Sermon r5. Of theN AT 1 V 'I T 1 E. 145 toaskewhereHe is:·Which we full little fer our felves to do. Ifwe ftumbleon Him, fo iris: Bur, for any asking we trouble not ourfel~es: budit ftlll (as w~f~y)andlet Nmm worke; And fo let Grac~ too; andfolor us, It fhal!. I wotewell~It!S faid(in a .. laceofE[ay) Hew:'sfoundanon qu~renttbus, _ of!omerhatfough~ Htmnot, never Efa.6p; ~sked, vbi eft? But, It•S nog.ood holdmgby_that place. It was thm good ~ap that fo did. But, trui! not to It: It IS not every bodies ca.fe, that. ~us better·advtce, you Pro! •o. 6 • fhallreadin theP[a!me,_ Hacrft generatto q~<£rentttlm: There.IS a GenerattpfJ gfthem , that{eeke Him. Ofwhich,the~e were: And, ofthatGeneratton let us be.RegularlJ:, there is no Promife ofInvemetu,but roqu£rtte; ofFmdmg,butto fuchasfee.k. It1s not fafe ro prefume, to find Hun orherw1fe. . . I tho~~hrrhere had been fmall ufe (now) of [vbi eft ? ] Yet there is : Except we hold ch/Hbiqr~itie, ThatCH" Is r isrtbi non? any where. Bur, Heisnotfo; c H " I s r hath his ubi,His proper Place,where Heis to be found :And ifyou miife ofthat,you miife of Him. And well may we miife(faith C Ha I s r Himfel~e) there Mat: 14 _13 , arefo 1 11any wt!l take upon them,to tell us Where: And tell us offo many rtbt s: Ecce · kic,Lookeyou Here He is; Ecce ifltc,Naythen,there. In deferto, in thedefart: Nay, Inpmetra!ibus, in [uch aprivie Conventicle, you fhall be fure ofHim. Ancfyet, He {faithHeHimfelfe) mnoneofrhemall. Thereisthen(yet) placefor[ubteft? ]I fpeake not ofHis Natrtrallbody, but ofHis Myftica/l: That,is C H>. I s r too. How fhall we then do~ Wherelhall wegetthis[Where] refolved ~ Where thefe did. They faid itto many,andoft, bur gat no anfwer, till they had got together a corwocationofScribes; and they refolved them o( C HR 1 s r'subi. For, they (iri the Eajl)were nothtng fo wife,or well feen,as_'•fe(in the Weftjare now gr01ffie. We need call no smbes ogether, and get them tell us, Where : Every v!rti{anhath a. whole synodeofscribu in his braine,and can q:ll Where CH·a I s r is, bettertha~a– ny learned man f hem all. Yer,thefe wereWt{emm: Bell,Jearhe,wheretheydtd. And how did the Scribes refolve ttthem~Out ofMica. As blfore,to the.flarrhey joyneSalaam's Prophtcie : So nowagaine, to His Orietur (tbatfu~ha onefhould be bor.ne)theyha~ put Mica's[et wBeth!ehem,]the Place ofHis.Birth. Still helping,an~ givmgltght(as 1t were)to the Lrght ofHeaven,by amore cleereltgbt,the Ltght ofd!e Sanlluarie. - · Thusthen,to doe. And,to doe it our fe!ves: and not feeke C HR I s r, per Mium; Setothers about it (as Heroddid thefe) andfit full our ldves. For fo, we inayhap never find Him, no more than he did. : : ' Andnow we have foundwhere,what then .~ It is neither infecking nor ftDOing,rt.-· ) nim111 nor Invenimm : the Endof all, theCaufeofall is, in the !aft w'ords<.fidortire Theii: E•d' Eum,to Worjhip_ Hiw. That,is all in all: And without it,a!I l:lt\r feei~g ,c.oJining,fiek- Ad~r•re'~"'' mg,andjindmgts to no purpofe. The smbes;they could tell, and <fidtelli Where He was;but, were ti~ver the necre'r for it : ,For, d1eyworfbippedHifn not. For this i.nd, tofeekeHim. · · •.·.cc•··· ' • ·.. l. This is acknmvledged : Herod (in effect) (aid as much.He virould knoW; \vhere He \v~re(faine;) aa.d, ifthey will bring him ~bttl'whm, be will come todahd worfhlp Verf.i~. Hun, that hewill. None ofthatworjhip. IfW'e'find Him, his Worjbjppitig \villprove Worryrng: As didappeare,by afortoffillypotit\! Lamb~s/hat he wmt'yed,whenhe' could not have his w1ll on CH 1< I s r. Thus he,a' His Birth. ' . A~d,at ~1s death, the other Herod, hefoag/Jt Him to?; bobit was tflat he and his Soldiersmig)u make them-felvesjport vvjrh Him. Suc)l;feeking'd{e/e iSothet,while.' And fuch worjhzpprng; Asthey;inthe Ir~dgmin,f Hilll,wo\Thipped Jiim :Wf,lfl Ave Rex, Luk. 1 l·1 '' an~then gave Htm abob blrndfold;TheWotld~ worP"P of Hirii fm: the rndfl: parr. Iohn '9· J.' ,; h~wemay~eboldto ,far,, H.erodw~s:af~x., Thefe,m~a'i\'.ist~er~~y.:Towo:~ Luk.tH•· ~ f h they come,and w6'r!hip Htm rhey \vtl~. ' Vbll they fu· ~ Be tney welladvt:– e P w at the~ promife,~etp're ~hey know,t<[~erlier t~ey-!lJdi-firtd Hun tp-fwF;jh_ip[t,~IL. ~~ng,or no ·. ~or,fult htt\e kno\V they tlle'f,Wiiernh~,!tfwhat carr,rbey'i)1all find - 1111 • Whanfmaflable,layd therein-a mlt'~g)t;a'nd the·re'tf'fitWa1ile eo i't i uias pifo'i:&O 0 an~
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