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A13179	Disce mori. = Learne to die A religious discourse, moouing euery Christian man to enter into a serious remerbrance of his ende. Wherein also is contained the meane and manner of disposing himselfe to God, before, and at the time of his departure. In the whole, somewhat happily may be abserued, necessary to be thought vpon, while we are aliue, and when we are dying, to aduise our selues and others.	Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629.	1600 (1600)	STC 23474; ESTC S103244	111,652	401

saith the Prophet ye shall die like men Neither is that all but as Saint Peter saith Tanquam rationem reddituri which shall giue accompt vnto him which is readie to iudge both quicke and dead when the secrets of all harts shall be disclosed when the foolish virgins shall crie Lord Lord open vnto vs but it shall bee answered and said vnto them I know you not But as for the wise virgins which haue prouided oyle in their lampes they shall lift vp their heades and passe vnto that ioyfull mariage of the lambe Now therefore to conclude with Saint Peter seeing wee looke for such thinges What manner of persons ought wee to bee in holy conuersation and godlines But it is Durus sermo a hard saying Discite learne you but it will one day be a harder if men take not heede in time Discedite get ye hence depart you Dispatch therefore about this businesse of learning to die the tide tarrieth no man our going to such and such a Citie is vpon condition Si if God will if we liue to set forward in time is best these after wits are not so good It were to bee wished that men at last would see their follie and seeing it endeuour to reforme the same A vaine thing is it for any to flatter himselfe with hope of continuance We go to our beds Christ knoweth whether euer we shal arise For all this one sinne draweth on another and wee neuer thinke that secret sinnes shall come to open iudgement The carelesse guests made ligh● of their calling to come to the marriage of the kinges sonne did they not find at last when they were shut out there was no testing with so great a king that sent for them Christ offereth mercy which is our last refuge freely willingly vnto all now is the accepted time the flower of our age wil away a pace wee may bee preuented we know not how soone death iudgement hasteth Shal we know these things and neglect oportunitie God forbid The eight and twentieth Chapter VVherin is shewed that this lear●ning to die may iustly moue vs to leade a Christian life in holy conuersation and godlinesse SUndry are the reasons which may stir vp and quicken our backward dispositions to the dutifull performance of that religious worship we all ow● vnto God To omit the promises and those 〈◊〉 mercy the threatning and those in iustice which the volume of holy scripture doth often mention to this ende Moyses to moue all the world to acknowledge God he concluded no other argument but thes● and these are the workes of God● which the Apostle also in effect expoundeth saying That the inuisible things of him to wit his power Godhead are seene by the creation of the world Elimah to expresse God his Maiestie saith Behold the starres The Prophet Dauid calleth all the creatures of God to praise God as in deede they doe by their wonderfull order and decencie of motion If all creatures serue God then much more should man for whome they were all created and hee only for the honourable seruice of God Come we vnto man his new birth there he taketh his couenant peny to serue his redeemer in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of his life Consider we his iustification and sanctification there wee finde him drawen by the cordes of loue vnto this sweet yoake of Christ. It is a Maxime in Morall Philosophie omne beneficium exigit officium euerie benefit doth require a dutie In nature where the Sun doth extend the beames of light there the solide bodie hath a reflexe of heate But that which doth often moue vs wee may remember as we should neuer forget the author of our health our wealth our peace our prosperitie and all if these moue not we are inferior vnto the insensible creatures if we should haue no reflexe of dutie Auncient histories make mention how much religious and de●out minded men haue desired to passe ouer their daies in this world in some priuate and peaceable course of life It is said of Paphnutius y● hee betooke him wholy by this desire to the seruice of God Iohn an Egiptian of whom Saint Ierome speaking wee haue seene this Iohn saieth hee in the portes of Thebais neere the Cittie Ligo liuing so calme and angelicall kinde of life as is wonderfull wholly addicting himselfe to liue and die in the seruice of God Now therefore if the promises of grace and mercie in Christ Iesus if the greatnesse of the rewarde layde vppe for them that walke in the way of Gods commandementes and keepe them with their whole heartes for is there not a rewarde for the righteous then might they well say with the Prophete Sine causa lauimus manus inter innocentes In vaine haue wee washed our handes amongst the innocente If promises I say and those in mercie cannot winne vs to a iust remembrance of our estate to come yet at least to bethinke our selues of this reckoning day at hand should somewhat moue vs in this case The rich man in his scalding torments hath a Discite ex me O learne of me to take heede in time for all that swimme in worldly pleasures in sensuall delights the conclusion whereof is sorrow and paine when they shal say would to God we had neuer offended so gracious a Lord Would to God wee had neuer neglected so fauourable a time of grace Wold to God we had neuer followed the follies of a sinfull life the b●nket is pleasant but the shot will proue deep and chargeable after an euill course and therefore if there be any consolation in Christ Iesus any comfort of loue any hope of mercy if there bee any feare or dread of iudgement to come consider we of a future condition prepare wee our selues for a life permanent for an estate of all continuance and God of his infinit mercy grant all grace so to do A speciall meane with Gods good assistance to obtain this calme peaceable course of life is to withdraw our selues from the inordinate and excessiue cares of this world from the too too much delight in these earthly affaires which is called by diuines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a multitude of worldly businesses S Iohn saith Loue not the world and we loue nothing els Loue it so long as we will saith S. Ambrose Quas non patimur tempestates it will yeelde vs stormes enough We set our harts on riches do they make the possessors euer the quieter euer the merrier no verily and rich men know I speake true Woulde wee vnburden our minds of some earthly desires should we not find much peace quiet vndoubtedly we shold Moreouer what doth trouble the world so much as a selfe desire to please our selues When Elias fled before Iezabel there came a wind but the Lord was not in the wind after the wind there came an earthquake but the Lord was not in the

