upon the Lardes Prayer. 3' Very well by di[1inbdn of two natures :bee is our Father in refpea of his Gódbead, and he is our brother by reafon of manhood. Yet I am not fatmfied, For thus meethtn!¿e ú rea/on ag,unfl yore. Hee that receir,eth vs intofauour for Ghrít ff, andgraunteth am- petitions far (hrill, that is not Chriflhimfelje. For there isa. manifefldiflenaioofperiOnsimplyedin sit: but tisis father heere,whom we call fa- , ther in theLords prayer, receineth vs,and heareth vo, and loe /peth vs for Chrífl: and there- fore this fatherin this placecannot b.- C You trouble your frite in an rafie!natter, . and you ,doe not diflingiiifh as wee needes mull doe to keepe a trueth in 'their cantes. I told you before there are two natures in Chrifl, and dicers feuerall thinges. in that.oue perfon, in refpc& of thofefeuérall natures. Now you mull confider againe, that in Chrifl there is a nature of Godhead, and an office ofa mediator betwixt God and man, he and his office are feuerall things, yet bee one Chrifl. Then concerning your major propo- jtion,true it is, that he that receiueth vs into favour, and heareth and helpeth vs for Chrifl, is not Chrill himfelfe in that one refpclt,but in another he is. For Chrift asmediator, is hee for whom we are receiued, heard and helped :s but as God, it is he alto that reciueth, heareth, and helpeth. So Both diftinAlion of things feue_ rally to beecoouidired auisfs'er your doubt, and leaue Chrift included in this word and name of Father in this Prayer: afwell as any other perfon. 'Then this nomination of/son to bee in heauen, how agreeth it to him that it in eater, y place? Dooth it not rcflratne that vbiyultie o this ? No indeede, no more thanother fpeeches in Scripture loth, which yet at the Vbiquitie, firfl blufh feeme o doe it, as this doeth. Wherefore that we may voderftandboth this and them, let vs remember, that not onely in this Prayer Gòd is faid to bee heauen,but theProphet alfo faith, Hee bathprepared his featein hearten, and ma- ny other places the like. Then againe it isl'aide :7laenotgoevp, for the Lord is not withyou. Thirdly, Ifany man lone mee, I and rny'Fatherwill come to him, &e. Which comming and going fhould feeme to refringehis vbiquitiè. But concerning the firfl, we are to know that in theft or anyothes places, God is not meant to be irs heauen either circum- Pfal,re3rq, fcriptiuely as men limittodbyplace hhere and not elfewhere for that time, eyther Nair »4 definitiuelyas Angels by proprietie of their fubflance, but ( that wee fo fpeake) 42. repletiuely, becaufe with his abfence hereplenifheth and filleth heauen and earth, and all places,as the Prophet faith. Againe,becaufe there, as in his throne and place ofgreatefl dignitie, he fhe_ weth his power, his wifedome, his goodnelfe and maieflie, more than in other Iere ,, z4. places of the world, and therehence more reuealeth and declareth the fame than from any other place. The &anon declare the glorieof God,and the frrmameni fheweth pfal,rg,z. hishandteworke. The Lord heareth the heauens,and the heanens the earth, the earth Hole.a.24, the corile, and the corne the people. Frotnheauen thewrath ofG,od is renta/ed agaiofl allvngoaltnefe. From hcaucu he fendeth his Angles,from heauen the fonne of man ltom.rt,$. , decendeth,from heauen the holy fpirite commeth, and from heauen fhall he come to judge the quicke and the dead.Whcrefore in thefè Refpeótes and a number like, -113"..-J° heauen is called his throne,and-he is faid thère to be more than in all other places, acid we when we pray, lifting our,eyes and mindes vp to this chiefe throne of his maieflie,when:itpleafeth him to communicate, life, motion, light, andall good- . ueffe to his.£ eruants; fay, Our Father which art inheauen. And remember with your felfe,that euen in the f íne place where heauen is cal- led his Throne; the earth alfo is-called his footefloole; as noting his pretence, not - withflanding eueriewhere,thoughhisfeatbeprepared in heauen. And what placi willyoubuild vntom ;s, faith the Lord, that is, how may I bee apprehended ofany one place,. that am infinitie , and fill all places? Nothinr, therefore this claufe in ourprayer infringeth his vbiquitie. Touching the fecond thing,that God is (aide in theScripture not to bee with Tome men fometimes, we mull vndeefrand, it
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