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B02221	Memento mori, or, A word in season to the healthful, sick, and dying, fit for this calamitous time. Wherein sicknesses, rage, and deaths, are frequent. In which is discoursed, 1. That the present life of man is short. 2. That death is most certain. 3. That the time and way of death is uncertain. 4. Motives to prepare for death. 5. Some things to be done in preparation for death. 6. Some antidots [sic] against the fears of death. / By a minister of the gospel.	Clark, James, 1660-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing C4464; ESTC R171374	12,777	19

deplore Some who had all they wish'd wish for their Urne And that their Fun'ral Flames may quickly burn Yea Common-wealths and Monarchies we see That sometime flourish'd are a nullitie Our Text is prov'd this World 's a mass of woes Each day a doleful Comment●ry shows But that we may come closser to the main purpose of this Section viz. that the time and way of death is uncertain we will narrate an H●storical account of several persons who have been soon and suddenly snatch'd out of the world and some of them come to very tragical ends by strange and unexpected ways and means It would be an endless work to specifie all even the ordinary diseases whereby people are in ieopardy daily of having the threed of their life cut neither is it possible to guess at or foretell all the fatal accidents whereby our death may be compassed for our life and breath is at the unavoidable reverence and disposal of the absolute Lord of life and death who hath many Arrows in his Quiver and variety of instruments of death there be mille nocendi artes mille pericula mortis which should make us who are certain we must die and uncertain where or when to study to be always ready and prepared Matth. 24.22.24 and Matth. 25.13 Watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh Prov. 27.1 compared with Jam. 4 14. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth and ye know not what shall be on the morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour that appeareth a little time and then vanisheth away The inconsiderate r ch man in the Gospel fondly promised to himself many years wherein he expected to possess his great wealth and to take his case eat drink and be merry when behold in a moment a damping message came unto him which no doubt did strike him into a Pannick fear and Fever of perplexities but God said to him Thou fool this night thy soul shal be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided Luk. 12.16 to 22. Now we come according to our purpose to narrate some Tragick instances of strange and sudden deaths Hylas Sailing to Colchos while he was drawing a Bucket of Sea-water with the weight thereof was pulled over Board and drowned Fortia Attendulus while he was endeavouring to save his Servant in hazard of drowning in the River Aternus in Italy did himself perish in the Water Maxentius the Emperor in his flight from Constantine the Great passing the Bridge called Ponte Molle within two Miles of Rome the said Bridge suddenly falling into the River he and all that were with him presently perished Remulus Anastasius the Emperor and Aurelianus Carus the Emperor and many with him were in an instant destroyed and suffocate with Thunder and Lightnings Neocles the Son of Themistocles died with the bite of an Horse Seleucus Callenicus and Theodosius the second Emperors both died by a fall off their Horses Fulco the Earl of Angiers was brained dead with a stroak of his Horse lifting up and bending back his head Hesperia a Maid died of the bite of a Serpent and Diogenes the Philosopher of the bite of a Dog Hatto the Archbishop of Mentz was devoured of Mice Maximinus the Emperor and Honorificus the King of the Vandals were both consumed with swarms of Lice Herod arrayed in his Royal Apparel sitting upon his Throne by the immediat hand of God was eaten of Worms Alcibiades was burnt alive in his Chamber Niolas being keen at hunting earnestly following the chase fell accidentally into a Coal-pit where he died miserably Philostratus and Elpenor falling down a pair of Stairs in their drunkenness both died of the fall Terentius Corax while Writing a Missive Letter suddenly died So did C. Julius a Physician in the time he was putting his Spectacles on his Nose And Flavius Vespasianus while hearing Forreign Ambassadors And L. Durius a Physician while drinking a Glass of Wine Ap. Saufetus in glu●ting down an Egg died immediatly Cueus Carbo while easing Nature died on the place so it is storied of Arrius that Arch-heretick in the Primitive times Petr. Calceanus died among the Barbers hands while a triming Philippides the Comedian Diagoras the Rhodian and Juventus Thalua all died of an excess of joy Philistion the Poet died in a great kink and fit of laughter Philip the Son of Demetrius the second King of Macedon and Charles the gross Emperor both died of an excess of grief and sorrow Q. Heterius a Roman Knight and Cornel Gallie a Senator both died in the very act of Venery Anacreon died by a little stone of a Raisine that stuck in his throat Henry the Son of Alphonsus the 8. King of Castile while playing with his Comrads was struck dead by a Slate falling off a ●ouse upon his head John the Duke of Britainie and several others with him were c●ushed to death by the fall of a Wall Alexander the Emperor Son of Basilus and Atti King of Pannonia both died of a great bleeding at the nose Old Aschylus a Poet in Sicilie beeking himself at the Sun under the open air was suddenly slain by the fall of a Tortoise on his bald Pate which an Eagle taking it seems for a stone let the Tortoise fall on it that thereby breaking the shell she might get the meat Themigenes died of vomiting after his supper Antoninus Pius died sleeping Otto the third Emperor died by the infecton of a pair of poisoned Gloves Frider. 1. Barbarossa Emperor was drowned swiming Henry the 3. Emperor taking too great a mouthful of bread died eating Drusius Pompeius Claudius Cesars Son playing with a piece Pear and throwing it up to intercept or kepp it in his mouth it fell so far into his throat that it choaked him immediatly Tarqu. Priscus died with a Fish Bone sticking cross in his throat Fabius a Roman Senator was choaked with a Hair in Milk that he was drinking O what a small matter will do frail mans turn to turn him out of time into eternity when Gods decreed time is come Now in consideration of these instances and the innumerable hazards of death that we are in every moment and that by innumerable diverse means and accidents O let us fear always and prepare and provide against all dangers occurrent I thought not amiss to insert here that in the very interim or mean time that I was Writing thir Passages of some sudden deaths I was called for to see a young Woman but about a year Married that died the same day of a few hours illness having the last night night of her life gone to bed as well i● health as ever as her Husband told me SECTION IV. Motives to prepare for Death CHRIST saith Mat. 24.42 44. Watch for ye know

