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A07776	Three homilies upon these three sentences folowing Psal. 55.22. Cast thy burthen vpon the Lord. Iohn 14.27. My peace I giue vnto you. Luk.10.42. One thing is necessarie. Composed by Philip Mornay, lord of Plessis-Marly.; Trois homélies. English.	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Ratcliffe, Anthony, fl. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 18156; ESTC S100071	41,038	192

their bowells issuing forth and yet lifted vp their eyes to Christ by prayer nay rather by singing brake through the noyse of the flames Therefore O flesh and bloud tell me here if Christ were not there if he assisted them not effectually or clothed them not really with his power against the violence of that Element and against the crueltie of those who sharpens it against them thinkest thou that there could be any one found that could stand And from whence then came so many millions Yea where could there haue beene found any one that should resolue with himselfe to die for one dead to suffer himselfe to be tortured for one Crucified and from whence then could this come if it were not in that Christ liveth in them and in them with them is crucified Verily in them who cast their burden vpon the Lord the Sonne coeternall with the Father not to shake off their burthen but the more couragiously to beare it being incouraged by his presence strengthened by his hand And therefore in other crosses the wonder consisteth herein that the Lord being called vpon in faith doth graciously deliver thee But loe here the myracle is in that the faithfull against sence reason and nature offer themselues vp in sacrifice vnto God their flesh and bloud their humaine reason altogether flesh and bloud renouncing themselues to confesse Christ And seeing it is impossible of themselues whence is it then for the honor of God but by God The burden of our Calling And so much for the burthen of the Crosse and affliction when it overchargeth vs. Now followes that crosse which concernes our calling and function vnto which God calleth vs. A true burthen also for there is none so small in regard of the weaknesse of our nature vnder the which our shoulders doe not bow yet be it never so great in his power who calls vs thereunto wee need not feare to passe provided alwayes it be a true calling by which he makes it his owne And therefore the Apostle exhorts every one Ephes 4.1 to walke worthy his calling according to that grace which is given vs according to the measure of the gift of Christ To walke is not simplie to goe but to hold a certaine way and to ayme at the true end thereof and besides in a mans Calling to looke he haue it from God who is a God of order who ordaines and who imployes all his Creatures every one to some certaine thing every stone to haue a certaine place in his building He that walkes in his Calling sets all his paths vnto profit walkes alwayes well though he halt in it he that strayeth from thence what speed soever he makes goeth the further out of his way and for the most part goes backward Well then every calling hath his labour or rather his crosse yet not without some inward comforts and helpe from aboue even from him who hath created all things He I say with the same power bountie and wisedome preserveth them and directs all things For let vs not thinke that he hath lesse care or takes more pleasure to comfort an Artificer in his shopp then he doth a Prince in his Throne a family as well as a Common wealth for every where where his name is called vpon he hearkens he heares he puts to his helping hand without exception without acception of persons vnto him who hath equally made them the brasse is as deare as the gold the hempe as the flax the course cloth as the scarlet But in the callings of those whom hee calleth to the conducting of his people of his Church this bountifull providence doth more appeare because shee is set as it were vpon a hill because they are or ought to be the light of the world as also because the Lord in his holy Scriptures hath left them for our examples Art thou then in a publicke Calling 1. In the Magistracy be it either polliticke or ecclesiasticke and dost thou meete with a stiffenecked people being ready every houre to murmure with gyants advancing their heads against heaven against whom thou art every houre to pronounce and lay open Gods judgements A hard Commission troublesome rough hard to vndergoe if thou onely looke into thy selfe but looke vnto God who hath imposed this Calling vpon thee doe not thou therefore shake off thy burthen as another Ionas Who fled vnto Tarsis from the presence of the Lord and shipt himselfe at Ioppa who meets with him amōgst the waues Whether shall I goe from thy spirit sayth the Prophet Psal 39.7 or whether shall I flie from thy presence Therefore rather humble thy selfe before his face acknowledg thy imbecillitie seeke thy strength from him take thy warrant from his Commission What oh Lord is dust and ashes that thou shouldest expect such strength such service if thou put not to thy helping hand if thou worke not in it There needs no greater matter then lyce to confound the wise the ruine of the pride of Egypt Well then Lord worke thou Who am I Lord saith David 2 Sam. 7.18 19.22.23.24 and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto is this the manner of men is there any thing here whereof man can presume or promise ought vnto himselfe But he takes him at his word wherein his glory is interressed And sayth for thy promise sake and according to thy heart thou hast done all this greatnesse c. to get thee a name and a people for evermore And where his calling meets there his promise secretly comes betweene Who am I also saith his Son Salomon 1 Kings 3. to iudge this so great a people c. Alas I am but a childe who knowes not how to goe in and out before them And further the Lord from whom every good gift comes giues him to him I say who acknowledging his owne incapacitie seekes the supply thereof in his grace a wise and an vnderstanding heart a habit very necessary for a King he giues him more then he requireth riches and honour things very seemely Also who am I saith Moses Exod. 3.11 that I should goe vnto Pharaoh and that I should bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt c. Exod. 4.10 Alas Lord saith he neither yesterday nor before yesterday am I a man of cloquent speech but on the contrary of a slow mouth and tongre Now the businesse was to speake vnto a great Prince to perswade him of strange offensiue things but I sayth the Lord will be with thee and beholde the signes Who made the mouth of man who made the dumbe c. Exod. 4.12 I will be with thy mouth and will teach thee what thou shalt say or rather by thy hand I will doe that which thou shalt haue to say that we might know the great priviledge those haue whom God sets on worke in respect of all others Those whom the Princes of the earth imploy in their services if they be not adorned with exquisite

