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A05470	Two sermons viz. 1. A preseruatiue lilie to cure soules. And 2. How to seeke to finde Christ. Preached by that famous and iudicious diuine, Peter Lilie, Doctor of Diuinitie, and sometime fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge.	Lily, Peter, d. 1615.; Lily, Dorothy, d. 1627.	1619 (1619)	STC 15600; ESTC S108559	27,509	75

nothing but earth Earth in respect of body earth in respect of our thoughts which are onely occupied about earth and earthly matters how wee may make here and there a purchase ioyning house to house and land to land as the Prophet speaketh euen till there be no roome left Some will obiect Doe you condemne purchasing No then were I very simple I know that buying and selling are lawfull contracts as necessary as eating and drinking are But giue mee leaue I pray you to put you in remembrance of our Sauiours words Luke 21.34 Let not your hearts be oppressed with surfetting and drunkennesse and cares of this life And of the Apostles words 1. Cor. 31. That they that vse this world be as though they vsed it not for the fashion of this world goeth away VVhere the Apostle compares vs to Actors and the world to a Stage which must shortly be remoued Therefore we may vse these things so farre forth as they are helpes vnto vs in our seeking of Christ but to set our affections on them and for loue of these to neglect the dueties of Christianity is heere to seeke Christ on earth who now raigneth in heauen I will adde but one thing and so end this point The Prophet saith Esay 42.5 That God stretcheth out the earth and the Buddes thereof hee giueth breath vnto the people vpon it and his Spirit Calcantibus eam to those that treade vpon it which Text is diuersly expounded But Saint Augustine among others hath a notable Meditation or rather Interpretation on it For whereas the Prophet saith Hee stretcheth forth the earth and giueth breath vnto the people and his Spirit to them that tread on it his meaning is that he communicates the graces of his Spirit to such as contemne the earth and earthly things The heauen of heauens appertains to God but the earth hee hath giuen to the children of men who treade it vnder their feet If then we would finde Christ we must treade on it with the feete of our affections I meane contemne and trample it vnder foote as we doe those things we care not for because he giueth his Spirit as the Prophet saith Calcantibus eam To those that treade on it that is that doe not reckon or esteeme it but euen treade it vnder their feete and contemne it Qui amore Coelestium terrena contemnunt For the loue of heauen do despise earthly things and all the wealth and glory thereof to them saith he and to them onely doth God giue his Spirit In this manner let vs liue on earth not as men bewitched besotted with the earth but as contemners and tramplers on the earth hauing our feete walking on the earth but our Faith and Affections dwelling in the heauens being like vnto the Cedar which Radicem terris comam nubibus inserit Hath his roote deepe in the ground but toucheth the Cloudes with his toppe Or to the Sunne-beames which do shine on the earth yet are they fastened to the body of the Sun in heauen so demeaning our selues on earth we may inioy Christ which is in heauen 2. I haue spoken of the Text as it is Reprehensory I will now speake of it as it is Consolatory to the women seeking Christ and also to all such who liuing on earth doe notwithstanding seeke Christ sitting in heauen Quid quaeritis viuentem inter mortuos saith the Angell Why seeke yee the liuing amongst the dead which words containe not only a reprehension but also a consolation of singular moment For the women comming to seeke Christ and finding the Stone rolled away and the Body gone which is plaine by the speech of Mary Magdalen Tulerunt Dominum They haue taken away my Lord were sore discomforted The appearance of the Angells in maiesty as it is likely made some impression of feare in their tender hearts which the Angels perceiuing doe speake comfortably to them Feare you not mixing as I haue said Consolation with Reprehension For without all question it sounded ioyfully in the eares of the women who being perswaded that Christ was dead and hearing the Angell tell them that hee was aliue that hee was risen could not but be greatly comforted when they heard Quid quaeritis viuentem inter mortuos Why seeke yee the liuing among the dead You are perswaded that he is dead that he is stolne away out of the Graue No it is not so Christ liueth as before he told you Goe tell his brethren that he goes before them into Galile VVas not this thinke you a comfortable speach to women oppressed with feare and griefe The words then of the Angell were not onely Reprehensory but Consolatory not to them onely but to vs also for whom these wordes were spoken VVhat can be more comfortable then to consider and know