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A72989	The rose, and lily Delivered at the lecture, in Ashby de-la-zouch in the county of Leicester. By William Parks, Master of Arts, and curat of Chelaston in the county of Derby.	Parks, William, curat of Chelaston.	1640 (1640)	STC 19303.3; ESTC S124820	66,672	201

was the Church and you shall see Cain persecuted Abel and o Gen. 4 8. Mat. 23.35 slew him Abraham was the father p Rom. 4.16 of the faithfull and yet in his family Ismael persecuted Isaack and mocked him q Gal. 4 30. Gen. 21.9 Israell was Gods peculiar people yet what did they suffer in the time of their foure hundred Yeares captivity in Aegypt under Pharaoh After they came out of Aegypt how were they afflicted by the Canaanites the Moabites the Ammonites the Philistines which were r Numb 33.55 as prickes in their eyes and thornes in their sides What cruell persecution did they suffer under Antiochus Epiphanes in whose time all were commanded ſ 2 Macab 6. to bee put to death that would not depart from the law of their God Descend downe to the time of the Gospell what exquisite torments have been inflicted upon many Myriads of Christians under the ten most bloody and grievous persecutions some being torne in peeces with wild beasts as Ignatius some broyled on the Gridiron as Lawrence some stoned to death as t Eusch Eccle● hist lib. 6. cap. 40. Metras others burned to death by a slow fire as Iulianus u Ibi lib. 8. cap. 39. of Cappadocia and the rest put to that accuratenesse of torments that wee may say of them as the Christians did certifie the Pope w Turk Hist. page 13. in their letters that they did every day suffer that which Christ their King suffered but once to bee dayly buffetted scourged peirced So that what would now be accounted cruelty was then accounted the Emperours clemency x Eus li. 8. cap. 12. When he commanded the right eye of the christians to be plucked out and the empty place seared and the left leg to bee cut off and the place seared and condemned them to the mine-pits And to shew that they did seeke rather jugulare animos quam corpora to slay their soules then their bodies they did put them to such lingring torments as if they meant to kill them often Morsque minus poenae quam mora mortis habet It is a greater payne to be long a dying then death it selfe yet I read that one Peter a Page to the Emperour refusing to sacrifice at Nicomedia was hoysed up y Idem ibi cap. 6. on high and his naked body scourged and his flesh rent in peeces with the lash of the whip and when the bones were bare they powred vineger mixed with salt into the wounds and bruised parts of his body and then hee was layed on a Gridiron with a slow fire under to consume him untill hee dyed Quis talia fando z Virgil. Temperet à lacrymis If it bee a griefe to us seriously to consider those torments what was it in them to endure them Not long after the tenth persecution ended the the heresy of Arrius a Perkins on Heb. 11. raised up by the divell brought as greivous persecutions on the Church as ever the Pagans did dying and colouring the Easterne churches with the bloud of GODS Saints for the space of fourscore yeares together Since that time what have some of the Romanists effected With what rage and malice fire and faggot have they proceeded against all those that professe not their errors What b Conr. Theodor. Dieter excommunications burnings killings hangings they have inflicted upon the true professours of the Gospell the massacre of Paris and the death of many thousands of Christians both in this Kingdome and others do sufficiently testify So that the Church did seeme to dwell like the man in the Gospell c Marke 5.3 among the tombs And Christianus d Luther loc Com. Tit. Calamit seemes to bee crucianus A christian may seeme to bee derived as well from Christs crosse as from Christ Sanguine fundata est Ecclesia sanguine crevit Sanguine succrevit sanguine finis erit The Church was begun with the blood of Abel strengthened by the bloud of the Prophets increased by the bloud of the Martyrs and all e 2 Tim. 3 12. that will live godly in Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution If any should aske the reason why the Church is subject to the prickles of persecution I answer it is both in respect of the godly and in respect of the wicked An iron being put into the fire and heat red hot is afterward layd on the anvill and then every blow struck upon it doth make it the fitter for use but it makes the instruments the Anvill and the Hammer the harder so Gods children being heat red hot as it were in the fire of persecution it makes them the better and the more plyable to gods service but it makes the wicked which are the instruments to bee the harder First then it is for the benefit of Gods children Candidior tribulationum aculeis efficieris f Angelomtin loc The Church is more white and beautifull by the prickles of persecution The Church is compared to the Moone g Sol. Song 6. Ecclesia sicut luna defectus habet ortus frequentes sed defectibus suis crevit his meruit ampliari dum persecutionibus minuitur martyrio coronatur saith S. Ambrose h Hexam li. 9. The Church like the Moone hath ●ifings and settings fulls and waynes but shee increaseth by her defects and deserves to be augmented while shee is lessened by persecution and crowned with Martyrdome We cannot bee crowned except wee fight neither can wee triumph except wee have got the victory when we fight and conquer then may tropheys bee set up In the shop of a Ieweller the Iewells would not bee so beautifull if there were no iron instrumens to furbish them Solomons Temple had never been so glorious if there had been no craggy stones to build it so Gods children would never be so beautifull in themselves nor so glorious in the fight of God if they had no persecution to try them When we sit by the waters of Babylon then wee remember thee i Psal 137.1 O Sion As the Prophet David sayes of himselfe k Psal 119 17. It is good for me that I have been afflicted so may many a member of the Church say it is good for mee that I have been persecuted Man saith one l Clem Alexand is like unto a vine now a vine as hee there speakes and we here know unlesse it be pruned it will streight way grow wilde so man if hee have no persecution no crosse layd upon him hee will bee ready to forget himselfe and to spurne against his maker Persecution then is like the wind which doth cleanse the good grayne though it blow cold like the fire which doth purify the good gold though it burne hot for the godly are bettered by it their knowledge is sounder then it was their faith stronger their humility lower their goodnes in generall is greater towards GOD towards their neighbours and towards themselves

