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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

dead now liueth he that was in the graue is now ascended now Vltra non dominatur mors Death hath no dominion ouer him but he hath now the dominion of death Hee did both enter into his graue and arise againe to assure vs that howsoeuer our bodies may putrifie in the Graues yet God shall restore them againe Et fragile hoc lutum in purissimam solidissimam testam excoquetur This house of Clay shall be made farre firmer then Stone more glorious then Golde or any such corruptible matter VVhy then are we afraid to descend into the graue which howsoeuer in it selfe fearefull yet to those that seeke Christ zealously as these women did it is a bed of rest and quietnesse as the Prophet calleth it or a Receptacle or Sanctuary against the troubles of the world and so is it called Esay 65. Esay 65. Christ liueth saith the Angell and as a Conqueror of death he is risen from his house of death and made it to such as seeke him a repose a rest a treasury in which they are safely kept and stored vp against the day of Resurrection This is the benefit we haue by Christs liuing by his rising from the graue As his resurrection is for our benefit so is his ascension Jascend saith Christ to prepare a place for you to take possession of Heauen in our name in our nature and here he sitteth at the right hand of God pleading our cause and shall come in maiesty to iudge vs at the last day A point worthy to be considered and which among other things the Angell also meant saying Feare not Now as it pleased God that an Angell should publish the Resurrection so also by an Angell was the Ascension published for as heere the women are first rebuked and afterwards instructed so the Angell seeing them gazing and looking after Christ rebuked them in this manner Whygaze yee you men of Galile And then afterward comforted them and in structed them concerning the Resurrection adding withall This Iesus shall come againe euen so as you haue seene him ascend that is he shall returne in the same nature in which he ascended which our Sauiour himselfe saith is to be in the glory of his Angells But some may say a fire shal go before him the powers of heauen shall be shaken and all the Tribes of the earth shall lament before him how then doth he come againe as he ascended I answer That though there be some difference in the circumstances yet shall he returne in the verity of his body in the very same body shape and members glorified in the which hee was crucified And it is a point most comfortable that the Father of all mercies will vouchsafe by Man to iudge men that the similitude of Nature in so great feare and perturbation might giue vs assured confidence If then his death resurrection ascension glorification and comming to iudgement be all for our comfort so that we seeke him heere it is plaine that this speech of the Angells hath both Consolation and Reprehension These women had a sharpe reprehension by the Angell for seeking him that was liuing amongst the dead but because otherwise their zeale was good God doth pardon their infirmity and comforteth them in their misery As the speech was vnto them so is it vnto vs. I hope there is none of vs so perfect but may very wel indure the Angell taxing our earthlinesse and stirring vs vp to the seeking of Christ now sitting at the right hand of God and if wee profite by the reprehension then appertaineth the consolation vnto vs if we seeke him deuoutly heere For the Prophet saith truely Lord thou art good vnto that soule that seeketh thee neither is it said to that soule that findeth thee for hee that according to his humanity raigneth in Heauen by his grace reigneth in the heart Et prope estinuocantibus ipsum Hee is neare to them that call vpon him VVe neede not as the Apostle saith to climbe vp into heauen nor descend into the depth heere hee is at hand within vs if there we will nourish him and giue him entertainement The finding of him then is not hard so wee seeke him earely whilst he may be found and all dependeth on this point And that men doe not seeke him by lifting vp their hearts vnto him I will shew you both the reason and the remedy and so end A man saith Lactantius is made ex repugnantibus of contrary principles of a soule and a body in respect of his soule hee is of affinity with the Angells in respect of the body he is of affinity with the beasts the soule originally lookes vpwards in respect of his body hee is apt and prone to sensualitie of these contrarieties there do arise in man distractions of minde the soule carrying him one way the frailety of the flesh another and this warre betweene the spirit and the body some doe thinke had beene euen in the state of innocency but that God gaue vnto Adam Donum supernaturale a supernaturall gift which was instar aureifreni like a golden Bridle by which he might pacifie the strife of these contrary parts make the body subiect to the spirit and the spirit subiect to God But after Adam offended he lost not onely that supernaturall gift if any such he had but euen Nature it selfe was now corrupted He that before was prone to Sensuality in respect of his body was made sensuall and carnall in his very soule For as flesh obeying the spirit may be called spirituall so the spirit whilest it obeyes the flesh is carnall and in this estate of corrupt nature man cannot but looke downe his soule and body in respect being but earth fleshly and sensuall But it seemed good to God to dissolue the workes of the Diuell and to send his owne Sonne who both dyed for sinne and applieth the power and efficacy of his bloud by the Sacraments to the regenerating and renewing of the soule which is purified from corruption and indewed with strength and grace to rise and mount vp vnto Heauen Yet forasmuch as this renouation is not pure but in part there remayneth still and euen in the best of vs this combate and contradiction betweene the flesh and the spirit the spirit coueting vpwards and the body hanging downwards and as this corpus corruptibile this corruptible body doth weigh downe the soule so the soule doth make the body mount vp to heauen And heereof proceedes our earthlinesse wee are made of earth and so apt to fixe our mindes on the earth vnlesse the spirit vanquish this earthlinesse in vs whereon dependeth the victorie For as while Aaron and Hur held vp Moses hands strongly the Israelites preuailed against the Amalekites but when they fainted and waxed weary the Amalekites preuailed against the Israelites so while our hearts are set on heauen the Diuell is vanquished by vs but when this heauy lump of Clay this body of ours with our sensuality doth weigh downe the soule then the Diuell preuailes against vs. Therefore our care must bee to keepe downe and represse this sensualitie of ours to mortifie the affections and desires and to make them obedient to the spirit that our earthly affections beeing subdued our spirits with the wings of the morning may climbe vp to God and in zeale of heart say with Dauid Psalme 42. Euen as the Hart desireth the water brookes so longeth my soule after thee O God to which there is nothing more auaileable then frequent meditation of the life to come of Christs ascending of his sitting at the right hand of God receiuing of the Sacrament with such other holy exercises of deuotion which if you doe assure your selues you shall finde him enioy him and pray to him with much comfort in the Spirit ye shall conuerse with him familiarly and take more pleasure in him then in all earthly pleasures beside which are but vaine and momentany blazing like a fire of Thornes but suddenly extinguished whereas the things that are not corporall God bestowes on his whilest by setting their mindes on him they seeke Christ aboue whereby he brings them to raigne in glory with himselfe for euer to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all praise and glory now and for euermore Amen * ⁎ * FINIS

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