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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40728	A sermon preached at Grayes-Inne, October 2, 1642 by Thomas Fvlwar ...	Fulwar, Thomas, 1593-1667.	1642 (1642)	Wing F2527; ESTC R15273	14,434	28

unite now not failing either in the maine of seeking which tels us their industry or in the object of their seeking Him and Him alone which shews their sincerity nor in the manner internall sympathy both sorrowing and externall agreement both together one teaching us unity the other uniformity Thy Father and I c. These are the branches which now should be shaken but I shall but gather a berry or two off of each of them cutting off something as he in Plutarch which I should say not to offend in prolixity their industry in that they seek their sincerity in that they seek him their unity in that they seek him both in sorrow and their uniformity in that they seek him both together We are not to learne what it is to seek when we lose any thing wee highly prize our eyes and hands and feet are all imployed See but the poore woman in the Gospel that had but lost her groat how diligently shee sought and swept every corner of her house till she found it and look upon the good Shepheard wandring all over the mountaines to finde his strayed Lambe Indeed if Christ bee once lost he will not readily be found What trouble did Saints of old put themselves unto when God hid his face from them Thou hidest thy face saith David and I was troubled Troubled indeed in minde and in body to get a glimpse of that glorious countenance shine againe upon him Hee is not easily lost but by extreame carelesnesse and neglect but when wee will lose him hee is not easily to bee found you may see it here They lost him but one day and it was the the third day before they could finde him againe The first and best happinesse is to keep him to say as Iacob Non dimittam te I will not let thee goe unlesse thou blesse mee but the next to that is presently to misse him and upon that misse to seek him with all diligence and without delay Wee are all or would be thought to bee Generatio quaerentium A Generation of those that seeke God but wee seek not as wee ought we seek as shee did in the Canticles I sought him in my Bed I sought him but I found him not Carelesse sleight perfunctory seeking will not doe it The sluggard lusts and his soule hath nothing saith Solomon because hee doth but lust Bad men though they live the lives of the wicked yet with Balaam they desire to die the death of the righteous but desires alone will not availe and yet I feare such is all the paines wee spend about it Jesting Pilate asked Quid est veritas but he went away not caring to be resolved in a question which he thought of so small concernment so there are many Qui noncurant quaerere qui tamen cupiunt invenire cupiunt consequi non sequi If wee seeke him upon the downy Beds of rest and ease it is impossible we should finde him Foxes have holes and birds of the aire have nests but the Sonne of man hath not whereon to repose his head Pilate was not satisfied that onely made it Table-talk Nor the woman that sought at her ease did not finde Watchman what in the night cries the Prophet The morning comes and also the evening O si quaeritis quaerite If ye will seek do it indeed and to some purpose and doe it both while ye may seek and he may be found There is a time for every thing under the Sun saith Solomon The time which God allowes us for our seeking is Primum quaerite seek him f●rst while he may be found for that speech in the Prophet implies there is a time when he cannot be found at all Esau in the Old Testament and the five foolish Virgins in the New shew to their griefe that he may be sought when he will not be found It is true I reade in one place That Hee is found of them which sought him not and S. Paul may be instanced in whom Christ found travelling to Damascus and neverthinking of it But that is not to be made a precedent of no more then because some men have by chance found wherewith to keep themselves all dayes of their lives others should not labour upon the like hope of the same fortune But our safest and most warrantable course is presently upon the first misse of him to seeke him Seeke and seeke him cum not aliud in eo Him for himselfe and for no other by-respect The people in the Gospel sought him but it was for the Loaves wherewith they were fed and not for love as himselfe told them what S. Paul said to his Corinths Non vostra sed vos not yours but you that we must say to Almighty God Thee and thee alone O Lord doe we seek Let us comply with Davids Echo Seek yee my face Thy face Lord saith he will I seek Let Demetrius and his fellow crafts-men if they will magnifie Diana because they lived by making her silver shrines but let Christians be otherwise minded and think that godlinesse is gaine sufficient or them and so with holy Iob trust in God though he should kill them He loves not God at all that loves any thing besides him nor doth he seek God at all who seeks ought but himselfe and indeed what need they seek any thing else for having him they are sure of all things {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whereof they have need though peradventure not {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which they may fansie a use of All are yours for ye are Christs and Christ is Gods saith the Apostle No marvell now if losing such an one they were both sad which is the third thing and teaches us unity of affection according to S. Pauls advice to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace How did Iacob mourn for the losse of one Son in twelve and how did David lament for his lewd son Absalom but when the Text speaks of a griefe not to be paralleld it is as of one mourning for an onely son Who of us loseth a friend a child or a wife with dry eyes how incomparably deare beyond all these in Christ to a soule Let us not prodigally then lavish away our tears for such toyes as these for so I may call them in comparison but reserve them for better purposes Fruitlesse is all griefe in the world but this I do not speak of that worldly sorrow which causeth death but even that griefe which we may take for such losses as I spake of can doe us no good could we shed rivers of teares it could not revive a dead friend or recover a lost estate or an empaired health onely shew how wee love them as they said of Christ weeping for Lazarus but not profit us in the

