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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

houses of clay whose foundation is the dust * Iob. 4. we know for certaine wee shall leaue them how soone wee know not perhaps to morrow perhaps to day perhaps this very houre we are silly then and vnprouident if wee take no care for prouiding other houses What said * Ser. 2. dedi Eccl. Saint Bernard to his soule Ad huc domum quidem habes O anima sed certa esto quoniam in breui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 casura est domus tua nisitu prouideris aliam erís pluviae vento frigori exponenda O my soule thou hast yet a house to dwell in but be assured thy house will shortly fall and moudre and vnlesse thou prouide thee before hand of some other house caytiue forelorne and naked shalt thou be exposed vnto the winde the raine and the cold alas who can stand in presence of this stormy tempest happy therfore thrice happy shalt thou be my soule if then thy conscience tell thee thou canst say vnto thy selfe in faith and full assurance I know that if my earthly house of this Tabernacle be destroyed I haue a building giuen of God that is an house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens 2. Cor. 5. Againe is it appointed vnto men that they must once die Oh that wee could euery one of vs as we ought seriously consider this and daily and duly ponder with our selues of this theame We must die Doubtlesse this vvould cause vs to feare God vvhile vvee liue that vve might finde fauour at his hands vvhen vvee die For who so feareth the Lord it shall goe well with him at the last and he shall finde fauour at the day of his death * Eccl. 1. 2. It would moue vs to imbrace the good and refuse the euill remembring that as Precious is the death of the Saints in the sight of the Lord so euill is the death of sinners * Psal 34. 3. It would abate in vs the plumes of our pride and humble vs farre below the Niniuites and Ahab considering that Earth we are and into earth we shall returne againe and why art thou proud O earth and ashes * Eccl. 10. 4. It would worke in vs a true remorse and sorrow for our sinnes laying before our eyes the saying of our Sauiour Vnlesse you repent also you shall likewise perish * Luke 13. 5. It would breed in vs a distaste and dislike of earthly things Facile enim contemnit omnia saith Saint Ierome qui se cogitat moriturum as Esau when hee was ready to die for hunger contemned his birthright En morior quid mihi proderunt primogenita * Ge. 25.32 Loe I am almost dead what is then this birth-right to mee whereas contrariwise they that dreame of a long life treasure vp to themselues in earth * Luke 12. 6. It would expell out of our hearts rancor and hatred procure loue and amitie reunite and reconcile vs to our brethren whiles we are in the way * Mat. 5 seeing agreement will be too late when wee are once deliuered to the Iaylor 7. It would make vs watchfull of our wayes and learne vs Dauids praier Lord let me know mine end and measure of my dayes what it is * Psal 39. let me know how long I haue to liue and why would hee know this That hee might apply his heart to wisedome for in the graue there is none O Lord that remembreth thee * Psal 6. 8. Lastly this consideration that we must once die would be a good motiue vnto vs to learne by time how to die for that which at length wee must necessarily doe we will if wee be wise learne by time how to doe among all other works which we are to doe to die though it bee the last is not the least Euripides Seneca Yet miserable say two learned Hethens a thing it is in the houre of death not to know how to die Let vs therefore Christian brethren aboue al things labour for this knowledge whiles we liue let vs learne how to dy that so when death shall spread his pale colour ouer our faces we may intertaine it not in horrour but in honour not as a losse but an aduantage as a doore opening to saluation not a gate leading to destruction Now if you shall aske me but how must we learne to die I will lead you to another of your owne profession to an ancient Hermite for an answere It happened that a Marchant man like your selues trauelling through a Forrest espied neere a little Cell an olde Hermite of whom he was inquisitiue to know what hee made there The Hermite answered My sonne I learne to die Mar. What needes that seeing whether thou wilt or no thou must shortly die Her And this is that troubleth me seeing I must shortly die and yet I know not how to die Mar. But what is it to know how to die Her To know how to die is to eschew euill and doe good according to that of the Psalmist Declina a malo fac bonum Mar. Father what doest thou eate that thou art so long liued Her I eat the best meat Mar. But who prepareth it Her The best Cooke hunger Mer. What are thy meditations and discourses Her I call to minde the time past consider in the bitternes of my soule how I haue spent my former yeeres and where I find that I haue done wel I thanke my God where ill I sorrow and repent Mer. Art thou rich Her I haue more then I would to wit this bodie of mine Mer. What then wouldest thou die Her I would willingly die well that I might obtaine eternall life Mar. Canst thou instruct me how to die well and to liue eternally Her I can vvhat is thy profession Mer. I am a Marchant Her If thou vvilt play the true Marchant and buy the greater for the lesse the better for the vvorse looke vp to heauen behold it is better and greater then the vvhole earth sell all and buy that sell thy sins sell thy pleasures sell thy profits buy this one Iewell and to this end cast thy bread vpon the vvaters make thee friends of the vnrighteous Mammon by doing good now the good vvhich the Lord requireth of thee is as the * Mica 6. Prophet vvitnesseth To doe iudgement to loue mercy and walke with the Lord our God this doe and thou shalt haue eternall life Mer. So may I liue as I follow thy counsell Farewell Her Goe in peace These and the like good fruits good motions good affections the consideration of our end dissolution would ingender in vs and happy yea thrice happy are they that thus consider And to set you forward herein consider I beseech you consider with your selues vvhat you are vvhat your life is What you are the Poet telleth vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man is a shadow a dreame or a dreaming shadow What your life is