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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

by Deuotion I vnderstand a certaine softnesse and tendernesse of the heart which oftentimes is resolued into teares considering the mischiefes and miseries of this world For if Christ in this place wisheth them of Ierusalem to weepe for themselues and did himselfe else-where weep for Ierusalem saying O Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I but you would not How much more then ought wee to weepe for the wretchednesse of this world They of Ierusalem were carried captiue into Babylon That captiuitie of Babylon endured seuenty yeeres or threescore ten yeares Now iust so long lasteth our life As the Psalmist saith The dayes of our life are threescore yeeres and ten So that by this account our whole time in this world is nothing else but the captiuity of Babylon Therefore we may well say By the waters of Babylon wee sate downe and wept when we remembred thee O Sion And My teares haue been my meate day and night while they said vnto me Where is now thy God And Woe is me that I am constrained to dwell in Meshek and to haue my habitation among the tents of Kedar We reade that King Edward the third hauing the King of Scots and the French King his prisoners here in England both together at one time held royall iusts in Smithfield The iusts being ended hee feasted both the Kings most sumptuously at supper After supper perceiuing the French King to be sad and pensiue hee desired him to be merry as others were To whom the French King answered e Quom●do cantabim is canticain terra aliena How shall wee sing songs in a strange land If the French King after all this princely pastime and stately entertainment tooke it so heauily to heart that hee was kept prisoner out of his owne countrey how much more then ought we to mourne for our captiuity Especially seeeing neither we haue such welcome in the world as hee had in England neither yet is England so farre from France as Heauen is distant from them both Ierusalem was once finally sacked by Titus and Vespasian whereas besides an infinite number which were otherwise spoyled ten hundred thousand men ten hundred thousand men I say were slaine down-right altogether as Iosephus a Greeke Writer and Iosippus an Hebrew Author testifie But that which happened once to them happeneth euery day to vs. We die daily f 1 Cor. 15.31 Our whole life is nothing else but such a spoyle and sackage And among all the miseries of this life nothing is more miserable then this life it selfe For euen those things which might be most comfortable vnto vs as we vse them do breed vs much sorrow Learning and knowledge a great delight Yet Solomon sayth Hee that addeth knowledge addeth sorrow Wealth and riches a good complement Yet Saint Iames saith Goe to now you rich men weepe and howle for the miseries which shall come vpon you So that the onely happinesse wee can haue in this life is a deuout and a godly bewailing of our vnhappines Which made our Sauiour say Woe be to you that laugh now for you shall waile and weepe But on the other side Blessed are they that mourne now for they shall bee comforted Therefore holy Iob desireth God to spare him a little let him liue a while longer Wherfore That hee might laugh That hee might be merry No g Vi plangam dolorem meum but saith hee that I may weepe for my woe and griefe He thought a man could not haue time enough in this life though it were neuer so long to lament and rue the miseries of this life though it were neuer so short For if euery creature doe sigh and grone in it self h Rom. 8.22 if the very earth which we tread vnder our feet do mourne and pine away in sorrow for the heauy burthen of our sinnes wherewith it is almost weighed and pressed downe to hell how much more then ought wee hauing the first fruits of the spirit to haue also true deuotion in weeping for our miserable estate in this world according to this But weepe but weepe for your selues Thus much for our Deuotion Now for Compunction he sayes But you The person is implied in the Greeke word which signifies to weepe as they doe which haue a broken and a contrite heart i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 frango Which weeping at the very heart is commanded in the fourth Psalme For whereas we commonly reade it be still in your chambers the Septuagint interpret it haue compunction in your ahambers Now the hebrew word vvhich they translate haue compunction doth signifie to be prickt to the quicke till the bloud follow againe k Dommu à Damsanguis And by Chambers our Hearts are meant As when thou praiest enter into thy chamber that is into the silence and secresie of thine heart So that Haue compunction in your chambers is as much as if hee should haue said Bleed you inwardly at the heart Our teares must not be Crocodiles teares For as is praying from the teeth outward so is weeping from the eyes outward But saith Bernard wee must be let bloud and haue a veine opened vvith the launce of compunction l Sci●dat●● aperitur vena ferre compunctionis Ber. in serm p. 123. And this veine also must not be the liuer veine or any other veine but the heart veine onely m Non co●poris sed cordis Fulgen Whereupon Dauid saith I roared for the very griefe of my heart n Psal. 38.8 And againe My heart droppeth for heauinesse o Psal. 119.28 Not that his heart dropt indeed But because the teares which hee shed were not drops of water running from the eyes which may be soone forced with onions or such like but drops of bloud issuing from the heart such as Christ did sweats in the Garden For these no doubt are true teares which are the bloud of a woundead heart p Sanguis vulnerati cordis Aug. Epist. 199. So that the heart must first bee rent and deepely wounded before the eye can vnfainedly weepe But in case our sins fall vpon vs like theeues and wound vs at the very heart and leaue vs halfe dead and make vs powre out the bloud of true teares then by and by will Christ powre in the wine and oyle of gladnes Therefore saies a good Father q Malo sentire compunctionem ●uam ●●ire definitionem I had rather feele the touch of Compunction then know the truth of a definition For the heart of a Christian being a while cast downe in sorrow is soone after raised vp in ioy and taketh his former compunction not as a punishment but as a preferment and is right glad to bee afflicted because he sees that as the more the waters did rise the higher the Arke was lifted vp after the same sore the more his sorrowes increase the higher his heart is lifted vp to God r Cum per fletum mens ad summa