as the Jews say That the men went a part by themselves and the women by themselves so Ioseph thought he was with his Mother and she supposed he was with his Father Would they yet travell a whole day without a sight of him to advance their opinion into a knowledge and so to have been ascertained he was amongst them Thus even the best will grow sometimes remisse Can a Mother forget her childe It seems she can the best of Mothers here forgets the best of sons and so jealous is God of those he loves as he will not endure the least Act of unkindnesse or undutifulnesse in them Servants and strangers may goe away with greater errors when the Son that is beloved shall finde a lash for the least offence The not beloved ones wicked and ungodly men may run on in sin even till they grow old and sin like withered leaves shall drop and fall from them before they leave it and in all that time never meet with a whipping but those that are deare to God deare to him as the Apple of his eye his chosen ones they shall be snibb'd and curb'd and punished upon the least delinquency which howsoever it may seeme grievous for the present yet at last they will say with David It was good for me that I have been afflicted for these afflictions instruct as well as correct and as they punish so they teach them their duties Thus have we seen Christ lost The Saints in heaven so happily have him as they cannot lose him the Bridegroome cannot now be taken from them the damned in hell have so unhappily lost him as they can never finde him againe {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a great gulfe there is which they can never foord to finde such a blisse onely we that live on earth can both lose and finde him It was carelesnesse at worst in them but our wilfull sins drive him from us He is a God of pure eyes and cannot indure to see any pollution and how doe we wallow in all uncleannesse He is a holy God and will be sanctified of all that come neare him or that he comes neare unto and what haste doe we make to run into all prophanenesse He is a God of order and how doe we unhinge all by confusion He is a God of love and how full of malice are our hearts He is a God of peace and we dote upon strife and contention He rests not but upon the meek and humble and how doe we advance our selves even above all that is called God Let us never flatter our selves and think these sins and Christ can dwell together God and Dagon could not be in one house in the old Law nor God and Belial in one heart in the new We see the shoales of these sinnes which have driven him from us God make us sensible of the want of him and wanting him give us grace to seek him as these did And so I come to the second The seeking of Christ lost Thy Father and I have c. The night which curtains all things else like a friendly and faithfull counsellor now discovers this want which the flattering day would not tell them of Then they were so full of discourse and businesse as they had no leisure so much as to think him absent the fairnesse of the way and the Company of their friends did so pleasant their Journey as they scarce minded him till the day was spent and they retired to their Inne and then when they thought to betake themselves to their repast and rest they perceived that he without whom they could not rest was wanting Oh the happinesse of a silent night retirement all the day we spend in turmoile in the world some wandring as some of the Jews in the fields of Egypt picking straws of folly things which may perhaps please the sense but I am sure cannot profit the soul whiles others with the rest of the Jews are busied in making brick labouring as in the fire for very vanity and producing onely such things of which we may aske as the Apostle did What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed Others with Ionathan and his Armour-bearer are climbing the steep and dangerous rocks of preferment whiles others are scratching and wounding themselves even to the quick with the shiny cares of this world and all to get that wealth which they know not who shall enjoy and amidst these things profit pleasure and preferment there is no leisure to minde Christ but when night comes as certainly it will come and wee are plucking off our cloathes and going to bed then wee shall finde the want of him whose company before wee little cared for When any night comes as there are more nights then one the night of sorrow or the night of sicknesse the Usher of that long-long night of death and we are left alone and all those former witchcrafts of the day like those Reeds of Egypt not onely faile us in our need but pierce our hands and wound our soules and our jocond and blithe company like vermine out of a falling house run away from us and forsake us then wee shall by wofull experience finde Quam malum amarum est dereliquisse Domi●●● how evill and bitter a thing it is to forsake our God When affliction nakeds us of all those Figge-leaves wherewith in the day of prosperity we did dresse and pride ourselves and denudes us of all sinister and vain thoughts and redeeming us out of the throng and noise of the world delivers us to a solid consideration whether Christ which should have been not onely our Companion but our guide through this Wildernesse of Sinne and Valley of teares be with us yea or no and if not then we shall think it high time to goe along with these good people here to seek and finde him out Had the day been lengthened out to that in the dayes of Hezekiah ten degrees more I make a question whether they had yet mist him or been so happy as to have seen their unhappinesse but now the darknesse brings that to light which the dazeling of the day and Sun-shine before would not let them see and being now made sensible of their misse they will not give their eyes any sleep nor suffer the temples of their heads to take any rest till they have found him Now they redeeme their former carelesnesse by a carefull seeking him what in their mirthfull journey they lost their sad and diligent enquiry makes abundance of amends for It was never truer then now that Extrema gaudii luctus occupat Sadnesse brings in the Voyder where mirth layes the Cloth nay the griefe for their losse farre resurmounts the joy of their Feast and if they severed before Ioseph in one company and Mary in another and so lost him they