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A07776	Three homilies upon these three sentences folowing Psal. 55.22. Cast thy burthen vpon the Lord. Iohn 14.27. My peace I giue vnto you. Luk.10.42. One thing is necessarie. Composed by Philip Mornay, lord of Plessis-Marly.; Trois homélies. English.	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Ratcliffe, Anthony, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 18156; ESTC S100071	41,038	192

workers of iniquitie who make a trade thereof who make you pillowes thereof to sleepe vpon Should we sinne Rom 6.1.15 sayth the Apostle that grace might abound God forbid Know ye not that vnto whom soever yee yeeld your selues servants to obey his servants yee are vnto whom yee obey be it of sinne vnto death or of obedience vnto righteousnesse Yee then that are servants of sinne who suffer it to raigne quietly in you what can you expect but death even eternall death But wouldest thou haue part in this promise to be eased of this burthen of sin Then confesse thy sinne freely vnto the Lord with sighes and teares So long as I held my peace sayth David my bones waxed olde thy hand was heavie vpō me my strēgth was changed into the drought of Sommer Psal 32.3.4.5 See him here as it were overwhelmed vnder his burthen I acknowledge my sinne vnto thee I sayd I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord and thou forgavest the punishment of my sinne See how he is eased both of his sinne and punishment Say vnto him then with the Prophet Daniell I haue sinned Dan. 9. I haue done wickedly vnto thee belongeth righteousnesse but vnto mee confusion of face but Lord doe thou forgiue And doubt not but Christ will say vnto thy soule if thy soule speake truely Thy sinnes are forgiven thee goe in peace thy peace is made with GOD be at peace in thy Conscience for he also it is in whom this promise is yea and Amen In him who calleth vs Math. the 11.28 saying Come vnto mee all yee that travayle and are heavie laden if with afflictions I will refresh you Heb. 2.18 For as I haue suffered and was tempted so am I of power to succour those who are tempted If with perplexities alas are not your Callings properly my yoke My yoke is easie and my burden is light seeing I haue layd it vpon you yea if of sinne 1 Ioh. 3.8 am I not come to destroy the workes of the Devill to vnloose sinne and to saue sinners Come then and you shall finde rest vnto you soules To him therefore with the Father and the holy Spirit for the riches of his grace be given from our soules all honour and glory for ever and ever AMEN AN HOMILIE VPON THESE WORDS My peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you not as the world giueth it c. Ioh. 14.27 OVR LORD IESVS approaching neere vnto his Passion making as it were his last will and testament among his Apostles he leaues and giues vnto them his peace it behooveth vs to knowe wherein this Legacie and gift consisteth seeing it extends it selfe vnto all who haue need thereof Ioh. 17. who by their Word haue beleeved in his Name and so much the more because that in the words of our Saviour there is alwayes a mystery a heavenly treasure hidden vnder the earthly sound of his words which we must search and looke into by examining of them proportioning the sence according to the worth and excellencie of his person who vttereth them For example When he speaketh of washing vs of nourishing vs and of healing vs wee must vnderstand himselfe to be our washing our nourishment our healing wee beeing taught thereby to raise the signification of these words vnto the pitch of his meaning who speaketh and thereby to apprehend both the effects of his holy spirit in vs but chiefely in our soules being naturally spirituall If thou didst content thy selfe with a lesse gift Alexander would answere thee that if it suffice thy base minde yet it is not worthy of his magnanimitie And our Saviour Christ would answere thee who wouldest content thy selfe with temporall blessings that he came not into the world nor suffered so many things to pamper thy belly or thee to giue to thy bodie all cōtentments And therfore the question is here of a blessing and comfort truly spirituall For his spirit whom he ordaineth the true Executor of this his Testament will sufficiently witnesse vnto vs the nature of this Legacie The Comforter sayth he who is the holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name A spirituall Executor as well both of a spirituall disposition as of a spirituall donation of the donation which hee hath granted vnto vs even of all that which he hath gotten and purchased for vs by his life and the price of his life I say of his life from the very first entrance whereinto even the heavenly Hosts haue sung Luk. 2.14 Glory be to God on high and peace on earth good will towards men Even his Passion whereof in so many preceding ages the Prophets did foretell vnto vs Esa 53.5 The chastisement of our peace was vpon him Both procuring peace betweene heaven and earth the onely reconciliation of the world I leaue vnto