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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13179	Disce mori. = Learne to die A religious discourse, moouing euery Christian man to enter into a serious remerbrance of his ende. Wherein also is contained the meane and manner of disposing himselfe to God, before, and at the time of his departure. In the whole, somewhat happily may be abserued, necessary to be thought vpon, while we are aliue, and when we are dying, to aduise our selues and others.	Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629.	1600 (1600)	STC 23474; ESTC S103244	111,652	401

bended shoulders shal be a burden when the wheele shall be broken at the Cisterne that is the hart whence the head draweth the powers of life in a word when dust shall turne to dust againe the ioyntes stiffed the senses ben●mmed the countenaunce pale the bloud colde the eyes closed the browes hardened the whole body all in fainte sweate wearied Heare O earth earth sayth the Prophet Almighty God clothed our first parentes with the shinnes of dead beasts that when they saw what was about thē they should remember by reason of sinne what shoulde become of them When Christ shewed at his transfiguration vpon the mount Peter and Iames a part of his glory he shewed them withall Moyses and Elyas two dead men are de●acted from men which might bee withall a remembraunce of their mortality When the Prophet Dauid spake of mans vncertaine condition and certayne en●e in the 49. Psalme because it is so long before the most glorious amongest men in the eye of the world will remember thēselues to be but men First he● speaketh vnto all Heare all yee people And least any shoulde thinke themselues exempted thē vnto all of all estates High and Low Rich and Poore one with an other and because he would haue it knowne to be a matter of importaunce in deede hee sayth My mouth shall speake of wisedome my hart shall talke of vnderstanding vtter inge the selfe-same twise ouer as if wee might wonder what the Prophet had to say which is indeede his own wondering Seeinge that wise men die as well as fooles that death groweth vpon them that their beauty shall consume in the Sepulchre that they shall carry nothing away with them that all their pompe shall leaue them when they go and follow the generation of their Fathers yet for all this they thinke that they shall continue for euer and their dwelling places endure from one generation to another callinge their landes after their owne names this is their foolishnesse saith he And surely as in many other thinges the wisedome of man is foolishnesse with God so is it in this Ioseph of Aramathea a rich mā as we read in the Gospel had a Sepulcher in his garden Surely in places where we take felicity wee should not but haue a mention by some good thought at least of our mortal beeing In all other affaires wee are often vigilant but in this so remisse as if all wer but a game Did we watch death which in times of our chiefest delighted most watcheth vs and often taketh vs too then would we not liue as we liue and sinne as we sinne but giue a thousande dalliances a bill of diuorce as if for their baggage dealing we would haue no more to doe with them But so long as wee liue wee spend our dayes as if we had an estate of Feesimple or Patent at large to continue as we lift to commit sinne as easily as beasts drinke wat●r without remorse without feare One of the greatest euils in the life of man is a carelesse neglecte of Gods woorship One of the greatest causes of this neglect is the forgetfullnesse of his ende Therfore saith Gregory doe so many cast off all care of Christian piecy beecause they neuer care at all to minde their present condition of humane frailty When the Prophet Ieremy woulde shewe the state of Ierusalem to haue become altogether irreligious without mentioning many causes hee expresseth the maine cause in briefe as thus Non est recordata finis She remembred not her end So by this wee see Sathan hath no more daungerous deuise to draw men from GOD like Absolom who stole away the hartes of the people when they were goyng downe to doe homage to Dauid their king then by stealing from their hartes this remembrance of their ende The Panther as is written of him knowinge howe beastes flie from him by reason of his oughly head which frayes thē thrusts onely his head in some secrete corner whilest they gazing on his goodly spotted hide nothinge suspectinge their approaching ende suddenly he breaketh out and prayeth vpon them So this foule headed Panther Sathan perceiuing well how much delight men take in worldly pleasures hideth his deformed head settinge out his fine coulored skinne that is the glory and vanitie of pleasaunt but daungerous delightes whilest in the meane time they neglecting their enemy their ende hee suddenly seeketh to entrappe and deuoure them Wherefore men had neede be prepared and vigilant in thys respect that they may bee euer prouided against his so subtle deceites and Remember their end before it end them that is beefore it be said as vnto Ahaziah Thou shalt not come downe from the bed vnto the which thou art gone vp And that which is chiefest of all beefore the soule by a consumption of sinne pyne to death Blessed Lord who were he not carelesse in the superlatiue degree would not sometimes retire himselfe from this combersome world and remember that which almost hee cannot forgett That he must one day die Why did God leaue saith S. Austen our last day of our life vnknowne to vs was it not because euery day should be prepared of vs which preparing wee may not neglecte vpon paine and perill of losse foreuer Wherefore let them take heede in time who passe ouer their dayes Pharao-like Atheist like sayinge who is the Lorde Wee haue sinned and what euill is happened vnto vs be they well assured that Death like a Sargeant sent from aboue vppon an action of Debt at the suite of Nature her selfe will sooner or later attache and arrest them all and make them aunsweare this high contempt where God himselfe is a party at the Courte of Heauen Let them know that all must yeelde bee they as strong as Sampson as glorious as Herode as mighty as Alexander this tyrant Time will sweepe them all away Moyses vpon the mount Abarim Aaron vpon the mount Hor Methusalath after so many yeares The holiest the healthiest where or when we know not all must downe when death commeth Wee dayly see it and will not sticke sometymes our selues to say as much and yet remember nothinge lesse as if it were onely some arbitrable matter and so wee bring our yeares to an ende as it were a tale that is tolde Of all other we cannot sufficiently maruelle that olde men when as now drooping nature putteth them in minde that their continuance is not long when bended backe makes them looke downe whether they will or no and biddes them thinke of their hearse or graue to see these either addicted to the insatiable desire of gaine or giuen vnto the lightest behauiour of youth shewes them to be far from this religious remembraunce of their ende Sophocles a heathen man would blush for shame to see the most vnseemely matches marriages of our time wherein age and youth are yoaked together a thing so contrary in nature so

