Sermon .u.. Ofthe N AT 1 v 1 r u. IH But in vaine cake we upon ns, to teach ~heAngel!: We would havewe know not what. We forger S••.A11g11flines,Dijlinguetempora: as the rimei·s,:hcAngel!is right ; and a .fitter Signecould not be ~ffigned. Would we have had H1m comein power, and great glone~ and fo he will come; but nor now._He, thaccommeth her~ in< &louts, He will come mthecluuds,one day : But (no>~) Hts commmg was for anmher (nd; and fo, to beinanorhermanner. Htscoll?mmg(n0w)wa?, (as we fay in the co!lefl) tovijitmin great httmtltty: and fo, Hts Srgne to be accordmg. Nay then, I fay: Firfr,goeto the nature of aSigne, if CHu s T had come in ~is ·l excellencie, chat had·be~ne noJigne, no morethan the Sun mthe Firmament flumng in his full frrength : Hoc non erit Sigmtm. Contrarie to the courfe ofN acure it I_"Ould be,elfeicis noSigne. !heSu~echpled; theSunmSackcloth: that IS Stg~um .m(olc, Luk •ur. theSitne indeed : Ani:! that lS :heStgnehere,theStmofrtgljteou(nejfeenmng mto h1s 1\hl.p. eclipfe, begins to bedarkened,m htsjirjlpomt,che pomtot htsNattvttte. Thtststhe signe(fay I: ),and,thac hadbeene none. I fay againe: Itis not onlySignum; that is nocall,it isSigmtm robi;: Welhall 2 doe well eo look tovohu. There is a matter,in chat: For whom,thisSignewas given: (Not the perfons fo much,as the condition.) For,ifhc had been fo glorioufiy borne, fuch as the[e fl1ould never have beene [uffered to come neere Him. But,this is aSig»e, for Tou: You,that keepe lheep,and fuch other poore peop)e; you have aSavio11r too. Hds not theSaviourof Greatftates only; but,even ofpoorejbrpheards. The poorefr of the earth mayrepairetoHi~,bein~ no other place but this; and by this Signe to find Him: Andfo,hocmt StgnumVobll. Haythirdly,rllbti,and tal.<ein ourfelvestoo. So,Hor erit Signum. For,what praife 3 or thanks~1ad it beene for iJs,to have beleeved in Him, b()rne in all glorious manner ~ Bur,beingthus borne, with this Signe, if nowwe doe it, .,;;,xie<<~'-''1@- (to fpeake in, Pcc.>.t~ ao; Sr. Peters phr<\fe{thil hath thankes andpraifewith God: And [o,Hoc erit SignHm, - Fourthly, wuhout regard ofthem,or <?fus,I fay,that even in regard ofHimfelft, 4 Hoc erit Signum. Would there be a propomon betweene the&tgne and theStgnatum? There is fo. This, holds good proportion with the enfuing courfe of his life, and tlt4th. A.nd,(all conlidered,) it is evenSig»um ad£quatum. Wemay well beginwith CHRI sr intheCratch: Wemufr end with CH R r sr ·on theCrojfe. TheCratch is a Signe of the Crojfe. They that write, de remftica, defcribe the forme of making a Cratch Croffi-wife. TheScandal of the Cratch is a good preparative, to theScandal of theCrojfe. Tobefwadledthus,as achild, doth that offena~ What then,whenyelhall fee Himpinion'dand boundas aMalefa8or? Tolyein aMangtr,is that fo much~ how then,when ye lhall fee Himhangon the Crojfe ? But [o,-·---primo ,;e difcrepet imum; that. His beginning and His end may fuir well and not clifagree, Sic oportteit Chrifiurn nafet. Thus ought Chrifftobeborne,and this behoved robeHis Signe. But then, to remove thisScandal, Hay fiftly: ThanheleffegiPrious,the more 5 glmo'tu; the leffeglorious His Signe,the moregloriou,· He. And even in this refpeCt of Htsglone,He was to be borne under this Signe. Had he come in the power and great glone, wee fpake of, what great matter had it beene for Him ( then, ) to have done thmgs power.full,andglorious~Bur,comming in rhis fort,thcfe famepanni andpr4epe were an ev1dent Signe,ofthe power of Hismight,in nothing fo manifefr,as in this, that,from fo poorea beginning, He was able to advance [o glorious a worke. It was Exod.q; much,from ababe Hoeing in the llaggs ofNilm,in abafket ofbulrufoes (Mbfes) togather him[elfe a people, even the Nation and Kingdome of the I ewes, and to deliver Hts L•w. I: w.asi~finitely much more, from this babe (here) lying in the Cratch, t0 Wot~ the bnngmgmofthe Gentiles,and the turning aboutofthe whole world,and t() . f~bh!h~ts Goj}eU,thepower of Godto f alvation. Herein,is power: from H•s Cratch, ddoet~ts. There to lay Him; and,there lying, eo makefo many nations c-ome,and ~f o~eHtm,as lince He hath. That ifeverin Hi.· Ht•militie His jttdgernent were eKalted; 1 H~s P0"'trwere ever madeperfet!in weakeneffe· ifever H~ lhewed,i:-hac injrmum Dei All.B. H : fmz"': eft hominibus,Godattheweakefr is frrong'er thanmen in all rhelr frrengnh; Hoc • Cor.u.9. trst St,g-ntlm,in this Signeit was. ' 'Cor.•.·· ~, L~ A '
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