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A09744	The vvhole sermons of that eloquent diuine, of famous memory; Thomas Playfere, Doctor in Diuinitie Gathered into one vollume, the titles thereof are named in the next page.; Sermons	Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Path-way to perfection. aut; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Heart's delight. aut; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Power of praier. aut; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Sick-man's couch. aut	1623 (1623)	STC 20003; ESTC S105046	300,452	702

held Gods hands that hee could not ●●ike when he was readie to plague his people Prayer without any other helpe or meanes hath throwne downe the strong walles of Iericho Prayer hath deuided the sea that the floods thereof could not come neere the Israelites In this place it deliuereth the faithfull man from all the dangers of the world Surely in the flood of many waters they shal not come neere him The summe is this That no calamities of this world no troubles of this life no terrours of death no guiltinesse of sinne can be so great but that a godly man by meanes of his faith and felicitie in Christ shall wade out of them well enough For howsoeuer other things goe still he shall haue such a solace in his soule such a comfort in his conscience such a heauen in his heart knowing himselfe reconciled to God and iustified by faith that Surely in the flood of many waters they shall not come neere him Which that it may the better appeare I shall desire you to obserue two things The daunger the deliuerance The danger is in these words I● the flood of many waters Where the tribulations that the godly man is subiect to in this life are likened First to waters then to many waters thirdly to a flood of many waters In the flood of many waters The deliuerance is in these words Surely they shall not come neere him Where the deliuerance of the godly man hath three degrees also First they shall not come neare secondly him they shall not come neere him then Surely surely they shall not come neere him Surely in the flood of many waters they shall not come neere him First the afflictions of the faithful are likened to waters Fire and water haue no mercy we say But of the two water is the worst For any fire may be qu●c●ed with water but the force of water if it begins to be violent cannot by any power of man be resisted Canutus who was King of England Polyd. lib. 7. Scotland Denmarke Norway a great part of Sue●i● all at once sitting at a low water vpon the Thames shoare commanded the water not to come neare him But notwithstanding his commandement the water returning and flowing againe as 〈◊〉 in Ezekiel which came to the ankles Ezech. 47.2 then to the knees and yet higher to the necke so neuer left rising till it came vp neare him and wet him Then turning about to his noble men that were there attendant on him he said You call me your Soueraigne Lord and Master and yet I cannot command this little channell of water to keep a loofe off from me Whereupon he went immediatly to Westminster and with his owne hands set his Crowne vpon the Crucifix there and could neuer be perswaded after to weare it vpon his owne head This experience that Canutus so mightie a King made doth directly prooue that no man but God onely can set barres and doores against the water and say Iob. 38.11 Hitherto shalt tho● come but no further and here shalt thou stay thy proud waues The afflictions of the righteous therefore beeing ●ere compared to waters must needes ●e very violent For thus the Psalmist ●●ith Thine indignation lyeth hard on me Psal. 88.8 and thou hast vexed mee with all thy waues And God himselfe I will p●●re out my wrath vpon thee as water So that the securitie and felicitie of the faithfull man is inuincible He may be often in daunger of tribulations as of great waues or waters Hos. 5.10 but they shall neuer ouerwhel●e him Surely in the flood of many waters they shall not come neere him But these our tribulations which are waters are also many waters Our common prouerb is Seldome comes sorrow alone But as waters come rouling and wauing many together so the miseries of this life Ezeck 2.10 The Prophet Ezekiel saw the roule of a booke written within and without and there was written therein Lamentations and singing and woe The booke is written within and without ●o shew that many are the troubles of the righteous both inward and outward And it is two to one if any thing befall vs it is rather an ill happe then a good happe Seeing for one singing there is in the booke a double sorrowing lamentations and woe Or if it be read as some translate it Et scriptura in eo erat lamentarionum lugub●isque carmin●s vae Tremel Lamentations and mourning and woe then it is yet more plaine that in this world many troubles as many waters come one in the neck● of an other no earthly ioy 〈◊〉 comfort comming betweene This the good King greatly complaineth of Psal. 4● 7 One deepe calleth another because of the noyse of the water-pipes all thy floods and stormes haue gone ouer me And Iob Iob. 16.14 hee hath giuen me● one wound vpon an other and hee hath runne vpon me as a gyant And Saint Paul Philip. 