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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09760	The sick-mans couch A sermon preached before the most noble Prince Henrie at Greenewich, March 12. Ann. 1604. By Thomas Playfere professour of Diuinitie for the Ladie Margaret in Cambridge.	Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.	1605 (1605)	STC 20027; ESTC S105930	37,080	64

thy bed and walke cure him so that presently he was made whole and tooke vp his bed and walked What happeed to Eneas who was sick of the palsey as one of these two that I spake of last and had kept his bed eyght yeares as the other of them Did not S. Peter saying but thus vnto him Eneas Iesus Christ maketh thee whole arise and trusse vp thy couch so restore him that immediately he arose What happened to S. Paul who was pressed out of measure passing strength so that he altogether doubted euen of life Did not the Lord when he had receiued the sentence of death in himselfe deliuer him from this great daunger What happened to S. Pauls fellow-souldier Epaphroditus who was sick and no doubt sick very neare vnto death Did not the Lord shew mercie on him and giue him health againe to the great ioy of the Philippians and generall good of all the church What happened to holy Dauid in this place who saith of himselfe O Lord I am weake my bones are vexed my soule also is sore troubled I am weary of my gronings euery night I wash my bed and water my couch with my teares Did not the Lord finding him in this miserable pickle and plight deliuer his soule from death his eyes from teares and his feet from falling So that in thankfull and ioyfull manner he triumpheth and saith the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping the Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receiue my praier Euen as S. Paul saith He hath deliuered vs from so great a death and doth deliuer vs in whom also we trust that yet he will deliuer vs O faithfull and deare louing Lord He hath deliuered he doth deliuer he will deliuer He neuer yet hath forsaken he neuer doth forsake he neuer will forsake those that put their trust in him For tell mee my good Brother if thou canst tell any thing tell mee did Christ so miraculously restore Iob restore Ezechias restore the man sick of the palsey restore the bedred man restore Eneas restore S. Paul restore Epaphroditus restore king Dauid to their former health and can hee not restore thee Did he restore the most of these when he was crucified vpon earth and can he not restore thee now hee is crowned in heauen Is his arme now shorter his power lesser then it was then Where I maruel where is the Centurions faith Christ said then I haue not found so great faith in all Israel now if he were among vs he might say I haue not found so great faith in all the world The Centurion beleued though Christ came not vnder the roofe of his house but spake the word only his seruant might be healed well enough and doest thou thinke Christ cannot heale thee except he come in person stand by thy bed side and take thee by the hand and raise thee vp For shame away with such infidelitie This is a thousand times worse then all the sicknes of thy body Nay rather assure thy selfe if god say but the word thou shalt soone recouer and haue thy health better then euer thou hadest and liue many happie and ioyfull daies after Therefore mind thou only that which belongeth to thee that which belongeth to God meddle not with it but leaue it wholly vnto him It is thy part to bewaile thy former sinnes and in bewailing them to water thy couch with thy teares to crie to the Lord for mercie and forgiuenes to resolue with thy selfe stedfastly hereafter if it please God to giue thee thy health againe to lead a new life This belongs to thee and therefore this thou must meditate of and employ thy selfe about day and night but whether thou shalt recouer or not recouer that belongeth to God That rests altogether in Gods pleasure and will If thou doest recouer thou hast thy desire Or rather perhaps thou hast not thy desire Seeing the holiest and best men of all incline neither this way nor that way but wholly resigne thēselues as in all other things so especially in this case to Gods will Or if they determinately desire any thing it is for the most part to be dissolued and to be with Christ But suppose thou desire to recouer and recouer indeede Then as thou obtainest thy desire so thou must performe thy promise The promise which thou madst when thy bodie was grieued with sicknes and paine when thy soule was oppressed with heauines when thou wateredst thy couch with thy teares And what was that promise Namely as I said before that if it pleased god to giue thee health againe thou wouldst loue him more sincerely serue him more obediently tender his glory more dearly follow thy calling more faithfully then thou hast done If thou haue offended him with pride to humble thy selfe heareafter if with dissolutenes to be sober heareafter if with couetuousnes to be liberall heareafter if with conuersing with the vngodly to abandon their company heareafter to say as it is in this Psalme Depart from me ye workers of iniquitie for the lord hath heard the voice of my weeping This if thou conscionably constantly performe then in a good hower as we say and in a happy time thou didst recouer But suppose thou desire to recouer and yet neyther thy self see any liklihood nor god see it good thou shouldst recouer Then harty repentance watering thy couch with thy teares is most of all necessary That the feare of death may not affright thee but being truly penitent at thy departure thou mayst be sure to depart in peace And so God graunting not thy will but his will may indeede graunt both thy will and his will Thy will which is not simply to recouer but conditionally if god will and his will which is not to haue thee lye languishing any longer in this warfare but to triumph for euer in heauen O blessed teares are these which are recompensed with such high happines and such inestimable commodities As namely fredome from all sinnes past present and to come deliuerance from all the miseries and troubles of this wofull world consūmation of holines of humblenes of purity of deuotion of all other christian vertues which were but begun and vnperfect in this life putting away of all corruption and mortalitie putting on the royall robe of immortality blisse For that which happened to Christ shall happen to thee also because by faith thou art not only in soule but euen in body vnseparably vnited and ioyned vnto him being by vertue of this mysticall vnion made bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh Therefore as he from that agony wherein hee praied with strong crying and teares from that crosse wherein he commended his spirit into his fathers hands from that graue wherein death for a time seemed to insult and to trample vpon him rose vp againe and ascended farre aboue all heauens and now sitteth at the right