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A09744	The vvhole sermons of that eloquent diuine, of famous memory; Thomas Playfere, Doctor in Diuinitie Gathered into one vollume, the titles thereof are named in the next page.; Sermons	Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Path-way to perfection. aut; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Heart's delight. aut; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Power of praier. aut; Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. Sick-man's couch. aut	1623 (1623)	STC 20003; ESTC S105046	300,452	702

me Who art thou Lord saies Saul I am saies Christ Iesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest Alluding to the title of his crosse which was Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iewes At which words Saul both trembling and astonished said Lord what wilt then haue me do Act. 22.8 Now if Saul who repented him afterward of his persecuting Christ stood so astonished when he heard but a peice of the title vpon his crosse how ●he● shall all they bee astonished how shall they be confounded which without any repentance or remorse of conscience persecute Christ continually when at the latter day not onely the title written ouer his head but euen the verie print of the wounds in his hands and side shall rise vp in iudgement to condemne them When like as Ioseph said to his brethren I am Ioseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt so Christ shall say vnto them I am Iesus of Nazareth whom you persecuted and put to death Wonderfull indeed is the feare and confusion of a wicked conscience After that Herod had beheaded Iohn Baptist he imagined stil he saw and heard that holy head showting and crying out against him Mark 6.16 Whereupon hearing the fame of Iesus hee said not as others said It is Elias or It is one of the Prophets but It is Iohn saies he whome I beheaded he is risen from the dead Saying whome I beheaded hee confesseth not his fault in true repentance but onely with his owne mouth beareth witnesse of his owne wickednesse In so much as that may be said to him which Dauid said to the Amalakite who brought him newes of Sauls death Thine owne mouth testifieth against thee saying I haue slaine the Lords anointed Now if the remembrance of this cruell act so vexed and disquieted Herod day and night that hee could take no rest for it but still thought waking and dream'd sleeping Iohn Baptist was risen againe to be reuenged of him how then shall they be affrighted how shall they be confounded which haue not beheaded Iohn but crucified Christ yea and crucifie him continually with their sins when at the resurrection of all flesh they shal see him whom they haue peirced and w●ing their hands and weep and waile before him Scipio appointed his sepulchre to bee so placed as his image standing vpon it might looke directly toward Africa that beeing dead hee might still be a terror to the Carthaginians after the same sort the Prophet Esay prophesying of Christ saith In that day the roote of Iesse shall stand vp for a signe vnto the people and euen his sepulchre shall be glorious Et erat schulchrum eius gloriosum So that as the bodie of Cadwallo an auncient king of the Brittaines being embalmed and dressed with sweete confections Hollinshed was put into a brasen image and set vpon a brasen horse ouer Ludgate for a terrour to the Saxons in semblable sort he that is called Faithfull and true shall sit vpon a white horse and out of his mouth shall proceede a sharpe sword wherewith he shall smite and slay the heathen The sword wherewith Dauid hackt off Golias head 1. Sam 21.9 after he had wrested it out of his hand was kept in the Tabernacle wrapt in a cloath behind the Ephod Which when Abimelech the Priest brought forth Dauid said There is none to that giue it me Christ also did conquer death euen with th●se weapons and armour wherewith death assaul●ed him And hee keepeth still a memoriall of his conquest in the tabernacle of his body That as the Philistims were afraid when they sawe Dauid figh●ing in the field with that sword so all Christs enemies may bee confounded when they shall see the signe of the sonne of man appearing in the clouds with power and great glorie It was a strange miracle that of Aarons rodde which budded Therfore the Lord said vnto Moses Numb 7.10 Bring Aarons rod againe before the testimonie to bee kept for a token to the rebellious children The bodie of Christ was a greene tree before it was crucified After being dead it was clung and drie like Aarons rod. But it budded when as the third day it rose againe Therefore it is kept stil for a token to the rebellious children That as Aaron conuinced the murmuring Israelites and confirmed the authority of his priesthood by the budding of his rodde which otherwise was but a dead and a drie thing so Christ may confound his enemies when he shall shew such flourishing glorie such excellent maiestie in his bodie which hath yet in it the tokens and the marks of death It is reported that Zisca the valiant captaine of the Bohemians commaunded that after his decease his skinne should be fleed from his bodie to make a drum which they should vse in their battels affirming that as soone as the Hungarians Fox Act. or any other their enemies should heare the sound of that drumme they would not abide but take their flight And surely euery battel of the warriour is with noyse with tumbling of ga●ments in blood but this battell wherein Christ shall tread Satan and all his enemies vnder his feete shall bee with burning and consuming of fire So that no drum can be more terrible then the last trumpet shal be when the Lord Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels and shall so come downe with the very same mark● and sears in his skin as the men of Galilie saw him ascending vp They which dispatched noble Iulius Caesar in the senate house did set a good face of the matter a while Dion l. 44. till Antonius the next day shew'd his robe in the market place all bloody cut and full of holes as his enemies had left it Then the people were so incensed and enraged against them that they made the best of them al glad to hide their heads The Romanes said We haue no King and therefore they slewe Caesar the Iewes said We haue no King but Caesar and therefore they slew Christ. But at the day of iudgment what shall Christ say Those mine enemies which would not that I should raigne ouer them bring hither and slay them before me Then not onely the angels but all creatures shall be ready to execute vengeance on these murtherers when they shall see the robe of Christ washt in wine and his garment in the blood of grapes Gen. 38.20 When Thamar Iudahs daughter in law was accused for committing folly in Israel she sent to her father in law saying Looke I pray thee whos 's these are the signet and the staffe Iuda by and by knew them and said She is more righteous then I. And so shall Christs enemies be enforced to confesse him more righteous then thēselues yea they shall be quite confounded when they shall see how they haue abused him when they shall see the marks which their signet and staffe haue made their signet in his hands and their staffe in his