2.37 though in one place he write God shewed mercie toward him that hee should not haue sorrowe vpon sorrow yet oftentimes elsewhere he speaketh of his owne manifold dangers 2. Cor. 11.26 I suffered thrice shipwracke saies he night and day haue I bin in the deepe sea In iourneying I was often in perills of waters in perills of robbers in perills of mine owne nation in perills among the Gentiles in perills in the citie in perills in the wildernesse in perills in the sea in perills among false brethren Th●s we see how many waters the godly m●n is subiect to in this life For one thy hee hath at least two sorrowes if hee 〈◊〉 no more one deepe calleth an other one wound bringeth another hee hath sorrow vpon sorrow perils vpon perils Many waters many dangers Neuerthelesse Surely in the flood of many waters they shall not come neere him Thirdly the daungers of this life are as a flood The very naming and mentioning of flood must needes ●e very terrible euer since Noahs flood destroyed the whole world For euen as a horse or a mule of whome the Prophet a little after speaketh in this Psalm vers 9. hauing beene once well lashed with a whip doth euer after feare if he heare but the bel which is tied to the whippe so man since the world was so well s●oured and scourged with a flood could neuer almost abide either to talke or thinke of it Now though our whole life be nothing else but a flood of many waters yet nothing in the world may more fitly be so called then our going our of the world This indeede bringeth with it a flood of many waters and an Ocean sea of infinite cares Aristotle writeth that nothing is so terrible as death which Antiochus feeling sensibly in himselfe 1. Mac. 6.11 cryeth out thus Oh into what aduersitie am I come and into what floods of miserie am I now fallen He addeth the reason an on after For I must die with great

knocke if any man beare my voyce and open the dore I will come in vnto him will suppe with him and hee with me Well then how doth Christ suppe with vs Christ suppes with vs when we entertaine him as Marie did with the salt teares of repētance and griefe and as Lot did with the sweet bread of syncerity and truth For the salt teares of our repentance are the onely drinke which Christ will drinke with vs. And the sweet breade of our syncerity is the onely bread which Christ will eate with vs. But what meat hath hee to his breade I haue a meate sayes hee which you know not of My meat is to doe the will of him that sent mee In the volume of thy booke it is written of mee that I should doe thy will O my God it is my delight it is meate and drinke to mee to doe it And as it is meate to him to doe it himselfe so is it meate to him to see vs doe it Then doth hee suppe with vs. And this is the first seruice But what hath he for a second course A dish of apples gathered of the tree of life For toward the latter end of the supper when they come to their fruit a Christian sayes to Christ f Can. 7.13 Omnia poma vetera noua Vulgata trans O my Welbeloued I haue kept for thee all manner of apples both old and new Contrition humiliation denying of thy selfe mortification of the old man these are olde apples Sobriety innocency holines of life viuification of the new man these are new apples And when a Christian feasts and feedes Christ with such diuers dainty fruits of righteousnesse then he saies to him O my welbeloued I haue kept for thee all manner of apples both old and new But what musick hath he now We must needs haue some musicke Christ cannot sup without musicke Drinke bread meate apples wil make him but a slender supper except we mend it all the better with musicke This must be the very best part of the supper For a consort of musitians at a banquet is as a signet of Carbuncle set in gold and as the signet of an E●rod well trimmed with gold so is the melodie of ●usicke in a pleasant g Ecclesiasticus cap. 32. vers 5. banquet Therefore when Christ suppes with vs we must be sure he haue musicke We must welcome him and cheare him vp with Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songes singing with a grace making melodie in our hearts to God Thus doth Christ sup with vs. Col. 3.16 But now to return to the main point againe from which wee haue a little digressed a● elsewhere by the errour of loue Christ is said to be fedde among the lylies whereas indeed onely he feedeth the lylies to sup with vs wheras indeed only we sup with him so here by the same figure he is said to reap cōmodity by thy delight wheras indeed only the cōmodity is thine all the commodity al the benefit is onely thine Yet to see the admirable loue of God he sayes not Thou shalt giue him but He shall giue thee Delight thy selfe in the Lord he shall giue thee desires of the heart and hee shall giue thee Then The desires He that loues to desire God h Qui amas de●iderare