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A20794	Two sermons preached the one at S. Maries Spittle on Tuesday in Easter weeke. 1570. and the other at the Court at Windsor the Sonday after twelfth day, being the viij. of Ianuary, before in the yeare. 1569. by Thomas Drant Bacheler in Diuinitie.	Drant, Thomas, d. 1578?	1570 (1570)	STC 7171; ESTC S116118	66,054	168

haue gathered thee together as the henne gathereth her chickins vnder her wing and thou wouldest not And as Lilies grow dispersed here one and there one so good men grow rare thinne And as Christ picketh Lilies from among thornes for they growe among thornes so picked he Abraham from the thornes of Chaldée Iob from the Hussites Hiram from the Tirians Naaman from the Syrians the Niniuites from the Assirians Lilies growe rare and good men grow rarer Lilies amongest thornes and good men amongest thornes And as the gathering of Lilies and men be like so men and Lilies be very like I will speake a thyng of marueilous troth A man is but a Lily the pride and glory of a man is but the pride and glory of a Lilie Salomon is a Lilie King Salomon is a Lilie King Salomon in hys glory is a Lilie King Salomon in all his glory is a Lilie Sonnes of vanitie to whom it is delightfull to haue fethers to daunce in your toppes as bigge as Aiax shielde to haue your heads turkish and your backes spanish your wastes Italian and your féete Uenetian with such a world of your hosē glory about your loynes Sonnes I say of vanitie ye are but Lilies Salomon in all his glory is but a Lily Salomon in his worst workeday apparel is better thē the best of you all Salomon in his best holiday apparell is not so braue as a Lily ye therfore in the huffe of your ruffe are nothing comparable to a Lily no not to a field Lily Daughters of vanitie and dames of delicacy ye thinke it fine an●… featous to be called roses primroses and Lilies and in déede it is true in respectes you are roses primroses and Lilies Whē ye haue gotten all vpon your heades and backes which Englishe soyle doth yelde and many a marchant hath fetched full farre when all your taylors haue broken their braines about contriuing of formes and fashions yet then are ye nothing so tricksy trim as the Lily The best of ye all in all your best brauery is not like to a field Lily which hapely to morrow is pluckt vp and flung into the for●…ace Pricke and prune your selues to the day of doome ye will neuer be like to the field Lily For the Lily of this our flesh is not so goodly gay as the Lily of grasse otherwise and in many imperfections we are very perfect and true Lilies The Lily of grasse shooteth vp for a time but then he layeth downe his toppe and is made euen to the floore The Lily of fleshe florisheth for a time but then by houering death he is taught to poer vpon the ground and to let downe his top like a Lily The wrath of winter doth conquer and kill the Lily of grasse there be moe then many occasions to vanquish and kill the Lily of flesh Barnard sayth that there is a worme that eateth vp the roote of the Lily of grasse ech Lily of flesh hath his worme and consumer Iulius Caeser Hercules and Mahomet haue the falling sicknesse Mecaenus hath a thrée yeres agew Orestes hath y frensie Speusippus hath the palsey Heraclitus and Aristarcus y dropsy Marcus Crassus the stuffing in the head Hieroboam the withered arme Lazarus and Iob biles and botches Aristotle an euill stomake Euripides putrifaction of lounges Coruinus the lethargie Anacrion lacke of sléepe Agesilaus and Ptolomeus the gout Naaman and Mary the leprosie But what do I say that euery Lily of flesh hath his worme and consumer sithens I may truely say that euery part of euery Lily of flesh hath his diuerse worms and consumers The head hath the Apoplexia the Epilepsia and the turnabout sicknesse the eyes haue the Opthalmia and the Mengrim the necke hath the Palsey and the conuulsion the nose hath the Polipus the pallat hath the vuula the gūmes haue the canker y téeth haue the toothach the throate hath the angine the toung hath blisters and swelling the stomaks hath the motiue cause of the cardiacall passion and muthering rewmes the studentes sicknesse the sides haue colickes stitches prickling pleurisies the reines haue the stone the legges haue dropsies and crampes the féete and handes haue the knobbed gout Besides that the Lily of flesh hath wormes of mynde wormes of conscience many wormes and sore wormes The Lily of grasse hath hys own worme and the Lily of flesh hath his thousand wormes the Lily of grasse can not liue from that one worme but will be smitten of it nor the Lily of flesh shall scape all these wormes Agayne all the grasse Lilies are dead and gone that haue growen on the face of the earth and all flesh Lilies are dead that liued vppon this earth Abraham Gods frend and Noah that walked with GOD Aaron full of dignitie and Moses full of authoritie holy Melchisadech and iust Iob strong Sampson and huge Ogge vaunting Goliah and disdainfull Senacharib fayre Absolon and swéete louely Ionathas wyse Salomon rich Cresus and wealthy Crassus lucky Pompey victorious Iulius riall Augustus and triumphant Emelius all these haue had a time like a Lily and dyed in time like a Lily They haue had the spring of their budding and the sommer of their blossoming they haue likewise come to the Autumne of theyr parching the winter of theyr perishing O all ye all ye men that draw breath vnder the cope of the skies ye spring vp like Lilies and goe downe like Lilies ye florish like Lilies and deflower like Lilies Pindarus sayd thrise Māmea Māmea Māmea Ieremy cryed thrise Earth Earth Earth so I Lilies Lilies Lilies and then a second time Lilies Lilies Lilies and for that I would haue it remembred I cry agayne Lilies Lilies Lilies and then thus O men O Lilies O men O Lilies O men O Lilies O field grasse O flowers of decaye Yet came Christ among such Lilies to gather vp such ●…eting flowers of flesh and to be conuersant among his spicery The duety of the world and church is that when they are tolde where he is they should make after him and séeke him He is not now in the spicery and Lilies of this earth that is among the sonnes of men he is not in personall presence as the papistes or Vbiquitaries fayne him but he hath ouertaken the heightes of heauen and standes where Steuen saw him where Esay saw him among Angels and Archangels and all the glorious millions of his sainctes him selfe more then most glorious There séeke him séeke him there O world and together make after him And in déede some part of the world doth séeke Christ and are in a kinde of quest and enquirie of Christ but not in a like sort and after one fashion some séeke him with staues and with lanternes like the vilanous Iewes to beate him and buffet him to canuas him and kill him So séeke thée O Lord Christ the Spanish Inquisitors with staues and with tormentes So many a proud Nimrod doth hunt thée and séeke