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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

called goods but melt away as snowe this is a better and a more enduring substance yea most enduring a surpassing eternall waight of glorie Thus ye see how eternall our glorie is It is a kingdome a crowne a treasure And this kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome this crowne is an incorruptible crowne this treasure is an eternall treasure And therefore seeing our glorie is so surpassing eternall we must be patient in all affliction For the momentarie lightnesse of our affliction worketh vs a surpassing exceeding eternall waight of glorie Fourthly our glorie is waightie yea exceeding waightie The glorie to come by some resemblances is shewed to be eternall by other to be waightie First to this purpose it is compared to wine Touching which our Sauiour saith Mark 14.15 Hereafter will I not drinke with you of the fruite of the vine till I drinke it newe with you in my fathers kingdome Now how waightie this wine shal be appeareth in that the spies bringing clusters of grapes out of Canaan carried them vpon a poale on their shoulders Numb 13.24 To shewe in the celestiall Canaan what waightie glorie there shall be So when our Lord turned water into wine he commanded to fill the vessels to the toppe These vessels top-full of wine Ioh 27. doe signifie at the marriage of the Lamb that the patient shall haue a full reward 1 Ioh. 8. pressed downe shaken together running ouer So that euerie one of them may say My cuppe doth ouerflowe Psal. 13. Againe our glorie is compared to a peny Now in a peny we consider fowre things The image the superscription the sound the waight So our Sauiour when they shewed him a peny asked whose image and superscription it was First then for the image Christ shall change our vile bodies Phil. 3.21 that they may be like the glorious bodie of his Sonne that as wee haue borne the image of the earthly so we may beare the image of the heauenly For the superscriptiō our Sauiour saith To him that ouercommeth will I giue a white stone Reuel 2.17 and in it a name written which no man knoweth but he that receiueth it As a Prince seeing his name vpon a peice of coine knoweth it is of his owne mint so euery patient Christian seeing his owne name in this white stone which is a token of honour knoweth it properly belongeth to himselfe For the sound the Psal●ist saith Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they shall alwayes praise thee This shal be the sound of the peny continually the praise of God As the foure and twentie Elders neuer ceased day nor night Reuel 1.8 to sing Holy holy holy to him that is and was and is to come Fourthly for the waight the shekel of the Sanctuarie was twise as waighty as the common shekel in like manner our glorie shall be as the shekel of the Sanctuarie exceeding massie and waightie But what speake I of wine What of a peny God himselfe shall be our glory According to that Psal. 3.3 Thou art my glorie and the lifter vp of my head As if hee should haue said Affliction would make me cast downe my countenance and hold downe my head like a bulrush ●● but the remembrance of this that tho● art my glory makes me lift vp my head So say's God to Abraham Gen. 15.1 Feare not Abraham I am thy buckler and thy exceeding great reward I am thy burkler to latch those blowes which affliction would lay vpon thee and thy exceeding great reward blessing thee with exceeding waighty glory For they that shall enioy this glorie shall see God Agreeable to that of our Lord Matth. 5.8 Blessed are the pure in spirit for they shall see God And how shall they see God Not standing behind the lattisse or looking out of a window 2. Cor. 13.12 that is darkly and obscurely but face to face talking with him familiarly as one friend doth to an other O ioy aboue all ioyes O glorie that passeth all vnderstanding when we see the amiable and gracious countenance of our Lord reconciled to vs by Christ. Doubtlesse if the Queene of Saba thought her selfe happie for hearing the wisedome of Salomon and seeing the riches of his house and the order of his seruants then much more shall we be happy when we shall see the glory and heare the wisedome of the Father not as the preachers shewe it out of the word but as our owne eies shall behold it in heauen O how blessed shall we thinke our selues then that by any paines by any afflictions we haue at length attained to such waighty glorie For this glorie is wine r●●●ing ouer is a pony waighty according to the shekell of the Sanctuarie is the blessed sight and fruition of God himselfe Wherefore considering how waightie our glorie is we must be patient in all affliction For the momentarie lightnes of our affliction worketh vs a surpassing exceeding eternal waight of glory Compare then the affliction on the one side with the glory on the other side the shortnes of the affliction with the eternity of the glory the lightnes of the affliction with the waightinesse of the glory And then be content for an eternall glorie to suffer momentarie affliction for waightie glory to suffer light affliction The Stoicks if their greife were either momentary or light cared for no more for if it were short they cared not how heauie it were againe if it were light they cared not how long it were Our affliction is both momentarie and light One helpe was sufficient for them we haue two for ●ayling A starke shame ●hereless● would be for vs if heathens pagans hauing fewer meanes then wee haue should shew greater patience then we shew But the Scriptures affoard vs yet more forceable inducements Iacob being in loue with Rachell serued for her first seuen yeares and afterward seauen yeares more in all fourteene and these many yeares seemed to him but a fewe dayes O deere Lord that we had thy grace to loue thy eternall waightie glorie but as well as many a man hath done a mortall earthly creature Then ●o doubt many years of afflictiō would seeme to vs but a few dayes heauy burthens of affliction would seeme to vs very sweet and light Christ Iesus for the ioy that was set before him indured the crosse and despised the shame and now sitteth at the right hand of the throne of God Questionlesse beloued the crosse of Christ was tedious and long the shame that he suffred was heauy and vntollerable Yet this crosse seemed but momentarie to him and this shame seemed but light vnto him in comparison of the ioy that was set before him and of the eternall waightie glory which he hath now attained sitting at the right hand of the throne of God To the which plate of honour and worship we beseech thee O louing Lord to bring vs after all the afflictions of this wretched world not

