SermonS. Ofthe NATIVI TIE. And, [uch a defire {hall never bee frufirare :It {hall {ee cerrainely•. Of Exultare ut videao, the reward !hall bevtdere 111 exttltes: of difzrrngrhat we Jeenot, ~0 fee rhar, wedejire. We haveAh,raham, the Father,in the Text; Take zaLuk,, 9 , bee the fon. for an example ofir,too. He, out ofadejire tofee CHn 1ST,at his corn. ~in~ to Ieri;ho,andcould not for thepre'!f[e, ex11ltavit g~ve a fpring,,got him liP intoa Ve& l· tree:[o tohavea light ofHtm. It wasfo well taken, this very dejire, .as, h~ not o~ly Vnfe 4· [; Him bur receivedHtm tohoufe. And ourSaviOur pronouncerh,this Text was ful. fi\'i~d inhim;He wM" even thereby become the Son of Librahat~ •. For;howfoever in things Luk. 19 9 • te.mporall,;tmay be, and IS oft defeated; In tlungs pmamingto CHRIST, and Hts r. ht Exnltavitt~tvidmt!hallever end (as herot doth) mEt vtdtt. And fo wepalf~ ;•g ' f ·J· tome next point o Etvzutt• . ,.. tris here(firfr)direC!Iy avouched, t!iePatriarchs (andAhraham, byname)they 'If did not only.defir~ :o.Jeethisday; bu;,_fee ~t they did. Sec it, though they did ~ut fee ;:~~~~r,. it andfaluteit a rro PP" a far of; or, b"'"''"'""")p~M tn aperjpcllweglajfe; yetfeettthey Et vidir. did. It is bur Vidit; Yidit,ingenere. Anyfight,any defcrying will ferve to verifie the .Andh<faw it Text. Ifay not, they did preci!'ely know the veryday of the moneth; I would not, i: ~ct'~/,'j,',~: fo beunderilood. But,this they did : They knew and fawmgencre;fucha day there " fu~uld come,andthen, comewhen it w0uld; or what day of the yeare,it would ; all, Joy they wi.il1ed to that day, forthe joy,irwas tobring them. This was enough,'for them in their efiare : And, more parucular nonce had they had, of theUUonethand pay,this I am fure,they w.ould never have fcraped. it our of their Kalfnder. . HeJaw it. But then, Ifyou aske,how he fa":' It~ Sure, not (as they were mtfia. How,!Jtfawit ken in the Text) as ifAhrahamcouldnor[ee llHDay; unldfe CHar sT had beenein the'lleil 1,in the daycs ofAbraharn. That~ is one kind of feeing,indeed. For,foSimeon faw: (Formmeeycs havefeene.) Bur,th1s Text mull: be true: vtdtt Ahraham. Then, Luk.i.;o. anotherrhere is befide. This is fure,what Simeon faw,the fame faw Ahraham : What · simeon law,(lfay;) but, nor, as Simeon faw. The f:1me Chrijl,bothj and the fame Day: though,not both,in the fame manner. · But let me tell you,thi~ of"!hrahams was the better. And,ifSimeonhad not feenc Him, in the fame manner, Ahrahamdid, for all his viderrmt oculi,hehad bccne never the neerer. No more than were the !ewes here,that hurledjlones at Him, and fo(aw Verr, r;. Him; but,to no benefit,nomatter ofExtdtation,atall; ofcondermMtion, rather. Then,if nor with his eyes,how ~ Yes ; with his eyes roo,rhough not of the bo– dy. Which to conceave, we are to takenotiee, that there is in every man of us two men : (Plato hadfeene fomuch, andfet it downe : And (it is thought) the t.Apojllc tooke it from him:) 1 Anoutw.<rd, and • an inwardman: (Rom.7.n. 2 Cor.4.6.) Now,if therebcaninwardman, we muilallow him fenfes, as a man; he mufi have eyes. So heeharh: (Ephef. r. r8.) Having thetyesof yourtmderjlandinglightned. Here are eyes: by them didAhrahartJ; and,even by them (and by no other) doe wee ~~ . Thofe eyes many have befide,but fee Him not,for want of light. By what light f~w He~ Hewas aProphet; and,as a Prophet, hemight be in theSpirit and have the v1fion clearely reprefenred before him, in llf.cepropheti.t. Bur,without all qucfl:ion, a [atthfull~anhe was,and fo, certaine it is, hefaw it inlmninefidei, the light offaitk, G'l.;g. which faith lS the clearem!fe or evidence of thi!Jgs not feene, (Yeeknowtheplace.) Heb,.,,,; 'l{gt (eem : Nay even of things invifible. In rhez7. Vcr. of rhe fame chapter, iris fatd,UUofes wasastf he had feme the invijible. lly faith,thatwas: And, in AhrahamRom+ 11. the Father of thefaithft~ll,the fame faith was. Both faw,by the f.1melight, and by it C" RI s: was as venly prefenr umo them, as ifrheyhadfecne Him,this day,,znthe m•n,rr. wuh theShepheards; or, withSimeon, had had him in their armes, and be. ~i~ ~~~- Thus, He; and rhus we. ~or it is all rhelighr,he had,or we have, tofee b But,wherewas rhis,andwhen~TheText is enough,Co it was,ifwe reil not i!J that, Ut would know what the Fathers have conceived of the placeandttme; This they G 4 hold:
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