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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

as the Jews say That the men went a part by themselves and the women by themselves so Ioseph thought he was with his Mother and she supposed he was with his Father Would they yet travell a whole day without a sight of him to advance their opinion into a knowledge and so to have been ascertained he was amongst them Thus even the best will grow sometimes remisse Can a Mother forget her childe It seems she can the best of Mothers here forgets the best of sons and so jealous is God of those he loves as he will not endure the least Act of unkindnesse or undutifulnesse in them Servants and strangers may goe away with greater errors when the Son that is beloved shall finde a lash for the least offence The not beloved ones wicked and ungodly men may run on in sin even till they grow old and sin like withered leaves shall drop and fall from them before they leave it and in all that time never meet with a whipping but those that are deare to God deare to him as the Apple of his eye his chosen ones they shall be snibb'd and curb'd and punished upon the least delinquency which howsoever it may seeme grievous for the present yet at last they will say with David It was good for me that I have been afflicted for these afflictions instruct as well as correct and as they punish so they teach them their duties Thus have we seen Christ lost The Saints in heaven so happily have him as they cannot lose him the Bridegroome cannot now be taken from them the damned in hell have so unhappily lost him as they can never finde him againe {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a great gulfe there is which they can never foord to finde such a blisse onely we that live on earth can both lose and finde him It was carelesnesse at worst in them but our wilfull sins drive him from us He is a God of pure eyes and cannot indure to see any pollution and how doe we wallow in all uncleannesse He is a holy God and will be sanctified of all that come neare him or that he comes neare unto and what haste doe we make to run into all prophanenesse He is a God of order and how doe we unhinge all by confusion He is a God of love and how full of malice are our hearts He is a God of peace and we dote upon strife and contention He rests not but upon the meek and humble and how doe we advance our selves even above all that is called God Let us never flatter our selves and think these sins and Christ can dwell together God and Dagon could not be in one house in the old Law nor God and Belial in one heart in the new We see the shoales of these sinnes which have driven him from us God make us sensible of the want of him and wanting him give us grace to seek him as these did And so I come to the second The seeking of Christ lost Thy Father and I have c. The night which curtains all things else like a friendly and faithfull counsellor now discovers this want which the flattering day would not tell them of Then they were so full of discourse and businesse as they had no leisure so much as to think him absent the fairnesse of the way and the Company of their friends did so pleasant their Journey as they scarce minded him till the day was spent and they retired to their Inne and then when they thought to betake themselves to their repast and rest they perceived that he without whom they could not rest was wanting Oh the happinesse of a silent night retirement all the day we spend in turmoile in the world some wandring as some of the Jews in the fields of Egypt picking straws of folly things which may perhaps please the sense but I am sure cannot profit the soul whiles others with the rest of the Jews are busied in making brick labouring as in the fire for very vanity and producing onely such things of which we may aske as the Apostle did What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed Others with Ionathan and his Armour-bearer are climbing the steep and dangerous rocks of preferment whiles others are scratching and wounding themselves even to the quick with the shiny cares of this world and all to get that wealth which they know not who shall enjoy and amidst these things profit pleasure and preferment there is no leisure to minde Christ but when night comes as certainly it will come and wee are plucking off our cloathes and going to bed then wee shall finde the want of him whose company before wee little cared for When any night comes as there are more nights then one the night of sorrow or the night of sicknesse the Usher of that long-long night of death and we are left alone and all those former witchcrafts of the day like those Reeds of Egypt not onely faile us in our need but pierce our hands and wound our soules and our jocond and blithe company like vermine out of a falling house run away from us and forsake us then wee shall by wofull experience finde Quam malum amarum est dereliquisse Domi●●● how evill and bitter a thing it is to forsake our God When affliction nakeds us of all those Figge-leaves wherewith in the day of prosperity we did dresse and pride ourselves and denudes us of all sinister and vain thoughts and redeeming us out of the throng and noise of the world delivers us to a solid consideration whether Christ which should have been not onely our Companion but our guide through this Wildernesse of Sinne and Valley of teares be with us yea or no and if not then we shall think it high time to goe along with these good people here to seek and finde him out Had the day been lengthened out to that in the dayes of Hezekiah ten degrees more I make a question whether they had yet mist him or been so happy as to have seen their unhappinesse but now the darknesse brings that to light which the dazeling of the day and Sun-shine before would not let them see and being now made sensible of their misse they will not give their eyes any sleep nor suffer the temples of their heads to take any rest till they have found him Now they redeeme their former carelesnesse by a carefull seeking him what in their mirthfull journey they lost their sad and diligent enquiry makes abundance of amends for It was never truer then now that Extrema gaudii luctus occupat Sadnesse brings in the Voyder where mirth layes the Cloth nay the griefe for their losse farre resurmounts the joy of their Feast and if they severed before Ioseph in one company and Mary in another and so lost him they