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A56317	Durus sermo, or Ænigma moriendi the mystery of dying daily: in a sermon preached in Plimouth, at the funeral of Mistress Joan Warren. By William Pyke, M.A. and rector of the parish of Stokeclimsland in the county of Cornwal.	Pike, William, b. 1617 or 18.	1680 (1680)	Wing P4256; ESTC R220558	23,109	40

a foolish boldness wherein there is no mixture of wisdom or pious forecast 2. There is great gain in dying for such as by frequent exercise are got skilled in it Job tells us of some that die without wisdom certainly they that never learn'd of God to number their days are to be numbered among those Ignorants the Learned in this Arithmetick reckon their days not by multiplication but by substraction so much for God for Heaven for Christ for Soul and for the Eternity as that the least part of time if any belongs to this life There is a time to be born and a time to die says the Preacher but he allows no term for this life For as soon as a man is born that which in nature only remains to him is to die and it is a wonder since all the Records of Scripture urge the certainty of death the uncertainty of its day the horror of the day of Judgment the severity of God the dissolution of the world the necessity of our last account and from all these premises the Spirit of God makes no other Inference but that we watch and be sober and stand in a readiness that we live in all holy conversation and godliness that we repent and turn to God that we try and examine whether we are in the faith that we work out our Salvation and make our Calling and Election sure And the Doctrines and Rules and Offices and Acts of Preparation are every where interspersed in Holy Scripture yet this among the rest which is indeed the Epitome of all To die daily is looked on as a Riddle and Paradox rarely received into the Faith and Practice of Men called Christians only some choice Souls hit on 't and to such To live is Christ and to die is gain And we have seen the vast difference of managing death when some inexpert persons have been called to it and the more experienced have been brought forth as Champions in Christ on the stage of the Death-bed It must needs come from this discriminating Character some with Paul have died so oft that they are grown intimate with it and act it to the life like Jacob and are meetly furnished for their Translation as Enoch And with Stephen first see the Heavens opened and then pass in with inexpressible Joy and Ravishment certainly such have been much versed in dying whiles they lived who die their last in so lively an assurance 3. He that dies daily hath but one days task to do when he dies He is come to his Journeys end after his dayly Travel and he is like a hard Traveller in this he is less weary the last day than when he first set out he can cast up his account readily for he kept his Day-book exact and now he is ready to be offered and the time of his departure is at hand he reviews his whole life and it hath been a continual Fight 2 Tim 4 6.7.3 and now he begins his Triumphant assault he hath daily been in his course and now comes to finish it and to pass to his Crown O the desperate state of such as instead of dying daily are sinning daily and so are dead whiles they live such are they as are drunk daily swear and whore and prophane and debauch daily Epicures Ephesian Beasts Cretian Liars daily who eat and drink to day though they die to morrow O take heed of dallying with death and since all our life we are dying and this minute in which I now speak death divides with me and hath got the surer part and more certain possession it is but reasonable we should be daily up●● the ●●●●ces of preparation If to day we were not dying and passing on to our Graves then we might with more safety protract our work till to morrow but the age of every day is a beginning of death and the night going ●●ing us to sleep ●●ds us go to our les●●●●● because that night which is the end of the prece●●ng day is 〈◊〉 a lesser death and 〈◊〉 ●●d but a s●ster and 〈◊〉 G●●●● and whereas now 〈◊〉 have died so many days the last day of our life is but the dying so many more and when that last day of dying will come we know not methinks this very consideration should put us speedily upon the Religion of dying There is nothing to be added but the circumstances of sickness which also happens many times before only men are pleased to call that death which is the end of dying when we cease to die any more and therefore to delay dying till then is to put off the work of all our life till the time comes in which it is to cease and determine Remember how it was in thy purposes on thy last Sick-bed O that thy health might be such as thy sickness promised then thy mind was fixed on pious things and thou prayedst for sparing mercy and wert vowing religiously and thought on thy sins with sorrow and shame and the Prayers of the Church