8o Of the N AT 1 v 1 TI &. Sermon 9~ 1''""·'·8· We forfookehim, firll:. lOJfM tells us, how: Ey following lyingvanities, we forfookc our orvnc wurcze. Nah'/wnfrom . Ifwe went from him firll:, then ihould itbe (in reafon) noscum Iko; Not, ?(g~ Dtil•· bifmm Dem: ':'le, toHtm,notHeto us. Dtdwefo ~ No indeed: We fought not Htm, He was fame to fecke us; ~scumDeo, t~at wouldnot be: It mull: benobifcu11f Demfirll:,or Noscum Deowtllneverbe; Th.sfecoud, then: That, we began the fcparation; that, long ofus: But He begins the rect>nciliation. . :Who bath the hurt, if Go n be without us~ We, not He. Who gets by 'l'{o– bi[etem? What gets G 0 D bynobifcum_? Nothmg,He: What get we~ Multllm per omncm modum. Why then cloth He begm, cloth He feeketo bewith'"? No reafon but Sic dilexit, And no reafon ofthat. . . ' Jlut, when He fought, and offered to be with m, did.we regard it~ Norrhat nei-· ther. You fee, the Prophet (here)offers•Ahaz'a Signt; bids him, .ukeit: Ahaz would none. And, as he, to theSiglfe; So we, to theSignat.•m, th,ething lignified: Care as little for Him, or His beingwithm, as Ahaz did for His{tgne; We can be content, 'He in any fort will ceafe from us, come not at us fo long as the world can bewith us 1 _orwe with it: Care not for His being with us, till world and all forfake us. How He was faine even to force it on him. Call: up thefethen: That, He forfakes not, but beingforfaken fir!!. That, bein<Y . . . forl:1ken, yet He forfakes not, though. That He,_which ihould be fought to, fceke~ Y"·'4·'"'"•· fii·l!: And (eekes m, b~ whom He !hall get nothmg. Yea, ~henwenegleCl:Him IG [eeking, when Ahaz wtllno ligne, tells htm,.He wdlgwe htm one, whether J 1 e aske pr aske not: rhat is, will doe us good, not onely without our feeking, bur even ina manneragainll: our wills. And tell me, 1fthere be not as much love in nobifcum, as The end Whe1;eforc Nobi[c11m, 'JPilb 114. .i To{avtUG from our cnc:- in all the refl:, \ \ , With m; [1ow; we fee. Now,Witbt«, why; or, to what end~ Tomore,than I have now time, to tell you o(, Two only I name. ~ Onethatoftheplace; To fave them from thm enemw: As them,fo us. Them, fromRazm an<;l Romelies{on: Vs from the fon ofRomelie, or Romult«, ot whomfoev:er. IfHewithm,onour fide the~ will He be again(t them,that are againll: us: and, that let us never feare: Neith;r our ownc weaknelfe, nor theenemies fl:rength. For, though wee beweake, and they be {l:rong, yet Immat~t~el(I am fure) that is '!'ithm, is. fl:rongerthan they. Our feare moll-what groweth,both mfin and mdanger, that we looke upon our [elves: As if itwereonlynobrs; as if, nevera Cum; or, that Cumwerenor El, the mighty Go n. As if, with thatgreat EL, alltheinferiorE/s werenotattendanr. Manh. •6. Sl . Micha-tl, andGabri-el; and ( tfhe wtll) twelvelegrons ofAngels, Or, as tfHe alone. loh.' s. 1· with one word ofhis mouth,oneEgofum,could not blow them all downe,could not make them all, as thole in the Text, asthe tailes of acouple of ftrdrands that have fpentthemfelves, fmokea little, and there is all. No: if_He bewith If', we~eed noc fi:are whatthefe two, Nay, not what all the fire-brands mhell can doe agamfr us. And(fure) fl:range it is, The Saints of Go D,Wh~t courage andconfid~ncethey have taken,from this veryname,Immanuel. Gie to, (fa1th E{ay in the next Ghaptcf) Efay &.1o, Take your counfell, it Jhallbe brought to nought; Pronounce a Decree, itJhafl not flantf. Why~For, Jmmanuel, Go o is w!th m: _Nothing but ~his Name. For, asit is a Name fo it is a whole Propolinon,tfyou will.And after(tnthe 5o.Chapter)hefeel<¥ f~r en:mi~s; calls rhem our, Whowifl contendwith me? where is my adverfary ~ let ~ay So.8. him come neere : So licrledothhe feare them. And, thefewere ghol!ly enemies: And this was in rhe point of Iufliftcation. This, for the Prophet. Now fo'rthe Apojlle. Never did Champion, in morecouragiousmanner, C:llf: ~om.s.3,. his glove,~han cloth he to his ghofily enemies, toheight, to dept~, to thingsprifmt, to things to come to all, that none ofthem Jhafl be able, to fever htm,from tlus Cu'"• from His love.' And all, in confidence of Si Dem nobifcmn,. in whom he m~kes full accompt, to c~TJqt~er; Nay, cinq~~tr, will not ferve : more than conquer, hee; Rom.8.37• ~YlY.ta~~. Jhmafonisfe~downe1Prw.jo.where,hc b~take> ltimfc!fetoltt~dfirft, (whi~· - .. . . ~
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