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A10080	The two twins of birth and death A sermon preached in Christs Church in London, the 5. of September. 1624. By Samson Price, Doctor of Diuinitie, one of his Majesties chapleins in ordinarie. Vpon the occasion of the funeralls of Sir William Byrde Knight. Doctor of the Law, deane of the Arches, and iudge of the Prerogatiue Court of the Archbishop of Canterburie.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1624 (1624)	STC 20334; ESTC S115217	28,776	52

Church our mother conceaueth vs The seede whereby we are borne againe is the word the nurses to feede weane cherish vs are the Ministers of the Gospell and preaching is the food we must require which will make vs new creatures haue new soules affections members a new heart hand eares eye but if there be no appetite in vs after this we are a Golgotha hauing a name to liue but are dead in sinne and dead in desires vnborne and better vnborne then vntaught Was it miraculous for Elias to liue forty dayes without foode of the body Animas portant mortuas in corporibus viuis Aug. and shall we thinke to liue for euer if wee neglect the food of our soules which should nourish vs to life euerlasting hauing a name to liue but are dead and carry about vs dead soules in liuing bodyes Haue wee hereetofore liued an idle prophane vngodlie life O let vs liue the rest of our time in the flesh no longer to the lusts of men but to the will of God for the time past of our life as the Apostle speaketh may suffice vs to haue walked in the will of the Gentiles vvherein the Apostle allovveth not the former life but reproueth it 1. Pet. 4.3 It is like that more ouer this vvas not enough for them that they erred in the knovvledge of God Non approbat sed reprobat vitam praeteritam Lyra. but vvhereas they liued in the great vvarre of ignorance those so great plagues they called peace and like that O ye house of Israel Wisd 14.22 let it suffice you of all your abominations Ez. 44.6 There is no losse to the losse of time it is folly to expect time while we haue it before vs. Hee that hath life hath time and this runns swifter then a Weauers shuttle Remember how greiuous it will be to thinke vpon the neglect of time as Titus Vespasianus meditated Suction Amici diem perdidi A day mispent is lost It was the lamentable Epitaph of Similis Captaine of the Guarde to the Emperour Adrian after hee had retired himselfe and liued priuatly seauen yeares in the country Xiphilinus in vita Adriani that hee had liued onely seauen yeares Hic iacet Similis cuius aetas Multorum annorum fuit ipse Septem duntaxat annos vixit Let vs consider how long it is since wee were borne and number our yeares not from the time of our old birth but New birth Let vs often consider how our time runnes on let vs remember the day of DOOME the end of this time and begining of immortality to come 2. Esd 7.43 Let vs looke vpon our threefold disease the begining middle end our Natiuity life death Our Natiuity vncleane our life peruerse our death dangerous Let the meditation of the birth of Christ purge our birth Bar in transitu malachiae pessima mors peccatorū quorum Natiuitas mala vita peior of his death destroy our death of his life instruct our life Our Natiuity hath bene sinfull let not our life be badde least our death be worse Let vs endeauour to dye the death of Saints by liuing as Gods best seruants then pretious shall our death be in the sight of the Lord as the end of out labours consummation of our victories the gate of life an entrance into glory Let vs get to bee borne againe which is our new Regeneration in Body and Spirit Bar. declamat apol ad Gulielmū Abbatem We fell together in soule and body but first must rise in soule if we would be raised vp at the last day in bodyes to glory Let vs first esteeme our soules and not as those of the schoole of Hipocrates and Epicurus who neglect the soule and prouide only for the body who feare not to commit sin but to endure shame Let vs know that as farre as the spirit is aboue the flesh God aboue men heauen aboue the earth eternity aboue frailty so farre is the new creation aboue the olde the one is mortall and corruptible the other immortall from heauen a worke of God abiding for euer This bringeth to life the other to death as it followeth the Birth here PARS II And a time to dye There are many reasons why Death is come into the world the disobedience of Gods prohibition