Sermon Iz. Ofthe N~T.tVITIE. II] Whatdid they ~ Pr~ifed Go~· For Angeis toprai{tcGoo,is nonew:tbin~.From ;j: thebeginnin" it was thm occupaqon,fo todoe (Job 38.7.) But, ~o pt.atfe Htm for a Whanh,ydld · childin lCr:r~h,that (lo) is new; A new thing;Anew fo!lg,and(if y.ou ~vill) a new lob 3 s. 7, • ft. too For neverthe!Jke feenebefore. Before(.nlob,Jtherr pqtfi; W'\~forthe •gn~'-11 • ;heyhadthaconly, thell, topraifeHimfor: ogw, forther#oringofal\ ~~~~ 1 / forthebirth of the world.then ;fort/le newbirthof it_ now, QY, tl;te birth qf H · gb~ whom the worldat firfl: was made,and.now (ne perrferet quod copfl/dit,).mado a;~~e, createda new, and many anew Cref'IJ•r~ in it. To Hi,n, fitting i~ the rhro_ne; lin"theytheirSanc1U<;Efay.~..(For, toChrf11wastheSan/1tUfung, fat:h.S:.John z;r,yG.i: _ dir~Clly in his u. and41.) Now, to Htm, here lymg tn themanger; wh\Gh IS grea~ Ioh.u. .r. odds: But indeed, to both ;mtmtspuero ;m excelfts Deo: For,he was both. And Hts beingboth,was anEccejign11m,ifever there were any upon earth. ' And lafl:lyall this ;;.;~.,,,,that inflmtty:No paufe between; betweene :Amen, and 5 Halle1 11 ja. No fooner thefpe.:ch ended,but lheighr,as i.f thewor~cratch had bin their When 1 reft, immediatelytooke they up th~ Hym;ne, <)!ld begun it. A plamejigne, that one of chefe did depend on the other. Thts theanthemr, that properly belongs to that sermon: And back againe,th_is theSermon, that requireth this antheme: and both to the Childin themanger. Thedittiemeant by.Him,and nonebut Him. For Him,thi4gl~rie: BJHim,thi5peace; Thro~tgh Him, thi~good-wiii,Glorie,pe~ce,andgood-will, fromHim; all three. Andmarke, that.the wordCratth js the !all: word, in theSermon.; ;md the wordgloritthe fir~;.i~ thefong ; and nothing comes betweene,to part thcte two.No- ' thing,toparcHtemtltttebe!ow, fromglom on_ h•gh. Even as he drew ltghto11t of darke-, • cor. 4 • -~' nejfe, [ 0 doth heGlorie onhtgh,from Httmdtty below,by.a fequence. Whtch ~hen we heare and heare it from the mouthes of A11gels,Curewe are,all that before feemed to tendt~ Hisdifgrace, were but the Auj}iciaof His Glorie : All that beneath appeare· in Ignominia inimis, is pronouncedgloria in excelfts, and for fuch celebratedby the wholekeerof Heaven. And this for the .!Z!!eer; and foqhis time. But I aske; doe 'the Angels praife Go o fo_r this Birth ? Vt quidi!lis concio,vel cantio, What do theypreachingof Himorpraifing God for Him? For them, all this . . is not: they put it not in the firfl:, but in the fecond perfon,Vobis. Here is nowVobis, Veuo,u. the third time. 1 Evangeli'{lj Yobis (faith the Angel/firfl::) • NatU<eft Vobis (faith the fecond :) And nowErit vobis fignttm,third.• Vobis,thenewes; • robis,the'JJirth;l and Vobis,-theSigne; all three. Andwho arethefe Vobis? In the long it is exprefly fer downe,InhominibtU,For men. What meane the Angels then,to make this adoe,witli lat~dantirem, .anddicentir•m, and it concemes not them at all ~ What then; The l:ilcf-. fed Angels, they rejoyce and ling at the good of others, at theconverftonbut of dne Luk, 1 r, 7 • poorefinner : Hoc Angelicum eft. As, on the other lide, the Devils manner is, to howle,and to grieve at others good; ifChrifl come to fave men,eo cry,He is come to l!uk.•. >4· torment them: Hoc eft diabolicflm• . But well: from this yet, that theAngels thus ling (whom in their owne particu– lar tt concernes not,)I rife to make this inference;that they,whom it concernes,are to doettwtth fmegreater reafon :And thatis, ourfelves,to whom [olely andwholly {,hts Birth,and the benefit of this Birth redounds. Shall they,for us,and nor we,for us, hro~rfelvcs ~Shallwe beinarthe otherthree, 1 at theNewes,> at the Birth,and l at t eSt~ne; andbcoutatthl!;of laudantmm De11m? No, I trufl:. The ~er ofHea– be~dtd tt but ~ofetusin; We,to beare a part: and it lhould be a chiefepart,lincethe de pan oftt IS ours. They but took it up; we toikeepeitup; and never to let Itgoe ow~e,or dye on our hands, but from yearetoyeare, as we haveoccafion,!l:ill to re- ~;v h. d~lCAngels began here; TheShepheardsrhey follow, andprdife God,fortbat Veri<,., 'Y a . eardand feene; theSermon they had heard,the Signerhey had feene. We, to come tnat our turne,and to doe the like. You
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