l521 Sermon i6. tion, l fiee~h, 4 tiiidt!ffiit!ltlingtall reo~pt)ulate i!ltoilieHead, This(ofHead,or sum.) fitteth it-belt. For, (to[p~akc properly)rrtanyheapesJlockts,pilesrf:teremay be: Head therec~fi be but one. "De1 rationeoat#lntft, tint~mejfe. Andfo; o'faSumme : but ope tmeSummeJwere there never fo many, fo diverfe waics cad. · So then,imo one,that is not enough: It is n?t co-adunation will ferve. It is recapittJ> , latton, and,,mthatword, there1s cap lit: Ius "'""~'1""'"'' and mthapvord there is , ""'"''' fiJCh·a reducmg a! to one, as that, one be the-Head. A lfeadleflegathering, the ApoflteGaAAOt skill of. <And indeed,fay therewer~n intirebody,and every member in his right place:, and all firictly !.nittogether; yet, iftheheadil10uld hap to be a– wa:ifi, ~sg-o/lid the mcrttbet§ all in funder, for, aUwere to no purpofe. So ; aHeador fl()thiog: ,\• ,\i ."u .. '!. •• I ,G '. . ' ' This gathering then (you fee) <is-to rhechiefeMember; to the Member, that weares theCrorvne. Tlli~her,· UJ.>wa'rd, the true gathering goes. There is an Ynio~ Ihd. t$-+ dm~nwards,; (as 1 ofSltmfon's-Foi<~s;\ that were Fogether by the tailes;) That, Is.not . , ; : rh~ righ{: bur, by the heda'. Theoxen,that plough,are 'joyned together by thehead. Thefoxes,that are tied by the tailes,theyJet aUonjire. The Vnity oftheheadG 0 0 fend tv.;; Thar,is the trueVnitie. And yefare-wen0r-i-hc'rewefhould.. We may gather upward too, and make a ·. •- he4l,and n~t theright,head. Tliat, fd ahead,is not enougb,ifit ~all out to be a wrong Ef.1y.7 ·9· head(ft~ppofe Romelte 'sS?!'n~:) Ht>m~no,capttt, &c. doebut patnt (fillt_h the Poet)any body,wtrha wrong lreat't;it will but moVe laughter and fcorne. ·Thenght,,th~owne head it would be. A lhangehfadwll! not fune,nor doe us any fiead.·'T~e nghtheAd, then. :· - , · · r- , ·Andj whiEh.is t,hetig~thead_? Hee adds : Recapitulati, iil'·,(i] n R z s T 0 : It 1$ Cn R z-s T. There-(l@:)·tsthenghthead, now. Tothar,leta!l ..ather. . AndnowwearearrivedatC ~ R IsT, weare,wh<~reweilJo~ld;ourgathering tsat thebefi. Allm heaven ·; All mearth :gatheredtogether : togetheragaine: A– gairteinto'one • One Stlmme, whereof·CH RI s T is the Foot , One body whereof CH I!. Is T is theHead. Gatherthen, '2ndbegatheredto Him: Gatherrhen, and bee Luk.n. >~- gatheredrv~th Hi>J<: He ~hat gatheret_h not with Himfoattereth. Andfowere•alJ.;alifcarreredwtthout CHRIsT; nll Heecamewirhhisb.l; and got them againetogether. , Thefe4fons were (all) empty ; The things,all Otl heapes. Gcn.J.2.-f.· Things inheaven, from things inurth ; Angells,withdrawne{words at men : Things onearth,from things inheaven ; Men,at but the light ofanAngell,ready to fall down dead. Themembers,from thehead; the head,from themembers : Tilem~mbersone from another: Neither union with the head,noramong themfelves. Peccata veflra,it was linne, that dividedbetweene Go o and them ; and, divided once and divided ever,dividedinfemper divijibilia, till they were quite pafi all divilion: No longer di. ·vided(now)but evenfcattered. The cafe ofthe world, rhen. Scattered,inpoint ofRdigion: Guds fcattered all over; M many 6ods M Cities: .tJ.Il the hojl of heaven; all thebeaffs and creeping things ofrheearth. Scattered, in point ofmorality, or morall Phildfophy : lknow not, how ma; ny fcattered opinions <.Augufline reckons, de S11mmo Bono, the chiefe poym of all. · The leJVes fcattered fi·om theGentiles,and the Gentiles from the I ewes : A maine Ephcr.u.: Wa/lbetweene. TheGentilesfcattered from themfelves groffely; all, infratlions, they. No– thing ofabody ; Never ahead.· And yet manyheads, but never a right one among · them all. Amos.9.11 . Afl:.t~.t6. l;t:l 1nn Gcn.J.z.. Gcn.11,8. No,not the !ewes themfdves: For, theT.WernacleofDA vI n:was then downe, and the l'llines ofit fcattered into many Seers (as the Prophet A M os complaines.) And Saint I A ME s alleagethit outofl]im,(AB.XV.) In aword:thewhole world then was but amajJ'eoferrours, a C~ltdsofconfu.fton, T,oh11, andBohu: empty andv1ide ofall Cavinggrace ort'ruth. Well likened, to them that werefwteredat the towerof · ' pabQ/,
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