the things of this World are dumbe they know not the language of the lyar m Eph. 4.25 but their tongues are tipt with truth They are ignorant of the language of the black mouthed swearer but his communication n Mat 5.37 is yea yea and nay nay in a word hee knowes not the language of Babel but speakes the language of Canaan Now there is the sweetnes of Honey in godly discourses but the bitternes of Gall and Worm-wood in wicked words and although wicked men may happily thinke that they find sweetnes in them yet they are like the Bee though they bee Honey in the mouth yet they have a sting in the tayle They are like S. Iohns booke o Rev. 10.10 though in the mouth they bee sweet as Honey yet in the belly they are bitter for what Solomon said of a whorish woman p Prov. 5.4 so may I say of them though in the mouth it be sweet as an hony comb yet their end is bitter as Worm-wood Secondly the Church must also shew sweetnes in her works Ad praedicationem novae gratiae secuta est novitas vitae in his qui crediderunt qui conversationem suam inter gentes habentes bonam Christi erant bonus odor in om niloco saith S. Bernard q In Cantic Ser. 60. Newnes of life did follow the preaching of the new grace of the Gospell in them which did beleeve who having their conversation honest among the Gentiles were a sweet favour unto Christ in every place For Plantae quae benè olent bonam famam nomen pollicentur r Hier Card Sinines Somni li. 1. cap 30. those Flowers that smell sweetly do signify a good name and report Odor bonus est nomen bonum hoc de bono opere tanquam de flore odor procedit saith Saint Bern. ſ Vbi prius A sweet smell is a good report which proceedes from good workes even as sweetnes doth from the Flower The good works of the godly cast a sweet smell even to them that are without Bona quidem per se sunt aromata virtutum per se redolere videntur sed cumulatiore gratia flagrant cum de unctione spiritus suavitatis afperguntur odore t Gilleber in Cantic Ser. 33. The spices of vertues are good and smell sweet in themselves if in the heathen but they give the more fragrant smell when they are sprinkled with the odor of sweetnes by the anoynting of the spirit in the godly good works are an odour of a sweet smell unto men and a Sacrifice acceptable well pleasing unto God as the Apostle tells the Philippians u Phil. 4 18. concerning their charity The Prophet Hosea w Hos 14.7 speaking of the Church sayes it shall grow as the Vine the sent thereof shall bee as the Wine of Lebanon It is written x Daneus from Pliny lib. 14.7 of some Vines that in the time of their florishing they send forth so sweet a smell that not onely the Vine-yards themselves but the Countrey round about is refreshed with the sweet savour thereof so that if any Serpents bee neere they are driven away by the sweet smell of the Vines so the conversation of the godly is no lesse fragrant not only in themselves but also to all that are round about A good name is better then precious oyntment y Eccles 7.1 And the godly have their conversation so honest among the Gentiles z 1 Pet 2.12 that they may by their good workes which they behold glorify GOD in the day of visitation And their sweet conversation doth drive away Serpents whether we expound Serpents as S. Austin doth a In Psal 42. Serpentes vitia tua sunt The Serpents are thy sins then their works of light expell those workes of darknes or else as S. Bern. doth b De Pass Dom cap 45. Quid melius per Serpentes quam diabolicas suggestiones accipiamus What is better meant by Serpents then the suggestions of Satan which doe secretly creepe into the minds of men then if wee looke upon that brasen Serpent Christ Iesus which was lifted up upon the Crosse by the eye of a true and lively Faith working by love and sending forth the sweet savour of good works we shall bee c Ephe 6.16 able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked The smell of the Churches oyntments d Cant. 4.10 11. that is her graces is better then all spices and the smell of her garments is like the smell of Lebanon But when Isaac smelled the savour of Iacobs garments they were nor his owne for e Gen. 27.15 Rebeccah tooke goodly rayment of her elder Son Esau and put them on Iacob As hee was cloathed with the rayment of his elder brother which gave such a sweet smell so the Church is cloathed not with the garment of her owne righteousnes but shee puts on the glorious robe of her elder brother CHRIST IESVS by which she is made the sweet Rose of Sharon Thirdly as the Rose is dead in winter but shoots forth againe at the Spring so though the members of the Church ly a long time in the grave yet at the Spring of the resurrection they shal rise againe As long as the root is quick the branches will not die but flourish Christ is the root f Rev. 5.5 22.11 we are the branches g John 15.5 and our root did not rot in the ground but rose from the grave to certify us the branches of the resurrection As long as the head is above the water the body cannot bee drowned Christ is h 1 Cor. 11.3 Eph. 5.23 the head wee are i 1 Cor. 12.27 the body but Christ our head is risen from the dead and his members the Church shall assuredly rise from death to the Resurrection of life As Christ k Church Hom. of the Resurrection dyed not for himselfe no more did hee rise againe for himselfe but for us Quia tu Redemptor noster suscepit mortem ne mori timeremus ita ostendit resurrectionem ut nos resurgere posse confideremus for as our Redeemer dyed that wee should not be afrayd of death so he rose againe that we may bee sure of our Resurrection unto life GODS Covenant with his Church l Jerem. 31.33 I will be their GOD and they shall be my people m Pe kins on the Creed is an everlasting covenant to last for ever but if God should leave his people in the grave for ever how could they bee called the people of GOD for n Mat. 22.31 for GOD is not the GOD of the dead but of the living and therefore seeing Gods Covenant is everlasting to all the Faithfull must rise from the dead that God may alwayes bee said to bee their God and the godly be alwayes said to be his people It is an especiall part of Gods glory to shew forth his mercy on