MEMENTO MORI OR A word in season to the Healthful Sick and Dying fit for this calamitous time Wherein sicknesses rage and deaths are frequent In which is Discoursed 1. That the present Life of Man is short 2. That Death is most certain 3. That the time and way of Death is uncertain 4. Motives to prepare for Death 5. Some things to be done in preparation for Death 6. Some Antidots against the fears of Death Heb. 9.27 It is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment Chilo per Ausonium Vive memor mortis uti memor sis salutis Persius Vive memor Lethi fugit hora August de Doctr. Christiana He cannot die ill who liveth well and it is rare for one to die well who hath lived ill By a Minister of the Gospel EDINBVRGH Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty Anno DOM. 1699. The Argument The Cross and the Crown Pag. 18. Ben O Death is terrible Cord. 14. BAr mind thou must dye All men to Nature must this Tribute pay The Crowned King and so the Chained Slave Must equally be turn'd into the grave There 's no discharge in this Man-slaying War Memento mori ev'ry thing doth bear T is but a little while of interval Twixt those that on a Tra●ick Scaffold fall And those the rac● of natures course who run Our life is almost gone when scarce begun Like to the Flow'r that with the Sun doth rise And with the Su● at night fades from our eyes And though the King of terrours death be call'd Yet by his terrours thou shan't be enthral'd For Christ hath overcome death by his death 'T is but a softly sleeping out the breath Which when it s gone breaths in the land of joy Where fears of men or death no more annoy East-Lothian November 4. 1699. MEMENTO MORI OR Death's Alarum to City and Countrey to mind and prepare for Death JOb saith Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh fo●th like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not Job 14.12 In which Pathetick Passage he pointeth at the bre●ity of our present life the certainty of our future death and that all the days of our life till our death are lyable to be attended with many troubles and sorrows the serious consideration whereof should make us concerned to provide Cordials for An●idoting the bitterness of the miseries of our life and excite us earnestly to exercise our s●lves to prepare for death and with all diligence to secu e our hopes of eternal life Death Judgment Heaven and Hell are the four last things yet for the most part the last and least in our thoughts which speaks out much stupidity unbelief and impiety for if we did really believe as we say we do that after our natural death there is life and death of another nature viz Eternal life and the second death unto one of which we shall be doomed at the great day of Judgment we should surely be more concerned than generally we are to prepare for death and lay hold on eternal life These these are matters of greatest consequence all our other secular concerns and temporal cares and interests are but trifles and vanities in comparison hereof Yet alas See we not the greatest part of the infatuated children of men madly pursuing to grasp and possess this world and to take all their present pleasures in time as if they were to live a sensual life for ever or to be annihilated at death or that there were neither Heaven nor Hell after it Eccl. 9.3 The heart of the sons of men is full of evil and madness is in their heart while they live and after that they go to the dead But my friend whoever thou art that reads these Lines sure I am thou art a Mortal therefore Memento mori rememember thou must die For what man is he that liveth and shall not see death Psal 89.48 My design is as succinctly as I can to set before thee a few things of death and preparation for it which are discoursed in these 6. Sections following SECTION I. The present life of man is short WE need not be long or prolix in telling you that our life is short they have been but short while in the World who are not convinced from their own observation of daily deaths that mortal man is of few days therefore to prevent multiplication of words in proving a thing that readily none who have their senses about them will deny All we shall offer on this Head shall be to cite and narrate some Scripture-passages wherein the brevity of mans life is illustrated by comparing it to several things that are transitory and corruptible in their nature or of very short duration and continuance Job 9.6 My dayes are swifter than a weavers shuttle which flyeth in the twinkling of an eye from the one end of the Web-Loom to the other Job 9.25 26. My dayes are swifter than a post they pass away as the swift ships and as the eagle that hasteth to the prey all which are most swift and violent in their motions Psal 90.9 We spend our years as a tale that is told which consisteth in a few vanishing idle words Job 7.7 My life is wind that posteth by us on swiftest wings in a moment of time Jam. 4.14 For what is your life It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanisheth away Psal 144.4 Man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow that passeth away either as the shadow of a cloud carried with a violent wind passeth our view in an instant or as the shadow of the Sun on a Dial that quickly declineth till set from our Horizon 1 Pet. 1.24 All flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass c. Mans life is as the grass lyable to a thousand accidents to wither either by the scorching beams of the Sun or a blasting wind or to be soon cut down or trampled under the foot of man or beasts And as in a pleasant Meadow there are many sorts of grass or flowers of various forms figures and colours white yellow red blue c. Which by the same fate fall together before the sharp Syth so men of all qualities Complexions and statures are promiscuously alike subject to deaths destructions Job 34.18 19. God accepteth not the persons of princes nor regardeth the rich more than the poor in a moment shall they die Job 21.13 In a moment they go down to the grave i. e. in a very short space of time doth their breath evaporate and evanish Psal 39.5 Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man at his best estate is altogether vanity After this similitude of our vain frail life to nothing and vanity