dead carried forth to their graues,andare fo farre from ingrauing the 489 This life is no- thingbut a Proceflionof quicke &dead No obieâs motevfuall thanChofe of ourmottalitic. None le& re. garded,orre- membred
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