were needful and comfortable and the Ministers company and counsel desirable and good discourse acceptable and O if thou hadst time in hand again what a new man thou wouldst be Thy case is the same still if thou flatter not thy self thou art no farther from thy Grave when on thy feet than when on thy sick Bed only thou hast now in health better strength and better helps and better opportunities than when thou last wert dying return then to thy sickly but serious purposes and perform them now in thy health and freedom and practise to die now and 't will be an easier and happier task at last And to facilitate all look still on the dying Jesus tho● art called to a conformity with him whose name tho● bearest and if thou name the name of Christ depart from iniquity decline and abandon all such Acts in life 〈◊〉 might not be done if thou wert dying Every day t●● view of your last and think either it is this or might be and remember Christ in the flesh was always doing his F●ther's Work which was to die for Sinners O let us not live in the love of Sin because Christ so loved us as to die for our Sins and to save our Souls from the second death He began his Works betimes all his days were dying days till the hour came that he died for all Phil. 3.10 he was always waiting for his Fathers appointed time he was always faithful to his Fathers work and trust He held his life upon his Fathers Terms resolved himself into his Fathers Will and at the last resigned his life into his Fathers Hands Abi in fac similiter Go thou and do likewise Being made conformable to his death Christ died for Sin in way of Expiation Satisfaction and Pacification betwixt his Father and us we die unto Sin in a way of Crucifying Mortifying and destroying it in our selves O 't is a painful Task but it is a gainful State It sequesters us from the comforts of life I say it sweetens and sanctifies and makes all comforts savory 'T is hard and irksome only to corrupt flesh It rebates only the grosser and more feculent parts of our present Contents and Secular Enjoyments 'T will keep death in our minds in the height of our merriments 't is as a deaths head in the Lordly Dishes of our Feasts it is to corrupt minds no other than all Salvation work is grievous and burdensome but to the Faith of God's Elect easie and delightsome to pluck out the Right Eye is by interpretation not to have eyes full of Adultery to cut off the hand is to eschew all Acts of Violence Oppression Theft or Fraud to crucifie the flesh is but to keep the lower Faculties and bruitish Appetites from rebelling and rising against the supremacy of Reason and Virtue And so the Spirit of this Letter To die daily is no other than to order our selves and our conversations aright as Men and as Christians in hope of a better life when this is done which God shall shew us in Christ and here Seal unto us by his Holy Spirit to which our temporal Death shall translate us even our full Salvation Which God of his infinite Mercy grant c. Newly Printed THe Glory and Happiness of the Saints in Heaven or a Discourse concerning the blessed State of the Righteous after Death with Motives and Encouragements unto all Christians to secure to themselves an Interest therein Sold by Nathanael Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard FINIS

in this sense every living person is daily dying Nor a providential Dying which consists in the daily vicissitudes of Crosses Tryals and Discomforts though this is the portion of every living Saint and is in part the assertion of our Apostle concerning himself but a spiritual and practical Dying consisting in the frequent and renewed exercise of mortifying Duties as Repenting Self-denying Self-judging self-humbling dying unto Sin mortifying our Members crucifying our Flesh subduing our Lusts being crucified to the world beating down our Bodies and bringing them into subjection subjugating our wills captivating our understandings submitting our reason to the righteousness of God governing our passions devoting our lives for the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ and if need be and God so order to die for our Lord and so to live as to die in our Lord and so to die as to die unto our Lord that whether we live or die we may be the Lords These and many more such like are but the several Rules and methods and quotidian Exercises through which good Christians must pass before they come to the degree of Masters in this Gospel-Art To this S. Paul had eminently attained so as it fell into his daily practice I die daily Which brings me to the third part of my Text. The Diuturnity of the Apostles Practise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 notes the Frequency Assiduity Succession and uncessancy of Action And with reference to what is done supposeth time of life to do it in To day Joh. 9.4 Eccles 9.10 whiles it is called to day for the day of life is the working day 't was so with Christ in our flesh and the Church-man Solomon tells us There is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest If we would then set on this work this rare device of Christian Knowledge and saving wisdom it must be before we go to our Graves And it is not the work of a single day neither but the singular work of every day to be daily doing as if daily dying Nulla dies sine lineâ is the laudable industry of a Christian and without doubt there is no Particle of Life allowed for Idleness even Paradise and Perfection the place and state of Innocence and Bliss allowed not a space wherein to do nothing and Heavens Paradise though it be the Saints everlasting Rest yet hath its business for Eternity But this is to be understood of positive Acts but to be daily dying sounds harshly and uncomfortably to living Ears Death is a privation and to die a privative act and how can an habit grow out of Privatives Nay but this kind of dying is a positive duty in the Cristian Divinity 1. As it is an Act of the new Creature to die to sin and live unto God Christ purchased this Estate to us and preferred us to this capacity Rom. 6.10 In every birth there is something generated and something destroyed says the Philosopher so in our New Birth there is the production of Grace and the destruction of Vice the Life of Righteousness and the death of Sin And by dying daily we set up the Ark and throw down Dagon The Sinfulness of our Souls by our first birth consisted in our aversion from God and Grace and our being perverted to the Devil and his works in the defacing of God's Image and the imprinting of Satan's Now the sanctity of the Soul that is its recovery by the second birth consisteth in its conversion to God and aversion from sin to have the Image of the evil one rased out and the Impress of the Saviour re-ingraven and the Acts that appertain to these Issues must be in our daily Exercise 2. As it is the Answer unto the Divine Ordination Romans 8.29 which is our conformableness unto the dying Saviour our conformity to Christ is here our positive Duty in Grace as it shall be our everlasting Dignity in Bliss and the Elect are sent into the world to be planted into the likeness of Christ in his Death and Resurrection to this end baptised into Christ that we may follow his Steps Phil. 3.10 as well as bear his Name and so be found in the fellowship of his Graces and sufferings and all his life was a continued dying until his hour came that he died once for all There is a pertinent but difficult Text for this in S. Paul's case Coloss 1.24 I fill up that which is behind saith he of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the Church The personal Sufferings of Christ which he endured in his own body as the Mediator are once for ever finished but his general Sufferings which he endures in his mystical Body the Church are yet behind and must be filled up by S. Paul and his Fellows and Followers Not in way of Office as meritorious and satisfactory nor in proportion of weight and measure but in respect of their Cause and Managery and Issue Thus in dying by way of Resemblance Rom. 6.10 11. And the likeness is in these Instances voluntarily our daily dying must be spontaneous Though there be a great Reluctancy between Flesh and Spirit Grace and Nature the pure will of God and the perverse will of Man yet the superior powers of the 〈◊〉 carry the Mastery 〈◊〉 ● 2● sanctified reason consents to mortifying Acts. To die daily is as irksome to self-Self-love as the Cup was to Christ's Flesh in the day of his Agony yet he willingly drank because it was his Fathers will he should Yet Christ's Death was violent he died not of nature but of force So should our self-mortifying be voluntary in respect of us but violent in respect of sin And herein is the life of daily dying that we lay violent hands on our corruptions pluck out the right Eye cut off the right Hand smite the sinful Breast break the perverse Heart and kill and destroy sin in its Flower strength and vigour many leave their sins who never mortified them He that dies daily never stays till his sins die for Lusts like Weeds if let alone will destroy all the good Seeds and then wither of themselves The old Adulterer hath left his Lust because his Body is dead And the griping Mammonist is angry with the world but it is because he can enjoy it no longer Eccles 12.1 O remember thy Creatour in the days of thy youth before the days come when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them is a pertinent Caveat 'T were good to condemn and execute sin without Reprieve let not Lust live till to morrow bring your vicious Habits forth speedily in the sight of God arraign condemn crucifie them now mortifie them whiles they might yet live Yet the Death of Christ was lingring Matth. 27.45 he hung divers hours upon the Cross our Dying is daily sin cannot be destroyed all at once cut a Serpent in pieces yet every part will stir Sin