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A01069	A sermon preached at Constantinople in the Vines of Perah, at the funerall of the vertuous and admired Lady Anne Glouer, sometime wife to the honourable Knight Sir Thomas Glouer, and then ambassadour ordinary for his Maiesty of Great Britaine, in the port of the Great Turke. By William Forde Bachelour in Diuinitie, and lately preacher to the right honourable ambassadour, and the rest of the English nation resident there. ...	Ford, William, b. 1559.	1616 (1616)	STC 11176; ESTC S102518	32,899	92

is a pilgrimage vnto death Giue me a possession of buriall with you here is the home of pilgrimes and the house of death Then Sarah died Thence obserue the generall condition of mankinde euen that which the Apostle hath confirmed * Heb. 9. It is appointed vnto men that they shal once die And Abraham came to mourne and weepe for her thence obserue that naturall affection towards the dead is commendable in all Then Abraham said I am a stranger and a forrenner among you Thence obserue that all men are but strangers and pilgrims here on earth Giue me a possession of buriall with you Thence obserue that the dead are to be honoured with buriall and a graue That all men must once die that naturall affection towardes the dead is commendable in all that all are but pilgrims and strangers here on earth that all after death are to be honoured with buriall a graue are the foure sad seuerall subiects of my ensuing sad discourse which whiles I applie to this sad spectacle applie you your hearts to sorrow your eyes to teares if not for her that is dead and gone for she is blest and resteth from her labours yet for your owne sinnes which will cause you will you nill you God knowes how soone looke you how well to follow after her we will by Gods assistance and your much desired patience trauish the same ground we haue began to tread tracing the steppes and following the method in the selfe same order we haue propounded it Then Sarah died Was Sarah the first that died was not mother Eue with her daughters and her daughters daughters dead long before if dead and why not mentioned what was rare and singular in Sarahs death that shee alone aboue all other women aboue Eue her selfe should deserue to haue the first memoriall then Sarah died surelie I know no other reason but this that as Abraham was the father so Sarah was the mother of the faithfull and therefore the holie Ghost vouchsafeth vnto her that which he denied to other women before her an honourable mention both of her age how long she liued and of the tyme of her death when shee died when Sarah was an hundreth twentie and seuen yeeres olde so long liued she then Sarah died Sarah though the mother of the faithfull though a holy and religious matrone though a Saint of God yet then Sarah died Whence we obserue the generall condition of mankinde It is appointed vnto men that they shall once die all must drinke of Sarahs cup the cup is full of one and the same liquour the liquour is drawne from one and the same fountaine the fountaine it selfe is poisned and if the fountaine be vncleane the streames will be troubled too if the root be cankred the branches will wither also if the head be diseased the members will be distempered too Now the head the roote the fountaine as of Sarah so of all mankinde was father Adam as therefore Adam by rushing against the law like a pitcher that dasheth against the wall sinned not onlie in his owne person but in his humane nature not onlie in himselfe but in his descent so he purchased the punishment of sinne which is death not onlie vnto himselfe vnto his owne person but vnto others vnto his humane nature of which we all partake For as by one man saith the Apostle by one Adam and one Eue two in sex but one in nature one in mariage one in sinning the woman seduced by the Serpent the man induced by the woman sinne entered into the world and death by sinne so by the sinne of one man death went ouer all men in whom all men had sinned * Rom. 5.12 But how did sinne enter by one into the world not by propagation of kinde onlie as Socinus the hereticke auerreth but by participation of the fault also and by imputation of the guilt And how did death enter by sinne euen as an effect that followeth yts cause or as a shadowe that accompanieth a bodie in the sunne And how went death ouer all as a plague grassantis in domo depopulating the citie or a house where it entereth or like an enemie pervagantis vastantis sternentis raging