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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

a time of trouble such as neuer was since there was a Nation Ezek. 7.7 euen to that same time Da. 12.1 Man knoweth not his time As the fishes that are taken in an euill net and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sonnes of men snared in an euill time when it falleth suddainly vpon them Ecles 9.12 The fish is cheerefull deuouring the bayt not seeing the hooke but the fisher-man drawing him vp torments the bowels and dragges it to destruction August de agone Christi cap. 7. So many runne away with presumptuous sinnes but the time shall come that they shall feele the plagues of it when time shal be no longer One woe shall be past and another woe come quickly from death to iudgement from iudgement to hell Reu. 10.11.14 They may come vp as flouds their waters may moue as the riuers they may saye we will couer the earth they may rage with their Charets but when the day of vengeance commeth in vaine shall they vse many medicines for they shall not be cured their crye shall fill the land they shall be swept away when the Lord driueth them they shall appeare to haue beene but a noyse when they haue passed the time appointed Jer. 46.17 Vse 2 Our Instruction must be not to walke as fooles but circumspectly as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are euill wee are borne of women Ep. 5.16 of few dayes full of trouble Ioh. 14.1 Let vs remember how short our time is what man is hee that liueth and shall not see death Ps 89.47.48 Be not ouermuch wicked neither bee thou foolish why shouldest thou die before thy time Eccles 7.17 Stat sua cuique dies Euery mans dayes are determined Virgil. 10. Aeneid the number of his moneths is with God he hath appointed him his bounds that he cannot passe Ioh. 14.5 this is a measure of his dayes in respect of Gods prescience and prouidence Psal 39.4 but in respect of the course of nature the threed of life which might haue beene lengthned is cut off by Gods command for sinne and men liue not out halfe their dayes Psal 55.23 as that Bishop applyed this texte in his time Bernardinus to 2. in Qua. dragesimali de Euang. oetern Do. 2. quadra serm 17. a. 3. cap. 1. when in Catalonia a citty neare Valentia a strippling of 18. hauing beene disobedient to his parents and so fell to robbing and being executed on the tree and thus remaining for a spectacle to disobedient children on the next morrow a Beard and gray haires appeared on him which the people hearing of and wondring how suddainely these should come to a young dead body and vrging how young he was at his death the Bishop said he should haue liued to be so old as hee appeared then had he not beene disobedient Thus the Lord threatneth the family of Eli all the increase of thine house shall dye in the flower of their age 1. Sam. 3.33 He dyeth before his time who dyeth vnwillingly not prepared not rype in yeares though rype in sinne which hasteneth death and destruction as God threatned to the Amorrhites when their iniquity should be full Gen. 15.16 Happy is he who can triumphe with that flagge of defiance against all enemies as St. Paul Herein doe I excercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience voyd of offence toward God and toward men Act. 24.16 Happy is he who euery night thinketh with himselfe a day is gone a part of my time is cut off so much lesse haue I left of a short and miserable life God hath appointed the time of life short in respect of prosperity and aduersity in this world that our appetite may be stirred to future things whereof here we haue but a taste as were the trees in Paradise and Manna If these pleasures belowe delight vs how much more shall those aboue Punishments here are but essayes of those hereafter ordained for the wicked as those vppon the Sodomits Chorah and his complices and if the short plagues of this life are feared how much more those of another A little time we haue that by little consolations we may be inuited to glory and by small troubles feare greater A little time is giuen vs least our troubles being ouer long we should despaire onour ioyes we should neglect God Aduersity sometimes must exercise vs else prosperity will pull vs down There are but foure times a time of deuiation as from Adam to Moses when death reigned Rom. 5.14 a time of Reuocation from Moses to Christ the Lawe being added because of transgressions a time of Reconciliation from the birth of Christ to the sending of the holy Ghost Gal. 3.19 the spirit it selfe bearing witnesse with our spirit that wee are the children of God a time of Peregrination from the sending of the holy Ghost till the day of Iudgement Rom. 8.16 while wee are at home in the body 2 Cor. 5.7 vve being absent from the Lord. 2. Cor. 5.7 In this Pilgrimage we must walk by faith The times are dangerous in regard of troubles which must fail out such as neuer were since the begining of the world Mat. 24.21 Of Sathans libertie Reu. 20.8 who being loosed deceaued the Nations of the foure quarters of the earth of the multitude of many false Prophets rising and deceauing many Math. 24.11 of the rarenesse of good men Math. 24.12 iniquity abounding the loue of many waxing cold Let not the time runne away without obseruation Thinke vppon time past and be thankefull for benefits receaued Creation Redemption Iustification repent for sinne committed imitate the godly Think vppon the time present the opportunity vrging vs to worke while we haue time the breuity compelling vs to be instant the irreuocability stirring vs vp to constancie Thinke vpon the time to come and prouide to giue a faire account Barn de trip custodia 1. Cor. 4.7 Nothing ought to be of so pretious esteeme as time it is Gods gift we haue nothing but what we haue receaued wee are answerable for it and must deliuer backe all things in number and weight we must gaine according to the talentes deliuered vnto vs Ecc. 42.7 wee must growe in grace Math. 25.20 And to this end as in bodily growth there are 4. helpes so in a spirituall There is nourishment in the wombe here is a proficiencie of knoweledge there we are brought into the light of the world here we shewe forth some fruits of the illumination of Baptisme there is milke giuen vnto vs here the word of God deliuered out of both Testaments there wee are carryed to our Parents table here we come to the Supper of the Lord our heart and our flesh reioycing that Nowe is the accepted time 2. Cor. 6.2 now is the day of saluation wherein God the Father begetteth vs the

