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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

to be his Souldiers and by that mysterie doe binde our selues as fast as any vowe or oathe can tie vs and being thus bound if we be desertores militiae forsakers of our Christian profession and become flat Apostataes wee then are more guilty then if we had neuer contracted with God to serue him which to doe wee are euen bound by Baptisme and heerein many of vs doe diuers wayes infringe the vowe wee made in Baptisme fleeing from the Campe of Christ into the tents of Sathan There are scene amongst vs God be thanked that renounce their profession vniuersally yet many do daily slide to Poperie which as I sayd though it bee not a totall defection yet it is an aberration from Christ and that a grosse one But where Christians doe border vpon the Turkes it is no newes to see Christians turne Turkes these are Apostataes and runnagate souldiers out of Christs Campe But though there be none such amongst vs yet are there disobedient souldiers whose standing is in Gods Campe but they fight the Diuells battailes Such are all notorious and scandalous sinners who may carry Gods marke in their fore-heads but are the Diuells seruants in their actions whom I wish if any such be heere to repent and consider what a shamefull thing it is after that they haue receiued Gods Presse-mony haue bin brought vp in his Campe to bee at couenant with Sathan Death and Hell Of all others Hypocrites as they are of the greatest number so are they in the most daunger because vnder pretence of fighting Gods battells they betray the whole army to the enemies And yet I know not whether I should say that such as these are of the Campe nay rather as some say they are but in the camp not of the Campe not of the Church but in the Church and as S. John speakes 1. Iohn 2.19 Some such are gone out from vs but they were not of vs for if they had been of vs they would haue continued with vs or if they be members of the church they are but members of the visible Church in which there are Tares and VVheat Sheep and Goates vessels of honour and vessels of dishonour but how they should be actually members of the Catholike Church which is the societie of the faithfull and the mysticall body of Christ I cannot see Our Aduersaries who will not graunt the difference betweene the visible and inuisible Church say that the outward profession of faith doth make one a member of Christs body and that no internall vertue is required thereunto but when wee obiect vnto them such scandalous and grosse sinners and close and hidden hypocrites as lurke in the body of the Church then are they driuen to their poore shifts for they affirme that such are members though dead members of Christs body these say they are dead members Others call them not members but parts or excrements in the body as all our nayles and haires are but corrupt humours in the body like biles or inflammations But how any such should bee the members of Christ or appertaine to his mysticall body is beyond my reach For of the Body Christ is the Head who giueth life and sustenance to euery member of it men that continue obstinately in any grosse sinne are the members of Sathan and how they should be actually the members of Christ I see not True it is that such may appertaine to Gods election and they may be called as Saint Augustine speakes Electi secundum propositum suum Elected according to his purpose for so I see the Scripture speakes but actually they are not the members of Christ till they be called sanctified and bring forth fruit neither can a man haue any comfort in Christ either in regard of an historicall faith or of Baptisme till hee repent and become a true souldier to Christ to which his Baptisme doth binde him And therefore if you wish to bee saued adde to Faith and Baptisme Good-workes which though in this place they are not mentioned yet are they comprehended Neither can I giue better counsell to you then Iohn Baptist did to the people when they came to be baptised of him For when they asked him what they should doe to be saued He answered Let him that hath two coates Luke 3.11.12.13.14 giue one to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him doe likewise by which is not meant that it is vn-lawfull for a man to haue two coates but that which is redundant and superfluous in our estate wee must giue to the poore or to speake plainly relieue the poore if God hath giuen vs abilitie it is in a word a lesson of Mercie and that to be performed as time and circumstances require this was a generall lesson which hee gaue to all the people But when the Publicans came who were infamous for their polling and oppression and asked what they should doe he bade them require no more then that which was appoynted vnto them and when the Souldiers came who vnlesse Grace restraine them are proude barbarous and bloudy and asked what they should doe he answeres Doe violence to no man neither accuse any man falsely and be content with your wages Vnum omnibus conueniens singulis responsum dabat Hee gaue a generall answere to them all and a particular answere to men of seuerall degrees and callings and therein Saint Ambrose commendeth his discretion For there is a generall dutie pertaining to all Christians and that is the duetie of Charitie of Mercie from which neither high nor lowe Priest nor People neither rich nor poore are exempted euery man according to his rancke and abilitie must be mercifull But there are also seuerall dueties appertaining to seuerall men for wee all are one body but in that body are diuers members some appoynted to one office some to another and if wee will haue comfort by our Baptisme then it becommeth 〈◊〉 to practise all generall dueties with all Christians and particular also with faithfulnes and desire to discharge that duty that our particular vocation doth binde vs to then are we trusty true Souldiers then keepe we our vow made in Baptisme then wee may take comfort in our Christian vocation For he that beleeueth and is baptised and withall bringeth foorth fruit liuing answerable to his profession shall be saued I will not deny but in many things we offend all neither doth any person liue so exactly and walke so innocently as his Christian vocation requireth but God passeth by many of our infirmities and accepteth our seruice though vnperfect when wee striue to doe our indeuour and haue a care of our conuersation Euen as a man that beares with many infirmities in his sonne so long as he doth not vtterly cast off the yoake of obedience and become against all nature treacherous incorrigible for that dissolues the bonds of nature giues iust cause of disherison so God suffereth and passeth by many ordinary infirmities