desiderat amare De amore Dei c 3. vide Gregorium Moral l. 18. c. 28. sayes Bernard must also desire to loue God Then he shall haue neither saciety nor yet anxiety Neyther saciety because he loues to desire nor yet anxiety because he desires to loue Thus doth the Church Let him kisse mee sayes shee i Cant. 1.1 with the kisses of his mouth Let him not smite me but kisse me not once but oftē not with the kisses of his feet but of his mouth not of any of his Prophets mouthes but of his own mouth Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth Here are many desires Here indeed shee loues to desire k Psa. 119.20 Concupiuit defiderare Ps. 119.20 But it followeth For thy loue is better then wine The person is suddenly changed Before it was more strangely in the third person Let him his mouth Now it is more familiarly in the second person For thy loue For thy loue is better then wine Here is but one loue Here onely she desires to loue For as the curtaines of the tabernacle were coupled and tyed together with taches and strings so that one curtaine did draw another and all the curtaines did draw together to couer nothing else but the tabernacle l Exod. 26.6 after the same sort the desires of the godly are coupled and tyed together so that one desire drawes another and all their desires draw together to make them couet nothing else but God And euen as Iacob when hee held the Angel in his armes stood vpon one foote and halted vpon the other foote m Gen. 32.31 so he that embraceth God can doe nothing with that halting foote which before carried him to the desire of the world but standeth onely vpon that sound foote which now carrieth him wholly to the desire of God And like as all the streetes of Ierusalem sing Halleluiah n Tob. 13.18 so all the desires of them that are delighted in God are referred to God There are many streetes in Ierusalem yet there is but one Halleluia which is sung in all those streetes In like sorte there are many desires in a godly man yet there is but one thing God onely which is desired in all these desires For these desires as the kisses of Christ come all from one loue these desires as the curtaines of the tabernable are all tyed together with one string these desires as the goings of Iacob stand all vpon one foote these desires as the streets of Ierusalem sing all one Halleluia So that if thou look into his desires that delighteth in the Lord thou shalt see no iniquitie no contradiction in them But if thou looke into his desires that delighteth in sinne thou shalt say with the Psalmist I see iniquitie Psal. 55.10 and contradiction in the citie For as Manasses was against Ephraim and Ephraim against Manasses and both of them against o Esa. 9.21 Iuda so the desires of the wicked are contrarie to God to themselues All their desires are contrarie to all Gods desires Manasses and Ephraim are both against Iuda There 's iniquitie Some of their desires are contrarie to other some of their desires Manasses is against Ephraim and Ephraim is against Manasses There 's contradiction Therefore the desires of the wicked beeing so contrary to God and to themselues their desires are not giuen to them but they are giuen to their desires p Rom. 1.24 Because though they loue to desire God yet they doe not desire to loue God Though they care not how much God doth for them yet they care not

that I am ashamed to liue longer if it please God and yet again I am not afraid to die because we haue a good Lord. He doth not say Mine owne goodnesse puts me out of feare but Gods goodnesse This goodnesse of God makes me quiet in my conscience and secure in soule readie to embrace death whensoeuer it commeth Wherefore Surely is fitly added For afflictions as waters doe not ouercome the faithfull Nay they come not neere him But contra●iwise the faithfull conquereth afflictions Yea Surely hee is in them all more then a conquerour In warre he is not afraid Rather he greatly hopeth And Surely euen in the verie warre he hopeth The flood of waters commeth not neere to drowne the Arke but lift it vp And so much the higher Surely the arke still riseth as the flood riseth The sea staieth not the Israelites passage It is a dry land for them to march on As a wall moreouer to backe them Surely against all their enemies Tentation not onely is no matter of sorrowe but also on the other side of ioy Surely of great ioy Death is no death but a life and Surely such a life as only of it we may say Behold we liue So happie both in life and death is the faithfull man Surely in the flood of many waters they shall not come neere him To conclude then No calamitie or aduersitie can possibly disseuer that coniunction which faith maketh of euerie godly man with Christ. For feeling the remission of his sinnes assured and sealed vnto him hee contemneth not onely the workes of the world and dismaiments of his conscience but euen the verie feares and terrours of death This our deare brother M. Edward Liuely who now resteth in the Lord lead a life which in a manner was nothing els but a