84 OJtheNAiiVIT!E. Sermon(o. --~--------~--------------------- 2. Bur, what ever become of that, this is fure: None had ever His out-goings fom.£7.1crlaJft"4,bur He• . None, ofwhop1 rhofe words can be verified, but of Him onely: as, wh·o on~ly is the So11ne of~;he ever-living Go o. .. 3· Thcfe mi~lu ffrve: Bur;ir is yer more clcare, (this:) For howfoever,about Efafs Eccp virgo;rhe lerves an)! we are not ofone mimic : yet, forrhis (here) ofMi– ca, rhe,coaft is~$: .leare : th~. Iewes will nor quarrellus, ro.uching it: there is, on all fides, betweenft em ah~us~g~ouagreement. . , , , Mltth '·4; . For, upon . e~omm)ng·oft~t: Wifc men, (romthe Eafl, therewa~'a'§ynodof the Htgh,Prteffs and&rtbes, called at lerufalpn, (the very firH, that we readt of, in the M>tth·!· s: New Teftamenr:) andcalled, by the King;; o refolve the point, about the place of CH R 1. s T s_B!rt~. Andl~hen and there,it was re(olved, Conciliaritcr, that,at Beth. l~fefj ; And tel'lilved, from this very plaGei for that, rhefe words were a knowne Prophecie,ofthr!Bihhof ·f:.'lrn. s T. · • · V~nll')'l;u\:h{9farvo~lmoccalion,. tl;lls tHoluriongrew fo notorious, as it did vtirwe it v11lg~;rhe very p~oplecould tell this: They argue,m the [evemh ofJohn, agamft our Savro:er, by it, that Hecould not be the C H R 1 s 1': for C n r.. ·I s T was · lo come out of Bethlehem (that was taken, as granted·: ) and he came out of Galil; ("ls-they,in crrmrr~thought.) But, that was \?laine ignoratio elenchi: For, though He – weretherebrought up,He might be, borne at Bethtehem:ahd [o, He was. But fo : Pric!l: an4P~ople (b~th) _knew, B~tkle~''t'. wa~ -~ n. R 1 • T s natale [ol11m; _and that this I'ropbecie was the evrdena for m · ' · · ' . · . ·>·"•·' ' • . 4,. Though tb((epd ,grtq>P.ghi:j ye! ha}l<i ;wee agr_qte!) Wlrnelfe, thin all ,thefe; frompeaven: eve!}!h.e ~f'arre, For, w}lir;h.er this Scripture dorh fend v.s, thither, the ;;};1~~~~t .s'r.\1-ie'doth !dd ·us: toBefbfehe\n;fitiiglu. Never fioed frill, till it came tl~ither; and ' there, it ftood direCtly over theplace (as much to fay, as) • Loe, there He r>· borne. And, in this will \\'ereft: lince c.Mica and-Vl1attherv, Prophet and Apojlle, Prieft and People, chrij/idllt ~nd lerves, HeavenandE>trth are all with us ; all reftifie, this Text pertaines to C.l\1< 1sT s B~~(h·; anclfo,tothisday,properly • . .Iris, of r piac~: An~placeand (imeareheld v:cighriec~rcumfiances. (Specially,in matter ofj'a<f.; or fiorj,) vbe & f2!!f11do, matenall queftwns. The Apojlles asl.:ed ~~~;;:r/~: 'themboth: VbiDomilze?. W,here .Lord? (Lrlkei7.) f2.!!,ando, &quoderitSigmem.? WhenandrvhatjhaUbe'iheSigne? (Mark<I3•) · 3 4 Of the time, .rvhen, fome other time may give occalion, .if it fo pleafe Go n. Now, ofvbi Dom,ine? the place rvhere: There, we are to day; whereto, th!s is a direCt anfwer, Betblehem is theplace. That, firft. . , · But then fecondly, this cirsumfiance leads us further, td matter ofSubftance: theplAce ofrheBirth, r.o the Birth it felfc; and the Birth, to the Partie borne: who is (here) fer forth', as a perfon: Hecomesforth once and againe, If eleads, He feeds ; all, ~Cls of apcrfon entire. . . .. Thirdly, this perfon is here faid to have two commings {drth: 'Egreditrtr ex te, one:' Egrejfru Ejtu. ab ,etcrno, the other. In wbtch two are exprelly !etdowne Hts two 'l(gtures. \ Exte,from Bethlehem, on earth; thence, He came according to His Man-hood. • A.Ji~bru £ternitatis, from evcrlaffing, or, from eternitie; thence, Hee came, accordingtoHis Qod.head. . . . And !aft (to makeit a full and compleat chriftma;,mText:) Bdides HtsPlace, Perfon and 'l{atum (in tbcfe two commings forth:) Here is His officealfo, to be 1\i'tth.•.C. 'Hp,;~,:@-;,.,,"'"""'~' (So cloth Saint MattheJVnune 'J'ID1C the Prophets word; I follow no other· for,fure I am, I cannot follow a better Tranfhtor,) D11x, qui pafcee. One' to • lead;.,, and to • feedm, and [o, to conduetus,from Bethlehem (where,thisday, we come fidl: acquainted with Him) to the ftate c;>f eternitie, whence He cameout,to bring us in. the~ to live and retgne wtth Hun, for ever. 'IheDivijion. So: • 'ofthe'ptace: '~erfon: l 'l(gtteres: and • officeof CH R r sT. r. Theplace I. of His Birth, Bethlehem; wtth hertwo Epzthetes or twms (as lt were) 1 Parvula, letII. I II. tle ;and • Ephrata;fruitfull. 2· Then, of His Perfon,that did come fortiJ. 3· After,of Ill r. both His NAteeres: 'As man,fromBethlehem:• As G 0 o,from ewrlaJfing. 4· Lafr, · , of
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