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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09013	The rose, and lily Delivered at the lecture, in Ashby de-la-zouch in the county of Leicester. By William Parks, Master of Arts, and curat of Chelaston in the county of Derby.	Parks, William, curat of Chelaston.	1639 (1639)	STC 19303; ESTC S102532	67,453	210

the Church is profitable and healthfull to her members Shee restores health to her members by monitions and admonitions strengthning them that are sound by wholesome Doctrine and restoring them that are sicke by good discipline But if any member be past cure then w Ovid Metamorph Immedicabile vulnus Ense redendū est ne pars sincera trahatur Then shee cuts it off by the spirituall sword of Excommunication Those that are in the barren Wildernes without the pale of the Church are miserable there is mors in olla death is in their pot but those that are within the pale of the Church in that fruitfull Field are happy there is health in her bosome The Church of God is the House of God x 1 Tim. 3.15 the Pillar and ground of truth And shee is very profitable unto her members Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is a common saying among the fathers without the Church there is no salvation Without the Church they cannot attayne unto the right of adoption whereby they that live faithfully are made actually the children of GOD. They that continue in the Ship of the Church are secure y Doctor Boy though the Sea make a noyse and stormes arise but hee that utterly forsakes the Ship of the Church and swims either in the cockboate of heresies or upon the windy bladders of his owne conceipt shall never touch the land of the living Those that are out of the Church have not the communion and interest of the members with the head and being no part of his body how can they lay claime to his benefits or challenge right to the Kingdome of heaven And to this purpose heaven is called z Acts. 26.18 the inheritance of them which are sanctifyed by faith in CHRIST Nothing now remaines to be spoken of at this time but onely that every one fill his pitcher with this water and carry it home for his owne use which that wee may doe I shall briefly apply First in that the Church is the red Rose by persecution every one should learne patience in his affliction Remember the sufferings of Christ wee doe but sup of that Cup which hee dranke quite off Nihil est quod non aequanimiter tolleretur si passio Christi in memoriam revocetur a St. Gregory There is no affliction so great no crosse so grievous that will not easily be borne by us if wee doe remember the sufferings of Christ And therefore Vniversa pro eo sustine qui prius pro te Majora sustinuit saith St. Bernard b de Resurrec Dom. suffer some persecution for his sake that suffered more for thine Secondly let us labour for our Renovation that our newnes of life may send forth a sweet savour in our conversation Thirdly in that the Church and the members thereof shall rise from the dead it affords matter of our consolation For so the Prophet David speakes c Psa 16.9.10 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope for thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption Fourthly seeing the Church is of Gods owne plantation let us looke to our fructification Our Saviour putteth forth the parable of the Figge tree to us d Luke 13.6 A certaine man had a Figge Tree in his Vineyard and hee came and sought fruit thereon three Yeares Every one of us is a Tree planted in the Vineyard of the Church God hath expected fruit of us three Yeares in generall of the whole Kingdome under the Raignes of our most gracious Soveraignes Queene Elizabeth King Iames and King Charles in particular of every private persons the three ages of mans life infancy youth old age let not us give him the bark of an outward profession onely nor the leaves of good works but the fruit of good workes Lastly seeing the Church is open to all commers let every one of us labour to be of that corporation that we may bee partakers of all the benefits that accrew thereby and that being members of the Church militant we may reigne with the Church triumphant Which God grant unto us all for Iesus Christs sake To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one God be al honour and praise now and for ever Amen THE ROSE AND LILY. DELIVERED AT THE LECTVRE In ASHBY de-la-zouch in the County of Leicester By WILLIAM PARKS Master of Arts and curat of Chelaston in the County of DERBY 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Discendum propter docendum LONDON Printed by JOHN NORTON 1638. To The Right Worshipfull his much Honoured friend THOMAS PARKS Esquier SIR IF Elisha were at a stand when hee considered what the good Shunamite had done for him that hee askes a 2 Kings 4.13 What is to bee done againe for her And Ahasuerus for Mordecay when hee had receaved a good turne from him that hee saies b Esther 6.3 What hath beene done to him for this How much more maie I saie of you you have been beneficiall to mee from my Youth What dutie and service shall J returne to you againe J confesse that if there bee anie thing in these my weake labours that maie deserue acceptance you maie justlie challenge it as your owne Without whose bountie I had not lived in the University nor attained to that small measure of knowledge that J have And therefore being able to doe nothing else J commit this Sermon to your Patronage and protection and your selfe your fruitfull Vine and Olive branches to the protection of the Almighty desiring him to give you the blessings of his Right hand and of his left to fill you with the blessing of grace heere and of glorie hereafter Yours to be commanded in Christ Jesus WILLIAM PARKES THE ROSE AND LILY. SOLOMONS SONG 2.1 J am the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the vallyes WHat S. Ierome sayes a Ad Paulin. of the Catholique Epistles of S. Peter S. James S. John and S. Jude Breves esse pariter long as that they are both short and long so may I say of this Text it is short in words but long in matter And what S. Austin sayes b Praefat in Psal 87. of the fourescore and seaventh Psalme Brevis est numero verborum magnus pondere sententiarum that it is short in regard of the number of the words long in respect of the weightines of the matter so may I say of this Text it is a short sentence but full of sence conteyning matter for almost as many Sermons as it conteynes words It being but five words in the Originall yet is the subject of foure Sermons Three of them have been delivered formerly and now the fourth the same assistance strengthing and the same patience expecting is to be prosecuted in shewing you wherein the Church resembles the Lily of the Valleys First the Lily is open toward heaven but close and

