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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07686	A liuely anatomie of death wherein you may see from whence it came, what it is by nature, and what by Christ. Togeather with the power, strength, and sting thereof: as also a preparatiue against the same. Tending to teach men to lyue, and die well to the Lord. By Iohn More, preacher of the Gospel.	More, John, d. 1592.	1596 (1596)	STC 18073; ESTC S120562	24,364	78

A LIVELY ANATOMIE OF DEATH Wherein you may see from whence it came what it is by nature and what by Christ Togeather with the power strength and sting thereof as also a preparatiue against the same Te●ding to teach men to lyue and die well to the Lord. By IOHN MORE preacher of the Gospel Imprinted at London by G. S. for W. Iones and are to be solde at the signe of the Gunne neare Holborne Conduit 1596. Omnia mors aequat Death spareth none estate no pompe no wealth no power at all No threates no prayers can auayle when pleaseth him to call He steemes no more a mightie Prince his Scepter or his port Then Mattocke of a laboring man one of the poorer sort The King and Subiect Rich or Poore in substaunce dead be one No Lyon better is then Cur when both their lyues be gonne So still the glorie of this worlde out of this worlde doth passe With him who lyuing in this worlde once in great glorie was T. P. The Printer to the Christian Reader GEntlemen our Diuines do tell vs that Ioseph of Arramathaea made his Tumbe in his lyfe time and in the middest of his Garden to this ende questionles to put him selfe in minde of death in the middest of his pleasures And seeing the life of a Christian should be continually exercised in the meditation of Death by reason of the continuall conflictes which we suffer not in respect of any open enemie but in regarde of our secret sinnes Euery day euery houre euery moment and in euery place the Deuill fighting agaynst vs the worlde with his delyghtes and the flesh with his pleasures in so hot an assault as doth admit no peace nor suffer any truce I thought good to present you with this Anatomie of Death that in the middest of your delightes you may take a view of him who will in the ende cut off all your delights Accept it as I import it the Pawne of my good desire to pleasure you and Bill for your assurance to receaue greater things at my hand when opportunitie shall serue in the meane time as you tender the health of your body so likewyse care for the health of your soule remembring that Death to the wicked is the high way to Hell but Death to Gods chyldren is the path-way to Heauen Yours in all loue W. Iones To the Worshipfull M. Thomas South Esquire The fulnes of comfort in Christ our Sauiour to supplie the sorrowes for his deceas sed Father GOod Sir I haue receaued your Letters the messengers of your sorrowe and the workers of my griefe for that I now misse alouing kind Neighboure as you do want a kind louing Father And if the most renowned king Dauid notwithstanding the great enmitie betwixt Saul and him did shed as many teares from his eyes when he heard that his enemie was murdered as there did issue droppes of blood from Sauls body when it was wounded I trust my Christian sorrow for my friend shalbe christianly excused sith that it is a naturall thing for one man to haue compassion vpon an other and of all worldly losses which we receiue by death the losse of such a friende is very bitter although now by death he hath gayned an estate which is incomparably bet●●r God hauing taken his vnbodyed Spirite to the fruition of his Diuine essence in heauen but left his vnspirited Body to be layde by you on his last bed in the earth and your selfe to the practise of your Fathers forepassed vertues that in the ende of your race you may inioy the benefite of your Fathers foretasted comfortes which I must acknowledge to be the sweete fruites of his godly lyfe And where as I vnderstande by your Letter so many in number so excellent in qualitie so comfortable in his extremitie both for the quicknes of his sence and the quietnes of his conscience and readines of his memorie that if he would haue wished longer lyfe then that he lyued or more Worshyp then that he inioyed or greater wealth then that he possessed yet he could not haue desired at the handes of God a more heroyicall gyft then the grace he had to die in his grace because as punishment is ioyned to his displeasure so glorie is alwayes knit to his gracious fauour Therefore good Sir hencefoorth surcease your sorrow least you be charged to grieue at his solace And seeing the preuiledge to die well is onely allotted to them whom God hath giuen the grace to liue well endeuour as you are by nature so in lyfe and death you may shew your selfe his Sonne that as death tooke Manasses cutting his Corne and binding vp his Sheaues so death when death knockes at your gate may finde your August past and your Haruest at an ende I meane not of your Corne which growes in Swallowclisfe-fielde but of the thoughtes which flowe from your hart To this ende my friende hath bestowed vppon you this litle Treatise made by a Diuine endued with an excellent spirite requesting you to patronize it with your fauour but especially to follow it with your best indeuour For so you shall lyue full of good workes as your Father died full of good dayes and leaue a testimonie of righteousnesse vnto your Chyldren as their Graundfather hath left both to you and them Thus with hartiest resalutations to your selfe your wyfe and syster I commit both you and yours to the Almightie God whose you are and whom you serue London 27. of Ianuarie 1595. Louingly and assuredly yours William Barforde A lyuely Anatomie of Death c. WE see it verefied by experience that all earthly and transitorie things haue their ende to the which they tend Our very yeares are limitted God hath measured out our moneths the dayes of our liues are dated how long we haue to liue So that our first lesson euen at the beginning that we haue to learne is this to thinke of our ending Wee see that the longest day passeth and the night succeedeth howe summer followeth winter and winter summer The sunne it hath both his rising and his setting his shining and his shading The spring time hath his course in couering and clothing the ground with fruites Summer it rypens them Haruest gathers them and winter spends them Thus one thing followeth another and both one and another passe swiftlie to their end The generation of one thing is the distruction of another and the death of one thing is the life of another first is our generation then our conception after comes our birth in wonderfull weakenesse our cradle is our castle when we haue once crept out of that we come to a little strength yet long is the time eare we come to ripenesse And here behold we neuer continue in one state for as our strēgth increased at the first so by little and little it diminisheth at the last As youth succeedeth childhood and age youth so childhood youth and age haue all their end We prooue by