Chap. 1. Sect 7 Looking unt81t'[as. Book. IV. things; what ? are they wifer t~e~ Chrift r our Jefu5 would not by any meanes thus fpend hts ttme. Indeed for the while he did nothing famous , or of publick note; but neither was this without a rpyllery ,in dving nothing 'ublick_ , faith one, he Ni/1il fa,iendo atchieved great and ( umptuous , And prllift-worthy aCls. There fecit mpgnifi~i•. is a feafon and time to every purpofe under heaven ; as there is a time of jilence, and a time to [peak_, fo there is a time for publick , and a time for private negotiations ; as yet Chrifr conceals his vercues, and conforms himfelf to the converfation of men , that the myftery of his incarnation might not be th<;>Ught a phantafme; then he would have his verrues and graces to thine out; when men ufually come to . the;r vigour and ftrength both of body and mind ; And befides, as it was faid of a Divine , that he would never prMch a Sermon but he would firft endevour to praEti[e it himfelfe , Mr Bolton ·· fo I am fure did ChriH: ; he would not teach the world , • ' faying, learn of me, fur I am meek_. .tnd lowly in heart, butMst.l1.~9 firft he would prad:iie ; firft elo , and then tea,h ; as Luk! tells Theophilus, he had writ of ail that 'jefsuhegan both to do and h Acb.s UllC • - , · 'But concerning this time of his youth, becaufe , in Scriptrue there is fo deep a filence , I fhall therefore palfe it by. Thus farre I have. propounded the object we are · to look.. unto : it is refus in his firft coming ' or incarnh tion , whiles yet a child of twdve years old . our next worke is to direct you in the Art or My fiery how wd are .to , look unto him in this refped:. ' R r 3 CHAP.
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