Sermon 17. Ofthe NATIVl T·IE. 16) The hardefi {~;et beh\npe_; F~r it."Yiii not fi~ke inro ou~ heads,how thi:.~o~ld I I I: be called aLarp. It leemesnothtog leffe: rathera.Dt~logue betwccnNFa:h•r ~nd his Sonne: Bur alaw :(Cure) tt cannot be: A lawruns 111 rhebnpe~tttwe; tl~ts.ls II!eer!y 'J{grrative: dttlarcs~ome-whar,m)oynes nothmg; gtves not ~ny thmg Ul cHarge; as 'j wesufetodoe. . • l.'' ' ' - ., 1 ;. .... · a .sed non poteft folvt ,Scriptttra, God mujl Getr~te i'4allhisftryings>CH ~ '. S'i.may IoH.io.lf, nqtpreachfalfedoct~ine. A .(-aw He hath called tt ;_and we may not~lV~ 11l.any~other Rom.l·+• name. . . ·· ~- . ·,- . '· . · - • · 1 · There be that t,11mke, tlus verfog but rhef>reamG!e, and rhat.the body ofthe law Jorh follo.w,and (eacherh ro rh~end ofthePfalme. . · ... . Bur,rhe berrer for.t are of tmnd,rhat even rhts verfe,taken by1t felfe,conrames m ita la"' full andwliol~•. Let usfeethen,wherherwecan find 1t fo. We pich'rupon the Apojile'sd~vifion ofrhelaw,into LexJidei,andLexfac1orum.: If both thefe be found in it,we may well allow itfor aLaw. We will beginwithLexjidei .- whatwearetobeleeveof Him, Of Bim(.that is) o(theferhree: I. Of Hi? Perfon. 2. His 2'\jtrms. 3• and His ofjim. And then come to Lexfaaorr;m. x. Fir!l:,whar He dorh for us,thebenejit.of this LarP. 2 • And then, what weare to doe for Him againe, our dutie out of this Law. The former ofwhich (thebmejit) is the Goflellofthis law.Thelatter (thedutie) i.s the ·larr ofthis Gojpell.. · Of His perfon firfi. ThatHeis,of Himfelfo, aperfon fr•6Jifling. Plaine,by the i" twoperfons that a rein the Texr,Ego.:and '!u;the fir!l:,and f~cond perfo~ inGrammar: u"fidti. • . and rhefame, the firfi <!nd (econdpeifon 10 Trmltle. Here ts Egogenttt, theper{onof 'Ot Hi• .Ptr~ the Father; and pj/jti! meuJ tit, theperfonof rheSon. Here is onebegets : And(fure fo•· iris) nemogenerat Seipfimi, nonebegrtfhimfelfe; but he, whom hebegets, isaperfo" actually di(tingoifhed from him;that begers'Him. But,of rhefe two ferfom, rh.is y.oluvill marke. That, the firft that is named,is Filirume«<tlt. He ftanas firfi in the verfe before Gen11i te. We heare ofFiliM,before Ioh.'4·~· ·ever we heareofGenrti:For,rhar is thePerfonwe liold·by. By Natare;Gentei te lhoulcl goebeforeFilim mem;bur quoad Nof,Filizu mezu is beforeGen11i.-To fhew,rhere is no -comming to the Father,but by Him; no ill.tereft intheFather,butfrom,and through Rim, This for His Perfon. And,in Hisperfon, webeleeve trv~ natures, fet downe here in the two words, Ho~ z die andGenui. If you doe obferve,rhere is fome-what a ftrange conjunction of thefe Of m, Na! two words. ·one is prefent, Hodie .- the other isperfe[f/ypa.ft, Genui.. In proprieticof '"'"· fpeech iqvould be a prefent act,for a.prefent time: or it would be an act paft with an adverbe ofthe rime paft: and nor joyne a rime in being (Hodi'e) with an action endea anddone(Genui.) · . , The joyning ofrhefe two together,rhe verifying them borh,ofoneand rhefame perfon,mult needs feeme firange.Anci indeed,could nor be madegood,burrhar in tliat one parr1e, there are twodt!l:mct Nattwes. To either of which,in it different refpect, ' both may agree,:md be true,both. Some little difference time will beabout the lor– ting of the t"(O words: which to referre to which. Bur, that willeafily be accorded, fotthey will both meet in the end. . . 1 . Ther~be, that, becaufeRodie (rheprefent) is yet inFieri, and.fo-norcomero be ~erfeet; under!l:and by it, His temporal/gemr.tion (as mm) which is theleffe per~ Aft, as fub)ect-to the manifold imperfections of our humane nature, and condition. nd then, byGemti, which is infac1ttmefe(and fo,cloneand perfect) underfiand His fi eternall generation (as the SoN NE of Go D) in whom are abfolutely allrhepereEftons of the lJeitie. - . , ·· h 1herebe other, and they fly a higher pirch,and are of a conrratieminde: F.or,' d ~tboetcr lS paO:,ismtime(fay they)and fo Gen11i isremporall:and,thar Hodj~(that) . ot 1 e! cxprelfe Hts eternal!gencra:ion: Fo).' rhat,nothing i~ foproperly atfii·med_of tterrltttc
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