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A10080	The two twins of birth and death A sermon preached in Christs Church in London, the 5. of September. 1624. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie. Vpon the occasion of the funeralls of Sir William Byrde Knight. Doctor of the Law, deane of the Arches, and iudge of the Prerogatiue Court of the Archbishop of Canterburie.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1624 (1624)	STC 20334; ESTC S115217	28,776	52

and whatsoeuer liues t is sure to dye Nothing vnder the Sunne is immortall Death may claime his right vpon birth God permits it All haue their times dated in his booke of all disposing prouidence when the houre comes let none aske whence or why All should prepare for it The goodliest Cities haue beene equalled with the ground stateliest buildings leuelled with the earth greatest Empires brought to nothing Kings haue beene bound in chaines Nobles in fetters of iron Wee waxe olde as a garment dwell in houses of clay our breath goeth away and we all perish Mathuselah with his yeares Samson with his strength Absolon with his beauty Salomon with his wisdome they had a time of birth and a time of buriall Young men haue death at their backes and olde men before their eyes yet fewe desire to looke vpon it nay they cannot endure to heare that as they haue had a time to be borne so a time to dye VSE 1 Which may seeke to reproue many who neuer seriously thinke vpon their mortality and therefore are dead and buried in pleasures while they liue holding Repentance but an houres worke Faith fancie Religion a lip-labour of whom wee may say as Martha of Lazarus Iohn 11.39 He stinketh Would we thinke vpon our end we would not so offend but the forgetfulnesse of this causeth wisdome to be tainted with craft Iustice with corruption Faith with dissimulation Godlinesse with hypocrisie Friendship with hope of gaine Lending with vsurie Wee liue in a quarrelling age the most making ill vse of Gods mercies not enduring any correction Wee haue enioyed a long time of peace plenty aboue all the free passage of the Gospell yet our owne consciences doe accuse vs that we haue neither worthily esteemed nor sufficiently expressed the sweet comfort of the Gospell reuealed vnto vs but workes be changed into words walking in goodnesse into talking of God hands into tongues hearts into cares to cure superstition wee neglect true deuotion Some haue Israelitish stomacks and loath Manna the bread of heauen others Athenian cares itching after new Teachers and new Doctrines Men rather seeke for profound knowledge then for faith that worketh by loue Preach we death and iudgement men say blessing themselues in their hearts we shall haue peace though we walke in the imaginations of our hearts Deu. 29.19 to adde drunkennesse to thirst Hence Heu viuunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur Et velut infernus fabula vana foret Many liue as if they should neuer dye and as if hell were but a gulle and fable But the Lord will not spare such his anger and iealousie shall smoake against them they shall haue sickenesses and wounds and the Lord will be vnto them as a moth as rottennesse Hos 5.12 Better a liuing Dogge then a dead Lyon so long as we liue wee may repent but after death Iudgement Heb. 9. ordinary arguments and the vse of them hath taken away the force of them but none so necessary Is a man perswaded that these are nigh It will easily dispatch that which no Law Prince prison Parents or punishment could doe they that before could take no counsaile now giue good counsaile Nothing so teacheth as the remembrance of death as not onely appeares in Ezekias his deuout meditations put vpon a perpetuall record by the holy Ghost when he had but a tallie of dayes left him but in Baltashazar who seeing the number of his dayes and that he was found too light began to quake learne wisdome Deaths remembrance brings horror O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liueth at rest in his possessions Ecc. 41.1 It comes with trouppes of sorrowes Dr. Haywatd in his Sanct of a troubled Soule the head shooting the backe aking the heart panting the throat ratling the tongue faltring the breath shortening the flesh trembling the veines beating the heart strings cracking the eyes waxing dimme the nose sharpe the browes hard the cheekes cold and wanne the lippes pale the hands numme the ioynts stiffe the whole body being in a cold-sweat the strength fainting the life vanishing the standers by like flesh flyes crying or crauing offering to molest the dying body Death separates the soule deuideth friends spoiles a man of worldly goods though he heapes vpsiluer as the dust and prepare raymēt as clay Iob. 27.16 Be not puffed vp with prosperity you knowe not what a day may bring forth the rankest corne is soonest layde I see that all things come to an end This we must teach as Dauid did Ps 119.96 and that surely men of lowe degree are vanitye Pl. 62.9 and men of high degree are a lye to belayd in the balances they are altogether lighter then vanity Tot quotidie occidimus quot ad mortem ire tacētes videmus Gr. lib. 33. epi. ad Venantium Ac. 20.26 In this point wee must not be silent so many we kill as we suffer to runne on to death without warning St. Paul would keepe nothing backe from the Ephesians and shunned not to declare vnto them all the counsaile of God because he would be pure from the blood of all men I haue heard that Newes came to a certaine Towne that AN ENEMIE was approaching yet he came not herevpon a Lawe was made that none should bring such rumours of warres and newes of an Enemie Not long after the enemie came besieged assaulted ruinated the Towne and thence grew a Prouerbe THAT PLACE WAS DESTROIED BY SILENCE Let vs lift vp our voyces as Trumpetes herein and though men be as gods vpon earth Let vs preach Mans mortality and presse for fruites worthy amendment of life that there may be comfort in death Hath God made thee a little world and aboue all earthly creatures giuen to thee an immortall soule foreseing things to come remembring things past iudging of things present bearing the image of God made thee erect to behold the Heauens promised a resurrection of thy body and life euerlasting and wilt thou abuse the goodnesse of God which leadeth to repentance If he be prouoked he is a consuming fire He which in health hath beene diligent to feare God and to doe good shall feele in sickenesse an vnspeakable comfort which he will not misse for all the whole world and a mighty boldenesse to speake vnto God But he which whiles the world prospered with him neuer thought vppon God nor regarded his word when the visitation of the Lord is vpon him when his soule is ready to bee taken from him his heart being hardned in sin he hauing made no preparatiō for DEAEH terrour shal take hold on him as waters a tempest shall steale him away in the night a storme shall hurle him out of his place men shall clappe their hands at him shall hisse him out of his place Iob. 27.22.23 VSE 2 An Instruction for vs to haue our accounts in a readinesse that whensoeuer the