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A06190	Come and see. The blisse of brightest beautie: shining out of Sion in perfect glorie Being the summe of foure sermons preached in the Cathedrall Church of Glocester at commandment of superiours. By William Loe.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1614 (1614)	STC 16683; ESTC S103370	35,754	69

beautie and end in the fraile and filthy flesh The natiue and vnchangeable whitenes is that of pearelesse and pricelesse diamonds whose least sparkle will shine and giue true luster albeit it be seuered from the whole Such was and is this speciall Candor in our welbeloued Lord Iesus and his chosen who euen in this life haue these white robes in part put on them mentioned in the Reuelation not their owne conceited attire of the righteousnesse of workes but Gods owne righteousnesse and they haue also the white stone giuen them which is sanctification in some measure as an earnest penny and pledge of further fauor and future beautie to be perfected in glory Behold then with milke white and pure eyes of holy faith your Lord Iesus especiall and perfect whitenesse your precious diamond in especialnesse by whom all wee and as many as haue gone before vs being his holy seruants haue bene beautified and graced First as he is Emanuel that is God with vs His conception pure he was conceiued by the holy Ghost 2. His birth pure he was borne of an vndefiled virgin 3. His life the perfection of sanctimony for there was no guile found no not in his mouth And he is perfect that offends not in his tongue 4. His doctrine pure correcting all the vnpure glosses of the reformalizing Pharisies as in old time it was said Thou shalt not kill but Christ taught true puritie that wee should not be angry with our brother vnaduisedly Teaching thereby that furie and wrath doth oft transport vs to fell and desperate actions and therefore his holy doctrine as an axe strooke at the roote Againe it was said of old time Thou shalt not commit Adulterie in act But Christ taught vs not to looke on a woman to lust after her and so in turning away our eyes we should not behold vanitie Likewise it hath bene said Thou shalt not forsweare thy selfe But Christ taught that wee should not sweare at all for be doubtlesse that vseth to sweare much must needs sometime forget and forsweare himselfe And it hath bene said of old Thou shalt loue thy neighbour hate thine enemy But Christ taught Thou shalt loue thine enemie for that is the exaltation of Christian charitie aboue all other loues Nay of euery idle word he told vs that we must render an account Oh holy lessons ô sacred discipline how pure is the beautie hereof how precious the sinceritie In his death therefore neither death nor he that had the power of death could finde any part whereon to fasten their intended furie but in spite of death and the diuell and the wicked world he was declared mightily to be the Sonne of God by the spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead We may learne then out of this which hath bene alreadie said That the puritie of a sincere conscience consists in essentiall and sanctified actions and not in seeming holinesse of froward and dottish factions The blessing being promised to the pure in heart and not to the wordy pure but to the worthy of whom it is also said That to such all things are pure but of the other That their very consciences are defiled and they themselues howsoeuer reputed holy for some good workes yet reprooued to euery good worke The reason because God requireth truth in the inward parts and the searcher of the heart knoweth what is in man Likewise because no vnpure thing shall enter into the kingdome of God and therefore surely no party propale Christian that dealeth hypocritically shall there haue entrance I wonder therefore that any will be so foolish as to make themselues odious euery way by their seeming holinesse First to the world for the world hateth euen those that are Christians but in shew For it can discerne no further Secondly they are abhominable to God who hates them because they are but in shew And lastly they are traitors to themselues in deceiuing their owne soules and consciences with deceitfull dreames of sanctitie But let vs a little lanch forth and ken the diuell transforming himselfe into an Angell of light and brightnesse and boasting both of puritie and preheminence aboue and before all others both in Iudaisme and also in Christianisme as he euen yet worketh with too too many in this our age In Iudaisme we will take a view but of the Pharisies Sadduces Essens and Hemerobaptists The Pharisies were men separate from others in respect of their pretended perfection they were pure in their garments pure in their deuotion pure in their laundring Their vestures must be enuironed and the borders made broade with the commandements of God embrodered thereon Luc. 11. Mat. 15. Their deuotion such that they would not cure on the Sabbath were the sicknesse neuer so desperate nor plucke an eare of corne in the extremity of hunger Their washings diuers both of hands pots boords and what not Yet for all this outward pretended purenesse Christ the true Doctor and teacher of perfection tells them seauen times in one Chapter that they were meere hypocrites and dissemblers The Sadduces so pure in their owne conceit that they onely and no other were the true Iustitiaries yet were they so sottish that they neither knew Angell nor spirit and then iudge how brutish how bestiall and how carnall they were The Essens thought themselues both essentiall and especially pure aboue all others in the world They wore white robes at all their refections they obserued so strictly and precisely the Sabbath that in that day they would not make a fire nor stop a running vessell nor lay an apple in the fire nor knocke vpon a table to still a childe nor quench a burning nor spit nor do the requisits of nature yet Epiphanius rankes them in the ranke of branded heretickes The Hemerobaptists euery day did baptize and drench themselues in water imagining that all their sinnes were thereby washed away for ●asse ex opere operato whereas Epiphanius saith that the whole ocean and all the flouds in the world cannot purge one sinne These were the seemings of Iudaisme all dying in their dreaming diuinitie In Christendome what should I recall from hell the old Cathari that pretended the onely purity of life the Gnostiques that had as they deemed the impropriation of all diuine knowledge or Manes that onely boasted of the Paraclete seeing our later age of fresher memorie hath heard of yea and seene fanaticall Anabaptists dreaming Euthusiasts of reuelation and hideous visions rebaptizations and new pretended policie of Church and common wealth And we see many are daily misled and misperswaded by Iesuites the rare illuminates accompted of the world who pretend aboue all the rest of their frie to be the most perfect in respect of their direction in all negociations in ordine ad Deum and most sacred in that holy exercise which they obtrude vpon their nouices that subiect and deuote