weakenesse and we beginne to shrinke from it but hauing confidence in God who hath willed vs not to feare we finde it a meane to ●iuide the waters of many tribulations to make vs a passage from the wildernesse of this world vnto a better land of rest T is strange we should make so nice of our selues as to count it a death to meditate of Death Nay to esteeme the very remembrance thereof as Ahab did the presents of the Prophet Elias to be troublesome vnto vs. Whereas Death is so farre from hurting them who put their trust in God as they shall rather finde it a gentle guide to bring them home to their owne Cittie where they would be to remaine for euer That which wee call life is a kinde of death because it makes vs to die but that which we count death is in the sequcle a very life for that indeede it makes vs to liue There is a death which some call mortall sinne and this is the death of the Soule which death wee should all feare There is also a moderate feare of the other death which is profitable to withdraw vs from the allurements of euill But so to feare it as if it were the vtter ruine and ouerthrow of all our beeing we neede not wee ought not When the Apostle S. Paule spake of the vnconqu●rarable faith which was his stay and the stay of all them whose hope was in Christ Wee saith the Apostle know that if this earthly house of our Tabernacle be destroyed we haue a building not made with handes but giuen of God eternall in the Heauens As if he would tell the persecutors of his time that miseries for a moment could not dis●●ay them the perishing of the outward man could not daunt them nor present death could discourage them for they knew their habitation was in ●eauen and themselues incorporated Cittizens into that Ierusalem which is aboue A heathen man could say Degeneres animos timor arguit this ●biect feare is farre dissident from a generous ofspring Salomon saith The iust is as a Lion of whome the Naturalist writeth that hee is of such courage as beeing fiercely pursued he will neuer once alter his gate though he die for it With what constancy aunswered the second of those seauen brethren who all yeelded vp manfully themselues to torment for the mainetenance of the Law of God Thou O King takest these our liues from vs but the King of Heauen shall raise vs vp in the resurrection of euerlasting life The Philosopher might say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of thinges terrible none more then Death But it is otherwise with Christians Tertullian told the persecutors of his time that their cruelty did but open a doore to Gods distressed people whereby they might enter the sooner into a state of glory and therefore death was very acceptable to them Why should I feare saith the Prophet in the euil day As if Dauid saw no cause of dreading death howsoeuer nature may begin to tremble at the mention thereof Hila●ion could not but wonder his soule should be so loath to depart after hee had serued God and God him so many yeares Consider death as in it selfe and so naturally we seare it Consider death as a meane to bring vs vnto Christ willingly we may embrace it When Iacob saw the chariots of Egipt and thereby perceiued his sonne Ioseph was aliue his fainting spirites reuiued saying I will goe see him before I die When faith dooth bring vs many testimonies our Ioseph liueth the Christian soule may recomfort her selfe in her panges and say Mori●r vt vido●● In the name of God to see him let me die Now for these corruptible bodies they take no dammage at all by death T is no harme to the seede though it hath for the time a little earth raked ouer it it shall spring againe and flourish and bring foorth fruite in due season No hurt is it to these our bodies to be cast into the grounde beeing sowen in wealienesse they shall rise againe in power being sowen naturall bodies they rise againe bodies spirituall being sowne in dishonor they rise againe in glory The keeping greene of Noahs Oliue troo vnder the floud The budding againe of Aarons rod The deliuerance of Ionas from the depth of the Sea The voice that calleth come againe ye children of men The hope of Iob that he should see God with no other but with the selfe same eyes The Prophesie of Ezechiell vnto the dry bones that should come os ad os bone to bone may stirre in vs a ioyfull hope and cheere vs vp against all the feare and terror of death But the resurrection of our Sauiour Christ that is the comfort of all coinforts Vox Christi vox Christianorum The voice of Christ is by Christ the doyce of Christians saith S. Austen Death where is thy sting Hell where is thy victory As he was the cause efficient so was he also a figure of the Resurrection Hee risinge wee all arise Of a more powerfull cause there is a more powerfull effect If the sinne of Adam who was a liuing soule was the cause that death raigned ouer all much more the resurrection of Christ who was a quickening spirite shal be of power to raise vp all that beleeue to the hope of euerlasting life What greater ioy then to be able to know him as the Apostle speaketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the power of this resurrection Christ as in dying shewed what we should suffer so in risinge from death what we should hope To wit that all the bones in Golgatha shall rise and those that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall heare the voice of Lazarus come foorth Wherefore though Death doe swallow vs vp as the Whale did Ionas bind vs as the Philistines did Sampson yet wee shall come foorth and breake the bendes as the birde out of the snare The snare is broken and we are deliuered They may well feare death saith S. Cyprian that haue no saith in Christ but for those who are members of that head who vanquished the power of Hell and Death Death is to them aduantage and a gentle guide that bringes them home to euerlasting rest Hence is it that dying they are said since Christes resurrection to fall asleepe They that sleepe in Iesus saith the Apostle they lay them downe and take their rest and God it is that makes them dwell in euerlasting safety We should not then feare to fall a sleepe for sleepe is a refreshinge after wearysome labours The painefull labouring man after his dayes worke ended sleepes often more quietly then Diue● in his marble pallace on his bed of Iuory where hee tosseth and tumbleth hee sleepes not quietly either in life or death and of such is that verified O mors quam amara O death how bitter is thy remembrance Hauing wearied