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A14794	Domus ordinata A funerall sermon, preached in the citie of Bristoll, the fiue and twentith day of Iune, 1618. at the buriall of his kinswoman, Mistresse Needes, wife to Mr. Arthur Needes, and sister to Mr. Robert Rogers of Bristoll. By Iohn Warren, minister of Gods word at Much-Clacton in Essex.	Warren, John, Vicar of Great Clacton.	1618 (1618)	STC 25094; ESTC S100741	20,600	48

last enemy that shall be destroyed is death 1. Cor. 15.26 Life of it selfe is a great blessing of God to euery liuing thing and no liuing creature but will striue to preserue the life of it selfe and to shunne death the poore worme or bird tam viuit vitâ quám Angelos said Saint Austin and is desirous to preserue its life as the Angels would preserue theirs And that they may doe so God hath giuen to euery liuing creature some pleasure or lustre whiles they liue and ordered things so that few or no liuing creatures dye without pangs yea euen very hearbes trees when they die lose their lustre and beauty euery liuing creature therefore euen from the highest Angell to the meanest plant either by reason sence or naturall instinct shunneth death as an enemy Yet this enemy which when it commeth bringeth pangs when it is come spoyleth the naturall lustre in all things must wee meditate to yeeld our selues Put the house of thy soule in order with this meditation Secondly meditate what death is to euill men beasts die and after the few pangs of death they feele no more a wicked man dyeth and when hee is heere dead yet hee is not all dead but with an endlesse lingring death is alwaies dying in endlesse torments so that he cannot bee altogether dead the soule perisheth Non it a vt non sit sed vt male sit essentialiter viuere non amittit sed beate viuere perdit said Gregory in the fourth of his morrals The soule perisheth not so that it dyeth but so that it liueth most miserably if it felt no more after this death there would bee an ende of paines but after this bodily death by reason of their paines men shall seeke death and shall not finde it and shall desire to die and death shall flee from them Reuel 9.6 Here in some sore sicknesse great losses heauy crosses men wish for death what are all the troubles of this life to those after bodily death wee may well here take vppe the wordes of the heathen man who saide that death was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all fearfull things the most fearefull How may a guilty man who hath spent his dayes in iollitie at the houre of his death crye to his trembling soule as the Emperour Adrian did Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis Quo nunc abibis in loco Pallida rigida nudula Nec vt soles dabis iocos Oh my wandring flattering little soule the guest and cōpanion of my body into what places art thou now to goe pale affrighted naked neither as thou wert wont shalt thou henceforth make me merry By this meditation of death Put thy house thy closet-house in order that thou mayest shun this euill in death Thirdly meditate what death is to good men In the greatest pangs of death they feele ioy after death they lose not their lustre but get a farre greater then euer they had true it is that euen of the Saints Saint Paul saith to thē death is an enemie 1. Cor. 15.26 But such a one as being now conquered serueth but for the glory of the conquerers The naturall man shunneth death the sanctified man although hee stay till death come yet he desireth to be dissolued Philip. 1.23 death is to mee aduantage Phil. 1.21 Vsurparis ad laetitiam mater maeroris vsurparis ad gloriam gloriae inimica vsurparis ad introitum regni porta inferni Bern. in cant ser 26. Thou art now vsed to mirth O mother of sorrowes thou serueth vs to glory O enemy of glory thou helpest our passage to the kingdome which wert the gate of hell it bringeth vs to the ioyfull presence of the Trinitie where all the Angels and blessed Saincts will ioyfully embrace vs after all our labours ended Oh let this meditation of this happy estate after death serue for vs to helpe to put thy house thy closset-house in order I will be and haue beene very briefe in these things the time compelleth mee Secondly let a man meditate what this life is men are fond of it That skinne for skinne and all that euer a man hath will he giue for his life Iob. 2.4 therfore it should seem to be a most matchlesse thing God forbid that I should by wordes or thought debase so glorious a work of the liuing God as life is Yet what our life in sinne hath made life to bee let mee speake a little First when wee consider some in their wealth beauty honour and strength it appeareth I must needes say a beautifull life but yet euen as it is then it is but as that mare vitreum the Sea of Gods Glasse Reuel 4.6 a Sea full of surges troubles waues of discontent and enmity and besides brittle as glasse whiles riches take them the winges of an Eagle and speedily forsake their owners so to honour beauty strength the most glorious life therefore is but brittle and troublesome Secondly consider a man plagued for his offences with many crosses not one amongst many but taketh vp the complaint of Iob crying out Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts which long for death and if it come not they would euen search it more then treasure Iob. 3.20.21 But thirdly consider a good Christian who in his estate outwardly is content satisfied he no doubt desireth earnestly to serue God sincerely yet the best are diuerse times ouertaken by sinne that they sinne and then repent and by and by sinne againe and then repent againe then sinne againe and repent againe so that they are forced by sinne creeping on so fast to cry out O miserable men that wee are who shall deliuer vs from the body of this death Rom. 7.24 Oh how blessed a thing is it to liue but such a life in such a place as not onely all teares shall be wiped from our eyes but all sinne from our soules where wee shall bee fure wee shall neuer sinne more In this life wee cannot but sin Thus meditating what this life is to all sorts thou wile bee helped to prepare thy selfe the more willingly to embrace death and to put thy house thy closet-house in order Thirdly that wee may haue our soules the better prepared for death let vs consider the great change which shall happen to diuers men after death many which haue seemed happy in this life in the next life shall be most miserable many which in this life haue seemed contemptible in the next worlde should truely be most glorious As appeareth by Lazarus in this life most miserable in the next life most happy as the Rich man after his costly raiment and delicious fare in this life beggeth miserably and is denyed vtterly a cuppe of water to coole his tongue Ioseph did place Manasseth to the right hand of Iacob and Ephraim to his left hand but Iacob blessed Ephraim with his right hand and Manasseth with his

left Gen. 48. So many a one which in this life seemeth to bee at the right hand of God by his many externall blessings shall after death bee turned to the left hand of the vengeance of God and contrarily many that seeme now by their many calamities to be at the left hand of the curse of God shall there be brought vnto the right hand of his vnspeakable glory There are the prisoners at rest and heare not the voyce of the oppressor There are the small and the great and the seruant is free from his maister Iob. 3.18.19 Some few shall be so happy as both heere and there to bee at the right hand of God Thinke now what thou art thinke what change will follow and let this meditation helpe thee to prepare thy selfe for death to put thy house thy closet-house in order And thus much for those things which help forward the closset-house to be well ordered by meditation Now to those things which helpe it forward and consist in action And those I will reduce to foure heads of which I will very briefly speake The first is that whosoeuer will haue the house of his soule prepared against death suffer in his soule no such traitors or weapons as may helpe death against him those traytors those weapons are our sinnes The sting of death is sin 1. Cor. 15.56 as it appeareth in many a dying man and woman dying with great impatience not so much because they must die as that they are netled with the remembrance of such and such horrible sins for which as yet their peace is not made then they curse the time not that they die in but wherein they euer knew such a man or such a woman that hereby it easily appeareth where the sting of death lyeth and is felt either before death or after death this maketh the diuell so busie now and then euery day to crowde one sinne or other into our soules consciences as if he were now setting in a staffe now a dagger now a sword now a gunne now one weapon now another which hee might haue ready in our owne soules to wound our selues withall If therefore wee will order our selues aright let vs looke into the house of our soules and see what weapons stand which may helpe the diuell and not vs as all vnrepented sinnes doe and let vs cast them out take out blasphemy cursing oppression impatience hypocrisie fling them from you that so you may put your house your closet house in order and thrice miserable are they who giue the diuell leaue euery day to crowd what weapons of sin he list into their soules Secondly in the house of the soule and conscience there must be gotten a true and liuing faith whereby not onely the weapons of the diuell must bee cast out but that Christ may enter and dwell and keepe possession in the soule vntill it shall bee brought to glory Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord Reuel 14.13 All these dyed in the faith Heb. 11 13. Dying Iacob out of faith could say Lord I waite for thy saluation Gen. 49. As hee that was stung by the fiery serpents was to looke vnto the brasen serpent and so recouer so he that is stung by sinne and death must haue a liuing faith to beholde Iesus Christ withall and hee shall bee cured Iohn 3. Miserable wordlings when wealth and Physitians faile their hope faileth A Christian alwayes getteth faith that thereby Christ may dwell with him here that by Christ his sinnes may bee couered that by the touch not of the hemme of Christ his garment but of Christ himselfe all the bloody issues of his sinnes may bee dryed vp that when the eyes of his body grow dim by approaching death hee may yet by the eyes of faith see