that Christ liueth that hee is ascended that he sitteth at the right hand of God in maiesty and honour VVhen Iacob saw the Chariots which Ioseph had sent to carry him Genes 45.27 28. he said I haue enough Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue But how much greater cause haue we to say It is enough for vs that Christ our head liueth that he is risen againe from the dead Iohn 12.24 Except the wheate corne fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it bringeth forth much fruite In which words our Sauiour doth expresse the fruite of his Death and Resurrection which is the resurrection of all those that sleep in the dust of the earth for though Christus resurrexit solus Christ did rise alone who is the first fruits of them that rise yet not totus all Christ did not arise for hee is the head and we are his members who are now raised in hope and shall be raised verily indeede in the time which he hath appointed and liue with him by the vertue power of that life which now is in him It is enough for vs that Christ our head our brother liueth hee is Bone of our bone and Flesh of our flesh If the First-fruites be holy then is the whole lumpe holy Neither is there any action of Christs but yeeldes much comfort For heere he died for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification but first hee was buried descended into the Graue which is domus mortuorum the house of the dead where hee remayned but yet as liber inter mortuos as free among the dead The women did seeke him in the Graue to which Christ descended partly to proue vnto vs the verity of his death and resurrection partly to secure vs and to defend vs from the feare of the Graue into the which for our sakes the Lord descended Jt is appoynted for all men once to die Iob 17 14. and then commeth the Iudgement And wee must say with Iob vnto the wormes Hebr. 9.27 Thou art my mother and sister and to corruption Thou art my father But be of good cheare Christ who was

dead now liueth he that was in the graue is now ascended now Vltra non dominatur mors Death hath no dominion ouer him but he hath now the dominion of death Hee did both enter into his graue and arise againe to assure vs that howsoeuer our bodies may putrifie in the Graues yet God shall restore them againe Et fragile hoc lutum in purissimam solidissimam testam excoquetur This house of Clay shall be made farre firmer then Stone more glorious then Golde or any such corruptible matter VVhy then are we afraid to descend into the graue which howsoeuer in it selfe fearefull yet to those that seeke Christ zealously as these women did it is a bed of rest and quietnesse as the Prophet calleth it or a Receptacle or Sanctuary against the troubles of the world and so is it called Esay 65. Esay 65. Christ liueth saith the Angell and as a Conqueror of death he is risen from his house of death and made it to such as seeke him a repose a rest a treasury in which they are safely kept and stored vp against the day of Resurrection This is the benefit we haue by Christs liuing by his rising from the graue As his resurrection is for our benefit so is his ascension Jascend saith Christ to prepare a place for you to take possession of Heauen in our name in our nature and here he sitteth at the right hand of God pleading our cause and shall come in maiesty to iudge vs at the last day A point worthy to be considered and which among other things the Angell also meant saying Feare not Now as it pleased God that an Angell should publish the Resurrection so also by an Angell was the Ascension published for as heere the women are first rebuked and afterwards instructed so the Angell seeing them gazing and looking after Christ rebuked them in this manner Whygaze yee you men of Galile And then afterward comforted them and in structed them concerning the Resurrection adding withall This Iesus shall come againe euen so as you haue seene him ascend that is he shall returne in the same nature in which he ascended which our Sauiour himselfe saith is to be in the glory of his Angells But some may say a fire shal go before him the powers of heauen shall be shaken and all the Tribes of the earth shall lament before him how then doth he come againe as he ascended I answer That though there be some difference in the circumstances yet shall he returne in the verity of his body in the very same body shape and members glorified in the which hee was crucified And it is a point most comfortable that the Father of all mercies will vouchsafe by Man to iudge men that the similitude of Nature in so great feare and perturbation might giue vs assured confidence If then his death resurrection ascension glorification and comming to iudgement be all for our comfort so that we seeke him heere it is plaine that this speech of the Angells hath both Consolation and Reprehension These women had a sharpe reprehension by the Angell for seeking him that was liuing