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A01069	A sermon preached at Constantinople in the Vines of Perah, at the funerall of the vertuous and admired Lady Anne Glouer, sometime wife to the honourable Knight Sir Thomas Glouer, and then ambassadour ordinary for his Maiesty of Great Britaine, in the port of the Great Turke. By William Forde Bachelour in Diuinitie, and lately preacher to the right honourable ambassadour, and the rest of the English nation resident there. ...	Ford, William, b. 1559.	1616 (1616)	STC 11176; ESTC S102518	32,899	92

tooke to burne asunder and the thred flaming to the cloth caught such a suddaine hold of the same and Aqua vitae that before any meanes could bee applied the King in this flame vvas burnt to death I speake nothing of others who haue vntimely perished some by one meanes some by another I conclude all with that saying of * Seneca Eripere vitam nemo non homini potest at nemo mortem mille ad hanc aditus patent What shall I say then doe so manie things vvithin vs so many things vvithout vs so manie things about vs threaten a continuall death vnto vs Miser homo cur te ad mortem non componis cum sis pro certo moriturus Then vvretched man thou art that doest not prepare thy selfe for death seeing thou must certainely die But alas the diuell doth so deafe vs the world doth so blind vs and the sensualitie of the flesh maketh vs so extreamely sencelesse that we neither heare nor see nor feele what is euerie minute likely to befall vs. If wee be young wee feare not death at our backes if old wee looke a squint and see not death before our eyes But hearken O young man and learne as the old man can not liue long so the young man may die quickly certaine it is thou shalt die vncertaine when beause thou shouldest alwaies liue readie to die But if it were so that in thy youth thou hadst a lease of thy life till age granted by the Father of heauen ratified by his Sonne and sealed vnto thee by the whole Trinitie then perchance there might be some pretence of thy carelessenesse But now seeing euery houre may be the last vnto thee since euerie moment may dissolue this earthly Tabernacle since a thousand chances may at all times take thee vnawares and bereaue thee of thy soule who but more then mad would not consider of his end and follow the Prophet Esaies counsell to seeke the Lord in time and Salomons precept to learne wisedome in his youth In like manner the olde man hee will not thinke of death vntill the time of his death thinking to become a sudden Saint who hath all his life time liued a wicked worldling But hearken thou old man and learne by the rich man in the Gospell so he had also cast vp his rest hee was setled rich and ioyfull and deferred to bee godly till he saw occasion but what saith the Spirit of God O foole this night shall they take thy soule from thee this night in middest of thy ioylitie in the securitie of thy sleepe suddenly vnwittingly shalt thou die O miserable case saith Saint Austen when suddenly the senses faile the bodie languisheth death readie to burst in sunder the heart strings the conscience heauie with sinne the diuell readie to entertaine thee Who in this plight would not value a minute of repentance to a Monarchy of wealth and yet we banish away daies and moneths and yeeres not regarding the casualtie in the end I vvish therefore that old men as they haue a priuiledge of yeeres so also they had the priuiledge of foresight heerein that as they see their bodies bending towardes the earth so they learne to send their soules towards heauen and if they should not vvish for their dissolution with Paul yet they should wait all the daies of their life for their changing with Iob. Finally all men almost both young and olde rich and poore of all fashions and of all degrees put off this consideraon of death and neuer thinke or prepare to die till they finde and feele they can no longer liue But O let me beseech you all that heere mee this day to exempt your selues from this supine and oxe like securitie You know for certaine you must die you are euerie moment subiect vnto death a thousand thousand chances maie euerie daie bereaue you of your life why then esteeme of euerie present daie as the daie of your death and make such conscience of all your waies words and works as if you were presently to giue an account of your life Qui considerat qualiter erit in morte pauidus prouidus erit in operatione He that thinkes alwaies of dying will bee circumspect in his doing Thinke therefore O thinke and bethinke your selues of this and in the depth of these thoughts prepare your selues for death Set your houses yea set your hearts in order call your soules to account turne your selues as * 2. Kin. 20 Ezechias did to the wall that is from the world to God weepe weepe and bewaile your sinnes past keepe a narrow watch ouer your heart for the time to come * Psa 38. praie with Dauid Lord remember not the sinnes of my youth and with Saint Ambrose Lord forgiue me my faults here where I haue sinned for else where I cannot be relieued except I haue my pardon heere It is in vaine to expect the restfull comfort of forgiuenesse heereafter * 2. cor 6.2 Now is the acceptable time as Saint Paul speaketh now is the daie of saluation This world is for thy repentance the other for thy recompence Hic locus luctae ille coronae hoc cunaeorum tempus est illud coronatorum as Saint Chrysostome speaketh This is the place and time of combating that of crowning this of working that of rewarding this for thy mourning that for thy comforting Now God is helping vnto all men seeke yee therefore the * Isa 55. Lord whiles he is neere and post not off till to morrow for you know not what a daie maie bring forth It is certaine death will come but it commeth for the most part like a theefe stealing and creeping without any warning take heede you bee not taken vnawares You see the stroke thereof is vniuersall for if the reuerence of old age could haue discountenanced it Methushaleth had not died If strength of bodie could haue resisted it Sampson had not died If maiestie could haue terrified it if counsel could haue perswaded it if riches could haue bribed it Nor Solomon nor Achitophel nor Diues had died But Methushaleth is dead and Samson is dead and Salomon and Achitophel and Diues are dead and what is it can free a man from death Nay if youth if beautie if vertue if pietie could worke any relent in death from embracing his cruell hands in mortall bloud see where youth where beautie where vertue where pietie lye enshrined whollie now defaced obscured eclipsed and ouershadowed in death O death how irrelenting is thy heart how bloudy are thy hands how vnpartiall is thy stroake how generall is thy arrest oh that the liuing would consider this And let this suffice to be spoken of the vniuersalitie of deaths stroake Then Sara died And Abraham came to mourne for Sarah and to weepe for her Whether Sara died in absence of Abrahā because Abraham is here said to come to mourn for her as the Iewes affirm she did to this end faine that whē Abraham

