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A09753 A most excellent and heauenly sermon vpon the 23. chapter of the Gospell by Saint Luke. The text. Luke 23.28. Weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues.; Meane in mourning. Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609. 1595 (1595) STC 20014; ESTC S103557 34,265 112

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ten degrees inferiour to man A liue dogge is better then a dead lyon there he is ten degrees lower then the wormes Plinie reporteth that there was a Diall set vp in Campus Martius which was to continue 30. yeres wherby they might know the course of the Sunne yet as he reporteth it did not agree with the Sunne for the space of all those thirtie yeares In the death of Christ we might haue seene such a Dial the Sunne did not alwaies agree with the Diall the better for vs. Christ is that tender Pellican who by wounding his owne breast doth restore his owne to life againe by his bloud I came sayth Christ that men might haue life and that they might haue life more aboundantly What is that more aboundantly but only this that wee haue more life in the death of Christ then euer wee lost in the death of Adam O falix culpa quae talem meruit redemptorem Happie Adam sayth Gregorie that euer he sinned because that we by his sinne haue grace superabounding As Peters spirit was but a shadowe to Christs spirit so Peters death was but a shadow to Christs death And as the death of a lyon was the life of Sampson so the death of Christ is the life of man Thus you see that the death of Christ is the death of death the death of the diuell the life of himselfe and the life of man and therefore he sayth in this fourth parte Not too much for my death For me Now the fift part followeth For your selues Not too little for your owne life for the life of man is the life of death the life of the diuell the death of himselfe the death of Christ the reason of all this is iniquitie and sinne which euen in Christes deare friends sayth Bernard is cast downe but not cast out Therefore though sinne cannot reigne in vs yet it will alwaies dwell in vs for it is so bred in our bones that vntil our bones bee with Iosephs bones carried out of Egypt that is out of the world sinne cannot bee carried out of our bones One recordeth that the Romanes got such a victorie ouer Chos●oes that he made a law that neuer after any King of Persia should euer warre against the Romanes Wee cannot possiblie subdue sinne in such sort but doe we what wee can doe sinne will alwaies be a Iebusite a borderer yea a traytor rebelling against the spirit which maketh the life of man to be as Chrysostome sayth a debt as it were owing and due to death For the diuell is the father of sinne and sinne is the mother of death Hereupon S. Iames sayth Sinne when it is finished trauelling with childbirth as I may say bringeth foorth death For euen as a man commeth into a house by a gate so death came into the world by sinne The corruption of our flesh did not make our soules sinfull but the sinne of our soule made the flesh corruptible Whereupon Lactantius calleth sinne Pabulu● mortis the reliefe or the foode of death As a fire goeth out when al the fuell is spent but burneth as long as that lasteth so death dyeth when sinne ceaseth but where sinne aboundeth there death rageth The Prophet Abacucke sinning not death was so farre from him that he was able to flye without wings but King Asa sinning death was so neere to him that hee was not able to stand vpon his feet Nay you may see this in one and the selfe same man Moses who sinning not death could not meere with him in the bottome of the red sea but sinning death did seaze vpon him in the top of Mount Nebo so that the life of man by reason of sinne is the life of death It is also the life of the diuel As one saith Tot crimina tot daemona euery man hath as many diuels in him as he hath euils euery sinne being sufficient to maintaine a diuell The godly finding no ioy on earth haue their conuersation in heauen but Sathan finding no ioy in hell hath his conuersation on earth So that the earth is a hell vnto vs but a heauen to him Here he hath his liuing as it was sayd in the beginning Thou shalt eate the dust of the earth all the daies of thy life This dust sayth Macarius is the diuels diet And therefore as a scalde curre watcheth for a bone so he goeth about daily seeking whom he may deuour waiteth continually vntill the godly shake off the dust of their feete that is shaketh off some sinne which they haue gotten by walking in the world that then he may lick it vp It is meate and drinke to him to see vs sinne he loues alife to see vs sinne euen as cursed Cham did to see Noahs nakednes And as flyes are alwaies flying about a sore place and the oxe wil eate the best grasse he can get so the diuel is as busie as he can to haue his pleasure vpon the best So sayth Theophilact It is euen a sport or a pleasure to Sathan which is a sore or a paine to man especially if he be a godly man for the good Angels reioyce most when one that is a sinner repenteth but euill Angels reioyce most when one that is a penitent sinneth If the diuel cannot keepe a man from liuing long then he will hinder him from liuing well Aut impetrat morte aut impetit mores sayth Zeo If he cannot kill a man he will corrupt him And indeede hee taketh more pleasure in corrupting one godly man then in killing an hundred wicked He was more delighted when Dauid slew Vrias then when Saul killed himselfe when Peter denied Christ then whē Iudas betrayed him so that the life of man by reason of sinne is the life of the diuell It is on the other side the death of himselfe Oh miserable man that I am who shall deliuer me from this bodie of death The life of the godly is a very bodie of death but there death is only a shadow of death Thales being demanded what difference there is betweene life and death sayd they are all one then being asked againe if he had not rather die then liue no sayth he for they are all one but Hierome sayth excellētly they are not all one Aliud est viuere moriturus aliud mori victurus It is one thing to liue in cōtinuall dāger of death an other thing to dye in continuall hope of life Therefore Eccle. 7. 3. it is sayd that the day of death is better then the day of birth for when wee are borne wee are mortall but when we are dead we are immortall and wee are aliue in the wombe to dye in the world but are dead in the graue to liue in heauen Hence it is that the wicked are merrie at their birth day as Pharaoh made a feast at his birth day Gen. 40. 20. when his chiefe butler was hanged and Herod likewise made a feast at his birth day Matth. 14. 16. when Iohn Baptist