r 1. Reg. 10.28 him or els● brought to him s 2. Chr. 9.24 out of all countries So the Apostles as we may reade in the Acts brought by one sermon 3. thousand soules t Act. 2 41. brought by an other sermon fiue thousand soules to Christ u Act. 4.4 and so euery day out of all countries and kinreds x Reuel 7.9 there are added to the Church by infinite and innumerable multitudes y Dan. ● 14 such as shall be saued It may be compared to S. Peters sheete z Act. 10.12 For in Peters sheete were all sort of beasts fowre footed beasts of the earth and wild beasts creeping things and foules of the heauen So in the Church there are all manner of men Circumcised and vncircumcised Barbarians and Sythians a Colloss 3 1● It may be compared to Noahs Arke b Gen. 7.14 For there came to Noah into his Arke all kind of creatures cleane and vncleane male and female So there commeth to Christ into his Church all manner of men Iewes and Grecians bond and free c 1. Cor. 12.13 It may be compared to S. Iames his net d Luk. 5.10 For that ne●●e had corke aboue to make it swimme and ledde belowe to make it sinke that it might take all sorts of fishes So the Church hath diuerse fishers of men some that teach slightly and superficially some againe that teach more deeply and profoundly that all manner of men may bee taught e Ioh. 6.45 and caught f Matth. 13.47 and drawne vnto Christ. Lastly it may bee compared to King Assuerus his feast g Est 1.5 For that feast entertained all kinde of guests seauen dayes together in the court of the garden of the Kings Pallace So in the Church the Lord of hosts hath made vnto all manner of men a feast of fat things euen a feast of fined wines to vse the Prophet Esais h Esay ●5 6 words and fat things full of marrow of wines fined and purified Before that this ●east was prepared the oxen and fatlings killed and euery thing else prouided all men were not bidden But nowe that Christ hath bin killed he keepeth as I may say open house i Prou. 9.2 and sendeth his seruants into the high wayes k Luk. 14.23 to gather together all that euer they find Yea his seruants haue not onely bidden all that they could find in the hie-waies but also they haue crost the seas and called the very furthermost m Esa. 60 9. Ilands of all the world to behold the glory of the Lord. Blessed O blessed bee the Lord for his vnspeakable mercies towards this Iland now far more flourishing then euer it was in which we liue For alas in the time of the olde Testament who was there I pray you in this whole Monarchie at least wise that euer wee could read or heare of which had any true knowledge of God S. Ierom in the end of his dialogue against the Pelagians writeth thus n Vsque ad aduentum Christ● Brittannia fertilis prouincia tyrannorum Sto●icae gentes omnesque vsque ad Oceanum per circul●● bar b●rae na●i●●er Moysen Prophetasque ignorabunt Vntill the very comming of Christ saies he the Prouince of Brittain which hath bin oftentimes gouerned by tyrants and the Scottish people and all the nations round about the Ocean sea were vtterly ignorant of Moses and the Prophets So that then by the testimonie of S. Ierome all our religion was superstition al our church-seruice was Idolatrie all our Priests were Paynims all our gods were idols Then there was in Scotland the temple of Mars in Cornewall the temple of Mercurie in Bangor in Wales the temple of Minerua o Stow Annal. in vita Morgani in Malden in Essex the temple of Victoria p Camden Brittan in Essexi● in Bath the temple of Apollo in Leycester the temple of Ianus in Yorke where Peters is now the temple of Bellona q Stow Annal in vita Bladud Leiteregnum Seue●i imperat in London where Pauls is now the temple of Diana r Iuellus in tractat de sac●is Scrip pag. 129. Therefore it is very likely that they esteemed as highly then of the goddesse Diana in London as they did in Ephesus s Act. 19.28 And that as they cryed there Great is Diana of the Ephesians so they cried here ●reat is Diana of the Lōdiners Euen no more then three and fiftie yeares before the incarnation of Christ when Iulius Caesar came out of France into England so absurd and senslesse were the people of this Land that in stead of the true and euerliuing God they serued these heathenish and abominable idols Mars Mercurie Minerua Victoria Apollo Ianus Bellona Diana such like And not long after to wit an Christ. 180. King Lucius being first christened himselfe forthwith established religion in this whol kingdom But thanks thankes bee to God in the time of the newe Testament three and fiftie yeares after the incarnation of Christ when Ioseph of Arimathea come out of France into Englād many in this Realme of blind and ignorant P●gans became very zealous and sincere Christians For Saint Philip the Apostle after hee had preached the Gospel thorough-out all France at length sent Ioseph of Arimathea hither into England Who when he had conuerted very many to the faith died in this Land and hee that had buried the bodie of Christ was buried in Glascenburie himselfe t Gildas lib. de victor Aurel. Em. Also Simon Zelotes an other Apostle after he had preached the Gospell thoroughout all Mauritania at length came ouer into England Who when he had declared likewise to vs the doctrine of Christ crucified was in the end crucified himselfe and buried here in Brittaine u Ni●ep l. 2 c. 40 About this time Aristobulus one of the seauentie Disciples x Doroth in synops c. 23. whom Saint Paul mentioneth in his Epistle to the Romans y Rom. 16.10 was a reuerend and a renowned Biship in this Land Also Claudia a noble English Ladie z Martial Epigrama●at lib. 4. whom S. Paul mentioneth in his second Epistle to Timothie a 2. Tim. 4.21 was here amongst vs a famous Professour of the faith Since which time though the ciuil state hath bin o●ten turn'd vpside downe by the Romans by the Saxons by the Danes by the Normans ye● the Gospel of Christ hath neuer vtterly failed or bin taken from vs. This the holy Fathers of the church which haue liued in the ages next-ensuing doe declare Tertul●ian who liued Ann. 200. writeth thus b Aduers ●uda c. 3. Hispaniarum omnes termini Galliarum diuersae nation●s Brittannorum in a coessa Romanis loca Christo vero subdita All the coasts of Spaine and diuers parts of France and many places of Brittaine which the Romanes could neuer subdue with their sword Christ hath subdued with his