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Come and see. The blisse of brightest beautie: shining out of Sion in perfect glorie Being the summe of foure sermons preached in the Cathedrall Church of Glocester at commandment of superiours. By William Loe.
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Loe, William, d. 1645.
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Come and see THE BLISSE OF BRIGHTEST BEAVTIE SHINING OVT OF SION IN PERFECT GLORIE Being the summe of foure sermons preached in the Cathedrall Church of Glocester at commandment of superiours BY WILLIAM LOE Imprinted at London by Richard Field for Mathew Law 1614. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND RIGHT WORTHY GENTLEman Sir William Sandis Knight and to that wel-disposed very Christian Ladie the Ladie Margaret Sandis his vertuous wife and ioyfull consort grace and glorie be multiplied in Christs kingdomes of grace and glorie MVch honored The Christian neighborhood and kind commerce both of bountifull liberalitie and gracious respect which my selfe and mine receiued from you and yours this time tweluemoneth by our contiguous vicinitie hath occasioned me to be thus bold in saluting you after long silēce with a paper token the onely miniment and memoriall of a Scholer in this last and worst age that hath nothing for vs but bookes amongst the best and by-words amongst the worst as her onely bequest and our legacie Howsoeuer notwithstanding it is the heartie ioy of Israel the vnspeakeable comfort of Iacob that still some of the precious balme of Gilead that falls vpon Aarons head doth distill downe euen vnto the skirts of his priestly clothing And whereas others may haue spices and balmes to preserue their bodies for a time and monuments of brasse and stone to continue a future glorie to their memorials yet euer those haue bene most enobled whose remembrances the tokens of vertue and godlinesse haue endeuored to eternize and keepe from the rottennesse of corrupted baserie and obscure obliuion And albeit the purport of this whole proiect is but the turning of my tongue into my pen and the matter it selfe is but a preaching againe as it were the same words another saboth day as the Gentiles besought Paule in the Acts yet I pray you entertaine them as the presence of my spirit the pledge of mine heart and the earnest of that affection and loue which I iustly beare vnto you And whereas before I spake in a great auditory in the presence and countenance of a liuing man am now content in this my paines to bury my selfe in a dead letter of lesse effectuall perswasion But principally I protest to this only end and purpose that God might be magnified if it be his holy will in me the weakest meanest of his seruāts both by the meditations of mine heart and in the endeauors of mine hand The Treatise is of the loue of God deuoted vnto your selues in whom I haue obserued much loue toward God toward your brethren without and amongst your selues at home Goe on then blessed in the Lord Iesu in this sacred vettue that disposeth you to God so amiablie and you shall find these holy encreases in you 1. You shall euer desire to thinke on him that made you 2. Gladly and willingly to frequent his house the pallace of praier 3. Duly to speake talke of him 4. Often to heare of him by his messengers and to meditate of that you heare 5. Readie will you be to giue for his sake 6. Ioyfull that you suffer whatsoeuer it be for Gods honour 7. Duly to bowe your hearts to the obedience of his holy lawes 8. Yea you wil loue them that loue the Lord and despise and hate them that hate him 9. Neither will you loue this world nor anything therein vnlesse it be for the Lords cause 10. Yea in a word you will loue your friend in the Lord and your enemie for the Lord. Long may the blessing of this diuine loue which is the beautifull Idea of your soules sparkle and flame in you Let the God of heauen grant that the distempered humours of misperswasion may neuer quench it within you nor the ouerflowings of vngodlinesse in the world euer put it out but let the light of Gods owne most blessed countenance for euer and euer shine vpon you and cause it to be enflamed eternally I beseech the God of heauen and of earth to multiplie his richest blessings vpon your selfe your Ladie and your children for euermore Euen so Lord Iesu be it The Colledge of Glou. Febru 20. 1611. Yours because you are of Christ. WILLIAM LOE TO THE CHRISTIAN READER BVT ESPECIALLY TO E. B. HIS VERY much respected friend Grace and Glory LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them that hate him flie before him As the smoke vanisheth so let them perish at thy presence ô Lord that haue euill will at Sion But let them that loue and seeke the Lord be euer ioyfull and glad in him let them be telling his praises from day to daie And if there be any man so brutish that loueth not the Lord Iesus let him be had in execration Maranatha Seeing man being fallen is raised by Christ onely man is returned to God hauing turned awaie from all good The Angels that fell are damned man that sinned is pardoned To man God hath giuen a motion neuer to ceasse vntill he rest in him grace to guide him goodnes to imbrace him messengers of glad tidings to instruct him faith to furnish him with the fulnesse of perswasion sanctimony to dignifie him in this life glorie to deifie him in the other life Seeing with Iesus Christ also is the fulnesse of ioy whose name is saluation whose passion redemption whose sacrifice satisfaction whose bloud purgation whose resurrectiō sanctification whose ascension eternall glorification And seeing that the Lord Iesus Christ is loue substantially hauing nothing in him selfe but himselfe being loue it selfe essentially not accidentally he is also loue causally causing it in others as in the Elements in the creatures in the sweete symphonie of the whole vniuerse and in the bitter iarres of mans corrupted nature making men to be of one mind in an house and of one heart in a common-wealth He is loue actiuely louing all things he hath made man more particularly his redeemed most especially with a loue to the end in the end without end Louing them in their election when they could not loue him louing them in their redemption when they would not loue him louing them externally for they haue a promise to enioy their outward blessings louing them internally for their hearts shall be comforted louing them eternally for they shall euer be blessed with him in heauenly things He is loue passiuely most worthie to be beloued being louing euerie daie in multiplying his blessings being louing euery way in magnifying his mercies louing vs first in preuenting vs mercifully louing vs in continuance in guiding vs powerfully louing vs last in perfecting vs eternally Yea so louing that if he go to punish he walkes a soft pace he comes in the coole of the day but to shew mercie he runnes for he is gracious righteous yea our God is mercifull punishing three or fowre of the generation of the godlesse but shewing mercy to thousands that loue him and
