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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09760	The sick-mans couch A sermon preached before the most noble Prince Henrie at Greenewich, March 12. Ann. 1604. By Thomas Playfere professour of Diuinitie for the Ladie Margaret in Cambridge.	Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.	1605 (1605)	STC 20027; ESTC S105930	37,080	64

towards him and for the vnspeakable loue he hath shewed towardes you For if he gaue his onely begotten sonne to die for you when ye were his enemies now you are sonnes and such deere sonnes in his dearest Sonne what dutie will you denie him what loyaltie will you grudge him what heartie thankfulnes and good will is there which you will not affoard him what faithfull honour and seruice is there which you will not yeeld him In one word ye holy ones of God I speake now to you all beloued he which standes much vpon this obiection hath no faith no repentance no iustifying grace at all in him For the faithfull will neuer make that libertie which Christ hath purchased for them with his pretious blood a cloake to couer their wickednes but rather a spurre to incite them to godlines Neither will they at any time reason thus We will sinne because we are not vnder the law but vnder grace nor yet thus Wee will continew in sinne that grace may abound but alwaies thus By that we are dead to sinne wee gather that wee are aliue to God or els thus The grace of God hath appeared teaching vs to denie vngodlines and worldly lusts Thus you see then how in the regenerate man euery new act of sinne must be bewailed by a new act of repentance For God will not forgiue me except I repent no more then I am bound to tell my brother I forgiue him except he tell me He repents Naaman must wash himselfe seauen times before he can be cleane the Angel of Ephesus must rise from his fall and doe the first workes or els his candlesticke shall be remooued the Church of Corinth though it be neuer so holy yet by sinne violating Gods loue must oftentimes be reconciled anew euen king Dauid in this place though he were a man according to Gods owne heart yet before Nathan would absolue him he was faine to crie peccavi and before God would forgiue him he was faine to confesse his wickednes and to water his couche with his teares The second note is That a great act of sinne must be bewailed with a great act of repētance I meane not that any paine or griefe of ours can make satisfaction for the least of our sinnes or that our contrition can be any cause of remission but onely that where sinne hath abounded there sorrow should abound also that grace may superabound at the last The Schoolemen shew here that great griefe may be considered two waies According to a mans appretiation and according to his intension As the Patriark Iacob in his intension did lament his sonne Iosep hwhome he thought to be dead more pitifully then he did any sinne that we read of but in the appretiation or estimation which he had of the hainousnes of sin certenly he would rather haue lost tenne sonnes then once haue find against God Therefore howsoeuer in intension sorrow for sinne be none of the greatest yet in appretiation they would euer haue it excessiue But we neede not borrow such vncoth words of the Schoolemen to expresse our meaning if we can tell how to vse those wordes which wee haue of our owne For if wee looke narrowly into this place wee shall see that the Prophet Dauid is both waies in the highest degree sorrowfull First by how much the more dearely he esteemed Gods loue and friendshippe then the health of his bodie by so much the more is he greiued that that is violated then that this is indāgered And yet againe how intensiuely and bitterly he bewaileth not so much the sicknes of his body as the cause thereof the sinne of his soule appeareth in that he trifleth not but washeth his bed and watereth his couch with his teares Wee read of three that Christ raised from death Iairus daughter the widowes sonne and Lazarus For raising vp of Iairus daughter many weeping and wailing greatly for her he came to the house and went in where she lay and suffered but a very fewe to goe in with him and tooke her by the hand and said vnto her Maiden arise and straightway she arose and walked and charge was giuen that this should not be to told abroade For raysing vp the widowes sonne much people of the citie weeping with his mother for him who was now caryed out of the gate to be buried he went and touched the cofin and said Young man arise and he that was dead sat vp and began to speake and he deliuered him to his mother the rumor hereof went foorth thorugh out all Iudea For raysing-vp Lazarus when he sawe Mary weepe and the Iewes also weepe which came with her he groned in the spirit he was troubled in himselfe he vnderstanding he had bin dead and buried foure daies wept for him he groned againe he came to the graue hee caused the graue stone to be taken away he lifted vp his eyes to his father he praied very feruently he cryed with a lowde voice Lazarus come foorth then hee that was dead came foorth bound hand and foote with bands and his face was bound with a napkin and Iesus said vnto them Loose him let him goe Now these three sorts of corses are three sorts of sinners Iayrus daugter lying dead in her fathers house resembleth them that sinne by inward consent the widowes sonne being caried out of the gate of the city them that sinne by outward act Lazarus hauing bin dead and buried foure daies them that sinne by continuall custome The first was dead but one hower the second but one day the third fower daies The young maiden lay in a bed the young man in a coffin Lazarus in a graue For the first Christ touched her hand for the second he touched the coffin for the third he touched nothing Before their raysing vp because the maiden figured those that sinne not so much in act as in consent he touched her hand which had bin no great instrument of any act because the young man had sinned in act but not in custome into which hee might haue fallen if he had liued longer he touched the coffin which kept him from custome because Lazarus smelled hauing bin dead now fower daies the first day by conceiuing sinne the second by consenting to sinne the third by acting sinne the fourth by cōtinewing in sinne Christ touched him not at all At the raising of the first few were present and they were charged also to make no wordes of it that the maiden might be lesse shamed which had sinned for the most part but in cōsent at the raising of the second much people of the city were present and the thing was noised abroad farre and neare that the young man might be more ashamed which had sinned also in act at the raising of the third a huge number of Iewes were present which saw his face bound with