Of the fruit of the tree in the middst of the Garden God hath said ye shall not eate least ye dye Gen. 3.3 The Malice of the Deuils temptation Wisd 7.24 through enuie of the Deuill came death into the world the folly of the womans condition she saw that the tree was good for food pleasant to the eyes and a Tree to be desired to make one wise and tooke of the fruit thereof and did eate The mans greedy apprehension and hee did eate ibid. Hence some obserue that mors comes of mordeo because our first Parents did eate of that forbidden fruit A memorable punishment drawing a man from pryde Ecc. 10.9 facile cōtemnit omnia qui nouit se moriturum Aug. Hier why is earth and ashes proud from couetousnesse Easily despiseth a man the world when he seeth he must dye from earthly pleasures corruption being the father the worme a mother and sister Iob. 17.16 when man goeth downe to the bowels of the pitte and rest must be in the dust It stirreth vp a man to good to almes to repentance to disposing of his house as appeareth in Hezekiah when he had receaued the message of death hee turned his face to the wall If. 38.14 prayed and mourned as a Doue Now he settleth himselfe by a liuely faith the foundation of saluation a search and confession of his former sinnes in a broken and contrite heart Ps 51.17 by remission of iniuries submitting himselfe to Gods good pleasure vnlading himselfe of ill gotten goods running to obtaine Howsoeuer man hath thought of himselfe before he be summoned to dye and haue bragged with proud Phaeton in the Poet that Apollo were his father yet now he must call to minde that Climene was his mother hee seeth that his strength is not of brasse his matter is not of gold siluer pretious stones but earth that life and death are in the hands of God and haue their date and destiny by him that we are caryed away as Merchants in a shippe whither we stand or sit watch or sleepe Sensim sine sensu ●●nescimus olde age stealeth on that hee that p●●●●seth himselfe a long life doth as he that looketh through a perspectiue conceaue those things great which are very small that Death is a commanding Tyrant and will haue nodenyall Hence is it called Dust If I haue rewarded euill to him that was at peace with me let the enemy lay mine honour in the dust A brooke Ps 7.5.110.7 Ps 8 l. 3. Iob. 3.13 1. Thes 5.2 2 Tim. ● 8 Ios 2● ●4 he shall drinke of the brooke in the way The graue my life

vitae Hoc sibi messis erit cum dicitur Ite venite If we would not heare in the great Haruest of the last iudgement that terrible voyce which shall be vsed to them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuill and his Angels Mat. 25.41 Let vs Nowe heare that sweete voyce calling to repentance Come ye Blessed children of my Father Learne of me for I am meeke and lowely and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules Mat. 11.29 Qualem te inuenerit Deus cum vocat talē pariter iudicat Cyp. lib. 4. de morte As the day of Death findeth vs so shall the last day iudge vs. Let vs stand vppon our watch and waite for it all the dayes of our appointed time Let vs learne nowe to be acquainted with God in his world Let vs consecrate to him the Temples of our bodyes and Altars of our soules who created them of nothing redeemed them when they were worse then nothing and hath appointed mansions for them with himselfe in glory Let vs get AGOOD NAME which will be better then all ointments and treasures They may be bought for mony but this is the gift of God not to be purchased with base mettall They are corruptible this is euerlasting They heaue a man in death and betake them to a new Master but the praise of the IVST man remaineth still his owne It taryeth behind him on earth and goeth with him to heauen and will crowne him with glory at the last day Let vs esteeme the day of Death better then our Birth-day That was an entrance into misery this will giue vs a passe for felicity Let vs now remember our Creatour Let vs take time while it is offered vnto vs to prepare for Heauen Time will away Let vt not neglect our tide but bee wise in passing the time of our pilgrimage here on earth All must dye our stroke will come how soone and suddainely when or where we knowe not We should impart this in our memory especially seeing the Lord strikes those who were neare vnto vs and we may complaine that THE RIGHTEOVS PERISHE As they had A time to be Borne so a time to Die My Texte is occasioned to me vpon