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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

blessed virgin Marie didst suffer wast dead vnried discendedst into hell the third day didst rise againe from the dead ascendedst into heauē where thou sittest at the right hand of the father from whence thou shalt come at the day of iudgement to iudge all flesh I commend me vnto thee O holie Spirit which proccedest from the father a●d the sonne whom togither I adore and glorifie which doest quicken one Catholike and Apostolike church to which thou hast in mercie graunted remission of sinnes the resurrection of these mortall bodies and euerlasting life after death The same confession may be made of the sicke in maner of oblation As I offer my selfe vnto thee O holy Trinitie the father the sonne and the holy ghost c. Also in maner of an ●sibl● supplication As I beseech thee O holy Trinitie the father the son and the holy ghost c. In which christian confession Gods seruants may stand constant vnto the end against all temptations Not vnlike y● people of Ciniensis who when the ambassadors of Brutus would haue thē deliuer ouer their city and freedome into his handes Ferrum nobis a maioribus c. Tel your Captaine Brutus our auncesters haue left vs weapons to defend our right with courage constancie vnto the end The holy Ghost by the Apostle S. Paul in the s●xt to the Ephesians sheweth what these weapons are as the brest plate of righteousnesse the shield of faith the Helmet of saluation the sword of the spirit their feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell where is spirituall furniture for all parts only the back or hinder part excepted to signifie that the Christian souldier should not turne his backe before his enemies The Eagle to trie her young is said to carrie them vp against the piercing beames of the Sunne which seeing them to endure she acknowledgeth them as her owne Christ knowes vs to be his by our constant suffering and therefore somtimes brings vs vnto the conflict Wee reade in the 2. Sam. 20. That Seba a rebellious Iew blew a trumpet and many of the people followed after him but the men of Iuda who were of the bloud royal they as good Isralites would liue and die with Dauid their king The olde Seba blowes many an entising blast to carrie vs away from our true allegiaunce of Christ Iesus our king All that are borne of water and the holy Ghost will liue and die in his faith Howsoeuer the world for a time frowne vpon them yet they are not as the Reede without pith or substance and so wauing with euerie winde but firme constant like Iohn Baptist that will holde his profession though he loose his head for it Wherefore considering that there is no crowne without a conquest and no conquest without courage and perseuerance the faithful like Iob say Though the Lord kill vs yet wil we put our trust in him The Fifteenth Chapter How they may be aduertised who seeme vnwilling to depart the world IF in this life only saieth the Apostle we haue hope in Christ then are we of al men most miserable to shew in effect that we haue not in this life the occomplishment of our hope Not here therefore we should expect it else where this is not our Paradise but a barren desert we may not looke for our heauen here our citie is aboue which wee all must inhabite to drawe backe when we are to goe most comfortablie to take possession of the same and the hope so long hoped for should most strengthen vs in the way is far from that Christian beliefe whereof wee make dayly profession Oftē haue we praied Thy kingdome come Nowe when God is leading vs vnto the same our vnwillingnesse to be gone cannot but argue great weakenes of faith Quid face●emus si mori tantummodo fine resurrectione praeciperet Deus voluntas eius suf●iceret ad solatium What would we haue don if God saith Saint Ierome had commaunded vs to die without mentioning the resurrection his will ought to haue bin our comfor●t but now hauing this stay why should we wauer Oftentimes haue we wished that we were once freed from this worlds captiuitie now God is going about to free vs indeede our desire is to continue our captiuitie still not vnlike children who crie out of pain● and griefe and when th● Chirurgion comes that should ease them of all they chuse rather to remaine as they are There is no Marriner but after many sharpe stormes desireth the hauen and shal not we after so many tempests of this troublesome world accept of our deliuerance when the time is come We are giuen to loue the world too much and a great deale more then we should being onely straungers in the same Had we no farther expectation but onely to enioy a state temporall where wee might set vp our rest as hauing here attained our chiefest good then might our departure from this world bee very grieuous in deede because our being and happinesse should ende together But looking as we doe for a further condition so perinanent so blessed and death being the passage or entrie thereunto there is no cause why man if hee bethinke himselfe should vnwillingly set forwarde when his time of departure is at hande First remembring it is the ordinance of God the course of all flesh and as Iosuah calleth it the way of all the worlde What man is he saith the prophet that liueth and shall not see death It is not proper to any one which is commō to all kings princes strong valiant take parte with them in this lot There is no reason that any should looke to bee priuiledged in that wherin all without exception must will they nill they sub●●t themselues Secondarily that it is a meane to bring vs from a prison with out ease from a pilgrimage without rest wee all see euidently and this made the Wise man praise the dead aboue them which are yet aliue and prefer the day of death before the day of birth surely for no other rea●son then for that in the one we come into a vale of misery in the other we depart from it departing in the farth of him by whom we looke for a better state to come Thirdly this being the way for the obtaining so high a reward we may steppe forth with confidence in his mercy who now calleth vs by death to the participation of y● same Why on Gods blessing should any bee loath that the soule should returne to him that gaue it When the louing mother sendeth forth her childe to nurse and the nurse hath kept it long enough if the mother take her owne child home againe hath this nurse anie cause to grudge or complaine How much lesse cause haue wee to shew any part of vnwillingnesse that God shoulde take home this departing soule the worke of his owne hands the plant of his owne grafting who first gaue it and will before