side The Prophet Daniel recordeth that while Balthazar was drinking wine in the golden vessels Dan. 5.6 which he had taken out of the Temple there appeared fingers of a mans hand that wrote vpon the w●ll and the King saw the 〈◊〉 of the hand that wrote Then his co●●tenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the 〈◊〉 of his 〈◊〉 were loosed and his knees smote one against an other In this case of Balthazar wee may consider the state of the wicked what it shal be at the last day when they shal see the fingers and the palmes of Christs hands which they haue so pitifully wounded writing down their doome they shall tremble euery ioyn● of them and be at their wits ends and they shall say to the mountaines ●al on vs and to the rocks Couer vs and hide vs from the presence of him that fitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe Thus these victorious wounds of Christ shall confront and confound his enemies As Saul was astonished when he heard Iesus of Nazareth calling to him as Herod was affrighted when he thought Iohn Baptist was risen againe as the Carthagineans were troubled when they sawe Sciplo's sepulchre as the Saxons were terrified when they saw Cadwallo's Image as the Philistims were afraid whē they saw 〈◊〉 sword as the Israelits were appaled when they sawe Aarons rod as the Hungarians were daunted when they saw Zisca's drum as the Romanes were dasht when they saw Caesars robe as Iuda was ashamed when he sawe Thamars signet and staffe as Balthazar was amazed when hee sawe the hand writing vpon the wall So shall Christs enemies be confounded when they shall see his hands and his side As if our Sauiour should say thus to euery one of his enemies Thou enemie of all righteousnesse Many things many times hast thou done against me and hitherto haue I held my tongue but now will I reprooue thee and in before thee the things that thou hast done Thou art the man thou art the man that didst murther me and put me to a most shamefull death Denie it if thou darst Verendum n● illan vocem in iudicio suo ad vasa iniquitatis prolaturus sit fer digitum tuum hue Caesar hom 23. Denie it if thou canst These are thy marks which are yet to be seene in my hands This deadly wound is thy doing which is yet to be seene in my side Therefore thine owne eyes shall giue euidence and thine owne conscience shall giue sentence against thee See now whether I say true or no. Look what thou hast done Put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and as thou art not faithfull but faithlesse so looke for no mercie at my hands but for shame and euerlasting confusion So much for the third cause which is to confound his enemies The fourth cause why Christ hath his wounds yet to be seene in his body is to comfort his friends Almighty God in the old law appointed cities of refuge whether they which had sinned vnwillingly might flie and be safe Num. 35.23 if they staied in any of them till the death of the high Priest Our high Priest can yet plainly prooue by his hands side that once he died for vs. Whether then should we flie sinnefull soules whether should we flie for succour and comfort but to Christ His wounds only are the cities of refuge wherein we are safe and secure according to that of the Psalmist The high hills are a refuge for the wilde goates and so are the stony rocks for the conies O blessed be these high hills blessed be these stony rocks which protect defend vs yea though we haue willingly sinned not onely against the furie of man and the rage of the world but also against the terrible and dreadfull displeasure of Almighty God Therefore our Sauiour speakes to his Spouse in this sort Can. 2.14 My doue thou art in the holes of the rocke in the secret place of the staires shew me thy sight let me heare thy voice Insinuating that the Church dares neither be seene nor heard of God except she be in the holes of the rocke and in the secret places of the staires The rocke is Christ. The staires also and the ladder whereby Iacob climb's vp to heauen is Christ. So that the doue which is the Church lying hid in the holes of this rocke and in the secret places of these staires dreadeth nothing but with great boldnes why doe I say boldnesse yea with great ioy with great comfort sheweth her selfe to God and speaketh vnto him Here the sparrow findeth her a house and the swallow a nest where shee may lay her young euen thine Altar that is thy wounds whereby thou didst offer vp thy selfe as a sacrifice for our sinnes euen thine altars O Lord of hosts my King and my God When Elias flying from Achab came to Bee●sheba he sate downe vnder a iuniper tree and desired that he might die A iuniper tree maketh the hoatest coale Fabiolae Ma●s 15. and the coolest shadow of any tree The coale is so hot that if it be rackt vp in ashes of the same it continueth vnextinguished by the space of a whole years Therefore whereas we read in the hundred and twentieth Psalme With hot burning coales it is in the Hebrew as S. Hierom noteth with Iuniper coales Which prooueth that Iuniper coales be the most hot burning coales that are Now the coale is not so hot but the shadowe is as coole Insomuch as the only shadow of the Iuniper tree slaieth and killeth serpents Therefore Elias seeking to rest himselfe where he might be safest from serpents and other daungerr sat downe vnder a iuniper tree and desired that hee might die For hee thought he could neuer with the sparrow finde him a house and with the swallow make him a nest in a better place thē where he was ouershadowed with that Iuniper tree which shadowed out the tree of the Crosse of Christ. Of which the Church sai's Vnder his shadowe had I delight and sat downe and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth So that if Simeon holding the child in his armes desired to die how much more blessedly then might Elias haue departed now in peace when as beeing wearied with the world he was shadowed with the tree of life and not onely held the child in his armes but also was held himselfe as a child in the wounded and naked armes of Christ. Notably also doth the storie of Noah declare what singular comfort the faithfull finde in Christs woundes For onely Noah saued all onely Christ redeameth all Gen. 6.16 Noah signified rest Christ is our rest and peace Noah saued all by the wood of the Ark Christ red●emeth all by the tree of the crosse Noah was tossed vp and downe vpon the waters Christ saith to his father Thou hast brought all thy waues vpon me