you sayth he my peace But what peace Truely vnder this word peace many blessings are comprehended and likewise many evills excluded And the strictest way wee take it it stretcheth it selfe very farre namely vnto the good of civill societie The which cannot be better cōprehended then by the representation of the contrary For example domesticall quarrels being the ruine of families publicke warre the combustion of States an abridgement of all calamities that either the malice of men or the mischiefe of ages can bring forth Here then he leaveth vnto vs a peace which preserveth vs therein such a peace as a Father may leaue vnto his Children by his Will and Testament setting bounds touching their portions curbing in their strifes and cōtentions Or like to those of a good Prince who in good pollicie passeth them over to his Subiects after his death vnder which peace every one sitteth quietly vnder his owne vine and figge tree Well then shall this peace be worthy to be vttered by the mouth of our Saviour of him who is King of Kings the Father of Spirits of the Prince of peace even of peace it selfe of our Saviour God and man God borne amongst vs God who dyed for vs Let vs looke for no greater nor more excellent thing Let it be graunted that hee leaue vnto vs the peace which Augustus himselfe had what will it profit thee if the fire consume thy harvest If the worme gnaw thy conscience If thy conscience torment thee Let vs graunt that thy fieldes bring forth plentifully that thy trade prospers that thy familie flourisheth that thy person triumpheth What will all that benefit thee if thy taste be gone thy spirit feaverish thy soule vpon the racke eternall death in thy bosome a hell in thy Conscience even then when thou thinkest most of all to haue made a covenant with death an agreement with hell to haue confirmed thy peace with every Creature yet art thou odious even vnto thy Creator Oft times there is an externall peace which causeth civill warres a bodily well fare which kindles in vs spirituall discases temporal good things which preiudice the

judgements of God against Kings and against Nations after them the Apostles sent to Preach the onely word of salvation vnto the ends of the world to the ruine of false gods and of their Idolls the pretended protectors of States and of Common-weales Those Prophets and Apostles being consequently bound to defend their cause against the persecution of those who disgraced them And so in like manner those who in the Church as they are dispensers of the Gospell hold their place at this day For with what confidence and with what wisedome did Elias and Elizeus with their cloakes stand against Kings Princes and the Priests of Israel Iohn Baptist with his garment of Cammels haire withstood King Herod The Apostles being poorefishermen and vnlearned vndertooke the ruine of Sathans kingdome the Conquest of the world vnder the Crosse of Christ Therefore let those who succeede them in this office accept of this Commission in all humilitie and say Lord who am I that thou hast called mee therevnto And what man is he though never so great that is sufficient for it But yet as vncapable as I am even the least in my selfe yet being assisted by thee who art the greatest what am I not able to doe For so Esay sayth Isa 6. Woe is me for I am vndone because I am a man of polluted lips no sooner had God touched his lips with a liue coale from the Altar but he changeth his speech Who shall I send sayth the Lord he answeres chearefully behold I am here send mee But with what Commission Say vnto this people in hearing you shall heare and not vnderstand c. Make fatte the heart of this people c. Let a man haue ten times as many naturall gifts as Esay had could he without this assistance from the Lord haue vndergone this Charge In like manner the Prophet Ieremy I haue set thee this day sayth the Lord over Nations and over Kingdomes that thou shouldest plucke vp and pull downe that thou shouldest build and plant A pooresilly Priest of Anothoth Iere. 1.1 Therefore he that will wonder let him yet wonder at it Ah Lord God beholde I cannot speake saith he for I am but a childe And behold he had no sooner touched his mouth but presently he girdeth vp his reynes and is resolved that whereas be-before he acknowledged himselfe to be but a childe now he begins to be a man and the terror of men So likewise Christ tells the Apostles Math. 10.19 Yee shall be brought before Kings and you shall beare witnesse of mee even to the ends of the earth being but men of meane condition to stand astonished at the onely looke of a man of authoritie the boldest amongst them at the word of a poore silly mayd But take no care sayth the Lord I will put that into your mouth at the very instant which you shall say Feare not saith he also vnto S. Paul hold not thy peace Act. 18.10 for I am with thee And what he sayd to them let vs take as spoken vnto all vnto all who are Ministers of the same word being never destitute of his spirit nor of his strength to the pulling downe s yth the Apostle