Disce Mori Learne to Die A Religious discourse moouing euery Christian man to enter into a serious remembrance of his ende Wherin 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 obserued necessary to be thought vpon while we are aliue and when we are dying to aduise our selues and others Put thy house in order for thou shalt not liue but die Esay 38. 1. LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolse. 1600. To the Honourable and vertuous his very good Lady the Lady Elizabeth Southwell one of the Ladies of the Queenes Maiesties most honourable priuy Chamber LAtely entring Right vertuous Lady into some more then ordinary consideration of the gracelesse attempts and desperate enterprises which many in these dayes the more the more pittie by a cowardly yeelding to euill motions commit euen against their owne selues yea their owne safetie I thought to discharge my duetie vnto Almightie God and plaine meaning to men by setting downe onely some shorte aduertisement for discontented and distressed mindes But after waying with my selfe how much it concerneth euery man to be careful of his end whereupon dependes so great a charge as his eternall welfare is worth I then began to draw that particular aduertisement appertayning vnto some to a more general discourse appliable vnto all and euerye one in this forme DISCE MORI Learne to Die For it seemed to me a thinge most necessarie for euery sober Christian to be mooued to enter into a serious remembraunce of his ende to know the meane and manner of disposinge himselfe to GOD before and at the time of his departure that so by the assistance of Gods good grace hee might liue and die the life and death of the righteous and that it may bee saide of him which S. Ambrose sometimes spake of Abraham Mortuus est in bona senectute eo quód in bonitate propositi permansit Abraham dyed in a good old age for why Abraham perseuered in his good resolutions in his old age yea euen vnto the ende Madam I beseech the God of Abraham to graunt you Abrahams good successiue course both in the way and at the ende of the way Your more then vsuall fauor and long continued acceptance hath bounde me vnto you whome otherwise I truely reuerence for that I am fully perswaded you truely reuerence God and serue him whome to serue is blessed libertie yea as I shall in the discourse following shew is the most honourable estate of all To make issue of my duetifull regard this small occasion is offered Were I a meere straunger I could not for protection sake seeke any better patronesse of a religious discourse thē from a religious disposition but your particular respect towardes me many waies is such as I shall liue and die vngratefull I could haue wished to haue made testimonie of my willing intention by some other meanes thē by publishinge vnder your Ladyships name these small labours to the view of the world for I must needes confesse I w●s very loath respectinge my owne weakenesse to make that knowne vnto others which is best knowne vnto my selfe vntill at last being ouer entreated by some speciall friendes from the vniuersitie of Oxford whose sober iudicious very learned aduise I knewe not howe to gainesay I was induced to let this presente tracte goe forwarde in the name of GOD. Wherein I seeke not praise where none is deserued but onely desire the Christian Reader where ought is amisse to attribute that vnto my selfe and beseech your Ladyship that if there bee any thing obserued which may mooue so much as a good thought that it woulde please you to giue the glory only vnto God to whose heauenly protection commēding you euer in my prayers I cease for this time to holde you any longer from the matter it self which followeth Your Ladyships in humble duetie Christoph. Sutton As death s●aueth thee so shall Iudgment find thee The Preface to the godly Reader THat Religion is somewhat out of ioynt when Christian conuersation goes not euen as it ought with Christian profession it is so apparant it cānot be denied such and so sensible a defect as that thereby the whole bodie is not a little blemished Those whose hearts desire is that Israel may be saued and whose true charity is woont to beseech God for the good of all haue not onely lifted vp humble handes to heauen but also endeuoured by painfull labors to seeke as much as in them lieth and so farre-forth as the times may permit and suffer the best redresse in this case they could some by substantiall answering and soberly asswaging the turbulent humors of those men whose priuate fancies haue much hindred higher proceedings in matters of faith Refuted they may be and are quieted they will not bee others by deuout and learned exhortations in seeking to make a stay of those euils which Atheisme and want of the fear of God would in great likehoode bring vpon this declining world both labouring for their times to keepe some remembraunce of Iesus Christ in the minds of men before all be too farre out of square or come to vnrecouerable ruine But here may wee not demaunde of the diligent obseruers of our imperfections abroad whose maner is so much to strike vpon this one string and by this defect take occasion to call in question nay to bring in open oblequie our Christian cause are none fallen at home from the ancient sinceritie and harmlesse deuotion of former and better ages of the Church Some state medling actions these vncharitable censures in cleane shutting out from the housholde of faith and hope of life those who haue poore soules to saue as well as others and beare as true a loue to Christ crucified as themselues may put them in minde that wee may all beare a part togither in that song of mercy Asper gas nos Domine Cleanse vs O Lord. May we not all b● thinke our selues on both sides whether these bee not the dayes whereof our Sauiour Christ spake Wherin iniquitie shoulde abound Was euer that old complaint of Hilary more trulie verified Dum in verbis pugnaest dum in nouitatibus quaestio est dum in ambiguis occasio est dum in consensu difficultas est iam nemo Christi est While there is strife in wordes while there is question in innouations while there is occasion in doubts while there is a waywardnesse in consent none is of Christ. This nipping and galling one of and at another this eger pursuit of the liuing and troubling the verie ashes of the dead who can not answer for themselues is farre from that charitie that hopeth all thinges and the counsell of that spirit that biddes vs pray one for another To see what wit and learning is wont to doe in tossing the testimonies of auncient record to and fro nay which is more in wresting the verie text of holie