vp in his place And as the leafe buddeth springeth florisheth waxeth old and withereth away so man is borne groweth florisheth waxeth old and vanisheth away and as many leafes are nipped in the bud so many men are cut of in their youth tale quidem genus est hominum quale est foliorum So then such as a leafe is such is a man there is no leafe but at length withereth and there is no man but at length dyeth the wind bloweth and the leafe fadeth death with his pestiferous breath approacheth and man dieth Who can stopp the wind that it blowe not who can hinder death that it come not What one writeth wittilie of the Grammarian is true of euerie sonne of Adam that being able to decline all other nounes in euerie case could decline death in no case there was neuer Oratour so eloquent that could perswade death to spare him neuer Gibber so mightie nor monarch so potent that could withstand him Nerus the faire Therscites the foule Selym the cruell Solyman the magnificent Crassus the rich Irus the poore Damaetas the peasant Agamemnon the Prince all fall downe at deaths feet if he command we must away no teares no praiers no threatnings no intreatings will serue the turne so stiffe so dease so inexorable is death There are meanes to tame the most fierce and sauage beasts meanes to breake the hard marble and to mollifie the Adamant but not any one thing to mittigate deaths rage Resistitur saith Saint Austen ignibus vndis ferro resistitur regibus resistitur Imperijs * Aug. Psa 121. venit vna mors quis ei resistit Fire water the sword may bee resisted and Kings and Kingdomes may be resisted but when death commeth who can resist it non miseretur inopum saith * Ber. de conu cler Saint Bernard non reueretur diuitas Death pitieth not the poore regardeth not the rich feareth not the mightie spareth not any It is in mans power indeed to say vnto death Polydor. as sometime King Canutus said vnto the Sea when it beganne to flow Sea I command thee that thou touch not my feet but his command was bootlesse for he had no sooner spake the word but the surging waue dashed him So may man say vnto death when it approcheth Death I command thee not to come neere me but no force death will strike him and no more power hath man to keepe backe death that it strike not then the mightiest King on earth to keepe backe the Sea that it dash not The Sea will haue his fluxe and death will haue his course antiquum obtinent they both keepe their old wont since the first diuision of waters the Sea hath beene accustomed to ebbe and flow who hath euer hindred it and since the first corruption of nature death hath been accustomed to slay and destroy who hath resisted it Other customes haue and may be abolished a King may command and it is done but what Monarch so absolute what Emperour so potent that could abrogate in his dominions this custome of dying It was a custome among the Carthaginians to sacrifice humane flesh but this custome is abolished It was a custome also among the Indians to eat mans flesh but this custome is abolished too many other inhumane and vnnaturall customes in the world haue beene but they are or may be abolished But this custome of dying there was neuer yet any Prince seene read or heard of that could abolish For this condition which the Wise-man saith * Eccl. 14. is the condition of all times remaineth still Thou shalt die the death no man no meanes can abolish it No not length of dayes nor wisedome nor riches nor honour nor beautie nor strength no not that excellent grace and gift of holinesse and pietie The Antient Fathers and Patriarches before the floud liued very long some 700. some 800. some 900. yeeres and more and yet at length of all and euery one the conclusion is he died Salomon was a wise King the wisest that euer was hee knew the nature of all simples from the very Hysope to the Cedar and therefore if any surely hee aboue others could haue preserued himselfe from death and yet of him it is said in the end he died Sampson was indued with extraordinary strength at one time hee slew a thousand with the iaw bone of an Asse and yet hee dyed Dauid was a man after Gods owne heart and yet he died Moses saw God face to face and yet hee died The Prophets were indued with a great measure of sanctification yet the Prophet * Zach. 1.5 Zachary ioines them all together in one state of mortality your Fathers where are they and do the Prophets liue for euer What say I the Prophets Christ Iesus himselfe the Sonne of God the onely sonne the Sonne in whom hee was well pleased more wise then Salomon more mightie then Samson more holy then Dauid and all the Prophets though hee knew no sinne in himselfe yet for taking on him the burthen of our sinnes became subiect to the same condition of mortalitie with vs and hee dyed also And that I goe no further but come home vnto my Text Sara who liued a hundred twenty and seuen yeares and was as the Hebrewes mystically expound the numbers so chast and innocent at twenty yeares old as she was at seuen and so faire at a hundred yeares old as she was at twenty yet neither her wisedome not her beauty nor her chastity could ought auaile her but heere you see the conclusion is Then Sarah died If any shall obiect but Enoch and Elias died not I answere we know not I rather thinke they did and that Elias in his fiery Chariot had his bodie burnt and Enoch who in his yeeres matched the dayes of the sunne 365. was without paine dissolued when God tooke his soule to heauen or if they died not yet as Origen saith the generall is not therefore false because GOD hath dispensed in some particulars though one or two died not yet this is an vniuersall truth of all men to bee receiued and duely pondered It is appointed vnto men that they shall once die And is it indeed * Heb. 9. appointed vnto men that they shall once die Is there but one way for all the earth to goe one doore deaths * 1. Kin. 22 doore for all the liuing to turne into how neerely then doth it concerne vs to bethinke our selues of this way to fit our selues for this iourney and euen in this life to take care for another life a better life eternall life A man that knowes for certaine hee must resigne his dwelling house within a moneth or a weeke or a day is very silly and simple if he take no order for procuring some other habitation * Iob 30.23 that when he is put out of his owne house he may haue another to couer his head in so will it bee with vs who inhabite these