17-6 0/RE PENT AN c &; Sermon -1,· ----t-h-in_g_t_o-:-b-e-:d-:o-n-e.-_-W-· -h-ic_h_,-m-an_y_o-rh_e_r_w_a;_y_~-s-m-ig_h_t_b_e_m-ad_e_to_'a_p_p-ea~ none bemrthan tlus, here: That, at bfl:,all come ro lt: Sooner orlarer,all feekeit. all men, if not before, yet mm occlderet, then, certamly. · . Allfeeke: And among all, They fought: which word is not without his weight here-_ For, what arethefe, that Afaph here meaneth, by they? Not Saints.- Not,ge. neratloqu.ermtium, thcgenerationofthemthat feeke Go o. But,they,rhat (in rhe ver(e before) IVafled dll their d.tyes in vanitie, and their yeares in ttmnoyling in the IVorld. They, idle, riototM perfons: They fought. ~~rei-am, Tbty {ought : tbt1, :mdaY. PCJL:..,..6'. '· Vcrf.13. 3 l'fa..5p. Ffai.!J·l· 4 ) They,that (in averfeafter)flatteredHim JVith their lips,and gaveHim all rhe good words that might be, and meamno fucb thing. The Hypocrites: They fought. They, that (alittle before)grievorifly provokedthnnoJt High Go o, with fjJee– ches little bettcrthan blafphemie: Can Go o doe this i Is there a G o o amongflm, or is there none~ And fo, in fl:ead of q".erebant Deum, qt~«rebant; An Detu, made a quefl:ion, whethcrthere wer.eany tofake: That is, eventhe very wicked, and (of all wicked, the worfl:) the prophane Atheifts, They fought : Even, atlafl:, They fought. This, is the triumph of Religion: TheRiotot#per[on, TheHypol"rite, The<...dthfi11, alllhallfeeke. . And herein is folly condemned even of her owne children, and wifdome jufl:i– fied of her very enemies: Thatthey,rhat greedily feekelinne,at lafl: would be glad to berid ofit: and they, that merrily fcorne Religion, at!aft, are glad to feeke toir. They llullfoeke: And 1 the rime is fer downe, when they lhall feeke; and when you lhall not faile, but fee them feeke, r_hat never fought b~fore. In diebtu juventuti;, bot then: Sanm faCl:m eff,northen, neither :But, cumocczderet,then,certatnly. C11no occfderet, Markethis Cum, when it commcth, and you lhall fee them, that flood out all their life long, then come in. The Heathen manfaw it with his eyes. 0 (faith the Perfian Mdfenger in .1£f chyltu) when the Grecian forces hotly purfued our Hoafi, and we mufl: needs venret over the great water Strymon; fi-ozen then, but beginning to thaw, when an hun– dred to one, we had a.U dyed for it (that is wm occlderet;) with mine eyes, I faw · <fairhhc) when e,;, :J ;;,, &c. ofthofe Gallants whom I had heard (before) fo bold. ly mainraine, There,vasno Go o to [eeke,,T',iux•lo ,,.,..,.,,then every one of them on rh-ir knees, and full devoutly praying, theice might holdriil they got over. 011ofes fawit, with his eyes. Pharao (who was at high termes,) who i; the Loll 0 you talke of? (and anfwered himfelfe, he kncJV nonefrech, nor nothingwould doe for Htm:) WhenC11mocrtderetcame,hetooke norice,rherewas a L o· R o higherrhan he: that,that L o R owaorightcoris, and he a wretched/inner, that fought to~grace at His hands. Marke but the tlmrting up of di~it injipiens (their owne Pfalme.) When (faith David) they havein heart fought to perfwade themfelves,Noneff: feeke none, None there i; : and thereuponcorrupted themfelves,andbec~memoft loath!ome in rheirlives, eat11p their tenants, ;'IS they would doe fo manymorfelsof bread; made a mockeof luch holy men, as fer themfelves feriouily rofeeke Go o: When all is done, andocctderet come, trep_idabunt timore,ubi non erat timor, they lhall begin to be afraid, where (tbey held before) no feareneedcd : And here !lull be the bfl: verfe of their Pfdlme; Jl!!_is dabit e Sionfalutem, to wifhforrhe falvation ofSion, which they have fo oft derided. They fhall (eeke; and, then theyfhallfeeke. Till then (pof– fibly) you ll1all, lofeyourlabour, ifyou tell them of feekingof Go o but and how good iris. They are (faith Jeremie) ltke the Dromedary of the wilderne/[e, a b•afl:of exceeding fwifmeffe, (the female fpecially: ) O.ver hill and dale jheegoeth (faith rhc Prophet,) andfnr1feth ttp the aire Jlt her pleafrm, and who can over-take her r They, that jcek2 her, JVill not 117eary themfelves, tillhermoneth : And in hermoneth, whcll lhee is bagged, then they will finde her, and deale with her well enough. The ~afc islike. Age, fickneffe, deatharefarre off: Youth, health, andllrengthpof– fdfcrhem: there is no comming to them, then. The moneth, ct1m occMeret, is not yet come: But, comethat once (as, once irwill, to all) yoll !lull finde, qtl.trebanl will have his place, Fiat, It is!herefore G~ ~>:s qwne refolu1ion.; Thus He ref0l- ' vcth;
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