the afflicted and howsoever it be the vpright shall dwell before his face But some prophane person may here say is David thus confident the burthen notwithstanding lieth still vpon his neeke he is slandered abused watched pursued by Saul by his most familiar friends yea by his owne sonne but he is lightened of this his burthen comforted in soule because of his liuely faith which represented vnto him the helpe of his God both certaine and present because his loue by his holy Spirit was powred into his soule because a divine light shining vpon it scattered the darknesse thereof And thou Christian whosoever thou art if ever thou hast called vpon the Lord in the like anguish how often before thy burthen the cause of thine anguish of thy griefe was eased hast thou notwithstanding felt thy spirit eased by thy prayer God without doubt holding his hand invisibly and insensibly vnder thy burthen as it were hidden from thee The burthen continuing and yet the paine diminished because we haue now two to beare it because it pleaseth God to beare one part of the burthen and that the greatest part also suffering vs to redouble our strength that he might lend vs his owne For example Ioseph being cast into the pit by his brethren Gen. 37. ver 27. it was some reliefe to be solde vnto the Madianites and then vnto Potipher Captaine of the Guard Gen. 39.1 his burthen encreaseth when the slander of his mistris caused him to be cast into the dungeon but Moses addes presently that the Lord was with Ioseph ver 20. he shewed his mercie vpon him in giving him favour in the sight of the Maister of the Prison Such favour as made him way to Pharaoh even to the supplying of the necessities of Iacob his Father and all his house yea even to be ruler over Egypt Who now in the meane while would haue beleeved that GOD was with him in prison In like manner he saith to Iacob that is to his Church to all the members thereof Esa 43.2 When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee they shall not drowne thee and when thou goest through the fire it shall not burne thee because I will be with thee Even I who commandes the elements who rules over the waters of the Floud Psal 29.10 who makes my Ministers a flame of fire Psal 104.4 I am with thee because I haue redeemed thee Esa 43.1 I haue called thee by name thou art mine and by consequent I haue Interesse in thy ruine in thy losse Is God with vs in the fire and in the water Isa 43.2 if he said it not himselfe who durst beleeue it And indeed we see it in the waters of the red Sea which gaue place vnto the Children of Israell Exod. 14. when in the meane while they overwhelmed Pharaoh and his hoste Also in the three Children in the Furnace Dan. 3. being heated more then ordinary it consumed them who cast them in Dan. 3.27 but of those that were cast in it singed not a haire an Angell ioyning himselfe vnto them in the middest of the fire who kept them One sayth the Prophet like to the Sonne of God These things you see being performed both really and visiblie in them whence wee may learne that God who was with his in the middest of dangers out of the which there appeared no issue is invisibly and no lesse really with all those who call vpon him in true faith he compasseth them about with his mercy and assisteth them with the presence of his Angels yea of his owne presence also Whence it is that David hiding himselfe from the wrath of Saul in the Caue makes his prayer vnto God Psal 57.4 saying My soule is amongst Lyons I lye amongst these that are set on fire amongst men whose teeth are speares and arrowes he assures himselfe notwithstanding that God will send from heaven and deliver him yea out of this danger and in this faith he wakens his tongue and all his musicall instruments to giue him praise This deliverance being vnto him no lesse reall nor lesse miraculous Dan. 6.22 then that of Daniell in the denne of Lyons in which denne the Angell of the Lord did shut their mouths but what if not so visibly because such miracles are wrought visiblie but once or very rarely to try our weaknes as also to show that God can doe it ceasing not in the meane while invisibly to continue according to his word promise which assures vs that he will do it And herein the faithfull cōsider that so often as they finde themselues amongst such Lyons thirsting for their bloud and hungering for their life yet can they doe them no hurt And in such appetite and such fury seing themselues a prey can they doubt of him who restraines them who mussels them thus invisiblie Therefore tell me not here that wee now see no more miracles We see them not indeede because wee want eyes for what doe we see in effect but miracles Thou Christian if the creation of the world if the vniversall change of the course of the world by the power of Christ if the death of so many Martyrs beleeving the Resurrection of a God crucified so many ages past tell me if so sweete a harmony of all and every particular thereof be not a sufficient myracle In vaine will it be for thee to see the lame to goe the dumbe to speake the dead to rise Thou shalt alwaies find in thy discourse matter of doubt they will be vnto thee illusiōs slights and trickes of Sathan well then let vs cast our burthen vpon the Lord and let vs the rather consider of his grace and of his helpe in vs and towards vs. And after we haue seriously called vpon him feeling our selues in effect either discharged of this burden of this crosse which crushed vs or incouraged to beare it more ioyfully let vs then boldly say The Lord hath here put to his hand for from no other but him could come ease of paine or increase of strēgth Therefore let vs freely acknowledge in the healing of our stroake and of this issue of bloud that vertue is gone out from Christ yea albeit we haue but touched the hemme of his garment this touching this hemme which is as it were but to giue a body vnto their invisible and spirituall vertue thereby to make it vnto vs flesh and bloud as we are not more efficacious but more sensible Well then if the Lord as in some temptations seemes to thee that himselfe takes part against thee and by consequent thou thinkest that he himselfe is become the burthen so farre off is it that thou canst hope he should beare thy burthen vnto whom then shouldest thou haue recourse And here lyeth the highest point of the triall Take an example in Abraham when God commanded him to offer vp his sonne whom he had long time waited for his Isaac his onely sonne by that so expresse a