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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

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Baptisme with the modesty of that Sexe I know not I know that Figge-tree leaues are found out to shadow this fault but in my opinion it is but to lay colour vpon colour to finde out Figge-tree leaues to couer nakednesse withall How much better were it for Ladies according to the Apostles counsaile to array themselues with good-workes to diminish something of their brauery that they might be better able to exercise the deedes of Charity as Dorcas did This as I haue said is a generall duety to which all of vs are bound without distinction of sexe or degree and that by our very vow in Baptisme in which we are made Christs souldiers For though women be priuiledged from bearing of Armes and from the performance of Military seruice yet Christs souldiers they are as well as others and bound to fight against the VVorld the Flesh and the Diuell bound to serue God in the generall duety of all Christians and in the particular duty which their sexe and calling requires And hereof I suppose you are not ignorant The Apostle Colos 3.18 if any be ignorant will at large informe them in their dueties Art thou a Maide 1. Cor. 7.32 Be as one that careth for the things of the Lord how thou mayst please God Art thou a VVife Coloss 3.18 Submit thy selfe to thy husband as is comely in the Lord. Art thou a VVidowe 1. Tim. 5.6 Remember that the Widow that liueth in pleasure is dead Here a question is moued which of these estates is the best but in my opinion a curious one and not meete to bee handled especially at this time For they are all good and commendable each of them hath seuerall dueties appertaining in performing whereof they shall haue more honour in the eyes of men more reward with God then for al other the nicenesses and trimnesse of the bodie whatsoeuer But to shut vp all in a word as our Sauiour doth promise saluation to him that is baptized so heere on the contrary he saith But hee that is not baptized shall be damned Out of which some haue inferred that Baptisme is not simply necessary to saluation VVhich doctrine although I take to be very true yet is it not absolute nor rightly collected out of this place For our Sauiour doth not in this ouerthrow that which he spake in the former and we must holde a coniunction of both these I meane Faith and Baptisme both being in their kinde necessary yet as I said not so but that in some cases one may be saued without either Faith or Baptisme Some haue no faith and yet are saued For what actuall faith haue Infants Some think there is actuall faith in them from which I suppose S. Augustine doth not much swarue Others haue had Faith but not Baptisme as Valentinian and yet were saued Some haue neither had Faith nor Baptisme and yet were saued as children deceased before they could come to receiue Baptisme It is the ordinarie meanes of Regeneration and therefore not to be contemned not to be deferred for howsoeuer GOD is powerfull enough without meanes to regenerate and bring to saluation yet those holy meanes which himselfe hath appointed sanctified to that purpose must by no meanes be contemned nor neglected For He that beleeueth and is baptized shal be saued VVhich fauour God grant vs all for his Christs sake Amen FINIS Seeke to finde LVKE 24.5 Why seeke yee Him that liueth among the dead THe blessed and deuout Maries seeking our Sauiour at his Sepulchre earely in the morning are encountered with this Angelicall checke Why seeke ye Him that liueth among the dead A question that might easily trouble persons of so weake a sexe at that season and out of the mouth of an Angell too But though they were amased at the sodainnesse of the voice yet was not their zeale cooled from seeking him whom their soules loued In this question of the Angells are two things to be considered First a reprehension of their errour Secondly a consolation for their labour First the reprehension and checke which the Angells gaue to these holy women for seeking Christ among the dead was not without iust cause for it was an erronious seeking All of vs are seekers and in some sort seekers of Christ too but few of vs doe finde him Because wee seeke him amisse The errours then where-into men vsually fall in seeking Christ must be narrowly obserued that they may the better be auoyded The first errour men doe commit in seeking of Christ is committed in the Time The time assigned vs for to seeke Christ is the terme of this life which opportunity if we neglect it is impossible wee should euer obtaine our desires in finding Christ For after death Hebr. 10.26 72 There remayneth no sacrifice for sinne but a fearefull expectation of iudgement and violent fire which shall deuoure the Aduersaries Therefore the Apostle willeth Galat. 61.0 that Whilest we haue time we doe good to all men especially to the houshold of faith There are twelue houres in the day Iob. 11.9 as our Sauiour teacheth vs If a man walke in the day he stumbleth not because he seeth the light of this world Iob. 12.35 Walke therefore while ye haue light lest the darkenesse come vpon you It becommeth vs then not to loose the season of seeking and herein to apprehend the fittest opportunity For though I will not deny but Christ may be found at any time whilest wee liue yet there is a difference of times God is debter to no man and if hee should subtract his grace vniuersally from vs yet no man could iustly complaine of him why he had done so but God in mercie doth dispence his graces and knockes at the doores of our hearts desiring to be let in yet not at all times but at certaine seasons according to the dispensation which seemeth fittest to himselfe At which time and season if wee harden our hearts how know wee whether the like mercy will be offered againe and therefore we must with all carefulnesse embrace such times and opportunities when hee doth knocke at the doores of our hearts The custome of most of vs is to deferre the seeking of God to our olde age and to confecrate our youth to sinne to tender our decrepite yeares to God and the crop and creame of our youth to sinne and sathan not remembring the counsel of Salomon Eccles 12.1 Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth Nay do we not deferre the seeking of Christ to the last moment to the last act of our life And what can be more vaine For as Augustine speakes most truely Qui remittit poenitenti peccatum non promittit peccanti vitam God which promiseth the penitent sinner forgiuenesse doth not promise him length of life or any certaine number of yeares How many are cut off when they least thought of it Doth not the incertainty and frailety of our estate tell vs so
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