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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

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

their time in chambering and wantonesse Rom. 13.13 gluttony and drunkenes and vitious games hauing no portion to themselues or posterity in earth neuer thinking of a portion in heauen hauing no conscience for their soules no discretion for their goods Some complaine of the iniquity of the times and no whit mend themselues say not Former times were better thy vertues make good times Hic in Eccls 1. thy vices bad All things are others time onely is our owne yet hasteneth and therefore should not be wasted away as by him who being asked how long he had liued answered Stob. se 9. de Simouide a very little time though many yeares Or as those lewd seruants who hauing a candle allowed them to goe to bed withal spend it in carding dicing or drinking What a curse is it to spend al thy time in vanity and to send thy hoary head to thy graue in ignorance and follie Wilt thou giue Sathan the finest of thy flower and sweetest of thy wine and present the bran and dregges of thy dottage to thy Lord wilt thou lay the heauiest burthen vpon the weakest beast and force old age so feeble that it cannot beare it selfe to beare all the burthen of thy Repentance O take heed for when the strong man is growne stronger by praescription the rotten tabernacle is ready to fall downe custome hath turned infirmity into nature sinne is soaked into substance when thy bones shall be full of the sinnes of thy youth then to repent it will be hard if not impossible Did not wee bring sinne enough with vs into the world to condemne vs we must all confesse as he did Behold I was shapen in inquinity and in sinne did my mother conceaue me words which Dauid vttered Ps 51.5 2. Kin. 18.42 as Eliah when he put his face betweene his knees for so is the child in the wombe Boast not of thy goods Inheritance countenance and blood by thy Parents it is tainted with sin this is the poyson Pineda in Iob. 15.24 Hipoer lib. de natura pueri Wee had Birth from our mothers but withall the reward of sinne death clothes and wrapping from the but withall nakednesse and shame What must be done but as that woman sicke of the bloody issue hauing beene long physicked but ill handled of the Physitians hauing suffered many things of many Physitians and spent all she had and nothing bettered but rather grew worse Mar. 5.26.27 when she heard of Iesus came to be physiked a new of him So we who are thus base borne must take our time to be borne a new This is an Honourable and commendable birth if we respect the causes Natiuitas commendabilis Faith whosoeuer beleeueth that Iesus is the Christ is borne of God Loue 1. Io. 5.1.1 Io. 4.7.1 Io. 3.9 Euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth God Righteousnesse whosoeuer is borne of God doth not commit sinne presumptuosly desperatly impenitently It is an honourable birth if wee respect the effects to conquer the world whatsoeuer is borne of God ouercommeth the world 1. 10. 5.4 Ioh. 3.3 to bring to heauen for except a man be borne againe hee cannot see the Kingdome of God This maketh new men new affections giueth another spirit another will a loathing of the world a loue of God It causeth vs not so much to obserue dayes and moneths and times and yeares as to know The TIME that now it is high time to awake out of sleepe Gala. 4.10 Rom. 13.22 for now is our saluation neerer then when we beleeued Sicut nec capillus de oapite sie nec momentu seribis de tempore Bar. This maketh vs good husbands and euer to thinke vpon our reckoning and to consider that as not a haire falleth to the ground without prouidence so neither a moment of our time is vnaccountable How busie was the Deuill aboue a thousand yeares since because he knew he had but a short time Will you plant build buy Reu. 12.22 sell onely for the world and doe nothing for eternity Will you be prodigall of the golden dayes giuen vs to redeeme time and let heauen flie away and hell steale on Bee not lulled a sleepe in ease mirth prosperity as the Dalilah of the world or flesh or Deuill perswade Sathan will come with fearefull arrest and sease vpon thee in sickenesse weakenesse discontent as the Rauen vppon the fainting sheepe and write and vrge and open bitter vnanswerable terrible things against thee O then that men would flie out of the middest of Babylon Reuela 2.22 and deliuer euery man his soule that hee be not cut off in iniquity for there is a TIME of the Lords vengeance Iezebell had her space to repent of her fornication and repented not therefore a bed of tribulation is threatened her Ierusalem not knowing the time of her visitation had their enemies to cast a trench about them compasse them round keepe them in on euery side lay them euen with the ground Luk. 19.44 and their children within them and not to leaue one stone vpon another Am. 5.13 If we see the TIME when the prudent keepe silence because it is an euill time Mic. 2.3 when men worke euill vpon their beds and couet fields and take them by violence because it is an euill time when men dwell in their fieled houses and yet say the time is not come that the Lords house should be built Hagg. 1.2 when being possessed with Deuils and reproued they crie as those did to Iesus Mat. 8.29 what haue we to doe with thee Art thou come hither to torment vs before the time When those perillous times come wherein men are louers of themselues couetous boasters proud 2. Tim. 3.1.2 blasphemers disobedient to Parents vnthankefull vnholy Wherein when for the time men ought to be teachers they haue need that one teach themagain Heb. 5.12 which be the first principles of the Oracle of Gods When the last times bring forth those who walke after their owne vngodly lustes Iude 18.19 separating themselues sensuall hauing not the spirit Let vs pray It is TIME for thee Lord to worke Ps 119.126 for they haue made voyd thy Lawe Job 22 16. He shall cut them downe out of time and ouerflowe their foundation with a floud their false Gods cannot arise and saue them in the time of trouble Jer. 2.27 They shall fall when others fall When they are visited and shall be cast downe Jer. 6.15 They shall be smitten and haue no healing looke for peace and there shall be no good for a time of healing and behold trouble Jer. 14.19 They shall be like a thrashing flower for the Lord seeth it is time to thrash them yet a little while and the time of their haruest shall come An end is come it watcheth for them Ier. 51.33 the time is come the day of trouble is neere