Smnon If• Ecce yene~llnt it is,in tlie text: Arid{indced;) ilo't only the Pei(o!Js, (Ecce Magi,) ., but thei~ very comming dcferved an l!cce. .It IS an Ecct Y.;e)l~rtmt, theirs (indeed) if wee weigh it wdl, whence they came, and whither. · Whmae r:fro"! theEaft, their owne.countrie : wluther; !0 HlerHfafun_, ~hat was (.to fhem) ,a ilrauge~and : That ' was fomewhat. • They, came a long Journey, .no le,lfc than T:wel~e d4ye; together. 3 They came anuneafy Journey, forth~trway lay:through<..Ar~beahtr,u,and the crao rockes of it: 4 And they cai,ne a dangetous Jourhcy,. through_Ara6ta Diferta . (to~grandthe black tents of Kedarthere then fJmo~s fonheu robbenes,3ndeven to Pf,I.uo.i:, 11 - day. s And they came, now, arrh~ worfrfea!on of the yeare. And all, bur to ~0~5 w~rjhipat C _H._ r ~ 1 s Birth. Sogreatac~ount they made; So highly di_d they efteeme their bemg at 1r, ~s they tooke all th1s great travell, and camea!~ this long journey and came it, at th1s ttme. Stayed not thm commmg,nll the opemng of the ·eare rill they rnight ~avebetter weather a~d way, and have ionger dayes,and fo ~ore' feafonable and lit to travel! in; So delirous were they to come with the lirft, and robe there, as foone as poffibly they might: broke through all thefe difficulties: litem renerunt, And, behold,come they did. And we,whaw(cufell,JaHwe,ha'fe,g;~ye come nGt~If{~ f!;ors apt~ fo-eafie a way we com~.!lpt, !ls.fro~ 04;~kapfbm ~I!Rer? .~9t t9_ ~.;?:11~4 ~~y0!1J~ee~ ..:" ~h~q-pot ourowne rener~nt haveaml:-cce,Behok!;Jt was b'u't1teppmg over >lie (llfeilipld,.and yet they came not~ And thefe were Wife men; and never a whit theleffeWife, for fo comming: Nay never fo truly Wife, inanythingtheydid, asinfo commin$• The Ho L r G H ~ s 1 recordeth them for wife, incapitelibri,even in the begiiming ofthe Nevi Te!btment.. Of C" R r s 1, when He came into the world (that is,when He was borne)thePfalme faith, In the beginningof the Books it wa W!itof Him, he[Aid, Ecce p[,t. 40 .J;, venio Lolcome: Ofthefe, inthefamewords, whenthcy cameto meet Him (fo · born;,) it is faid here; in the beginn.irig of the GoJPell, Ecce venertmt, Beholdthey came· --- ··· · -· · -- -- · · · · -· .. And·wee if we beleeve this, riiat this was their Wijldorne; if thcyaqd wee bee Wife by ~me Spirit, by the fame principles; wee will follow the fame Starre, tread the fame way, and (o come_( at !aft) whither they~ ~appily ·gC2_ne-.befereus. Nay,not only that [come;] bur this withall; to thinke and f~t downe with our [elves, That, tocome to Cu RI s-r, is one of the ••ifefl parrs, that everthefeWij'e men did ;or we, (or any elfe) can doe in all our lives. And how !hall wee th:.t doe ~ Ikno;v ndt:my more proper way left us, thari to come to that; whi,ch Ilirnfelfe by exprcffe order bath left us, asthe moll fpeci-. all Remembrance of Himfelfe, to bee come to. .when Hee cameinrotheworld (faith the Pfalrne) that is, at His Birth (now) Hee faid, Ecce venio, Lo I ,·ome·: What then~ Sacrifice and bt~rnt offerings thouwosld.fl not have, lmt A bodtehaflthou ~rdained mee: Marke (faith the t.Apt,te) Hee takes away ihe firjl, to e[lablijb the ·. .•, . . . , , · . Jbu/. Vtr.U. {econd, .(that 1s) to efbbltih Hts odze, and the co/IJrmng to It. By the ojfe- Heb, 1 o. 9 • rmg, bre~king, and p<rta~in_t of which. ~~dy;, Jf:uar~ ~/[ fan'flijied! {~1fut1y as fl'.1all Heb.Jo <o." cotnetolt. For,gwen et u,jor the taktng away of ourji~s. Not.hmg·IS more.fit,than at' M" , 6 _,$, thetime, Hisbody was ordained Him (and tlm is, to day,) tocome to theb9die(o'or- · ·· dained. A~d in the old Ritual! of the Church we linde, that the cover'of theCani[ler (wheremwas the Sacra~nentofHis Bodie,) therew~s aStar inaraven· to /hew us,that (now)theStarlcadsus thither; toHisBedy,there. " ' Apoc.u. 11; h And what !hall Ifaynow, but (according, asSai~tlobn faith) and theStar, and , · t eWzfe-men fay, Come, And He, whole the fiar 1s, and to whom the wt[e-men Job.6.3 r·. co~me,fayth Come. And let them, that aredifpo\ed, Conu. And ler,whofoever will take of the ireadofLife, whtchcamedorvnefom Heaven, this-day, intoBethlelmntk N 3 houfe
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