Noah saued all by the doore in the side of the arke Christ redeemeth all by the door● in the side of his bodie Noah the fortieth day after the decreasing of the flood opened the windowe Christ the fortieth day after his resurrectiō ascendeth vp and openeth heauen Lo ye how all things agree together None but Noah none but Christ Noahs rest Christs peace Noahs arke Christs crosse Noahs water Christs woe Noahs doore Christs side Noahs windowe Christs kingdome The Prophet Hose foretelleth that Ephraim shall flie away like a bird This is fulfilled not only in Ephraim but euen in all mankind All haue gone astray all haue flowen away from God as a hau●e which takes a check and giues ouer her pray wherefore Christ holding out his wounded and bloody hands as meat to reclaime vs calleth vs as it were and saith Returne returne O Shulamite returne returne Can. 6 12. that we may behold thee Prudentius writeth that when Asclepiades commaunded the tormentors to strike Romanus on the mouth the meeke martyr answered I thanke thee O captaine that thou hast opened vnto me many mouthes whereby I may preach my Lord and Sauiour Tot ecce laudant or a quot sunt vulnera Looke howe many wounds I haue so many mouthes I haue to praise and laud the Lord. And looke how many wounds Christ hath so many mouthes he hath to call vs to himselfe so many lures he hath to make our soule flie for comfort onely vnto him Manna was a most comfortable meate which God gaue the Israelites It was like to coriander seede and the tost of it was like vnto wafers made with honey Exod. 16.32 This our holy Sauiour applieth to himselfe For when the Capernites said Our fathers did eate Manna in the desert Iesus answered Your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse and are dead I am the liuing bread which came downe from heauen Therefore as then there was a golden pot of Manna kept in the Tabernacle that the posteritie might see the bread wherewith the Lord fed them so there is yet a golden pot of Manna kept in heauen Bernard de amor dei c. 2. that the faithfull in all ages may tast and see how sweete the Lord is which feedeth them with his owne body and blood the least droppe whereof though it be as small as a 〈◊〉 and or seede yet it is as sweet as a wafer made with honey Hard it is to giues reason wherefore Christ when he came to the citie of Sichar in Samari● 〈◊〉 was Iacobs well sate downe vpon the well about the sixt houre But certainly he did this not so much for himselfe as for vs. That hereby we might learne when the sunne is hotest about the 〈◊〉 houre of the day whē we are most exercised with afflictions when we are ●●rest grieued for our sins alwaies to haue recourse vnto Christ alwaies to see with the King into the wineselles alwaies to sit downe vpon Iacobs well Ioh. 4.6 Of which the Prophet Zacharie sai●s In that day there shall be a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sinne and for vncleanenesse In omnibus aduersitatibus n● inueni tam essicax remedium quam vulnera Christi Manu 22. Whereupon S. Austin saith verie diuinely In all aduersities saies he I could neuer yet find any remedie so comfortable and so effectuall as the wounds of Christ. Christ is not vnlike to the poole in Ierusalem Ioh. 5.1 called Bethesda hauing fiue porches which being troubled by an angel healed any man that went first into it what soeuer disease he had Bethesda signifieth the house of effusion or powring out in which house Christ dwelt when he powred out his blood and his soule for our saluation Therefore he alone is the angel which came downe at a certaine season into the poole and troubled the water because when the fulnes of time was come he came into the world to be troubled himselfe and to be crucified that he might heale not onely that one man which had been diseased eight a●d thirtie yeares but euen all mankinde with the troubled water and blood which issued out of his side So that there is nothing so comfortable for sicke and sinnefull men as to fit in the seates and porches of this poole Wonderfull are the words of the Prophet concerning Christ He shall seede his flocke like a shepheard Esa. 40.11 he shall gather the lambs with his armes had 〈◊〉 thē in his bosom Which was profigur'd in the high Priest who did beare vp with his shoulders a breast pla●e wherin were the names of the twelue tribes written in twelue precious stones That which the shepheard doth with his armes and bosom that which the high Priest doth with his shoulders 〈◊〉 that doth Christ with his hands and side He is the good shepheard which bringeth home the lost 〈◊〉 vpon 〈◊〉 shoulders Yea he writeth the 〈◊〉 of all his sheepe in his precious wounds which are the precious stones vpon his breast-plate that both declare his loue to vs. also allure vs to loue him This makes Dauid say in great 〈◊〉 The Lord is my shepheard ther 〈◊〉 can I lacke nothing He shall feeded 〈◊〉 in a greene pasture and lead men forth beside the waters of comfort For 〈◊〉 henne gathereth her brood vnder her wings so God gathereth his children together Deut 30.11 And as an eagle stirreth vp her nest flotereth ouer her birds taken them and beareth them on her wings so Christ carrieth vs vp in his hands to the high places of the earth and causeth vs to sucke bonie out of the stone and oyle out of the hard rock Butheius an excellent painter painted an eagle carrying Ganimedes into heauen so nicely and tenderly that her talents did not 〈◊〉 him but onely beare him vp And in like sort Christ beareth vs vp in his hands that we dash no● our foot against a stone yea his right hand is vnder our head quis Dominus supponit ma. num suam and his le●t hand doth embrace vt so ther though we should fal yet we cannot be hurt because the Lord stayeth and supporteth vs with his hand Therefore S. Chrysostome giues vs good counsell not to haue iayes eyes but eagles eyes that wee may behold these hands of Christ and see his side in the Sacrament For indeede as often as we celebrate the memorie of our Lords death Christ our Sauiour deliuering the bread and the cuppe by his minister saith in a sort to euerie faithful receiuer Put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not faithlesse but faithfull But yet we shall not alwaies drinke of this fruit of the vine The time will come when we shall drinke a new kinde of wine in Christs kingdome Wherefore he saies As often as y● shall eate this bread and drinke this cup you shall sh●w the