ranging destroying all that he meets with or like a hidden poyson that diffuseth it's venome vnto euery member and penetrateth vnto all and euerie part not onlie vnto a few sicke weaklings and poore staruelings but generallie vnto all high and lowe rich and poore bond and free of what age sex condition degree soeuer all men and women young and old great and litle strong and weake are subiect to deaths stroke whence the poet cryeth out Heu mortem invisam quaesola vltricibus armis Elatos fraenas animos communia toti Genti sceptra tenens aeternaque faedera seruans Quae magnos parvosque teris quae fortibus aequas Imbelles populisque duces seniumque iuventae Maphaeus True it is indeed that which Saint Austen taught long agoe God at first created man as a meane betweene Angels and beasts that if he obeyed the Lord his true creatour and kept his hestes he might be transported to the Angels societie but if he became peruerse in will and offended the Lord his God then that he might be cast vnto death like a bruit beast And to this end he placed him in the garden of Eden the paradise of God stored with matchlesse varietie of whatsoeuer delightes heart could desire especiallie garnished begnets hacaim with the tree of life and begnets haddagneth the tree of knowledge which two trees he appointed him for two Sacraments by the tree of life mystically importing that if he continued his obedience he should surely enioy life neuer feele nor feare hunger thirst sickenes age or death by the tree of knowledge that if he transgressed the commandement ipso facto In the very act * Gen. 2. moth tamuth dyinge dye he should most certainlie die or he should die a double death the death of the body the death of the soule which accordingly happened as had beene threatned for in the same houre he began to eate he began to die not onelie a spirituall death which is a seperation of man from God who is the life of man and the length of * Deut. 30. dayes vnto which and vnto which onlie the hereticke Socinus restraineth it conceating the death of the bodie to be a sequele not of sinne but of nature euen of of nature vncorrupted so that the body should haue died though man had neuer sinned but also and not onelie as Ambrose erroneouslie thinketh a corporall death which is the dissolution of nature and the soules last farewell vntill the generall resurrection vnto the bodie which actuall dissolution though instantlie it followed not yet was to be seared euerie moment for as in ciuill iudgements Iuridicall proceedings among men a man condemned to death though after his condemnation he be committed vnto the Iaylour by him cast

dailie experience sheweth * Iam. 4.14 It is a vapour that soone vanisheth a drie lease carried with euerie winde a sleepe fed with imaginarie dreames a Tragedie of transitorie things it passeth awaie like a post in the night like a ship in the Sea like a Bird in the aire whose tract the aire closeth concerning the shortnesse thereof the Heathen Poet could saie A man is but a man of a daie old the kinglie Prophet said it was but a span long Moses and Salomon saie It is a life of daies Iob Esay Paul compare it to a bubble a sleepe a booth a shepheards tent vvhich euerie daie is renewed yea they come so farre at length that they compare it to a thought whereof there may bee a thousand in one day But what need we these resemblances sith wee can turne our selues no waie but something there is which may put vs in minde of our mortalitie Can you enter your Counting houses and cast eie vpon your houre-glasse and not consider that as the houre passeth so doth our life Can you sit in your chaires by the fire side and see a great quantitie of vvood turned into smoake and ashes and not consider vvith the Poet Sic in non hominem vertitur omnis homo So man no man will suddenlie become Can you walke forth into the fields and see how some grasse is comming some newlie vvithered some alreadie come and not consider vvith the * Esa 40.6 Prophet That all flesh is grasse and all the grasse thereof is as the flower of the field Can you feele the aire moue and the winde beat in your faces and not consider the breath of man is in his nostrils stop his * Esa 2.22 nostrils and his breath is gone and that the strongest tenure of your life is but by a puffe of vvinde Can you sit on the riuers bank not consider that as the riuer runneth and not returneth so doth your life Can you shoot in the fields and not consider that as the arrow flieth in the aire so swiftlie doe