valiantly that thou be not danted with the diuellish proiects and practises of Gods enemies See the sparkes of this diuine and seraphical fire in Daniel who is stiled vir desideriorum a man neuer satisfied here but still desiring to be replenished with the full sight of God Behold them in Esay the Euangelicall Prophet whose soule desired God in the night season when his eies were bereft of the distractions of the day In Dauid also whose soule thirsted for the liuing Lord and in S. Paule who was straitted for want of this enioyment and cried Who shall deliuer me wretched man that I am from this body of death Doubtlesse these holy soules knew that this loue was all loue vnto them for euen in naturall loue Christ can be all things vnto thee whereas thy gold cannot be thy clothing thy siluer cannot be thy drinke thy bread cannot be thy light Christ alone is all this vnto thee If thou neede necessarie loue he is thy protector and bulwarke If thou wouldest be happy in loue with him is the fountaine of liuing life for euer These considerations and the like caused Gods children neuer to admit any thing neere their hearts contrary to this loue as is the affection inordinate to the creature but loued the creature onely for the Lords sake They euer remoued farre from their holy affections all carking care and ouer much toyling in the businesse and negociations of this world as being the deceitfull bane of this loue vsing indeed the world necessarily but so as if they vsed it not which caused their loue to be continuall not flashes of passion rather then true affection enduring for a moment but resembling the loue of the blessed Saints who see God and loue him for euermore Againe they knew that if we would be couetous and sell our loue none could buy it dearer for he will giue vs a kingdome for it if we would be liberall and giue it none more worthy of it for he is absolutely the soueraigne good But if we would haue our loue strained from vs by violence he also will vnsheath the sword of the Spirit and with the blade thereof deuide asunder the soule and spirit euen with this one stroke If any man loue not the Lord Iesus let him be accursed Anathema Maranatha Furthermore the faithfull soules will hence gather good degrees and steps of grace as first considering euen in nature that if one had lost an eye or were distracted of his wit or were condemned to execution how would we tender him that could and would heale our eye sight restore vs to our right minde and redeeme vs from the dreadfull horror of death But Christ hath illuminated vs with the light of grace that were in the power of darknesse and shadow of death hath giuen vs repentance vnto life and regeneration that were sold to sinne and Sathan and hath purchased for vs a pardon that were condemned to euerlasting torments was made poore that we might be enriched gaue himselfe for me saith Bernard that I might be giuen to my selfe yea we owe him now more for redeeming vs then for making vs. For in the creation he spake the word and it was done but in our redemption it cost him his dearest bloud In this life he hath promised That all things whatsoeuer shall worke together for the best to them that loue him and in the other life the eye hath not seene nor the eare heard nor the heart can conceiue what is his displaied glory in seeing him as he is seene and knowing him as he is knowne And to purchase this inheritance for vs see how vilely he esteemes himselfe being sold for thirtie pence and prizeth vs vs I say wretches at so high a rate as his owne most peerelesse and precious bloud O insensible indurate and intollerable vnthankfulnesse of the sonnes of Adam who do not totally resigne themselues and their affections to this loue But yet for all this behold I pray you and see whether Christ be the beloued of ourage and the Helena of our countrey as we would beare the world in hand he is and be you your selues witnesses in this case Do we diligently seeke him when we haue lost him by our preuarication as wee vse to do those whom our soule loueth and as did that much louing soule Mary Magdalen when she sought him at the fearefull sepulcher and abode there though a weake woman and would not be satisfied with looking but asked Iesus then risen supposing he had bene a gardiner If thou hast taken away my Lord tell me where thou hast put him that I may fetch him O happie soule that so sought that she found Are we often frequenters of his house and louers of the place where his honor dwelleth as Anna did who departed not from the Temple but serued God day and night with prayers and fasting Do we talke of him in our iourneying as did the disciples that trauelled to Emaus Do we willingly heare of him and in hearing lay vp the things in our hearts as did the blessed Virgin Do we restore and giue for his sake as Zacheus and Cornelius did Do we suffer reproch gladly for his glory and reioyce in it as the Apostles did Do we loue his commandements as Dauid did whose studie was in them day and night Do we decline from the loue of this world and as Iacob who wresting with the angell fell lame so we in the businesse with God preuaile but in the affaires of this world grow cold and remisse Do we honor them that serue God as the Galathians did that would haue pulled out their owne eyes had not the law of God and nature forbad them to do Paul their Preacher good O how farre different are the affections of our times If we looke the Lord Iesus among some gouernors they say he is not heere many of vs haue something else to do then to attend preaching If among some of the rude people they seldome or neuer thinke of him If among the giddie hearers with Peter they answer we know not the man If among the worldly rich with Demas they haue forsaken the loue of Christ and haue imbraced this present world If among the loud but leude professors they haue a shew of godlinesse but haue denied the power thereof If among the couerous there is linsey wolsey as farre as will make for their profit so farre and no longer they loue God nor any of his seruants If among the ahabaptistical zealous they say we are not iustified by workes and therefore wee will do none at all As if their faith or any faith were auaileable with God but that which worketh by loue For without loue was neuer any man saued and with loue neuer any damned If of the worldlings they are so busie in deuiding Christ his coate that they cannot awhile to loue They are of king Ro●us mind that vsed to say That the