A • SERMON PREACHED before the KIN G s M A I EsT I E, at White~haU~on Friday, the XXV.of'December, A. D. MD c x V 111. being CHRISTMAS Day. -----------------·· LY KE 11. Vc:r. XII, X I II. Et hocerit vobis Signum, &c. eAnd thiJ !hall beaSigne untoyou :yee JhaUfinde the Chz1de foadled, and laid i~ acratch~ ~!Andflraight"'MJ there- rPM 'ktlith thetfngeU~ amultitude of hea.. venlyfouldiers~prai)ing Go n, andflying, . qtorie he to Go n on high, &c. the[ethree verfu, the points bctwQ: I The shepheards Signe; and • the Angels Song. The Signc is a remaine of .-tngelmadp•Jiores, the Angels fpeech to the Shepheards: We called it, as the Ange!t himfelfe called it, a Sermon :_ Evangelizo (the w·ord, he u[eth) is, topreach. Of which Sermon there are two pares: 1 His Birth (the verfebefore,)' His Finding, (inthis.) For, this is a double Feaft: not only,the·Feaft ofHis Nativitie; but the Feaft of His Invention al[o. Therefore the Angel!makes nor an you t6 home :] but, tells them further; It is not enough, CHRIsT ubome;but,totakebenelitbyHisBirtb, wearetojinde Him. NatMI. eff, His part; Iiwcnieti<,ours. . Of natm ljl fomewhathath formerlybeene faid : Inv ewieti< (now) followes;" andfollowes well. For, what is 'J{gtm eft, without Invenieti<? Such a one there is borne; what !hallwe be the better, ifwe jinde Him not~ As good, not bome,-as,not krmvnc: Tb us, all one. Nobis na{cit~Jr1 ctim a nobu no{citur. Borne He maf.be, liP– fore; but, nobi< natm, totuHe is borne, Y(h,en-tt> us hdsknowne, wlten wejindJHi~; and not before. C" R I s Tu s inve'tltut is more ~Han CH a'I'. .!cT us natm, Sec downe invenieti< then lirft. Invenieti< leads us to Hoc erit Sign11m. For, how !hall theyjinde Him without a 5ii1Jt r So comcwefrom CHRIsT us natm,to CH 1\1 s Tu s Jignat/11. NAtm, im11
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