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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

Church our mother conceaueth vs The seede whereby we are borne againe is the word the nurses to feede weane cherish vs are the Ministers of the Gospell and preaching is the food we must require which will make vs new creatures haue new soules affections members a new heart hand eares eye but if there be no appetite in vs after this we are a Golgotha hauing a name to liue but are dead in sinne and dead in desires vnborne and better vnborne then vntaught Was it miraculous for Elias to liue forty dayes without foode of the body Animas portant mortuas in corporibus viuis Aug. and shall we thinke to liue for euer if wee neglect the food of our soules which should nourish vs to life euerlasting hauing a name to liue but are dead and carry about vs dead soules in liuing bodyes Haue wee hereetofore liued an idle prophane vngodlie life O let vs liue the rest of our time in the flesh no longer to the lusts of men but to the will of God for the time past of our life as the Apostle speaketh may suffice vs to haue walked in the will of the Gentiles vvherein the Apostle allovveth not the former life but reproueth it 1. Pet. 4.3 It is like that more ouer this vvas not enough for them that they erred in the knovvledge of God Non approbat sed reprobat vitam praeteritam Lyra. but vvhereas they liued in the great vvarre of ignorance those so great plagues they called peace and like that O ye house of Israel Wisd 14.22 let it suffice you of all your abominations Ez. 44.6 There is no losse to the losse of time it is folly to expect time while we haue it before vs. Hee that hath life hath time and this runns swifter then a Weauers shuttle Remember how greiuous it will be to thinke vpon the neglect of time as Titus Vespasianus meditated Suction Amici diem perdidi A day mispent is lost It was the lamentable Epitaph of Similis Captaine of the Guarde to the Emperour Adrian after hee had retired himselfe and liued priuatly seauen yeares in the country Xiphilinus in vita Adriani that hee had liued onely seauen yeares Hic iacet Similis cuius aetas Multorum annorum fuit ipse Septem duntaxat annos vixit Let vs consider how long it is since wee were borne and number our yeares not from the time of our old birth but New birth Let vs often consider how our time runnes on let vs remember the day of DOOME the end of this time and begining of immortality to come 2. Esd 7.43 Let vs looke vpon our threefold disease the begining middle end our Natiuity life death Our Natiuity vncleane our life peruerse our death dangerous Let the meditation of the birth of Christ purge our birth Bar in transitu malachiae pessima mors peccatorū quorum Natiuitas mala vita peior of his death destroy our death of his life instruct our life Our Natiuity hath bene sinfull let not our life be badde least our death be worse Let vs endeauour to dye the death of Saints by liuing as Gods best seruants then pretious shall our death be in the sight of the Lord as the end of out labours consummation of our victories the gate of life an entrance into glory Let vs get to bee borne againe which is our new Regeneration in Body and Spirit Bar. declamat apol ad Gulielmū Abbatem We fell together in soule and body but first must rise in soule if we would be raised vp at the last day in bodyes to glory Let vs first esteeme our soules and not as those of the schoole of Hipocrates and Epicurus who neglect the soule and prouide only for the body who feare not to commit sin but to endure shame Let vs know that as farre as the spirit is aboue the flesh God aboue men heauen aboue the earth eternity aboue frailty so farre is the new creation aboue the olde the one is mortall and corruptible the other immortall from heauen a worke of God abiding for euer This bringeth to life the other to death as it followeth the Birth here PARS II And a time to dye There are many reasons why Death is come into the world the disobedience of Gods prohibition Of the fruit of the tree in the middst of the Garden God hath said ye shall not eate least ye dye Gen. 3.3 The Malice of the Deuils temptation Wisd 7.24 through enuie of the Deuill came death into the world the folly of the womans condition she saw that the tree was good for food pleasant to the eyes and a Tree to be desired to make one wise and tooke of the fruit thereof and did eate The mans greedy apprehension and hee did eate ibid. Hence some obserue that mors comes of mordeo because our first Parents did eate of that forbidden fruit A memorable punishment drawing a man from pryde Ecc. 10.9 facile cōtemnit omnia qui nouit se moriturum Aug. Hier why is earth and ashes proud from couetousnesse Easily despiseth a man the world when he seeth he must dye from earthly pleasures corruption being the father the worme a mother and sister Iob. 17.16 when man goeth downe to the bowels of the pitte and rest must be in the dust It stirreth vp a man to good to almes to repentance to disposing of his house as appeareth in Hezekiah when he had receaued the message of death hee turned his face to the wall If. 38.14 prayed and mourned as a Doue Now he settleth himselfe by a liuely faith the foundation of saluation a search and confession of his former sinnes in a broken and contrite heart Ps 51.17 by remission of iniuries submitting himselfe to Gods good pleasure vnlading himselfe of ill gotten goods running to obtaine Howsoeuer man hath thought of himselfe before he be summoned to dye and haue bragged with proud Phaeton in the Poet that Apollo were his father yet now he must call to minde that Climene was his mother hee seeth that his strength is not of brasse his matter is not of gold siluer pretious stones but earth that life and death are in the hands of God and haue their date and destiny by him that we are caryed away as Merchants in a shippe whither we stand or sit watch or sleepe Sensim sine sensu ●●nescimus olde age stealeth on that hee that p●●●●seth himselfe a long life doth as he that looketh through a perspectiue conceaue those things great which are very small that Death is a commanding Tyrant and will haue nodenyall Hence is it called Dust If I haue rewarded euill to him that was at peace with me let the enemy lay mine honour in the dust A brooke Ps 7.5.110.7 Ps 8 l. 3. Iob. 3.13 1. Thes 5.2 2 Tim. ● 8 Ios 2● ●4 he shall drinke of the brooke in the way The graue my life

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