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A93662	Aphonologos. A dumb speech. Or, A sermon made, but no sermon preached, at the funerall of the right vertuous Mrs Mary Overman, wife to Mr Thomas Overman the younger. Of the parish, formerly called, Saint Saviours, or vulgarly Mary Overis, in Southwarke. By B. Spencer, minister of Bromley.	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1646 (1646)	Wing S4942; Thomason E1180_3; Thomason C.54.aa.1(3); ESTC R208123	32,914	87

may die with him Joh. 11.16 Love sleights death A certaine Neapolitane leapt into the Sea when his wife was taken by Pyrates Tiberius Graocus having two snakes in his house male and female was told by the Southsayer that if he killed the female his wife should die if the male himselfe should He killed the male and dyed first himselfe Beauxamonts wife the Moore would be buryed with her husband Porcia the wife of Brutus dyed by eating hot burning coales for griefe her husband was dead But all these sorrowed as men without hope and did not prepare for death but provoked him against themselves Others of the Heathen dyed with lesse passion though for ought I know with as little hope As great Augustus in a faire complement with Livia Conjugii nostrimemor esto vive vale saying Be mindfull Livia of our wedlock bands live still and prosper But there is more to be done in this businesse First therefore be acquainted with death by dying to one sinne or other that liveth in thee or by killing that love to the world ease riches friends which makes death so bitter as saith Syracides Ecclus. 41.1 O Death how bitter is thy remembrance to a man that lives at ease in his possessions Secondly be temperate in all things against this fight So the Apostle counselleth the Corinthians 1 Cor. 9.25 They that strive for masteries are temperate in all things lest when he comes to fight you are loth to lose your delicates as many are loth to die so long as they can but receive meat These are such who make their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3.19 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For banquetting is vinculum animae the bond of the soule and the fetters of the affections As we read of Philoxenus who would not leave the Polypus his head behind him though his Physitian told him that what he had eat already would kill him in seven houres Many there are Qui Curios simulant who seeme abstemious a while yet scarce a Fasting day but like the fish Musipula they suck up their frie againe which they had formerly vomited Thirdly Challenge death in thy shirt strip thee naked of all worldly habiliments He fights but as some Souldiers doe for booty If he finde nothing to spoile thee of he hath no spirit to fight with thee Job wooed him to wound him but he would not Job 4.13 It is our hugging of the world which makes death violent and our security that makes him so eager to obtain a Habeas Corpus But if he finde a man that Nil nisi cutem morti concesserit atrae Horat. who has nothing for death but his skin he is willing to let him alone till some better advantage happen to his liking Fourthly yet doe not take deaths part against thy selfe by lying at too open a ward of despair For that is it he would have and therefore makes thee beleeve that he will end all thy paine and grief shame and sorrows if thou wilt betray thy life unto him by some violent death Whereas indeed then begins thy misery for while there is life there is hope I waited long and at the last God heard me Psal 40.1 Know ye not that Blessed is the man that endureth temptation Jam. 1.12 for he shall receive at last a crown that fadeth not away You must like a faithfull Sentinell wait till your change come No Souldier is praised for marching without the word of command nor no Christian for spending his life till God take it I read of a Roman Conful that whipt a builder for using other timber then he had appointed though it may be more fit for the purpose If a practicall Carpenter was so served wanting onely the complement of obedience what have your pragmaticall builders deserved who out of the spirit of disobedience will have no cake but of Thamars making though it prove their owne ruine Well let us not call death upon our selves by the errour of our lives but prepare onely for it Dediscas vivere oportet si discas mori You must forget to live if you would learne to die as Saint Paul did who said By the rejoycing I have in Christ Jesus I thanke God I die daily 1 Cor. 15.31 Nor count death evill as those that dye without hope as one Mecaenas of whom Seneca saith He was of so weak a heart that he would refuse no torment Nec acutam crucem dummodo inter haec mala spiritus vita prorogentur He was content to endure any torment so his life might be prolonged Which saith Seneca was pessimum votum the worst desire and wish and argued him effeminate and base Quia distulit id quod est in malis optimum supplicii finē because Death is the end of all misery and punishment Yet the man could not be much blamed not knowing with Adrian what life was to come after whether any or none Which made him so discourse with his soule Animula vagra blanda quae nunc abibis in loca Little vagrant tender soule into what regions art thou posting hence And indeed if we know not that I wonder not to see folké loth to die for a living dog is better then a dead lion But death is not evill in it selfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not to die is evill but to die ill is evill Which that we may not doe wee must so prepare our selves that we may look back upon our lives with comfort and forward upon the object of our hope with joy that so it may prove an advantage to us So I come to the other thing in death which is proper to a true Christian viz. a Gaine Death is to me a gaine Obj. Death is a privation therefore a losse How is it then a gaine Ans Not in it self but in regard of the over-ruling power of Christ who hath conquered him and altered his nature so that of a privation it is become but a commutation from a losse to a gaine Therefore those that live to Christ lose nothing by death but gaine by it All things else lose by it as either life or pleasure or wealth But all these are gained by a good man in death first life Christ came that wee might have it more abundantly 1. Joh. 10.10 And for pleasure and joy In his presence is the fulnesse of joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore Psal 16.11 And for wealth there is no want Luk. 12.32 Wee change a Cottage for a Court and a Farme for a Kingdome This is not hard to prove if we could beleeve Scripture which tells us that no eye hath seen nor care heard nor tongue is able to expresse what God hath laid up for them that love him 2 Cor. 4.17 Saint Paul tells us of a crowne of Righteousnesse of a weight yea an everlasting weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.17