Christ Iefus at the right hand of the Father making intercession for him labour therefore that thou mayest bee faithfull that so by faith thy house thy closet-house may be put in order Thirdly the third action of the soule to put it in order against death is that it bee alwayes willing to open the doore to God to yeelde it selfe into the hands of God when God calleth I know there was a time when Dauid prayed against death saying What profit is there in my blood when I goe downe to the pit Psalm 30.9 I know Ionah prayed earnestly against it Io. 3. and so did this good King Hezekiah of whom wee speake There may be some secret cause for the quieting of the conscience after some great sin or recouering the glory of God by the sinne of his seruant impeached or some such like Nollē me hae in veste vt videat Thais loth I am to die before my conscience be fully setled or I haue againe satisfied the Church of God after such a sin or at such a time as the Church hath most need of me so as it cannot be well without me Yet for all this the Saints of God haue alwaies opened to God most willingly when the time hath come that God would haue them so olde Simeon Lord now lettest thou thy seruant departe in peace according to thy word Luk. 2.29 On the contrary a wicked mans soule must be fetcht twitcht from him This night shall they fetch away thy soule from thee Lu. 12. Malus est miles qui imperatore gemens sequitur He is a bad souldier who followeth his Generall with sighes sobs When one cōmeth knocketh at your doores to speake with you if you perceiue him as hee is comming and know him to be a friend you must vse you open the doores before hee can well knock but if it bee one you desire not to speak with then though you are within yet will you answer not besides your dores shall be fast barred or locked So when God commeth to some man and knocketh at his doore by sicknesse calleth Thou soule of man come forth and I must talke with you away skuds the soul barres the door with violent desires to prolong life with impatience at God his knocking by no meanes will open till God breaketh in vpon it but when he cōmeth to another man full of grace and knocketh at his body by sicknes calling such a soule come forth the Lord will speake with thee presently answer is cheerfully made Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Act. 7.59 Hilarion that holy Saint as Saint Ierome writeth when hee was about to die and felt in his soule an vnwillingnesse to die hee thus spake to his soule Egredere anima quid times nonaginta tribus annis seruiuisti Christo mori times Goe forth my soule why fearest thou ●ninty three yeares hast thou serued Christ and art thou affraid to die Thus must the soule be prepared willingly to die that so the closset-house may bee put i● order against death Fourthly as the bird flyeth to heauen-ward not without wings and the mariner passeth not the Sea without sailes so that the house of our soules may be put in order against death must wee alwaies pray that if it may be when God shall close our mouthes hee may close them not cursing or altogether busied about the worlde but euen praying and calling vpon the name of the Lord. Thus the good conuerted theese dyeth praying Lord remember mee when thou cammest into thy kingdome Luke 23.42 Thus out blessed Sauiour Father into thy hands I commend my spirit Luk. 23.46 Thus they stoned Steuen who called vpon God and sayd Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Act. 7.59 Thus as Eliah was taken into heauen with a fiery chariot so much we so must our soules ascend in the middest of denout prayers Thus most thou order thy closset-house Conclusion Thus then haue wee seene the sentence of death to haue beene irreuocable against vs all and that we ought therefore to put our house in order and how now in a worde to conclude When any of vs was in our mothers wombe that she began to look bigge with her burthen there was made preparation for v● before wee were borne there were cloues prouided a midwife and other wiues bespoken other things prepared against our birth into this world The day of our death in this world is but the day of our birth into another worlde Wee come out of the narrowe compasse of our mothers wombe into this more spacious roome fuller of brightnesse wee goe into another which yeeldeth vs as many more pleasing obiects thē the womb of this world yeeldeth as this worlds womb yeeldeth more then our mothers womb In the mothers wombe we somewhat although but a little God wot helpe our selues by drawing nourishment to our selues with our vegetatiue faculty before we come into this world to the midwife and other wiues Beholde the spirit of God will be as the midwife the blessed Angels will bee as the helping wiues the bundle of life eternal is insteed of other clouts prouided to wrape vp our soules in in in the time of our comming vnto the other world onely now whiles we are in the wombe of the world or rather of the Church of God let vs by faith and charitie our beleeuing and charitable powers suck such moisture of grace as that afterwardes wee may ioyfully be receiued as a childe borne into heauen when wee shall haue put our houses in order for wee shall die ane not liue Laus Deo FINIS