your daies passe Or if wee be like Horse and Mule without vnderstanding to consider this yet I am sure wee cannot bee so senselesse as not to consider that which euerie daies light presenteth to our view To daie our superiours to morrow our inferiours next daie our equalls one vvhile our friends another while our foes are taken from vs and life from them And maie not the same happen vnto anie one or euerie one of vs which happeneth vnto them are we more free then they It is a good comparison of one who likeneth death vnto an Archer that shootes sometime beyond vs not sparing our superiours sometime short of vs striking our inferiours somtime at our right hand depriuing vs of our friends sometime at our left hand hitting our foes and now and then it hits the marke it selfe and wee are dead as well as others And surelie if we goe no further then our owne selues and consider how manie diseases we continuallie carrie about vs what aches affect our bones what heauinesse our bodies what dimnesse our eies what deafenesse our eares what trembling our hands what rottennesse our teeth what balnesse our head what graines our haires All and euerie one of these as so many loud alarums would sound vnto vs Death is neere or if none of these did affect vs within yet how many thou sand dangers doe daily threaten vs without and seeme to shew vs present death Goe into the ship Caluin there is but a foots thicknesse betweene thee and death Sit on horsebacke in the slipping of one foot thy life is in danger goe through the streets of the Citie euen how manie tiles are vpon the houses to so manie perils art thou subiect If there bee an Iron toole in thy hand or thy friends the harme is readie prepared how manie wilde beasts thou seest they are all armed to thy destruction If thou mean to shut vppe thy selfe in a garden well senced where may appeare nothing but pleasantnesse of aire and ground there sometime lurketh a Serpent The house which is subiect to windes and stormes doth continually threaten thee with falling on thy head I speake not of poysonings treasons robberies open violence of which part do besiege vs at home and part doe follow vs abroad examples tending to this purpose are infinite wherof I will produce a few thereby to put vs in minde that the same things may happen vnto our selues for which cause hardly should a moment of our life time bee spent without due and intire consideration of our death If then we ascend the theater of mans life and looke about we shall see some to haue perished with sudden death 1 Ananias Sap. others with griefe 2 Eli. others w th ioy 3 Rhodius Diagoras others with gluttony 4 Domit. Afer others with drunkennesse 5 Attila King of Hunnes others with hunger 6 Cleanthes others with thirst 7 Thales milesius others in their lasciuious dalliances 8 Corneiius Gal. others with ouerwatching 9 M. Attilius others with poyson 10 Phociō Henric. 7. Emp. in a feast by a Mounke some by fire from heauen 11 The Sodomites Anastatius the Emperour an Euty chiāhaer some by waters 12 M. Marcellus some by earthquakes 13 Ephrasius bish of Antioch some swallowed vp quicke 14 Coran Dathan and Abiron some stifled with smoake and vapours 15 Catulus some choaked with flies 16 Adrian the Pope 1159. some with a fall sliding off their foot 17 Nestorius the haer some at the disburdening of nature 18 Arrius haer some vvith a suddaine fall from their horse 19 Philip K. of France Iudge Glanuil of Tanestock in Deuō others killed and torne asunder by Dogs 20 Heraclitus Lucian the Apost Horses 21 Hippolitus Lions 22 Licus Em. Beares 23 40. Child Boares 24 Ancaeus K. of Samos Rats 25 Hato bish of Menas Trag. 3. act 1. and the like I forbeare to speake of other strange and vnfortunate deaths as that of Milo Crotoniates by the stocke of an Oake which he had desired to teare asunder but his strength failing him and the clift suddenly closing was so fast held by the hands that he became a prey to the beasts of the field And that of Poet Aeschylus who vncouering his bald pate in the warme sunne had his brain pan broken by the blow of a Tortuise which an Eagle taking his head for a white Marble stone let fall to breake that afterward she might deuoure it And that of Charles King of Nauarre who for the curing of some aches hauing his bodie wrapped about with a linnen cloth that first had beene well steeped in Aqua vitae was suddenly and vnfortunately burnt by a candle which his Physician hauing sowed the cloath about him and wanting a knife to cut the thred