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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

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

a time of trouble such as neuer was since there was a Nation Ezek. 7.7 euen to that same time Da. 12.1 Man knoweth not his time As the fishes that are taken in an euill net and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sonnes of men snared in an euill time when it falleth suddainly vpon them Ecles 9.12 The fish is cheerefull deuouring the bayt not seeing the hooke but the fisher-man drawing him vp torments the bowels and dragges it to destruction August de agone Christi cap. 7. So many runne away with presumptuous sinnes but the time shall come that they shall feele the plagues of it when time shal be no longer One woe shall be past and another woe come quickly from death to iudgement from iudgement to hell Reu. 10.11.14 They may come vp as flouds their waters may moue as the riuers they may saye we will couer the earth they may rage with their Charets but when the day of vengeance commeth in vaine shall they vse many medicines for they shall not be cured their crye shall fill the land they shall be swept away when the Lord driueth them they shall appeare to haue beene but a noyse when they haue passed the time appointed Jer. 46.17 Vse 2 Our Instruction must be not to walke as fooles but circumspectly as wise redeeming the time because the dayes are euill wee are borne of women Ep. 5.16 of few dayes full of trouble Ioh. 14.1 Let vs remember how short our time is what man is hee that liueth and shall not see death Ps 89.47.48 Be not ouermuch wicked neither bee thou foolish why shouldest thou die before thy time Eccles 7.17 Stat sua cuique dies Euery mans dayes are determined Virgil. 10. Aeneid the number of his moneths is with God he hath appointed him his bounds that he cannot passe Ioh. 14.5 this is a measure of his dayes in respect of Gods prescience and prouidence Psal 39.4 but in respect of the course of nature the threed of life which might haue beene lengthned is cut off by Gods command for sinne and men liue not out halfe their dayes Psal 55.23 as that Bishop applyed this texte in his time Bernardinus to 2. in Qua. dragesimali de Euang. oetern Do. 2. quadra serm 17. a. 3. cap. 1. when in Catalonia a citty neare Valentia a strippling of 18. hauing beene disobedient to his parents and so fell to robbing and being executed on the tree and thus remaining for a spectacle to disobedient children on the next morrow a Beard and gray haires appeared on him which the people hearing of and wondring how suddainely these should come to a young dead body and vrging how young he was at his death the Bishop said he should haue liued to be so old as hee appeared then had he not beene disobedient Thus the Lord threatneth the family of Eli all the increase of thine house shall dye in the flower of their age 1. Sam. 3.33 He dyeth before his time who dyeth vnwillingly not prepared not rype in yeares though rype in sinne which hasteneth death and destruction as God threatned to the Amorrhites when their iniquity should be full Gen. 15.16 Happy is he who can triumphe with that flagge of defiance against all enemies as St. Paul Herein doe I excercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience voyd of offence toward God and toward men Act. 24.16 Happy is he who euery night thinketh with himselfe a day is gone a part of my time is cut off so much lesse haue I left of a short and miserable life God hath appointed the time of life short in respect of prosperity and aduersity in this world that our appetite may be stirred to future things whereof here we haue but a taste as were the trees in Paradise and Manna If these pleasures belowe delight vs how much more shall those aboue Punishments here are but essayes of those hereafter ordained for the wicked as those vppon the Sodomits Chorah and his complices and if the short plagues of this life are feared how much more those of another A little time we haue that by little consolations we may be inuited to glory and by small troubles feare greater A little time is giuen vs least our troubles being ouer long we should despaire onour ioyes we should neglect God Aduersity sometimes must exercise vs else prosperity will pull vs down There are but foure times a time of deuiation as from Adam to Moses when death reigned Rom. 5.14 a time of Reuocation from Moses to Christ the Lawe being added because of transgressions a time of Reconciliation from the birth of Christ to the sending of the holy Ghost Gal. 3.19 the spirit it selfe bearing witnesse with our spirit that wee are the children of God a time of Peregrination from the sending of the holy Ghost till the day of Iudgement Rom. 8.16 while wee are at home in the body 2 Cor. 5.7 vve being absent from the Lord. 2. Cor. 5.7 In this Pilgrimage we must walk by faith The times are dangerous in regard of troubles which must fail out such as neuer were since the begining of the world Mat. 24.21 Of Sathans libertie Reu. 20.8 who being loosed deceaued the Nations of the foure quarters of the earth of the multitude of many false Prophets rising and deceauing many Math. 24.11 of the rarenesse of good men Math. 24.12 iniquity abounding the loue of many waxing cold Let not the time runne away without obseruation Thinke vppon time past and be thankefull for benefits receaued Creation Redemption Iustification repent for sinne committed imitate the godly Think vppon the time present the opportunity vrging vs to worke while we haue time the breuity compelling vs to be instant the irreuocability stirring vs vp to constancie Thinke vpon the time to come and prouide to giue a faire account Barn de trip custodia 1. Cor. 4.7 Nothing ought to be of so pretious esteeme as time it is Gods gift we haue nothing but what we haue receaued wee are answerable for it and must deliuer backe all things in number and weight we must gaine according to the talentes deliuered vnto vs Ecc. 42.7 wee must growe in grace Math. 25.20 And to this end as in bodily growth there are 4. helpes so in a spirituall There is nourishment in the wombe here is a proficiencie of knoweledge there we are brought into the light of the world here we shewe forth some fruits of the illumination of Baptisme there is milke giuen vnto vs here the word of God deliuered out of both Testaments there wee are carryed to our Parents table here we come to the Supper of the Lord our heart and our flesh reioycing that Nowe is the accepted time 2. Cor. 6.2 now is the day of saluation wherein God the Father begetteth vs the