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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14280	A divine discoverie of death directing all people to a triumphant resurrection, and euer-lasting saluation.	Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1612 (1612)	STC 24596; ESTC S105922	75,056	213

A DIVINE DISCOVERIE OF DEATH Directing all people to a triumphant resurrection and euerlasting saluation It is ordained that all men shall die HEB. 9.17 Vnum hoc gestit verit as ne ignorata damnetur LONDON Imprinted for WILLIAM IONES and RICHARD BOYLE dwelling in the Blackefriers 1612. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE MY VERY GOOD LORD HENRY THE EARLE OF HVNTINGTON AS amongst all ordinary accidents incideÌ„t to the prosperity aduersity of mankind there is nothing more momentarie then mariage euen so right honorable there is nothing more answerable to the saluation condemnation of mankind then death For as by the one all men come into the world by the other all men go out of the world euen so by both all men without the merits of Iesus Christ shall go into hell fire Yet for all that there is nothing more out of the minds of men then death nor any thing lesse feared then Gods irefull iudgments which follow after As may appeare in euerie profession which is stained and polluted with heathenish impietie the like was not in the time of blindnesse and ignorance whereby it may be truly said that the last of the three reuolutions signified by seales Reu. 5.1 8.2 17.1 by trumpets by viols related to be the dishonour of God and the disturbance of the Church militant is now more fresh and more ragingly reuiued then in any of the two former reuolutions consisting of 600. yeares Your Lordship perhaps will say What is that to me how can I redresse it I know my Lord I know and in truth I must acknowledge that you are an example vnto others for the diligent hearing of Gods holy word preached and for the sincere receiuing of the Sacrament well may your Honor go on and be strengthned with the zeale of Gods glory and be recommended before the throne of Gods grace by the prayers of such as you did releeue when they were oppressed But the principall cause of this my clamor is to put you in mind of that you know to wit seeing sinne is so generall the same so horribly hainous that there is nothing else to be looked for but death and not that death onely which is the common visitation of all men but also the second death which is the perpetuall reward of the diuell and the damned And also my Lord the speciall end of my writing vnto your Honour is so much as in me lieth and as dutie binds me to make you partaker of the fruit of my poore labor with other my honourable and worshipfull friends Nothing doubting but vnder that truth and plainenesse wherein I haue so faithfully endeuoured and so heartily desired the good also of so many thousands as to whom it may come your Lordship shall sauour so much of some thing as that you will say hereafter for your labor in reading of all you are right glad and haue therby lost nothing Thus briefly and most humbly I end desiring the Maiestie of our eternall God through the mediation of Iesus Christ to beautifie and to adorne you and your honourable Lady with all spirituall graces and that you both may see like your selues according to your hearts desire your childrens children vnto the third and fourth generation From Stretton Lefield the 3. of Iuly 1612. Your Honours most humble in the Lord Edw. Vaughan TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LADY THE COVNTESSE of Leicester Douger RIght Honorable I know none amongst all the women in the world vpon my forty yeares reading neither yet truly reported by any to whoÌ„ this book doth so properly appertaine to be carefully read as to your self In respect specially of Gods mercy wherin he hath made your honor admirably memorable for your exceeding wisedome and abounding graces which was plainly seene in your patient abiding of one such double deadly dayes newes coÌ„cerning your noble son your worthy honorable husband as made al England France and Ireland more astonished theÌ„ that great inuincible Armado of Spaine valorously floting vnder saile vpon our narrow seas And there is also another famous respect of Gods mercie and the kings Maiesties fauor vpon you for that there is yet aliue a noble Earle of Essex euen out of your owne loynes who is like to repaire the ruines of his father to raise his and your honourable house farre more renowmed and lineally to leaue it so to be vpholden for euer Madame when the foundation of the Temple at Ierusalem was newly laide the sound of the people for ioy could not be discerned from the noise of the Priests Ezra 4. Leuites and Ancients for weeping euen so right Honourable your and their most louing friends in that dolefull day could not discerne whether the ioy for the Queenes maiesties safetie or the sorrow for their deceasse was the greatest Although indeed some of both sides most vnconsiderately were partiall in their ioying and other some exceeding in their sorrowing yet the maiestie of God did most diuinely and most duly traduce the one to temper the other in you who had the greatest cause of both Labor you therefore good honorable Lady so to abound in ioy for them whose soules are in heauen so to abound in sorrow for your owne sinnes that whilest you are aliue it may not be discerned in which of both you exceed And labour to abate your sorrow for the father which is dead because his heroicall honour and Christian magnanimitie is yet aliue in his sonne As for the maner of their death it maketh nothing at all to the matter of their saluation nor for the time of their dissolution as you may reade in this booke by many infallible sentences and warrantable examples of Scripture particularly after this maner First that death hath his prerogatiue and priuiledge in generall Secondly that death makes this world no world and men to trade and trauell to buy and sell vpon all vncertainties Thirdly that the decree concerning the time of death is inuiolable and vnrepealable And fourthly how variable and how sundrie wayes death seizeth vpon some with the stroke of an Angel vpon some with the stroke of iustice vpon some with the stroke of a friend and that vnwittingly and vnwillingly vpon some with the stroke of an enemie wittingly and willingly Some godly men do kill and destroy themselues but vnwittingly and vnwillingly and some vngodly men do kill and destroy themselues wittingly and willingly euen by their owne act and deed And now to conclude you know that honourable honor resteth not in the dignitie that men women haue but in the good works whereby they deserue and you know as stigmaticall brands are tokens of former felonies euen so procrastinatioÌ„ breadeth dangers Apply your selfe therefore good honourable Lady vnto the conueniency of the time for you know not when death will light on you by many yeares nor the manner of it by many hundred wayes that whensoeuer and howsoeuer it fals you may haue recourse to the

