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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

orient colours of heauenly perfection as first his puritie is white both essentially is and especially to white Secondly his purity and zeale both Zeraphical and also Cherubical wholie passible wholy amiable euen in these words and ruddie which is a sweete and seemely cōmixture of white and red Then the choice aboue thousands and the chiefe of choice the chiefest of ten thousand In loue then you see he is matchlesse in purity spotlesse in zeale pricelesse in choice peerelesse Come hither then thou passionate louer and repent thee of thine inordinate and immoderate loue to alluring and deceiptfull beautie that vaine vermillion die mingled with white like bloud in snow both vanishing with the Suns beames with sicknes old age and many other casualties and whereof thou thy selfe art suspicious euen while thou dost enioy it and art inlie tormented lest an other should pertake with thee come hither I say and sit downe at these pure waters a while and let thy soule see and be rauished with the sight of celestiall beautie and grace shining vnto thee miserable and wretched man euen from heauen and yet thou neuer didst vouchsafe so much as once to cast thine eie vpon it No man I confesse can pourtray or delineate this loue vnto thee as it is in deede therfore I could wish that my soule had consulted with the Lord Iesus his Paranymph the beloued disciple who leaned vpō his sacred breast at supper and felt the breathes of blessed loue that breathed out of his tender bowels or had bene rapt vp with Paule into the third heauen to be lift vp aboue my selfe or had seene that glimpse of glory which Peter saw in mount Tabor or had conferred with him who died meditating on this loue and saying at his last gaspe Loue is as strong as death or had bene with Philip Melancthon who departed this life saying Egrediamur egrediamur or at least had heard sweete Bernard preach thereof or learned Theodar Beze both purposing to write their meditations thereon and to go through this song but both dying before they could finish it as being surprised as I conceiue with the singular loue of the Lord Iesus pourtrayed herein most mystically and diuinely But how shall I then dare to aduenture or take vpon me to open my mouth to set forth this loue seeing as S. Bernard saith None can vnderstād Paules meaning but they that are endued with Paules mind so none can conceiue the spouses affection but they that are touched with the like loue How shall wee either speake of the spouses tender affection or you heare accordingly seeing we are all carnall sold vnder sinne and these things are mystically and spiritually discerned This onely comforts me that God hath granted two meanes to know these sacred mysteries the one infused and extraordinarie onely proper and peculiar to the men of God in the former ages the other attained by studie and industrie ioyned with inuocation to God for illumination grace the onely sacred reliques of Iesus Christ left to his seruants in these last ages The Gospel being the foundation of all our sacred skill out of the which whosoeuer preacheth Christ crucified hath the mind of Christ. And hauing his mind we may with reuerend boldnesse auerre that we also know the true Churches meaning Hearken then to the Church here styling Christ her welbeloued for he is hers and shee is his first she by way of petition intreateth saying Shew me ô thou whom my soule loueth when thou feedest where thou liest at noone And then he by way of replication answereth My loue my doue mine vndefiled open vnto me for my head is full of dewe and my haire of the drops of the morning whereupon the Church doth in eight Chapters in this diuine song nine and twenty times style him her best beloued as if she could neuer too oft remember his vnspeakeable loue towards her his welbeloued Saint Paule also a sonne of this sacred mother hath in his Epistles fiue hundred times the name of his Lord Iesus as accōpting himselfe most happie when that most sacred name of loue and life sounded in his lips or was written with his pen. If therefore we of the last and worst generation be transported and out of our wits as you think being rauished with the surpassing loue of God it being shed in our hearts by the holy Ghost weare it to God or if we be modest and in our right mind we are it vnto you for the loue of Christ constraineth vs. S. Iohn the beloued disciple now being old writes of nothing else but of this loue as appeareth in his canonical Epistles chusing now to die and depart in beholding the surpassing beautie thereof insomuch that he summons all degrees children yong men and the aged to the view thereof as being indeed their heauen vpon earth For who so abideth in this loue dwelleth in God If we shall descend lower to other lights of the Church we shall also see that this was the earnest most certaine pledge that their soules had here euen to be swayed and transported with this diuine loue Euery thing is caried with his weight Loue is my weight saith S. Augustine by it am I caried whither soeuer I am trāsported S. Bernard admireth this loue that God being so great so greatly should loue vs wretched miscreants and that freely Cyprian aduiseth vs to preferre nothing before the loue of Christ forasmuch as he preferred nothing before our loue Eusebius Emiss epitomiseth our seruice thus Be not distracted with many circumstances for what God requireth of thee is in thee to wit the seruice of thy mouth by confession and the affection of thine heart in faithfulnes In thy heart then hath God set the soules city of refuge that whence the sin came the medicine might thence also issue How nigh then is this remedie How sweete is this counsell Of this doubtles spake Moses It is neare euen in thy mouth and in thine heart miserable therfore is our condition saith Ierome not to be with him without whom we cannot be Be with God we cannot otherwise while we are here then by affection What ô loue can be sufficiently said in thy praise saith Hugo de S. Victore seeing through thee God should humble himselfe to descend from heauen and man should be exalted from earth to heauen great is thy power that thus God should be abased and sinfull man so aduanced Thus haue the sacred sonnes of the true Churches generation expressed their affectionate rauishments in this diuine loue shewing that nothing can be more pious nothing is more precious And this heauenly affection also is not onely generall in the whole Church but also particularly in euery religious soule which applieth it soundly certainely and sweetly to it selfe and saith as the spouse here He is my beloued by way of appropriation whereby wee may discerne a twofold certainety of our