continuall flood of many waters Neuer out of suits of law neuer-ceasing disquieters of his study His goods distrained and his cattell driuen off his ground as Iobs was His deare wife beeing not so well able to beare so great a flood as he euen for verie sorow presently died A lamentable and ruefull case So many children to hang vpon his hand for which he had neuer maintenance neither yet now had stay his wife being gone Well but that sorrowfull time was blowne ouer He was appointed to be one of the cheifest translators And as soone as it was knowne how farre in this trauaile hee did more then any of the rest hee was very well prouided for in respect of liuing For which my L. his Grace of Canterburie now liuing is much to bee reuerenced and honoured But beeing so well to passe both for himselfe and for his children sodainely he fell sicke He was taken with an ague and a squinsey both together And the more vsual that was the lesse dangerous was this accompted but the euent shewes the contrary For the squinsey beeing both by himselfe and his friends not greatly regarded within foure dayes tooke away his life These were many waters and diuerse tribulations Besides a thousand more which I cannot now stand to repeate Yet he carried himselfe so in life and death as these waters seemed not once to come neere him He was professour of the Hebrewe tongue in this Vniuersitie thirtie yeares As his father in law D. Larkyn had been professor of Physicke fiue or sixe and thirtie yeares Which tongue howsoeuer some account of it yet ought to be preferred before all the rest For it is the auncientest the shortest the plainest of all A great part of wisedome as Plato sheweth In Cratylo is the knowledge of true Etymologies These in other tongues are vncertaine in this taking out of the naturall qualities of euery thing that is named In so much as when any man hath found out the Hebrewe Etymology then he neede seeke no further Besides all the Scripture written before the birth of Christ except a fewe chapters of Daniel and Ezra were written in Hebrewe And the Rabbins themselues though they haue no small number of fables and lies in them yet diuers things they haue notwithstanding fit for the opening of the olde Testament Therefore though a man cannot reade the Rabbins yet vnlesse he can vnderstand handsomely well the Hebrewe text he is compted but a maimed or as it were but halfe a Diuine especially in this learned age Lastly diuerse learned men are of opinion to whome I very willingly assent that the holy tongue which was spoken in Paradise shall be eternally vsed in the heauenly Paradise where the Saints shall euer extoll and praise God But this worthy Professor deceased got him great credit as well by the continuance as by the holinesse of his profession For he was not a Professor for one or two yeares as others are In Itineratio Pag. 444. but full thirty yeares together Nathan Cytraeus writeth that in Prage an Vniuersitie of Bohemia where Iohn Hus and Hierome of Prage professed that they that haue continued Professours for the space of twentie yeares together are created Earles and Dukes both together And therefore their style is to bee called Illustres whereas they which are singly and simply but onely either Earles or Dukes are called Spectabiles Neither maketh it any matter that they haue no reuenewes to maintaine Earldomes or Dukedoms For they haue the title notwithstanding euen as Suffragans haue of Bishoppes Our good Brother hauing no such profit or dignitie propounded vnto him but contenting himselfe with his stipend spent halfe his life in this place For hee was vpon threescore yeares old when he died He wrote a book of Annotations vpon the first fiue small Prophets dedicated to that great patron of learning and learned men Sir Francis Walsingham Wherin diuerse speeches and phrases of the Prophets are compared with the like in Poets and Oratours both Greeke and Latine and many notes neither vnpleasant nor vnprofitable to bee read are set out of the Rabbins But in mine opinion he took greatest pains in his Chronologie which he dedicated to Doctor Iohn Whitgift the reuerend late Archbishop of Canterbury This booke indeede is full of hidden learning and sheweth infinite reading in stories I asked him within this little while whether hee had written no more bookes He told me he had but printed no more because hee had no time to peruse and perfect them for other businesse Now by businesse he meant I weene especially his studie and care to performe well his taske in the translation Wherein how excellently he was imployed all they can witnes who were ioyned with him in that labour For though they be the verie flower of the Vniuersitie for knowledge of the tongues yet they will not be ashamed to confesse that no one man of their companie if not by other respects yet at least wise for long experience and exercise in this kinde was to be compared with him For indeede he was so desirous that this businesse begunne by the commaundement of our most gracious Soueraigne