branch principall and a meanes speciall of that by the which the spirituall policie of the Church is royally maintained and supported and which is in very deed the life of the regall law As the iudiciall law of Moses was the coniunct and the inseparable companion of the morall law amongst the people of Israel so in like manner the politicall law may be said to be arteries and ligaments of the common lawes amongst vs here in England As if it were to say Where there is no political law wisely and mercifully contriued there is no regall law that can be vpholden and maintained take away the one take away the other A king I grant may gouerne regally and according to his will may enforce his subiects vnto obedience or patience yet without Christian policie no kingdome can continue For the order and frame of ciuill gouernment is broken if men may not possesse their owne in peace after a peculiar propertie so is it if men may nor be in their owne houses safely so is it if men meÌ„ may not trauel without danger of robberie so is it if men may not haue the free vse of the Sabboths by an ingresse and egresse for the seruice of God according to an vniform order throughout the Realm This I conclude We being defended by the kings lawes from all iniuries priuate and publike throughout his dominions and also hauing vnder his protection the peaceble profession of Iesus Christ in effect then Let vs subiect our selues vnto him as vnto the immediate Vicar or Deputie of the King of heauen The politicall law hath in it selfe these foure sorts or kinds of executions 1. Beheadding 2. Hanging 3. Burning 4. Pressing First the reason of this politicall law in generall or the cause why it hath euer bene held requisite and necessarie in euerie wel-gouerned kingdome it is occasioned or drawne from the foulnesse and most outragiousnesse of some mens nature breaking forth into an hatefull kind of demeanour towards their equals and a treacherous manner of behauiour against their superiours euermore and in all places preferring contentions and warres before quietnesse and peace liking and allowing in their corrupt iudgment deceit and rapine before truth and plain-dealing still pressing themselues vnto the dishonour of God and vnto treason against the king if it may carry any hope of profite or likelihood of pleasure And therefore haue need of such law as may restraine all such or if they will not be so restrained then without all partialitie to execute them The morall law of God the common law of this land do onely manifest and perswade with men what things ought to be done But the politicall law as the law judiciall doth enforce and violently presse men to the performance of that which ought to be done Of which sort of people Saint Paul speaketh as of the Romans Rom. 1.31 Though they knew the law of God that they which do such things are worthie of death yet not onely do the same but fauour them that do it This kind of law may be truly said to be the law of nature to wit a law common to all people where yet the law of God is not in force and duly executed they are a law vnto themselues To be briefe the politicall law is an executioner of the common law and therefore a cause principall and necessarie to haue it and to keepe it in vse Secondly the reason of such sundrie sorts and seuerall manners of execution which are vsed by vertue of the politicall law The manner sort or kind of executing malefactors worthily deseruing the same is not to be found in the grounds of the common law nor in any branch thereof but alway hath bin held as a matter indifferent and to be published and maintained according to the pleasure of the Prince for the time being specially as the manners of their subiects did enduce him thereunto by the coÌ„sideration of the hainousnesse of the fact either more or lesse as we find by the order and maner of Moses in his gouernment which must needs be vnderstood to be figuratiuely related to all other kings and people as well as to the people of Israel wheÌ„ce they should deriue the substance of their politicke lawes to be coÌ„sisting of iustice equitie and alway vsing the maner the sort and kind thereof as being a matter of circumstance according to their owne wils as time place and persons require As for example briefly The iudiciall law for him that stole an oxe was Exo. 22.1.2 that he should recompence it to the owner with fiue oxen Some kings punish such an offence with stocking whipping some do punish it with banishment and our kings for many hundred yeares together haue punished it with hanging As for murther it was euer in all places punished with death and yet the manner of the death still remained in the will of the king according as the maner of the murther was found to be either more or lesse hainous The Iudiciall lawes of Israel were said to be appertaining vnto them and therefore can they not be said to be broken by vs when as indeed they were neuer giuen vnto vs neither yet made for vs. This doctrine serueth to reproue foure sorts of people The First are those whose nature is so froward and so rebellious that they are no way to be gouerned and guided but by force and violence yeelding rather their obedience and loyaltie to man that onely for feare of punishment then vnto almightie God for the loue of his fauour Secondly those who do most vniustly and most maliciously maligne the reuerend and commendable students of the law and generally all the learned and graue professors thereof being drawne thereunto out of their extreme folly and palpable ignorance or else being conuicted vniustly in the triall of some case through their owne wrong information or want of meanes iudicially to follow it or otherwise hauing had the ouerthrow and conuiction as iustly they deserued by reason of the vnlawfulnesse and vniustnesse of their case being plaintiffe or defendant Thirdly those who do vtterly scorne and altogether disdaine the verie law it selfe And no maruell for commonly they are such as do mocke and scorne the maiestie of Gods holy Scriptures and all the sincere Preachers thereof drawne thereunto as may be thought by a turne sicke spirit of giddinesse or rather from the stirring of the diuell who can away with nothing which is better then himselfe Fourthly those who most vncharitably and without all Christian reason or good consideration do make question and doubt of their saluation who are iudicially executed for their vnlawfull actes As though the manner of death did any thing at all derogate from the matter and substance of faith which is required of euerie one that dieth howsoeuer Or as though he that stealeth or he that murthereth or he that is a traitor were a greater sinner then Christ would or could forgiue or else

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