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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
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Playfere, Thomas, 1561?-1609.
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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 HINC LVCEM ET SACRA POCVLA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA PRINTED BY IOHN LEGAT PRINter to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1603. And are to be sold in Pauls Churchyard at tâ—â—â—igne of the Crowne by Simon Waterson To the most victorious vertuous and puissant Prince King IAMES the first King of England Scotland France and Ireland defendour of the faith all earthly and heauenly happines GLorious gratious It is our crowne and the highest toy of our heart that the crowne of this kingdome is to be set vp on your royall head Otherwise nothing in the world could haue coâ—nâ—eruail'd th' excessiue sorrow that her late Maiestie departing hence left behind her but the vncomparable ioy and triumph which your expectation sent before you and now your princely presence bringeth with you When Salomon after his father Dauid was annointed king they blew the trumpet and all the people said God saue king Salomon and reioyced with great ioy so that the earth rang with the sound of them We haue thought no trumpets no proclamations no bonefires no bells sufficient neither haue we heard the earth onely ring-out but also the heauens redouble and â—ccho-backe againe the acclamations and applauses of all men which hauâ— showted and said God saue King Iames. Now also when your Highnes approacheth nearer the straight charge which hath bin publikely giuen to the contrarie cannot restraine your people but that out of all countries shires they runne and flocke together to behold and attend your Maiestie as some bright and beautifull starre which by his diuine-sweete influence worketh a generall prosperitie and peace For what loy all subiect doth not blesse God and blesse himselfe that he liues to see this happie time which was feared would prooue full of great disorder and trouble so wisely and wonderfully caried God as it were from heauen stretching out his holy hand and holding the mindes of all men in aâ—e and obedience as that in it the peaceable vniting of two mightie kingdomes maketh vs inuincible against all our enemies and all our enemies contemptible to vs Wherefore at this time when all your liege people striue to shew the gladnesse of their hearts by tendring such seruices as are sutable to their possibilitie and performance I also among the rest haue taken occasion humbly to dedicate vnto your Maiestie such a poore present as I had in a readines Assuring my selfe that as none are more familiar with God then godly Kings so no treatises can be more welcome to godly kings then such as may draw them into greatest familiaritie with God And I doubt not but that your Highnes hauing hitherto had your heart's desires giuen you because you haue delighted in the Lord wil here after if it be possible much more delight in the Lord that he may yet giue you more desires of your heart Nay I am so farre from doubting of this that I dare be hold to conclude with the Psalmist The King shall reioyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy saluation Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lippes For thou shalt preuent him with the blessings of goodnes and shalt set a crowne of pure gold vpon his head His honour is great in thy saluation glorie and great worship shalt thou lay vpon him For thou shalt giue him euerlasting felicitie and make him glad with the ioy of thy countenance And why Because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercie of the most High he shall not miscarie Your Maiesties most devoted and obedient subiect THOMAS PLAYFERE THE TEXT Delight thy selfe in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thy heart Psal. 37. 4. SAint Iohn saies in one place Loue not the world nor the things of this world if any man loue the world the loue of God is not in him So may I say delight not in the world nor in the things of this world if any man delight himselfe in the world he cannot delight himselfe in the Lord. Therefore saith Martial an auncient Bishop What haue we to doe with the delight of the world You may call it as you will pleasure if you will pastime if you will mirth if you will gladnes if you will ioy if you will but in Gods dictionarie it hath no such name In the holy Scripture it is otherwise called It is called Adams goodly apple which beeing eaten depriued him of Paradise Esaus red broth which being supt vp bereaued him of his birthright Ionathans sweete honie-combe which beeing but tasted was like to cost him his life the whore of Babylons golden cup which filled her full of all abhominations the traytour Iudas sugred sop which made a way for the deuill to enter into him the prodigall childes wash or draffe which he most miserably swilled vp with the swine Thus is all the delight of the world called in Gods dictionarie which is the holy Scripture It is called Adams apple Esaus broth Ionathans combe Babylons cup Iudas soppe the prodigall childs swill So that all this delight is no delight Or suppose it were yet certainly it shall not giue thee the desires of thy heart Nay it shall be so farre from breeding thee those ioyes which thy heart most desireth that it shall bring thee those torments which thy heart most abhorreth It may saith Chrysostome delight thee perhaps for a while but sure it shall torment thee for euer As any sollide bodie though it haue neuer so faire a colour as crimson or carnation or purple or skarlet or violet or such like yet alwaies the shadowe of it is blacke so any earthly thing though it haue neuer so faire a shew yet al waies the shadow of it is blacke and the delight thou takest in it shall prooue to be grieuous in the ende Therefore Philo calleth it a sweet bitter thing As that little booke in the Reuelation was sweete in the mouth but bitter in the bellie so all worldly delight is a sweete bitter thing sweete in the beginning but bitter in the ending Which they of Ierusalem had experience of For beeing giuen to transitorie pleasure they are saide to be made drunken with wormewood Now we know that drunkennesse is sweete but wormewood is bitter And such a sweete bitter thing such a druÌ„kennes of wormwood is all the drunken delight of the world So that as one said Call me not Naomie but call 〈◊〉 Mara call me not sweete but call me bitter so must we call worldly delight not Naomie but Mara because it is nothing so much Naomie sweete and pleasant at the first as it is Mara and Amara bitter and loathsome at the last Like to a song of the Syrens which are mentioned in the prophecie