Sermon 9· Ofthe NATIVITIE. . b• !lip ofImmanael) Deusmmm•; And _then, to Ittid, ll:raight joynes Veal, I ;;,~,t'~r~·vat!e ; not I, bur El with mec. Ittielgoeth never alone : veal attends it ll:ill. Gctlttic!; iffttidbeewtth us, real willnorbeaway: For, Itt~et and veal pm Fs~J;is ali ~ No : there is another in the vd:y body oHhe word it felfe: With .• T'o m•kcus •keus tlutto Go o that Hee was (this day) nial:le to man: And this 'Ghc •••otsof "''tom.. . ' f . b · · ' ·1· · ,rr.fi · ••· (indeed) was the chtefe End o Hts emg wrtrJ uc; ? gtve us, apo" e m, a caacirie, & power, to he made the Sonnes of G o o, by bcmg_horne dgazne of water, and Iob.n ,.,,;_,: Pf 1espirit: For Ort"rnem, qttamjitmpjit ex lltero Vtrgrnu, pofrttt znfonte Bapti{'m~t~- r;he f.une Originall that Himfelfe rooke, in the wombe of the Virgin, to us– ,;;rd; th; f.1me harh heplaced,for us, in the fount:;ine ofBaptifme,to Go o-wa~d. Well therefore called the womheof the Church """"X" to theVu~mswornbe, Wtth a power given it of cont·ipiet & parietf!ios, to Go o. So,_Hts bet~conmved, and 6ometbcSonr.eof man,doth conceive, and b~rngforth, (Ftlralto, jiltattonem,) our be– ingborne, our being the Sonnes of Go o. Hts parttClpatlonofour Humane, our par-. t_icip;trion of H1s DtvmeNature. And, null H~bewith tu, thus many way~s; and !ltall not we be with flirll, (as OurDtuici many, !fay nor, bur) fom_c, as mariy as w~ eati ~ _'vVcc, with Him; as, He withuc? ~?,::.witll Specially, lince uron tl1!S tifuc,rhe Pro~;het put$ KtngAfa, The L 0 R D 15 >Vtthyou,if yo~< bewit·h Him: wuh JDII to{a7.it you,)f youJVJth Htm to ferve Htm. It holds rect- i.ChroA.I$.~ prote, in all dunes of love(as, here, \~as love, 1fever,) Immanrte!, Go o nmh m, requites Immelan~<, vs wtth Go o, a&'ame. . . . Hee JVtth tts, now (I hope:) l'or, where twoor three Are gathered together m Hu Inp,. 1 er,ac: Name, there i< Hee with them. But, rhar is in His God-head. And, weare with Mltth. ~-8' ·~; Him; our Prayers, our Prayfes arewith Him: But, that is in our fpirits, whence they come. . . Thefe are well: but thefe :~re not all we cart : And, odne of rhefe; the proper In the s-.r~ with Him of the Day, That hath a fpeciall CHmofit felfe, peculiar to it. Name- ,.,~,, ly, thar wee be (o ;vith Him, as Hee (this day) was with m: that was,injl'.fo; nor in JPirit onely. Thatjlejh that was conceived and this dayborne, Corpm aptajfi Pfat. 4 o. 7 ; mihi,tlmbody,thatwas (this day,) fi:ted to Him. And, if we be not with.Him; ~br.••-~; rhus; 'If this His fleil1 be not with ru; If we parra~e it not; which way foever elfe we bewith Him, we comefhort of the Jm, of this day. im, otherwife it may be; but not that way, which is propcrto this Feaft. Thy Land 8lmm~nu;t, (faith the lifaya.t; Prophet, tnthenext Chapter:) And may not I fay, Thts thy Feasr, o Immanuel?. ·– Sure, no being wirh Him, fo kindly, fo pleafing to Him, fo fitting this Feall:, :~s, tq growimo one, wirhHim: as, upon the fame day,fo, thevery[ame way, Meedid withm. This, as it is moll: ·proper; fo, iris the moll: /height and neere that can be: the furefl: being withal!, that can be : Nihil lam flobifcrtm, tam noflrum, qttlunali– mentum noHmm, Nothing fo JVith m, foours, as that we eat and drinke downe; wluch gocrh, and groweth onewithm. For, alimentml! & alitum doe coalefure in mmm, grow into an union; and that union is unfeparable ever after. This then, I commend to you: Even the being with Him, in the Sacrament of HisBody1 That body, that was conceh:ed, and borne, (as for other ends, [o) for this fpecially, to be rvtth yott : And, tl1is day, as for other iAtents, fo even for this forfhe Holy b Euchariff. This, as the kindliell:, forthe time; as, the furcll:, fortlte maruter, of etngwttb. B And,_rhisis the furrhell:: And this is all, we can come to here; here upon eanh; Inllta9it£ ut, thts ts nor all: there 1s a further to come ll:ill. For wee are not together: we ;~e parted,_ He and we. He, in heaven; and we, in ear;h. Bur, it !hall not aiway hbc.. Behdethisday, Immanuelhath another day: And, that day willcome: And w en tt cloth come, He will 'ome, and take us to Himfdfe. Tha~, as·He bath beene our
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