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B00023 A looking glasse of mortalitie. Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men, but yet most necessarie, profitable and commodious for all sorts of people, of what estate dignity, or calling soeuer they be. : With an Exhortation to good life annexed: wherein are treated all such things as appertaine vnto a Christian to do, from the beginning of his conuersion, vntill the end of his perfection. / Made by I.B.. I. B. 1599 (1599) STC 1041.3; ESTC S124171 41,847 174

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A ●OOKING GLASSE of Mortalitie Not verie pleasant at the first view to many men but yet most necessarie profitable and commodious for all sorts of people of what estate dignity or calling soeuer they be With an Exhortation to good life annexed Wherein are treated all such things at appertaine vnto a Christian to do from the beginning of his conuersion vntill the end of his perfection Made by I. B. Printed at London by R. F. for Iohn Oxenbridge dwelling at the signe of the Parrat in Paules churchyard 1599. DEATH TO THE carelesse youth YOu carelesse youth looke well on me For as I am so shall you be I am the wight at length that must Lay all your glorie in the dust T is I t is I that giues the fall To eue●ie one though neere so tall No wealth no strength nor pollicie Can make resistance vnto me Wherefore let this be still your song Dead shall I be ere it be long Death to the gallant daintie Dames YE gallant Dames behold your doome To this at length you all must come Though neere so fine you are but dust Though neere so loath away you must I daunt your pride I pull your plumes To stench I turne your sweet perfumes Your Rings your Chaines your rich aray Yea life and all ● take away Let this therefore ●●●cke your song Dead shall I be ere it be long THE AVTHOR TO the Reader Let euerie man if he be wife Though he be not exprest by name With indgement deep and good aduise Mark wel this Glasse for in the same A perfect picture painted is Of euerlasting bale or blis Most sure we are that we must die But when or how God only knowes O ten times happie then say I Is he that well his time best owes But wo to him ten thousand fold Whō death as prisoner fast doth hold A LOOKING GLASSE OF MORTALITIE That of necessitie all men must die THat we must all once die there is no Athiest so incredulous nor no foole so sēcelesse Eccle. 9.5 but doth know and confesse the same being compelled thereunto not only by the authority of the holy Scriptures and learned Fathers but also by dayly and howerly experience The sentence is giuen which cannot be recalled ●●●n 3.19 dust we are into dust we must needs returne againe we all must die and sinke into the ground like waters which returneth not againe Reg. 〈◊〉 145. Man that is borne of a woman faith Iob hath but a short time to line and that litle time also that he hath is replenished with manifold miseries his daies be short ●●el 17.3 the hower of death is vncertaine the nūber of his moneths are set downe which hee cannot passe but when they are complete there is no remedy but die he must Quis est homo qui viuit non videbit mortem What man is he that liueth and shall not die surely not one for al flesh is but Grasse Psa 88.49 Esa 40. and all our glory but as the Flowers of the field which to day flourish and to morrow wither and are cast into the furnace Mat. ● ● when Death commeth with his Siclein hand to haue in his haruest he looketh not on the greene and flourishing yeares of young Ganimedes he regardeth not the Purple robes of Senatours nor passeth not a straw for Cresus yellow crownes Eccl. 88. he feareth not the force of Mars nor subtility of Mercurie neither Caesar nor Alexander could resist him neither Salomon nor V lisses beguile him Neque salunb●● impium neither shall the wickednesse of the wicked helpe him but downe he must amongst the rest Grasse we are Rom. 5 2● and as Grasse will he mow vs all haue sinned and for sin we all must die It is decreed that all must once die but woe to him that dieth twise the first death parteth soule and body Iob. 9. ●ors 2. the second death seperateth both body soule from God the first depriueth vs of temporall pleasures ●poc 2. the secōd bereaueth vs of euerlasting ioyes Well may we all stand in feare of death for in what state he findeth vs ●ug in Epist 〈◊〉 in that estate shall we be presented before the tribunall seate of God neither shall we when we depart cary any thing with vs but our good deeds and our bad naked came we into the world 〈◊〉 naked must we depart again when we are dead there is no difference at all betweene one Carkasse and another Amb. inexuner● vnlesse perchaunce the rich mans Corse stinke more vilely then the poore mans doth neither doth it make much to the matter whether we haue liued tē or ten hundred yeares for when our glasse is run out and ineuitable death is come all is one in effect Hiero. ad Heliodor but that he that hath liued longest shall haue the greater burthen of sin to beare and the more to account for much better is it to liué a little while and vertuously Sene. 79. Epist then a thousand yeres wickedly better is one day to a wise and learned man then a very long life to him that liueth lewdly and followeth his sensualities But what make I so much a do to proue so plaine a matter by so many authorities of sacred Scriptures and holy Fathers the very heathens themselues that knew not God do in their writings confesse the same Plato aske Plato what he thinketh of this life and he will answere you Sapientum vita meditatio est mortis that is the life of wise men ought to be a perpetuall meditation of death which will come nothing more sure but when and how no man cant tell Seneca Ep. 72. aske Seneca his iudgement herein and he will not only confirme that I haue sayd but proue it by experience Certum est faith he vitam mortémque per vices ire composit a dissolui dissolut a componi omne humanum genus quodcunque est quodcunque erit morte damnatum est c. Arist Corruption 〈◊〉 est generatio alte●●●ius It is certaine that life and death come and go by turnes things made and compounded are to be dissolued and being dissolued are to be made againe All generations of men whatsoeuer are or shall be condemned to die and the Cities that now are builded shall one day decay and men shall aske where stood such a towne And againe Seneca 25. Morior nec primus nec vltimus omnes me antecesserunt omnes sequente hac conditione intraui vt exirem All those that liued before me are dead gone before me and all that are to come shall follow me I came into the world vpon that condition Seneca 24. Ep. that I should depart againe And as long as I liue I dayly die for some part of my time doth daly shorten and as my yeares increase so doth my life decrease our Infancie our