,•,( ' Iohn 7. 6. rs lrR MbN JJ . i\ PREACHED before the , K 1N G s M A 1EsT 1E, at White:..Hall, on1/;u;fdqy,rh~xxv. ofDecember,A. D. MDcxx Ill. being C H R I ST M A S day, . EPHES. I. Ver,X. In dilpenfaticirie plenitudinis temporum, inftaurareomnia~ in C !\: R I s .~ o, qure in co:!is~ & qux in terrafunt~ in Ipfo. · That in the dijjenfation of~l:ie fulnejjc of the times, .Hee might , gather together into one allthings,both which are in heaven~and ~lihid are in earth, everiin C H a Is T. Eeing the Text is of s eJfotJs,ir wouid not be out offea– fon it felfe. And rhoughirbeneveroutoffealonro fpeake ofC" ~Is T, y-er even CH R Is T harh His feafons. Tour time i;alwaies (faith He, John VIl.) So is nor mine; I have my- feafons. Oneofwhich feafons is this;the feafon -of His Birth, whereby all were reca. fti111late in heav~n dndearth : Which is thefeafon of the Text. Agd fo, rhis, a Text ofrhe feafon. There is (forrhe moll pm)in each Text fome one Predominant word. That word (in this) is rhe word "'"""'1"'~· ..,., heere turned gathering togeiher into one againe. To know the nature and full force ofit, we may wayes:' As iris properly taken:, As iris extended:~ As iris derived. I. As iris taken properly. So, it fignifies tomake thefoot ofm account. We CJII i~ thefoot, b;:,caufe wee wr\re ir belowat the foot : They ofold writ theirs above o.verthe head,and fo called it "'f';'"": In capite tibri Scriptum eft de me: the Summ,in ~~ . . . . ··~ As it is extended. So, it is the !hort recapittdationofalong Chapter; the C(llll• pendiumofabooke or of fome difcourfc. Th& are alLlikc the foot of an Account, and arc ufually called, theSr1mmeofall that hath beenefaid. 5· As
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