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A06190	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.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1614 (1614)	STC 16683; ESTC S103370	35,754	69

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

valiantly that thou be not danted with the diuellish proiects and practises of Gods enemies See the sparkes of this diuine and seraphical fire in Daniel who is stiled vir desideriorum a man neuer satisfied here but still desiring to be replenished with the full sight of God Behold them in Esay the Euangelicall Prophet whose soule desired God in the night season when his eies were bereft of the distractions of the day In Dauid also whose soule thirsted for the liuing Lord and in S. Paule who was straitted for want of this enioyment and cried Who shall deliuer me wretched man that I am from this body of death Doubtlesse these holy soules knew that this loue was all loue vnto them for euen in naturall loue Christ can be all things vnto thee whereas thy gold cannot be thy clothing thy siluer cannot be thy drinke thy bread cannot be thy light Christ alone is all this vnto thee If thou neede necessarie loue he is thy protector and bulwarke If thou wouldest be happy in loue with him is the fountaine of liuing life for euer These considerations and the like caused Gods children neuer to admit any thing neere their hearts contrary to this loue as is the affection inordinate to the creature but loued the creature onely for the Lords sake They euer remoued farre from their holy affections all carking care and ouer much toyling in the businesse and negociations of this world as being the deceitfull bane of this loue vsing indeed the world necessarily but so as if they vsed it not which caused their loue to be continuall not flashes of passion rather then true affection enduring for a moment but resembling the loue of the blessed Saints who see God and loue him for euermore Againe they knew that if we would be couetous and sell our loue none could buy it dearer for he will giue vs a kingdome for it if we would be liberall and giue it none more worthy of it for he is absolutely the soueraigne good But if we would haue our loue strained from vs by violence he also will vnsheath the sword of the Spirit and with the blade thereof deuide asunder the soule and spirit euen with this one stroke If any man loue not the Lord Iesus let him be accursed Anathema Maranatha Furthermore the faithfull soules will hence gather good degrees and steps of grace as first considering euen in nature that if one had lost an eye or were distracted of his wit or were condemned to execution how would we tender him that could and would heale our eye sight restore vs to our right minde and redeeme vs from the dreadfull horror of death But Christ hath illuminated vs with the light of grace that were in the power of darknesse and shadow of death hath giuen vs repentance vnto life and regeneration that were sold to sinne and Sathan and hath purchased for vs a pardon that were condemned to euerlasting torments was made poore that we might be enriched gaue himselfe for me saith Bernard that I might be giuen to my selfe yea we owe him now more for redeeming vs then for making vs. For in the creation he spake the word and it was done but in our redemption it cost him his dearest bloud In this life he hath promised That all things whatsoeuer shall worke together for the best to them that loue him and in the other life the eye hath not seene nor the eare heard nor the heart can conceiue what is his displaied glory in seeing him as he is seene and knowing him as he is knowne And to purchase this inheritance for vs see how vilely he esteemes himselfe being sold for thirtie pence and prizeth vs vs I say wretches at so high a rate as his owne most peerelesse and precious bloud O insensible indurate and intollerable vnthankfulnesse of the sonnes of Adam who do not totally resigne themselues and their affections to this loue But yet for all this behold I pray you and see whether Christ be the beloued of ourage and the Helena of our countrey as we would beare the world in hand he is and be you your selues witnesses in this case Do we diligently seeke him when we haue lost him by our preuarication as wee vse to do those whom our soule loueth and as did that much louing soule Mary Magdalen when she sought him at the fearefull sepulcher and abode there though a weake woman and would not be satisfied with looking but asked Iesus then risen supposing he had bene a gardiner If thou hast taken away my Lord tell me where thou hast put him that I may fetch him O happie soule that so sought that she found Are we often frequenters of his house and louers of the place where his honor dwelleth as Anna did who departed not from the Temple but serued God day and night with prayers and fasting Do we talke of him in our iourneying as did the disciples that trauelled to Emaus Do we willingly heare of him and in hearing lay vp the things in our hearts as did the blessed Virgin Do we restore and giue for his sake as Zacheus and Cornelius did Do we suffer reproch gladly for his glory and reioyce in it as the Apostles did Do we loue his commandements as Dauid did whose studie was in them day and night Do we decline from the loue of this world and as Iacob who wresting with the angell fell lame so we in the businesse with God preuaile but in the affaires of this world grow cold and remisse Do we honor them that serue God as the Galathians did that would haue pulled out their owne eyes had not the law of God and nature forbad them to do Paul their Preacher good O how farre different are the affections of our times If we looke the Lord Iesus among some gouernors they say he is not heere many of vs haue something else to do then to attend preaching If among some of the rude people they seldome or neuer thinke of him If among the giddie hearers with Peter they answer we know not the man If among the worldly rich with Demas they haue forsaken the loue of Christ and haue imbraced this present world If among the loud but leude professors they haue a shew of godlinesse but haue denied the power thereof If among the couerous there is linsey wolsey as farre as will make for their profit so farre and no longer they loue God nor any of his seruants If among the ahabaptistical zealous they say we are not iustified by workes and therefore wee will do none at all As if their faith or any faith were auaileable with God but that which worketh by loue For without loue was neuer any man saued and with loue neuer any damned If of the worldlings they are so busie in deuiding Christ his coate that they cannot awhile to loue They are of king Ro●us mind that vsed to say That the