Ch.1p,z.Sect.l Looking unto :Jefiu. Book IV. bring forth a male, !he is in danger of the dragons fl:reams.Again, obferve Chriib returne into Judfa; he w.u not fent but to the loft Mat. I): 14. jl;eep ofthe huuje of If'Ml; with them alone he was perfonally to .converfe in his minifl:ry , in whtch refpeel: he ~as called a Miniter Rom. 1 $. s, ~f circumcifion. And where fhould he be..tratned, and !hew htmfelfe, 'but amongll: them to whom God had fent him ? the Go. fpel firfl: began there, and as a preparation tJ it, Chrift now in . • his-childhood returnes thither. Againe, obferve Chrift difputing with the Poctours in the Temple; in his very nonage Cbrill: gives a tafl:e of his future proofe; fee bow early his divine graces put forth themfelves, in him were hid (faith the Apollte) .1/l thlf C 1 . treafures of r,eifdome and lznowledge; all the treafures were hid in °· l. ~· him, and yet fome of thofe trealures appeared very early betimes; l1is wifdome in his very infancy is admired at, -nor is it without our profit ,for of God l1e is made wifedome unto m. Again,obferve C · . how he fpent tl1e remainder of his youth, in all his examples he 1 vr. 1 ' 3o. meant our infl:rucbons, he wmt down n:ith hu Parent.r, and was jubjefl to them, he was not iddy bred, but ferves his generation in . the poore way ofa Carpentet· ; it i.r ewry way good for ff man to L be are Gods yoak§ even from his infancy. Chrift is enured be rimes am, 3· z7~ to the hardi11ip of life, and to the il:rid obfervation of the Law both o(God and nature. See 0 my foul what a world of matter is before thee to con!ider of, here is Jefus under many a notion, here's the annuntiation ofJefus, the conception ofJefus , t be duplicit y of natures in J efu~ the real diil:inction, the wonderrul union, the nativity ofJefus: together with fome confequ~nts after it. Go over thefe with often and fcequ~nt thoughts, give not over till thou feelefr thy heart begin to warme; true med ;tation is as the bell owes of the foui that doth kindle and infbme ho ly affections, and by renewed, and more forcible though 's, as by renewed.and ftronoer blaJ1s ,. it doth renew and increafe the flatne. ::. SECT, . ·~ - .
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