of strong holds 2 Cor. 10. casting downe all counsells and every high thing which exalts it selfe against the knowledge of God bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ having vengeance ready prepared against all d sobedience What can be said more And be not dismayd at this that the liue coale hath not touched thy lippes nor the breath of Christ breathed vpon thee the signes of his word and spirit provided that thou hast his Commission with thee and his word in thy mouth Those signes had their place once for all Timothy had not received them whom notwithstanding the Apostle summons before God and before the Lord Iesus vnto whom he shall giue an account 2 Tim. 4.1 2. Where he sayth Preach the word But how in season and out of season reproue rebuke exhort doe the worke of an Evangelist It may be thou shalt be hated of those which are without and despised sometimes of those within wilt thou haue it bteter cheape then the Mr of the Vineyard Which of the Prophets or which of the Apostles were not abused stoned and vexed Say with David Psal the 31. I haue beene a reproach vnto my adversaries vnto my neighbours much more and those of my acquaintance seeing mee fled from me But Lord I haue sayd thou art my God I trust in thee Learne thou also with the same great Apostle 2 Cor. 6.7.8 to goe through honour and dishonor through good report and evill report by the word of truth by the power of God by the armor of righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left Be not discouraged also if thou fallest vpō a barren ground as it were sowed with salt vpon a brutish and stiffe-necked people Who hath beleeved sayth Esay our report And after him our Saviour himselfe Ioh. 12.36 And of sixe hundred thousand which went on t of Aegypt with Moses ready armed how few of them entred into the Land of promise Of so many people whom our Lord had healed had preached vnto even the eternall word how few of them did beleeue and continued following him How many thinkest thou were there of them who helpt to blaspheme him at his death And notwithstanding did God therefore cease to devide Canaan by lyne vnto his people The word of the Crosse did that cease to subdue the world yea to triumph in the world and over the world Heare our Saviour Christ himselfe in Esay the 49.4 complaining and in his consolation receiue thou thine I sayd I haue laboured in vaine and spent my strength for nothing notwithstanding my reward is with the Lord and my worke with my God The Lord who answeres him afterwards I haue heard thee hold it as if it were already done in an acceptable time in the day of salvation haue I succoured thee It must be a long time after least thou shouldst waxe weary yet in his time in an acceptable time in a time by him eternally pre-ordained And thus of this word which thou publishest to the clearing of his truth to the convincing of errors to the advancement of the kingdom of his Christ to the dissolution of the tyranny of Antichrist waite for the fruit and expect the effect in his time but in the meane time be not thou carelesse but vse all the means to manure the ground which he hath committed vnto thee And say vnto him Lord this ground will be but Iron if the heaven be of Brasse From thy onely blessing I waite for the fruit of my labour by thy Commandement I plant and in this hope I water And thus beholde how in the difficulties of our Callings we are to comfort our selues in the Lord. Is there no other burden which we are to cast vpon the Lord Yes verily the weightiest doth yet

eternall Nay let vs yet goe further even he who tells vs plainely that he came not to set peace in the world but warre who forewarneth his Apostles that for his sake housholds shall be devided Kingdomes troubled his Disciples persecuted from place to place That even then they should esteeme themselues happie when they shall be persecuted for his name He hath not promised vs a deceitfull and fraudulent peace which flatters many times the bodie to the hurt of the soule and makes vs forsake our inheritance for a pease and for very huskes and therefore he addes further I giue vnto you my peace not the worlds peace but contrariwise make your account to haue the world for your enemy What else doe wee see in all the liues of the Apostles for the space of so many ages in the death of so many Martyrs Not the peace of this world how long shall we be children and how long vnder the tutorship of the Law onely to taste and desire milke and hony Not peace with men seeing for this cause it behooved that God should become man and that heaven should come downe vpon earth Could not some Salomon haue given vs that peace But my peace peace with God peace in our selues with our selues which the onely Prince of peace the father of eternitie can giue vnto vs. Even he as the Prophet tells vs Mich. 5.3.5 whose goings forth haue beene from everlasting of whom it is written this man shall be the peace being able both to accomplish it and to giue it and is that very peace himselfe The governor of Israell of whose