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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09750	Hearts delight A sermon preached at Pauls crosse in London in Easter terme. 1593. By Thomas Playfere professour of diuinitie for the Ladie Margaret in Cambridge.; Sermons. Selected sermons	Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.	1603 (1603)	STC 20010; ESTC S119188	24,295	67

god they haue al● their desires giuen them in God So the three children beeing men of desires had their desires giuen them They desired to be deliuered from the furnace This desire was giuen them when as God walked with them in the fierie furnace So Moses beeing a man of God had his ●●sires giuen him He desired to see Gods fac● This desire was giuē him when as Christ talked with him face to face So John beeing a friend of God had his desires giuen him He desired to see Christs glorie This desire was giuen him when as Christ said He 〈◊〉 loueth me shall be loued of me and I will 〈◊〉 shew mine owne selfe ●nt● him So Lazarus beeing Gods little begger as I may say had his desires giuen him He desired to be relieued not so much with the meat of that earthly Di●es as with the mercie of that heauenly Di●es which is so rich in me●cie This desire was giuen him when as the Patriarch speaking of him to the gluttō said Now is he comforted and thou art tormented And so whosoeuer thou art if thou be a man of desires as the three children were if thou be a man of God as Moses was if thou be a friend of God as Iohn was if thou be a begger of God as Lazarus was he shall giue thee all that thou canst begge or desire For to speake no more of those three children these three men which I named last vnto you Moses the man of God Iohn the friend of God Lazarus the begger of God did lie in three bosomes In Moses bosome in Christs bosome in Abrahams bosome Moses hand did lie in Moses bosome S. Iohn did lie in Christs bosome Lazarus did lie in Abrahams bosome Moses bosome is lawe Christs bosome is Gospel Abrahams bosome is glorie Therefore feare must driue thee out of Moses bosome faith must keepe thee in Christs bosome felicitie must bring thee to Abrahams bosome For first thou must with Moses put thy hand into Moses bosome and there seeing how full of leprosie thy hand is and howe wicked all thine owne handy workes are thou must abhorre thy selfe in thy selfe Afterward thou must with Iohn conu●ie not thy had onely but thy whole bodie and thy soule also into Christs bosome and there seeing how thou art clensed frō the leprosie of thy sinne and freely iustified by faith in Christ thou must delight thy selfe in the Lord. Then thou must be carried into Abrahams bosome and there both louing to desire God and desiring to loue God he shall giue thee thy desires First I say lie in Moses bosome and abhorre horre thy selfe in thy selfe afterward lie in Christs bosome and delight thy selfe in the Lord then thou shalt lie in Abrahams bosome O blessed bosome O sweet bosome And he shall giue thee thy desires Delight thy selfe in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thy heart The desires Lastly Of thy heart Thy heart here is all one with thy selfe before As if the words had stood thus Delight thy selfe in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thy selfe or els thus Delight thy heart in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thy heart To the point then Augustine saies thus O Lord thou hast made vs for thine own selfe therefore our heart is euer vnquiet while it is from thee neuer at quiet vntill it come to thee A bull which is baited at the ring as soone as euer he gets any little breathing turnes him straitwaies toward that place by which he was brought in imagining that by how much the more he is nearer to the stall by so much the more he shall be further from the stake In like manner a faithfull heart beeing bayted and towzed in this world with many dogges which come about it alwaies hath an eye to that place from which it came and is neuer quiet till it returne to him from whome it was fet at the first He that lets downe a bucket to draw water out of a well as long as the bucket is vnder the water though it be neuer so full he may get it vp easily but when he beginnes to draw the bucket cleare out of the water then with all his strength he can scarce get it vp yea many times the bucket when it is at the very highest breakes the yron chaine and violently falls backe againe After the same sort a Christian heart so long as it is in him who is a well of life is filled with delight and with great ioy drinketh in the water of comfort out of the fountaine of saluation but beeing once haled and pulled from God it draweth backe and as much as it can possibly resisteth and is neuer quiet till it be in him againe who is the center of the soule For as the needles point in the mariners compasse neuer stands still til it come right against the north pole so the heart of the wise men neuer stood still till they came right against the starre which appeared in the East the very starre it selfe neuer stood still till it came right against the other starre which shined more brightly in the manger then the sunne did in heauen Wherefore our hearts doe alwaies erre they are Plane●s wandring starres before they come to Christ but then onely they are starres of the firmament the true seede of Abraham when they are firmely fixed and setled in God The Prophet Ionas all the while he fled from God in what a case was he one while he was turmoiled in the stormes of the tempest another while he was sowsed in the waues of the sea another while he was boyled in the bowels of the whale But as soone as he returned to God by and by he was cast vp safe vpon the sea shore and then he said to his soule My soule returne vnto thy rest because the Lord hath restored thy selfe vnto thee Because whereas before thou hadst lost thy selfe lost thy selfe in the tempest lost thy selfe in the sea lost thy selfe in the whale nowe the Lord hath restored thy selfe vnto thee Wherefore the heart of man hath lost all rest nay it hath lost it selfe before it be cast vpon the sea shore before it be cast vpon God but when once it delighteth in the Lord when once it findeth God then it findeth it selfe thē it returneth vnto rest Nicaula queene of Saba could neuer be quiet in her owne countrie till shee came to Salomon but when shee sawe his glorie and heard his wisdome then her heart failed her shee had enough she could desire to see and heart no more And so the heart of a Christian can neuer be quiet in the straunge countrie of this world till it come to Christ which is the true Salomon the prince of peace whē it comes once to Christ then it saies thus to God Lord nowe lettest thou thy