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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14794	Domus ordinata A funerall sermon, preached in the citie of Bristoll, the fiue and twentith day of Iune, 1618. at the buriall of his kinswoman, Mistresse Needes, wife to Mr. Arthur Needes, and sister to Mr. Robert Rogers of Bristoll. By Iohn Warren, minister of Gods word at Much-Clacton in Essex.	Warren, John, Vicar of Great Clacton.	1618 (1618)	STC 25094; ESTC S100741	20,600	48

left Gen. 48. So many a one which in this life seemeth to bee at the right hand of God by his many externall blessings shall after death bee turned to the left hand of the vengeance of God and contrarily many that seeme now by their many calamities to be at the left hand of the curse of God shall there be brought vnto the right hand of his vnspeakable glory There are the prisoners at rest and heare not the voyce of the oppressor There are the small and the great and the seruant is free from his maister Iob. 3.18.19 Some few shall be so happy as both heere and there to bee at the right hand of God Thinke now what thou art thinke what change will follow and let this meditation helpe thee to prepare thy selfe for death to put thy house thy closet-house in order And thus much for those things which help forward the closset-house to be well ordered by meditation Now to those things which helpe it forward and consist in action And those I will reduce to foure heads of which I will very briefly speake The first is that whosoeuer will haue the house of his soule prepared against death suffer in his soule no such traitors or weapons as may helpe death against him those traytors those weapons are our sinnes The sting of death is sin 1. Cor. 15.56 as it appeareth in many a dying man and woman dying with great impatience not so much because they must die as that they are netled with the remembrance of such and such horrible sins for which as yet their peace is not made then they curse the time not that they die in but wherein they euer knew such a man or such a woman that hereby it easily appeareth where the sting of death lyeth and is felt either before death or after death this maketh the diuell so busie now and then euery day to crowde one sinne or other into our soules consciences as if he were now setting in a staffe now a dagger now a sword now a gunne now one weapon now another which hee might haue ready in our owne soules to wound our selues withall If therefore wee will order our selues aright let vs looke into the house of our soules and see what weapons stand which may helpe the diuell and not vs as all vnrepented sinnes doe and let vs cast them out take out blasphemy cursing oppression impatience hypocrisie fling them from you that so you may put your house your closet house in order and thrice miserable are they who giue the diuell leaue euery day to crowd what weapons of sin he list into their soules Secondly in the house of the soule and conscience there must be gotten a true and liuing faith whereby not onely the weapons of the diuell must bee cast out but that Christ may enter and dwell and keepe possession in the soule vntill it shall bee brought to glory Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord Reuel 14.13 All these dyed in the faith Heb. 11 13. Dying Iacob out of faith could say Lord I waite for thy saluation Gen. 49. As hee that was stung by the fiery serpents was to looke vnto the brasen serpent and so recouer so he that is stung by sinne and death must haue a liuing faith to beholde Iesus Christ withall and hee shall bee cured Iohn 3. Miserable wordlings when wealth and Physitians faile their hope faileth A Christian alwayes getteth faith that thereby Christ may dwell with him here that by Christ his sinnes may bee couered that by the touch not of the hemme of Christ his garment but of Christ himselfe all the bloody issues of his sinnes may bee dryed vp that when the eyes of his body grow dim by approaching death hee may yet by the eyes of faith see Christ Iefus at the right hand of the Father making intercession for him labour therefore that thou mayest bee faithfull that so by faith thy house thy closet-house may be put in order Thirdly the third action of the soule to put it in order against death is that it bee alwayes willing to open the doore to God to yeelde it selfe into the hands of God when God calleth I know there was a time when Dauid prayed against death saying What profit is there in my blood when I goe downe to the pit Psalm 30.9 I know Ionah prayed earnestly against it Io. 3. and so did this good King Hezekiah of whom wee speake There may be some secret cause for the quieting of the conscience after some great sin or recouering the glory of God by the sinne of his seruant impeached or some such like Nollē me hae in veste vt videat Thais loth I am to die before my conscience be fully setled or I haue againe satisfied the Church of God after such a sin or at such a time as the Church hath most need of me so as it cannot be well without me Yet for all this the Saints of God haue alwaies opened to God most willingly when the time hath come that God would haue them so olde Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy seruant departe in peace according to thy word Luk. 2.29 On the contrary a wicked mans soule must be fetcht twitcht from him This night shall they fetch away thy soule from thee Lu. 12. Malus est miles qui imperatore gemens sequitur He is a bad souldier who followeth his Generall with sighes sobs When one cōmeth knocketh at your doores to speake with you if you perceiue him as hee is comming and know him to be a friend you must vse you open the doores before hee can well knock but if it bee one you desire not to speak with then though you are within yet will you answer not besides your dores shall be fast barred or locked So when God commeth to some man and knocketh at his doore by sicknesse calleth Thou soule of man come forth and I must talke with you away skuds the soul barres the door with violent desires to prolong life with impatience at God his knocking by no meanes will open till God breaketh in vpon it but when he cōmeth to another man full of grace and knocketh at his body by sicknes calling such a soule come forth the Lord will speake with thee presently answer is cheerfully made Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Act. 7.59 Hilarion that holy Saint as Saint Ierome writeth when hee was about to die and felt in his soule an vnwillingnesse to die hee thus spake to his soule Egredere anima quid times nonaginta tribus annis seruiuisti Christo mori times Goe forth my soule why fearest thou ●ninty three yeares hast thou serued Christ and art thou affraid to die Thus must the soule be prepared willingly to die that so the closset-house may bee put i● order against death Fourthly as the bird flyeth to heauen-ward not without wings and the mariner passeth not the Sea without sailes so that the house of our soules may be put in order against death must wee alwaies pray that if it may be when God shall close our mouthes hee may close them not cursing or altogether busied about the worlde but euen praying and calling vpon the name of the Lord. Thus the good conuerted theese dyeth praying Lord remember mee when thou cammest into thy kingdome Luke 23.42 Thus out blessed Sauiour Father into thy hands I commend my spirit Luk. 23.46 Thus they stoned Steuen who called vpon God and sayd Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Act. 7.59 Thus as Eliah was taken into heauen with a fiery chariot so much we so must our soules ascend in the middest of denout prayers Thus most thou order thy closset-house Conclusion Thus then haue wee seene the sentence of death to haue beene irreuocable against vs all and that we ought therefore to put our house in order and how now in a worde to conclude When any of vs was in our mothers wombe that she began to look bigge with her burthen there was made preparation for v● before wee were borne there were cloues prouided a midwife and other wiues bespoken other things prepared against our birth into this world The day of our death in this world is but the day of our birth into another worlde Wee come out of the narrowe compasse of our mothers wombe into this more spacious roome fuller of brightnesse wee goe into another which yeeldeth vs as many more pleasing obiects thē the womb of this world yeeldeth as this worlds womb yeeldeth more then our mothers womb In the mothers wombe we somewhat although but a little God wot helpe our selues by drawing nourishment to our selues with our vegetatiue faculty before we come into this world to the midwife and other wiues Beholde the spirit of God will be as the midwife the blessed Angels will bee as the helping wiues the bundle of life eternal is insteed of other clouts prouided to wrape vp our soules in in in the time of our comming vnto the other world onely now whiles we are in the wombe of the world or rather of the Church of God let vs by faith and charitie our beleeuing and charitable powers suck such moisture of grace as that afterwardes wee may ioyfully be receiued as a childe borne into heauen when wee shall haue put our houses in order for wee shall die ane not liue Laus Deo FINIS