earthquake after y● earthquake there came a fire but y● Lord was not in the fire after the fire there came a still soft voice and the Lorde came with the voice Where a calme and quiet life is there God is These tossing and troblesome dispositions these fierie scorching humors are they from that wisedome that is pure peaceable gentle easie to bee intreated full of mercie and good fruites without iudging and without hypocris●e as S. Iames speaketh it seemeth not if we may as we may saith he iudge the fountaine by the water or that men would once frame themselues to liue religiously to liue peaceablie Christ saith Pacem relinquo vobis Peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you In the trial of the holy man Iob Sathan saith of him hast thou not hedged him in as of these droues of Camelles and heardes of cattell and children Iob is so blessed as if Iob should not blesse God Iob were worse then a stocke or stone Wee see amongst men the Master requireth seruice the Captaine fight Hee that said Da Caesari quae sunt Caesaris said also Date Deo quae sunt Dei Giue vnto God that which is Gods which is the reuerence and worship of his holy name The principall effectes therefore that this remembrance of our ende ought to worke in vs is puritie and sinceritie of life which doth not consist in some talkatiue shew of a mortified profession but must bee done in t●uth and veritie The Prophete Esay exhorting to the true fruits of con●r●tion doth not say Discite bene loqui learne to speake well but Discite bene facere learne to do well apply your selues to equitie deliuer the oppressed helpe the fatherlesse to his right let the widdowes complaint come before you it was our Sauiors owne rule The works that I doe testifie of mee In like manner the workes that proceede from vs doe beare witnesse of vs. Wee must not haue the voice of Iacob and the hands of Esau. We must not doe as boat-men are wont who row one way but looke another talke this way but liue the contrarie nor as foolish Marchants who make a little shew outward but haue bare storehouses beneath but our religious actions are they that must shortly stand by vs the pennie is readie for the end of the day which is drawing on apace the sunne is long since past the Meridian line we know death will not be answered with a Habe nos excusatos we had need bestirre our selues the time is not longe we may remember whither we are going Foolish virgines thinke their oyle will neuer be spent Christ sayes the children of this world are wiser in their generation Are we so carefull for the time to come as commonly we are for the time present I wold to God we were Last of all our continuance in this world being onely a passage vnto that to come should mooue vs to meditate of the ende wherefore God sent vs hither And the condition we expect when wee are departed hence which departure should dayly put vs in minde to eschew euill and doe good to feare God and keep● his commaundements The nine and twentieth Chapter VVherein is shewed in the last place that a consideration of Christ his second comming to iudgement ought to moue euerie one to liue religiously and also to applie himselfe to this lesson of learning to Die THe manifolde reasons before alledged may induce the carefu●l Christian to liue reli●giouslie to learn to die the ineuitable necessitie of death is in it selfe sufficient For what Esculapius or phisition how skilfull soeuer can make mortali●ie immortall The radicall moysture by little and little will flash so long with the wasting Lampe vntill at last the light goeth out the lampe is spent and so an ende God himselfe doth teach vs a consideration of our mortal● estate both by testimonies of his sacred word as also by many spectacles before our eyes so that wee doe not onely heare with our eares but also behold often with our eies both what we are and what we shall bee Many are the euents which we may reade to haue befallen others the sudden end of Ananias and Saphira of Anastasius whom the Church stories doe mention may moue t●e most retchlesse to remember themselues The Prophet Dauid mentioning the sudden destruction of those which murmured against God in the wildernes sayth While the meate was yet in their mouthes the wrath of God came vpō them Of which very instance the Apostle saith These things came vpon them for our example and are written to admonish vs vpon whom the ends of the world are come If all this be not sufficient yet a consideration of Christ his second comming to iudgement should at last moue euerie man vnto a moste serious remembrance of the time to come That which the holy Ghost doth set downe so often and is in scripture forceablie expressed and that in too many places so euidently laide before vs the holy Ghost doth thereby shew how diligently the same subiect should bee considered of by vs. Now what more forceablie expressed in the sacred volume then is the second comming of Christ vnto iudgement which is called a great day and such a day as neuer was from the beginning of the world when the Sunne shall be darkened the Moone shall not giue her light when the Stars shall fall from heauen when the voice of the trumpet shall sound when all the kindreds of the earth shal mourne when they shall see the sonne of man come in the clouds of heauen with power and great glorie when the Sepulchres shall open when the sea and the earth shall giue vp their dead when all the worlde Kinges princes and potentates of the earth shall appeare before the tribunal seate of Christ. Blessed Lord what a time shall this bee I knowe not sayth Saint Chrysostome what others doe thinke of it for my selfe it makes mee often tremble to consider it Doe wee not beholde from yeare to yeare the Sunne to yeeld lesse heat whereby the fruites of the earth doe lesse kindly ripen O that we had hearts to meditate of this great comming of Christ to iudgement then woulde wee soone for a sinfull life past bee auenged vpon our eyes and wish with Ieremie that our heads were a fountane of wa●ter then woulde wee say with Demosthenes yea euerie one would soone answere the first prouocatiō to euil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will not buie repentaunce so deare To flatter our selues with hope of deferring of this time is all in vaine Talem ●te inueniet dies Domini qualem ●e reli quit extremus virae dies Looke howe the laste day of thy life doeth leaue thee so shall the day of iudgement finde thee Who woulde not but accept of the fatherlie forewarning of Christ our Sauiour by those