Ieremies proclamation vsed in his Lamentations and say vnto you as if Christ himselfe spake in person and shewing you his sufferings should crie Haue ye no regard all ye that passe by this way Behold and see if there be any sorrow like vnto my sorrow which is done vnto me and wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath For what could he haue suffered that he did not suffer He was most lamentably afflicted by all sorts of men for whom he suffered Despised he was of Iewes 2. Scorned of Gentiles Princes of the earth stood vp and kings banded themselues against the Lord and against his Christ. 4. Priests conspire in counsell and choose a murtherer rather then the Lord of life Souldiers deuide his vestures 6. His owne seruants flie from him Iudas betraies him Peter denies him Thus we may on all sides see Iewes and Gentiles Princes and Priests souldiers and seruants doing whatsoeuer the Lord of heauen had determined before to be done Looke vpon him againe and see him perplexed in all his members with loathsome spittings in his blessed face with piercing thornes vpon his sacred head with buffets vpon his comely cheekes with stripes vpon his manly backe and with the transverse part of the crosse vpon his glorious shoulders 3. Impeached in his estate with scornefull reproches his good name wronged with blasphemies his honor trampled vpon with shamelesse obloquies his holy garments shared with profane lottery and his reputation stained with the association of theeues 4. Tormented in his senses his touch with the piercing nayles his sent with the loathsomnesse of Caluarie the place of dead sculs his hearing with wicked detractions his sight with the sorrow of his blessed mother and with the moane of his beloued disciple his taste with gall and vineger Inwardly also distressed for his soule is heauie euen vnto the death so that he cries Father if it be possible let this cup passe from me and sweateth clots of bloud that trikle downe to the earth to blesse it that was accursed At which time an Angell is sent from heauen to comfort him Yea in the extremity of this his vnspeakeable passion he cries with a loud voice My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Yet none of this nor all this could suffice vntill he had yeelded vp his sacred soule into the hands of his heauenly Father Blessed and beloued men fathers and brethren in this our Beloued is not this his zealous loue the roseall beautie of our benediction 1. Is not this that bloud that purgeth vs from all our sinnes 2. that speaketh better things for vs then the bloud of Abel for that called for vengeance but this craues for vs mercie 3. Is not this the sacrifice whereby we haue remission of our sinne 4. Is not this the reconciliation whereby wee do partake of the diuine nature this sacred bloud being shed into our hearts by the Spirit of God 1. Is not this red sea the bath for all sinners to cure vs of our leprosies of incontinency of our lethargies of ingratitude of our dropsies of couetousnesse and of our palsies of inconstancy and strayings aside from God 3. Is not this the oblation that maketh God propitious and a louing father vnto vs openeth the kingdome of heauen that was shut and sealeth vnto vs all the holy promises of God Let then a beleeuing soule say O Lord Iesus what shall I repay vnto thee for this thy loue I owed the debt and thou didst pay it I haue sinned and thou art punished this whole worke of thine is singular patience the performance of it wonderfull humility the cause vnspeakeable charity I haue circuited the whole earth and can finde no where any such loue as in thy glorious passion the breadth whereof is Charity diffused dilating it selfe into the fowre parts of the world The length is long suffering for thou hast borne mans iniquities the height is the hope of heauen and a certaine assurance of the same The depth of it is deliuerance from the lowest deepe the pit of fatall and finall destruction If any should perswade me to come downe from the high meditation of this sacred mystery I should greatly refuse it for it shall euer be a bundle of Myrrhe betweene my breasts yea here will I die and not descend vntill the Lord stretch his hand from heauen and take me into his holy sanctuary But to the retchlesse and respectlesse soule which regardeth none of this our welbeloued saith farther See what I suffer these paines these grones these moanes these nayles these thornes this speare this profusion and red sea of crimson bloud yet am I much more inly tormented that thy wilfull soule should yet be vnthankfull for this so vnspeakable loue for this so vnutterable and grieuous passion sustained for thy sake to make thee a wretched sonne of man by nature to become a blessed sonne of God by grace Let vs beloued and beleeuing brethren take yet a reuiew of this blessed beauty in the sacred mixture of white and red for he is ruddy both in himselfe and in his mysticall members 1. In himselfe his beauty appeares ruddie for in the sacrament he is white in the bread and red in the wine therefore in the Scripture stiled sometime Manna which was white like the christall dew and sometime a Vine which yeeldeth red grapes to glad the heart of man The grapes of this sacred vine were the parts of his body the crosse the wine presse his bloud the holy liquor thereof making glad both God and man God in the holy obedience of his sacred Sonne purchasing himselfe a glorious kingdome and man in the saluation of his sinfull soule These sacred seales of bread and wine shew the Lords death vntill he come againe Iosephs coate besprinkled with bloud portended him to old Israel as dead but not actually but these shew our true Ioseph to be crucified and done to death in deed and yet he like Sanpsons lion sends forth euen in after his death sweete hony combes and most redolent graces For his death abateth the sting of death abandoneth sinne despoileth sathan the strong man of his weapons and procureth for vs that die in him the land of the liuing This holy mixture of white and red appeared in the opening of his side whence flowed water and bloud this blessed opening being much more powerfull then Moses rod for that caused water onely to come out of the rocke but this both water and bloud The Fathers therefore obserue that as out of the side of the first Adam the woman was taken by whom came sinne so out of the side of the second Adam the Church should be framed to saue as Noahs arke the sonnes of men from the generall and fearefull deluge of sinne and shame Let then now all Histories tell or historiographers of the world shew if in any age they haue seene or read how that a mans