. ·, SermonS. 973 Th~o, when the KiHg ef A/for, hethat C:aa cheni i?to tliis a~onie, as He was UP.On re.: moving to come cowards ch.em(an~ fo, che chtld~m(as 1t w~re)Cotrjetulie Vet'):' hirth indeed:) G 0 0 put anng tn huHift', turnedh1tnabout homeagame as fail: as _ ever he could, upon newes ofinvafionof his countrey, by the lEthiopi"" .' When,be 4 ;~:;:J, ing fo neere come to thebirth, he tame not, had not the power to come on f~otto~ ·· , ward them; then (I hope) the cafe was altered: then mtght we havef:ud thxs Text as an Io p<wt, withjoy,renerunt, &~. . . . . .· . .· And this (lo) 1s our very cafe, th1s day. For, wliy are we here met, but that (:is the Textis) a!Jirth there jhould, thiulay (the.fifth of November, th;s veryTue(day )– have I:Je~nc with us~ iliould have beene, but was not: That it was not: Thisdaj jhould havebeene a Difmallday; that it was not fo. Abirthwasin bearing; and ·'IJtnerunt adpart11m (I promife you:) that it was not borne, that it was p.4rtm n~npar~· 1,.,, 4 birthlij[ebirth, it is (with l!S) aday ofjey: and as this, aDay; fo this,~Text of j-oy: and thankes be to Go o, it is fo. And wday thefe very words ofEzechiu~. not as (here) he did, but, as after he might have, and as we, this day,·mayfpeake them;with a cheerefull ac£enr,venmmt adpartttin, &c; There be in the Text, two parties, \vhich make ilstriioparts : i thechildren, arid A•d 'Di~ij;lii •the Mother; TheChildren, in the very firfi word: TheMother in the !aft : P~trieHdi I. Il: , it is here,; Pariel'lli it is in lReg.r9. Ifthere be no fl:rength pariendi, it is, becaufe •Kmg.•t·l' there is nonepatienti. Ofthefe two, tWo thingdre here faid: One affirmed, The other deniecf. Affirmed 5thechildren were readj: Denieil; theniotberriot, imi er:tnt; The chil– dren not unwilling; ~or the; were come: th'einother unable i for, by that time theY: were aome,her flnngth was gone. The end is lefr fot us to gather :for,ifnoftrmgth tobeart;no birth there will b'e l No mote ther~ was• .And, that there was nor, it i~ holy-day with us;to d~y. , . . Applying all to ourcafe,I am to tell youfiril:, i. The(echildmi,who they were! s. and fecondly,how netreie the 6irththey cdme: 3· thirdly, oftheftrengtktobring them fonh, the failingofit, and how it cam·eto faile: V.pon thefe, two queltions; ·, One, why they were not fuffered to comeforth ? • Why they were fuffered to come fo farre f 4·: Andla!l: of all, ofthe Tu ergo,or inference upon all this: Which is not that whichEzekiah inferres(the next ver(e) TtHrgo lev11 orationem: Butanother er- · . go, as it were a newbirthofours; Tu ergo levagratidrllm a8ionem. Yes, yes: That, Ver.i; andl.waoratiomm too: An·dfo let us lifrup our prayer, and for nothing more, than thaf we may raife a good levie ofthankes indeed, eo fend up to G o i> that thertwtd noJlrength tobring it forth, when it;RI.u F ntere brot~ght; . ! • ' . '\ : i . . • THE childre11, arethe firil: word; and fo offertliemfelves to.be begun with. And , y; \>11th them, we mull: begin: For, on them all depends( whetherche nay !hall be The chUdrt( lcepr, er the Text uttered, with joy or ilot• · For.(indeed} prim,! facie, icmay feeme ~~:o they to be fome;~hat an unkmdely joy, to take pleafure inthe periiliing ofchildre.n, when they becometothehtrth. Yer fuch may rhe duldren be;that are tocome,as umakcs no matter. N?y, as we well may wiili,rhey may ;aild well rejoyce,ifthey do mifcarry there,and come no further. .. . . T0 begin,from the beginning. There reade we oftheSedufthew6man,and the Gcnefis f. • f; ~ee~ of:he Serpe/Jt: ,we are back at our Texr !l:raight. Ifit be thewomans (eed, fave 1t aliVe many w1fe, let it come,not .onely to thehirth, but, from thebirth, well; and if ,byany mlfchanccit doe nor,fay the words ofthe.Tcxt,burfay them with griefe,ve" Qq q q · mrrm~
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