the taking away of a Worthy flower of our Parish Sir Willam Byrde a Father of the lawe and a Iust and mercifull Patron of Widdowes and Orphanes a meeke Moses an vpright Samuell a zealous Iob fearing God eschewing euill a man of courage dealing truely hating couetousnesse I confesse that his soule being taken into the society of heauenly Saints neither careth for nor seekeeth our praises Yet let not the godly be forgotten though dead we may commend them It is lawfull in it selfe and profitable for the liuing for imitation Therefore Dauid commended Ionathan for his loue 2. Sam. 1.26 2. Ch. 35.23 the holy Ghost King Iosiah for his integrity St. Paul in that Epistle to the Hebrewes the Patriarches and Prophets Christ commanded that wheresoeuer the Gospell should be preached Math. 26.18 mention should be made of that good worke of the woman we may commend a Sayler when hee arriues at the hauen and a Souldier when he hath conquered The Vniuersity bred him Antient Oxford a graue mother of many worthies in Israel All soules Colledge where in he tooke his degrees ex merito not ex mera gratia In that worthy and flourishing Society wherein he liued he was no factious Incendiary And O let peace as plenty euer be within those walles For howsoeuer Bee-keepers iudge that swarme to bee most fruitfull in making honey Aral 9. de hist Animal c. 40. apud quod strepitus sufurrus frequensque tumultus plurimorum est which buzzeth most and maketh the greatest tumult yet in a ciuill Hiue they are iudged to make the most hony who are most peaceable for Busie bodyes worke nothing at all but canuases He was no Mushrum to rise vp in a moment like those Giants simul sati editi sowne and growne in an instant supposing themselues of sufficiencie enough because they can giue enough for a preferment their passions being guided by pride and followed by iniustice and when greatest are but as a puddle vpon which the Sunne shineth He rose to his degrees of dignity by iust and faire degrees honoring the places he had with his worth as they him with their greatnesse For as Tully tolde Cesar to set the vnworthy in high places is not so much to grace the persons by place as to disgrace the place by such persons He was fit for gouernement hauing a sounde head and sanctifyed heart carefull to auoyde the worlds scandals diligent in comming with his family to the Church reuerendly attentiue in hearing the word religiously humbled in receauing the Sacrament How cheerefully would he discourse as his table of what had bene deliuered in Gods house It hath often reioycedime to see the true loues Christian knot a sweet vnity harmony betwit him and his joyall and vertuous Lady where should we finde loue Concorde if not twixt husband wife They are one flesh by originall creation for the woman came of the man by a Nuptiall coniunction the woman is flesh of the flesh of man stands on euen ground with the man though drawing on the left side No bitternesse should be there and therfore among the Heathen the galle of the sacrifice that was slaine and offered at the wedding was throwne out at doores Plut. in praee Coning signifying that the maryed folkes should be either to other as Doues without galle Husband and wife haue a triple band of loue A naturall as neighbours A spirituall as fellowe members of the body of Christ An holy and honourable as one flesh by mariage The loue of this learned man was great to Gods word Hier. de Nepetiano so that pectus suum Bibliothecam fecit Christi he made his breast a library to Christ to be bound vp there Hereby he learned to carry himselfe so temperatly and fairely knowing that the Hill of greatnesse howsouer it yeeld a delighfull prospect yet is subiect to lightning and thunder remembring that he was to giue his account to him that is Iudex viuorum mortuorum from whom there is no appeale and howsoeuer many opportunities of bribes letters and other engines of corruptions were offered him some times he kept his hands cleane because he had a pure heart This made him reioyce in the the testimony of a Good conscience which as he professed in his sickenesse was as aqua vitae to cheere vp his drooping spirits The Fathers call it the field of blessednesse garden of delight Aug. Ioy of Angels house of the Holy Ghost Paradise of the soule It made Iob more happy in stercore Iob. 27.6 on the dunghill then Adam was in memore in the midst of Paradise That his heart reproched them not It maketh a man