remembred our passage considered our good foreseene Things to come must be considered the giuing vp of our account when wee must answere for our thoughts words works the day of death which is at hand sure vnsure the day of iudgement which is the last doome to the euill fearefull to the good ioyfull This was the song of Moses not onely merely propheticall as Rabo Paulus would haue it but exhortatory also This is the wisdome from aboue making men pure peaceable gentle easie to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits Iam. 3.17 without partiality without hypocrisie Other wisedome perisheth the wisdome of the serpent in a curse Is 29.14 the wisdome of the Pharisies in a woe the wisdome of Achitophel in folly of Nimrod in confusion of the vniust steward in expulsion the wisedome of Iezabel in death Moses prayed for this heauenly wisdome So teach vs to number our dayes Ps 9.12 that wee may apply our hearts vnto wisdome Hier. ep 139. Nothing so deceiueth men as to be ignorant of the paces of their life and to promise long times to themselues vnlesse we thinke vpon death we can neuer fashion our selues to a godly life Repentance hath no such enemie as to thinke that any time will serue to repent Hardly can a man think of a short life here and thinke euill or of a long life and thinke well The act of liuing well is very long but life it selfe short and God would haue the time of death vnknowne vnto vs because wee should be ready for him at all times hauing no more certainty of one houre then another yet Salomons lesson shall make vs ready to leaue the world cheerefully when we remember a time to be borne and a time to dye A text shewing the short progresse of mans life his inconstancie and mortality who commeth vp and is cut downe like a flower flyeth as it were a shadow and neuer continueth in one stay in the midst of life is in death whirling by a swift wheele which should admonish vs that we haue a set time for our taske the clocke counting our houres and should worke out our saluation with feare and trembling while we haue light least we be benighted and our eyes shut and wee sleepe in death A great taske it is and we should not lose one minute but make a good vse of time and seeing we were borne to glorifie God and must dye wee should labour that after death wee may liue for euer with him in glory because there is a time to be borne and a time to dye as sure as wee haue beene borne so sure we must dye Oritur Moritur Birth and Death are Twinnos The summe of the words is the Reuolution of time or watch of time or the Race of life or Mans mortality or his pilgrimage consisting of two parts 1. Vpon his birth a time to be borne 2. Vpon his death and a time to dye The first sheweth vs his comming forth the second his returning backe In the first see his beginning In the second his ending The first openeth his day the second threatneth a night Here is the Prologue and Epilogue of the state of man wherein first his Birth commeth to bee considered Prima pars Caietan A time to be borne Amongst Salomons couples which are 14. in this Chapter the foure first contrarieties concerning the generation and corruption of men plants other creatures and things made by Art the foure next concerning the delectable good the other three a profitable good and the three last humane society First heere is mention made of the Birth and Death Nyssen Olym●iod to rowze vp the sluggard to raise vp the worldly minded men who neglect things future remembring them that because they were borne they must dye as Moses vvho hauing vvritten his booke of Genesis the beginning creation production of creatures vvrote an Exodus next to that a going out No man must murmur against Gods prouidence It is not in the power of man to come into the vvorld Hugo Victorinus nor in his disposition to depart out of the vvorld A diuine hand ruleth all euery thing hath its season as a time ordained by God The creature is gouerned by the Creatour Righteousnesse that came downe from heauen first appeared in the glimpse of the rudiments of nature vvhen the lavv came it vvas in the infancie Tertul. de Virg. Veland c. 10. vvhen the Gospell vvas preached it had a flourishing youth and at the comming dovvne of the holy Ghost it grevv to more maturity When the fulnesse of time vvas come Gal. 4.4 God sent forth his Son It is folly for men to murmure that they were borne at such times and not other vve are borne at Gods pleasure and his periods of time There is a time of conception a time of birth For that hath not euer a birth which hath had a conception though somtimes one word be vsed for another the birth for the conception as that which shall be borne of thee shall be called the Son of God Lorinus in textum Luk. 1.35 and somtime it signifieth any increasing as Nascere Dardanio promissum semen Iulo Tu modo nascenti puero castae faue Lucina And that Sometimes Birth is taken for creation as that Martial l. 6. Epig. 7. Virg Aeglog 4. Iob 15.7 Art thou the first man that was borne Vnderstood of Adam But here in the proper signification opposed to Death and limited by God Psal 73.9 who disposeth of all things though some set their mouth against the heauens and cast the faults they commit vpon the Planets vnder vvhich they vvere borne Amb. Euth in illud Psal neuer considering how prouidence gouerneth time neuer referring any thing to their owne corruptions God hath sent vs into the vvorld to vse our time vvell that vvhither vve liue vvee liue vnto the Lord or dye vve may dye in the Lord so vve shall exchange a troublesome life for a peaceable a temporall for an eternall Man is borne miserable For other creatures which are but base borne in respect of man haue couerings to defend them and Bucklers to offend their enemies Fishes of the Sea haue shels Pli. nat hist li. 7. proem Trees of the Forrest haue knotty barkes Beasts of the field hard hides Bees stings Hogs bristles Hedgehogs prickles Beares rough hayre Birds feathers Fishes scales Sheepe fleeces Serpents stings Cockes spurres Elephants and Bores teeth and tuskes yet man commeth from the prison of his mothers wombe as a poore worm Ar. l. 3. de generat animal c. 4. Yea nudissimum omnium animalium Most naked of all liuing creatures Hee enters into the world bathed in bloud an image of sinne Dr. Wilk his first song is the Lamentation of a sinner weeping and sobbing the mother lyeth by but halfe flaine by the birth and when shee looketh vpon the fruit of her labour pranked vp it