<;ha_p.I.Se&.IS• Book JV. .of his f:a vour.s ! becaufe of the fo·vom" •of thy -g~d ~eintment:t, !thJ C · Name is an ointment p!Jm:ed forth; •Whether by favo~trs,we me.an anr. r.J. his words, the ve~ officers o(thefe-wes can fay, nevtr •mfln fp111k,§ h 6 '- h b 'h' d d h' Jo n 7• 4 ' -li~~ this man: or waen er y favours, we mean · IS ee · s, l 1s •ve11y ene.nies· confdfe; him a.juft man, fo ':Pilates -wife eould~fend . Irer ,husband woro, have thou nothing to do ·with that juft·man : 1the-wi1e M 7 19 men that brought their offerings, gi"Je bim gold, frank};nflnc-e, M:;: :. ; 1 .' 11nd myrrhe; gol_d is given him as to a potent King, frankinfen(e as to a gracious God, and myrrhe as to an holy Prieft ; He is a King to rule, a Go.d to fa\le, and a Prieft to mediate; thus far he cafts fweet favliurs; but digeft them better, and they prove fower grapes; a King he w;1>-;but :mockt ~ith r_he title, Haile King of the Mar. 27. 29~ { ewes; a God he was, b~t he empt1ed htmfelf, he _made him [elf of i' bil, :.. 7· no rep.utl'ltion; ari holy Pneft he was, but fuch a Pneft.as muil: offer up himfelf for a facrifice, the wife men that came from the Eaft, they faw his infirmity, yet adore his power; they faw his 'infanG.y, yet adore his .wifdome; they ..faw his poverty, -yet ador~ 'the riches ofhis mercy; they faw him whom they enquired afrer, Whert . is·he that is born /Gng of the fewu ·' The very title ca,fis fweet fa- Mat. %, ~. vours, but it bears fowre grape3; he is a King that's .a titJe .of .honour; but he is King of the Jewrs, tfuat's a words of re• . proach. All a·tong his life you may fee thefe two, fweet (ilvrnm, 6ut fowre grape;, vidift i vilia, 1111di mirifica, faid Ambrofe ;~the things you fee are mean, but the things you fee and heare are wonderful; mean it was to fee a_ fort offhepherds, wonderful it is totfee a troop · of Angels : mean 1t was to heare one fay laid in the cratch below· wonderful it is to here m :ny ling, glo~y to God on high; mean it was to fee him man , wonderful it is to know him God. 'Here's ;t little child fa inting and gr?ttning, yet ·a powerful God J;nl ing and commandmg; hungry ·h1mfelf to fhe.w our nature, yec feeding five tbouf.1nd to fhew his power; dying on the croffe as the Sonne of Adam, difpoling of Paradife as the Sonne of God. As it was f:lid of B~rhlehem, minima, & non minima; th~ /raft of the thou(rmds , JV!ich. 5 1 2. ~t the_ l~ajf of t~ort{#lndJ, . VW:at. 2 . 6. So · Mich. i : z, we fay of th1s Beto!ehemlte, mzmmm, &-non mzmmm, hefott'ljitMat.z. 6•. upon the T hrone of David, ]fa 9· 7· Yet hei1ath born our griefes J(a 9 7. and carried our forrows, !(a 53 . 4· His kjngdome i.r an everlafting I :a 5 ~- 4• k.jn_rdome, Dan. 7· 27. Yet hi! _end foal! be, 11nd he jha!l have ;, ·~:· % 7'·- nothing,
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