amongst the dead but because otherwise their zeale was good God doth pardon their infirmity and comforteth them in their misery As the speech was vnto them so is it vnto vs. I hope there is none of vs so perfect but may very wel indure the Angell taxing our earthlinesse and stirring vs vp to the seeking of Christ now sitting at the right hand of God and if wee profite by the reprehension then appertaineth the consolation vnto vs if we seeke him deuoutly heere For the Prophet saith truely Lord thou art good vnto that soule that seeketh thee neither is it said to that soule that findeth thee for hee that according to his humanity raigneth in Heauen by his grace reigneth in the heart Et prope estinuocantibus ipsum Hee is neare to them that call vpon him VVe neede not as the Apostle saith to climbe vp into heauen nor descend into the depth heere hee is at hand within vs if there we will nourish him and giue him entertainement The finding of him then is not hard so wee seeke him earely whilst he may be found and all dependeth on this point And that men doe not seeke him by lifting vp their hearts vnto him I will shew you both the reason and the remedy and so end A man saith Lactantius is made ex repugnantibus of contrary principles of a soule and a body in respect of his soule hee is of affinity with the Angells in respect of the body he is of affinity with the beasts the soule originally lookes vpwards in respect of his body hee is apt and prone to sensualitie of these contrarieties there do arise in man distractions of minde the soule carrying him one way the frailety of the flesh another and this warre betweene the spirit and the body some doe thinke had beene euen in the state of innocency but that God gaue vnto Adam Donum supernaturale a supernaturall gift which was instar aureifreni like a golden Bridle by which he might pacifie the strife of these contrary parts make the body subiect to the spirit and the spirit subiect to God But after Adam offended he lost not onely that supernaturall gift if any such he had but euen Nature it selfe was now corrupted He that before was prone to Sensuality in respect of his body was made sensuall and carnall in his very soule For as flesh obeying the spirit may be called spirituall so the spirit whilest it obeyes the flesh is carnall and in this estate of corrupt nature man cannot but looke downe his soule and body in respect being but earth fleshly and sensuall But it seemed good to God to dissolue the workes of the Diuell and to send his owne Sonne who both dyed for sinne and applieth the power and efficacy of his bloud by the Sacraments to the regenerating and renewing of the soule which is purified from corruption and indewed with strength and grace to rise and mount vp vnto Heauen Yet forasmuch as this renouation is not pure but in part there remayneth still and euen in the best of vs this combate and contradiction betweene the flesh and the spirit the spirit coueting vpwards and the body hanging downwards and as this corpus corruptibile this corruptible body doth weigh downe the soule so the soule doth make the body mount vp to heauen And heereof proceedes our earthlinesse wee are made of earth and so apt to fixe our mindes on the earth vnlesse the spirit vanquish this earthlinesse in vs whereon dependeth the victorie For as while Aaron and Hur held vp Moses hands strongly the Israelites preuailed against the Amalekites but when they fainted and waxed weary the Amalekites preuailed against the Israelites so while our hearts are set on heauen the Diuell is vanquished by vs but when this heauy lump of Clay this body of ours with our sensuality doth weigh downe the soule then the Diuell preuailes against vs. Therefore our care must bee to keepe downe and represse this sensualitie of ours to mortifie the affections and desires and to make them obedient to the spirit that our earthly affections beeing subdued our spirits with the wings of the morning may climbe vp to God and in zeale of heart say with Dauid Psalme 42. Euen as the Hart desireth the water brookes so longeth my soule after thee O God to which there is nothing more auaileable then frequent meditation of the life to come of Christs ascending of his sitting at the right hand of God receiuing of the Sacrament with such other holy exercises of deuotion which if you doe assure your selues you shall finde him enioy him and pray to him with much comfort in the Spirit ye shall conuerse with him familiarly and take more pleasure in him then in all earthly pleasures beside which are but vaine and momentany blazing like a fire of Thornes but suddenly extinguished whereas the things that are not corporall God bestowes on his whilest by setting their mindes on him they seeke Christ aboue whereby he brings them to raigne in glory with himselfe for euer to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and glory now and for euermore Amen * ⁎ * FINIS