neither from the East nor yet from the West but from God What the Apostle saith c Eph. 2.8 of salvation may bee said of all grace It is not of our selves lest any men should boast We have no more power of our selves to work grace in our selves then these inferiour bodies have power to give light when the light of the Sunne is absent Adams ability was lost by his fall now Sampsons locks are cut off and therefore we may bee carried whither our leader the divell will since wee suffered that Dalilah sinne to steale away our strength from us Adam per malum velle perdidit bonum posse by willing that which is evill hee lost his ability to performe that that is good and since him every mothers son may bee called as the wife of Phinehas named her child d 1 Sam 4.21 Ichabod for in him this glory departed from us GOD now worketh in us c Phil. 2.13 both the will and the deed Ipse aspirando nos praevenit ut velimus quod adjuvando subsequitur ne inaniter velimus saith S. Gregory f In Ezek. lib. 1. Hom. 9. Hee by his preventing grace makes us to will that which by his assisting grace he makes us to performe The sap and juice that is in the Rose-Tree proceeds from the root and the grace that is in the members of the Church whether it be gratia infusa effusa or diffusa in thought word or worke doth proceed from God the Fountaine of grace Non est gratia ullo modo nisi sit gratuita omni modo it is not grace except it bee given gratis So that the planting of the members in the Church and the watering them for their growth being planted proceeds not from themselves but from God for therein the Church resembles the Rose of the common Field Secondly the Rose of the Field is not inclosed to a few as the garden Rose is but lyes open to all so the Church is not inclosed in some narrow nooke or corner but is spread through the World and lyes open to receive all Before Christ Israel was Gods peculiar people the nation that hee had chosen to set his name there to them hee gave his word with them hee made his covenant and shewed them the presence of his god-head He dealt not so with other nations neither had g Psalme 147.20 the heathen the knowledge of his waies So that then Iacob was the man that prevayled with God and his posterity the onely Israel that saw him He suffered other nations to sit in darknes and in the shadow of death Then Israel was h Calv. Instit the Lords Son that was his darling others were strangers Israel was received into his care and protection others were left to their owne blindnes Israel was honoured with the presence of God others were excluded from coming nigh him in a word there was a generall darknes over all the Land of Aegypt among the Gentiles but in the Land of Goshen i Exod. 10. among the Israelites there was light But since Christ the mercy of God was no longer inclosed within the narrow confines of Iewry but the glorious light of the Gospell shined through the World Before Christ the Church was a garden inclosed k Sol. Song 4.12 a spring shut up a Fountaine sealed but now she is the Rose of the common Feild The Kingdome of heaven is likened unto a man l Mat. 13.24 which sowed good seed in his Field The Church is the Field the seed is the word and the Gospell shall be preached through the World m Mat 26.13 And to this purpose the Church is called Catholique Catholica id est per totum orbem diffusa saith Saint August n Epist 170. in Ps 56. because it is spread through the World And so the Epistles of S. Iames S. Peter S. Iohn and S. Iude are called Catholique because o Willsons Christ Dictionary are written not to a particuler person as to Timothy c. or to a particular Church as to the Romans c. but either to all the Iewes every where or to all the Christians in the World And to this purpose also the Apostle calls p Heb. 12.22 the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conventus vniversalis the generall assembly to shew the Universality of it The Apostle S. Peter affirmes g Acts 10.34 Of a truth that God is no resspecter of persons but in every nation hee that feareth him and worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Though the Church bee but one yet it lyes open to all that will come unto it Vnus est Christus per quem omnis gens omnisque lingua fide confessione unita est saith Ignatius r Apud Amand Polan there is but one Christ and one Church by whom and in whom all nations and tongues are knit together Quid enim est Ecclesia aliud quam congregatio fidelium in unitate fidei advnita saith Oecolampadius ſ Annotat in Chrysit What else is the Church of God but the congregation of faithfull people spread through the World knit together in the vnity of faith the Church is spread every where through the World and admits any persons in the World into her bosome And therefore the Church is not to bee tyed to Rome or any one particuler place Rome may with no better reason be sayd to bee the Catholique Church then the head may bee sayd to be the whole body for if it bee a true Church yet it is but a part of the Church Catholique and not the whole And to say the Catholique Church of Rome is all one as if I should say the catholique Church of Canterbury or of London or a particular universall Church which how harsh it sounds the most simple may easily understand After this I beheld saith S. Iohn t Rev. 7.9 and loe a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindred and people and tongues stood before the Throne and before the Lambe cloathed with white Robes and palmes in their hands The Church is collected out of all nations Accipit Ecclesia omni tempore volentes credere nemini prorsus occludit se huc festinanti sed liberum licitum est volentibus quolibet tempore nullo impediente ad lucem veritatis adduci saith S. Cyrill u In El. lib. 5 cap. 60. The Church receaveth all that will beleeve at all times shee is shut to none that come unto her but it is free and lawfull to all that will there is none to hinder them to come to the knowledge of the truth And therefore if thou hast no benefit by this Rose if thou art no member of the Church blame thy selfe for shee is not the inclosed Rose of the Garden but the Rose of the common Field Thirdly the Rose of the Field is for profit as well as pleasure and is healthfull in many medicines so