394 , Book- IV. Locking unto '{-ejt1s. Cbap.1 .Sett.s uno guile. Thus we fee no leffc then five difciples found out at firfi:, which mull: be as fo many witncffes of Jefus Chrill:. And yet we fin de more witneffcs, the works (faith Chrifi) that Joh. 10 • 15 , I. do, in my Fathers N,•me,thcy be are witnrjfe ofme. Thcfe works or miracles ofChrifi were many, but becaufe we are fpeaking of his firfl: manifdl:ation, I fhall infiance only in his firft work, wb1ch was at a marriage in Cana of Galilee. The power of miracles had now ceafed fince their returne out of the captivity. the !aft miracle that w2.s done by man till this very time, wa~ Danifls ' tying up the mouth of the lyon's, and now Chrifl: begins. He.that made the firfl: marriage in""Paradife, befl:ows his firfl: miracle upon :a marriage feaft ; 0 happy feafi: where Chrift is a gueft! I be. leeve this was no rich or fumptuous bridal'; whoever. found Chrift at tfue magnificent feafh or tryumphs of the great? the frate of a fervam (in which ftate Chrift was) doth not well agree . with the proud pomfe of the world. Thispoore needy bridegroome wants drinke for hisguefts; and as foon as th~ holy virgin hath notice of it, 1he complaines to her fonae; whether we want bread, or water, or wine; ·neceffaries · or comforts . - whither fhould we go but to Chrifl: ? the Lmi is mv foephe~~ri P!alm 13. x. ./ • John :l, 4 and if that be fo, it will furely follow, I foal! not want: but [rfm 11n[wered her, woman what have I to do with thee? mine hoHre u not yet come. This 1hews that the wor_k he wa11 to do, . mufl: not be done to fatisfie her importunity, but to profecute the great work ofdivine dcfignation; in works fpiritual and religious, all outward relation ceafeth ; matters of miracle concerned the Godhead only, and in this cafe 0 woman, what have I to do with thee? we mu~ not deny love and duty to relati?ns ; ~ut in the things ofGod, natural endearemenrs mufl: paffe mto fpmtual, and like frars in the prefence of the fun mufl: not appeare. p au! could fay, henceforth /e!Jow we no man after thefl'efo, yea though we have l Cor, 1· 16 · ~own (hrift after the fiefh, ytt now henceforth ~{pow we him no morr. At the command of J efi1s, the water- pots were filled with water, and rbe water by his divine. power is rurned into wine; where the different difpepfation of God and the worl-d is highly obfervable; every man /ersforth good wine at {irft, and the1:1 the worfe ; but Chrifl: not only turnes water into wine, but into fucb wine
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