comming Haggai the Prophet sayth Hag. 2.6 I will set peace in this place to wit in my Temple in my Church sayth the Lord of Hostes A peace notwithstanding far different from that which carnall people which flesh and bloud comprehends Seeing that the government of this Prince of peace is vpon his shoulder A proofe that he should haue much to suffer himselfe even this governour whole kingdome is wholly disdained throwne downe and crushed and yet therein properly cosisteth the peace which he bringeth vs that in his wounding we might and healing for what temporall peace can wee expect from him and by him whose life in this world was a continuall warrefare He will say vnto vs Shall the servant thinke to be better intreated then the Sonne then the heire then the Father of the Familie Well then sayth he I giue you my peace mine such a peace as no other but I could make I. peace with God whom no other but Man God could vndertake Your iniquities had made a separation betweene you Isai 59.2 and your God and hath made him to hide his face from you nor would he vouchsafe to looke vpon you neither could he but in his anger and to your ruine and eternall damnation And therefore behold now how that by my mediation you haue peace with him and that in my bloud which I am ready to shed for you is made the propitiation for your sinnes a mystery heretofore hidden from other ages but now a myracle which will fill all the world with astonishment confound all humane wisdome in their discourses whence it is that the Prophet long agoe being ravished in himselfe cryeth out and sayth Esa 52.7 Oh how beautifull are the feete of him vpon the mountaines who bringeth glad tydings who proclaime peace and salvation vnto Israell And you haue this priviledge to be of them not onely to partake of this salvation but also to be the heraulds dispensers therof to proclaime the benefit of my death the forgiuenesse of sins vnto the world to manifest vnto Sion this good tydings Thy God reigneth Isa 52.7 and yet not with an iron rod for who then could beare it But with meekenesse and with mercie Zech. 9.9 Whereof you inioy the priviledges of his kingdome that is righteousnesse peace and ioy in the holy Ghost Rō 14.17 And therefore wee reade so often in the Writings of the Apostles Grace be with you and peace from Iesus Christ Peace through grace for without the grace of God there is no peace And therefore so often it is sayd Mercy and peace are mett together Gal. 6.16 one proceeding from the other Iude the 2. verse and both of them in Christ alone Thence it is that the Lord himselfe tells vs. Esay 48.22 57.21 that there is no peace for the wicked because there can bee no peace where there is no grace What soever peace they seeme to haue in outward appearance yet alwaies sayth the Prophet they are like a troubled Sea And there can be no grace but onely in Christ In Christ in whose name God sends to proclaime peace every where Act. 10.36 In Christ Ephe. 2.14 Rom. 1.5 who himselfe is our peace In whom being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God peace with all men Truly that peace which we seeke and which wee finde in him But here it is time now to examine what is the efficacie thereof Certainely it is such that in this peace alone we finde whatsoever is in all others and yet in all others put together we finde nothing of that which is found in this peace perfect in it selfe and makes a supply to all others Now three kindes of peace are vsually recōmended vnto vs. And first peace with all men as the Apostle saith Rom. 12.18 if it be possible as much as lyeth in you haue peace with all men But hath a man it when he will or did even the Apostle himselfe obtaine it And seeing such manner of speeches are doubtfull is it not rather to be desired then hoped True Christians especially being the obiects of the hatred and fury of the world secondly peace amongst our selues As when our Saviour sayth vnto his Disciples Mark 9.51 haue salt in your selues and be at peace one with another But amongst such varietie of humaine passions and so many civill broyles what salt what wisedome will suffice to season it if the bond of the spirit and true Christianitie come not betweene for even amongst the Apostles themselues at the evening of the Passion and in the presence of their maister yea even of such a maister who saw the very depth of their soules what disputes had they And now last of all peace amongst our selues To which purpose the Apostle exhorteth vs. 1 Thess 5.13 Be at peace among your selues 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say possesse your soules in patience But againe how can this be where the outward man striveth against the inward the flesh lusteth against the spirit the spirit of flesh against the spirit of God the law of our members against the law of our minde tameth it leadeth it captiue is sold vnder sinne But in that peace which we haue with God by Christ alone wee recover all this even peace with all men will they nill they Because he who hath peace with the Creator