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Hearts delight A sermon preached at Pauls crosse in London in Easter terme. 1593. By Thomas Playfere professour of diuinitie for the Ladie Margaret in Cambridge.; Sermons. Selected sermons
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Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.
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Lord. Let the Saints reioyce in ioy let them delight in delight He that delights in an earthly thing delights in vanitie he delights not in delight But he onely delights in delight which makes God onely the ground of his delight According to that of Prosper That alone is eternall delight which is grouÌ„ded vpon the eternall good Vpon him that is onely good and saith to Moses I will in my selfe shew thee all good Euery thing that is honest euery thing that is profitable euery thing that is pleasant is onely to be found in the Lord. As that Manna had all manner of good tasts in it so the Lord onely hath all manner of good things all manner of true delights in him Therefore the Church hauing first bestowed the greatest part of Salomons song altogether in commendation of the beautie and comelines of Christ at length concludeth thus Thy mouth is as sweete things and thou art wholly delectable how faire art thou and how pleasant art thou O my loue in pleasures So that when I seeke my loue my Lord then I seeke a delight a light that passeth all lights which no eye hath seene I seeke a sound an harmonie that passeth all harmonies which no eare hath heard I seeke a sent and a sauour that passeth all sauours which no sense hath smelt I seeke a relish and a tast that passeth all tasts which no tongue hath tasted I seeke a contentment and a pleasure that passeth all pleasures which no bodie hath felt Nay I cannot hold my heart for my ioy yea I cannot hold my ioy for my heart to thinke that he which is my Lord is now become my father so that he which was offended with me for my sinnes sake is now reconciled to me for his sonnes sake To thinke that the high Maiestie of God will one day raiâ—e me out of the dust and so that I which am now a poore worme vpon earth shall hereafter be a glorious Saint in heauen This this makes me delight my selfe in the Lord saying O thou that art the delight of my delight the life of my life the soule of my soule I delight my selfe in thee I liue onely for thee I offer my selfe vnto thee wholly to thee wholly one to thee one onely to thee only For sup pose now as S. Iohn speaketh the whole world were full of bookes and all the creatures in the world were writers and all the grasse piles vpon the earth were pennes and all the waterâ— in the sea were ynke yet I assure you faithfully all these bookes all these writers all these pennes all this ynke would not be sufficient to describe the very least part either of the goodnes of the Lord in himselfe or of the louing kindnes of the Lord towards thee Wherefore Delight thy selfe in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thy heart Thus much for the precept in these words Delight thy selfe in the Lord. The promise followeth First And he shall giue thee Well saies Leo Loue is the greatest reward of loue that either can be or can be desired So that though there were no other rewarde promised thee for delighting in the Lord but onely the delight it selfe it were sufficient For the benefit is not Gods but wholly thine God is neuer a whit the better for thy delighting thy selfe in him If thou be righteous what doest thou giue him or what doeth he receiue at thy hands Thy delight may perhaps reach to the saints which are in the earth but it can neuer reach to â—he Saints which are in heauen and much lesse can it reach to God which is the Lord of heauen Nay I will say more If thou shouldst giâ—e God whole riuers full of oyle whole houses full of gold for neuer so little a droppe of this delight it would be nothing Thy gift would be nothing to his gift thy oyle and golde would be nothing to his oyle of gladnesse Yet behold the bountifulnesse and liberalitie of the lord He hires thee and giues thee wages not to doe himselfe good but to doe thy selfe good And here he promiseth to reward his owne mercies as if they were thine owne merits And as though the benefit were not thine but wholly his so he chaungeth the words and for Thou shalt giue him saies He shall giue thee But this he doeth as Augustine testifieth Not by the loue of errour but by the errour of loue For the loue of errour is mans Rhetoricke it is a figure which man often vseth Humanum est errare But the errour of loue is Gods Rhetoricke it is a figure which God often vseth Diâ—inum est amare Especially it is a diuine thing to loue so dearely as God loueth vs. Who though he doe not loue to erre yet he doeth erre for loue Counting and calling that which is onely our commoditie his owne commoditie So Christ is said to be fed amongst the lylies The lylies of the fieldes are the millions of the angels or of all those which lead a pure and an angelicall life These indeede Christ feedeth He feedeth them in the greene pastures and leadeth them forth by the waters of comfort Yea not onely he feedeth them but also by this figure the error of loue he is said to be fed with them Because though he for his part haue little neede I wis to â—e fedde yet it is as great a pleasure to him to feed theÌ„ as if he were fedde himselfe among them So likewise he saies If any man open the doore I will suppe with him and he with me We indeede sup with Christ. Generally whensoeuer he giues vs grace to feele in our affections the rauishing ioyes of the spirit As when he saies I haue eaten my honie combe with my hony I haue drunken my wine with my milke eat you also O my friendes drinke and make you merie O my welbeloued But more especially we suppe with Christ when he cals vs to the holy Communion and biddes vs to the Lords supper For then he staies vs with flaggons and comforts vs with apples with apples and flaggons with bread and wine with his owne deere bodie and his owne pretious blood Thus do we suppe with Christ. But how doth Christ suppe with vs Is it possible possible that he which shall neuer hunger or thirst any more possible that he which is fulnes it selfe in whome all the fulnes of the Godhead bodily dwelleth Is it possible I say that he should stand without knocking at the doore as a begger to get a meales meate of vs Yea sure doubt you not It is possible enough By a certaine figure I weene you call it the errour of loue that 's it by this figure the errour of loue it is a very possible thing nay it is a very easie thing to doe yea it is a very great pleasure to him to doe it Behold