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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40728	A sermon preached at Grayes-Inne, October 2, 1642 by Thomas Fvlwar ...	Fulwar, Thomas, 1593-1667.	1642 (1642)	Wing F2527; ESTC R15273	14,434	28

thing lost at all And abundance of teares which may blinde our eyes if spent for any things here below makes them more cleare to finde him who will not be found but in sorrow he is vir dolorum as Isaiah cals him and so must be sought In his presence is joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore Needs then must there be sorrow and discontents at his absence which wee are not sensible of because wee value him not but Da Christianum scit quod dico he knows that there is no joy to the finding of him nor no sorrow to that when hee is lost Blame not these then to be sad and to goe both together in pursuit of him which is the last They went together I will not trouble you with the signification of their names Mary signifying a bitter Sea and Ioseph fruitfulnesse sorrow for sin past and fruitfulnesse in good works for the future being the way to finde him but only commend unto you Externall uniformitie They lost him when they were asunder and therefore go together to finde him and indeed how should they seek him that is all love and peace but in love and peace God the Father is the God of peace God the Sonne is the Prince of peace God the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of peace His Gospel is the Gospel of peace and his Ministers are or should be the Ministers of peace Can we think then of seeking him with sword in hand First goe and agree with thine Adversary and then come and offer thy gift saith himselfe in his Gospel no gift will be accepted from those which are at strife First make peace one with another and then we may hope to finde the God of peace and the peace of God But it concernes me to speak more of Ecclesiasticall peace then Civill O for the divisions in the Church What great thoughts of heart are there S. Paul condemned the Corinthians when they said I am of Paul and I of Apollos and I of Cephas Is Christ divided saith he That seamlesse coat of Christ which the rude souldiers spared how is it now rent in pieces by our disorderly divisions When every one doth in the Church as it was in the Book of Iudges quisque quod rectum in oculis Every man that which is good in his own eyes And it was so then and there because they had no King Griefe suffers me not to speak more of this onely to pray with holy David and say The time is come that thou have mercy upon Sion yea the time is come With such words and such grief we may at last finde our lost peace and serving God in the Beauty of holinesse finde Christ as these did which is the last of all The finding Christ sought Thy Father and I c. As we must seek Christ while so where he may be found Each thing hath {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as his nunc so his ubi All was well hitherto in their seeking but now we shall finde something was amisse they sought right for the manner but wrong for the place It is no blinde mans work to seek The eies of their understanding must be enlightened or it will be to no purpose They sought him among their friends and kindred He that consults with flesh and blood for they are our kindred can never finde Christ It is nor nature nor reason that can bring us to him Hence the wise Heathen seeking a Deity in stead of one God found many and finding many found none at all and therefore at Athens there was an Altar erected {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} To the unknown God That Spouse in the Canticles that sought Christ in her Bed sought him likewise in the streets and broad places but could not finde him So these neither in the waies the fields of pleasure and delight nor in the streets of Jerusalem amid the throng and hurry of worldly occasions till they came to the Temple and there they found him God said in his Prophet Ye shall not seek me in vain but at last Laetetur cor quaerentium Deum for God will not alway forget the labour and love of those that seek him but at last they shall finde him as these did in the Temple among the Doctors and in the middest of them 1 The place 2 The company 3 and his posture of these in one word Thy way O God is in the Sanctuary saith David non in penetralibus non in deserto saith Christ himself not in the desert not in private Chambers We cannot go without bodies to seek him now but in Spirit Seek him with our whole heart as Moses said and so we may finde him on earth that is bodily ascended up to heaven In his Temple where every man speaks of his honor there we shall finde him in our prayers the publique prayers of the Congregation and therefore it is called A house of prayer for all people We shall finde him in his Word speaking to us and we shall find him in his Sacraments wherein he offers himselfe to us and all these are duties to be performed publiquely no where unlesse in case of extream necessity but in Temples places consecrate and set apart for such purposes Here was Christ found at first and here he is to be found still however our fond Sectaries whose blinde zeale mis-leads them may think any place good enough to seek Christ in and so contrary to S. Paul who puts a flat difference between private houses and Churches will yet confound them grounding upon words of Christ to the woman of Samaria misunderstood That the time shall come when they shall neither worship in Samaria the Temple built there nor at Ierusalem but in Spirit and Truth What he spake of the worship in Samaria who worshipped God in the likenesse of a Dove and so not in Truth and at Ierusalem where it was in types and shadows sacrifices and externall things even then when the Substance himself was come and so not in Spirit that they misapply that there should be no Temples at all and so they go even there to finde him where Christ said directly he was not non in penetralibus non in deserto and so even despise the Church of God as S. Paul complained or if they do come to it how doe they make it a common place by their prophane and rude demeanour in it Can we think this pleasing to Christ that twice whipt the prophaners out of the third Court in the Jews Temple At his first Passeover Ioh. 2. 15 and at his last Passeover Mark 11. 17. And you must know that it was the third Court into which those buyers and sellers came and not into the second where none but native