Sermon 3· andFAsT 1 N ci. ·utearnc it will teach us as much as this commeth to. This is His Apojfropheof ;;;~ !all ve~fe. Where breaking o~(occalioned by their abrupt breaking off) Hee en fets downe Himfelfe upon the hght ofNature;We//yet, the Storke, &c. 199 ev ' Two kindes offorcibic reafons (or Apojfrophe's) there are to move us. r. One;' To fend the people ofGoD, tohwhtnmen, that would lharne to deale with their Jdols, as we doe daily With the Go _r; of.heaven : Get you to Chlfttmandto the Ijles, Ier.:.to; (f; 'th Ieremie, 2 • chap.) See, 1fthe hke meafure beoffered by them, to their gods. T~en, the Conclulion is 1 fl.t!js audivit talia? Go D's people, w'?rfe thanthe. Hea 7 thea~ This is fuch atlung, as the hke was never heard. Th1s w;~s done 10 the firll verfe Ifanyfall, &c; 2 y~r, more effeetuall is it, when He goeth yet further ; thus farre. That, nof finding, among men, with whom to fort them, becaufethey,keepe no rules _ofmen, He is forced, to a fecond Apojlrophe,to feeke among bealls, With whom to fmr them . 3 Butthcn, ifitcometothis, that the bealls benot onely compared v.>ith us (as in the!all tanquamequ~«;) but preferred before, as better advifed ordifpofed, tha~ we (as inthis,the[wallow doth know, my people doth not: )thJt we,m the companfon croe not evenwith them; but arecall behind rhem; that, is <>el<'-'&"!W(indeed) a fout~checke to our natun;. And, to that theProphet crieth, Audite creli, Heare yee Icr.,; 1 ,; heavens, and be allonifhedatit. 0 thcdampe and mill ofour linnes! fogreat, that it darkeneth not only the light ofreligion,which G o ~;> teacheth; but even the light of nature, which h~r irilliriet teacheth, even the reafonleffe creature it felfe. With a very pathericall conclulion doth thePfalmiHbreake offthe X L I X. Pfalme: UJtan l.'fal.4,jl heinr;in hono~r, &c. but huommethmeet to he compared-to the heaf!s thatperijh. Which is no finall d1fgrace to our Nature, fo to be matched. P,roftllo ( fa1~h Chryfojfome) pejm eft compararijt1mento, quam nafi:ijummtum, Now (fure ) it_is farre worfer to be matchedwithabeall;thantobeborneabeaft. To be borne, 1snofault: we, nor they, make our felves. But, to be borne a man, andto become'matchablewith bealls,that is our fault; our great fault : an.dtherefore, the worfe certainly. Well; this Interrogatelamenta, in the Old; this Refficite Volatilia, in the New; Iob a.1: this Apoftrophe, thus fending us toheafts, andfowlu to fchoole; fetting them before M.ttth.6·•~, us, aspatternes; fettingthem over us, as Tutors, tolearne ofthem how to carry our felves, is (certainly) a bitter Apoftrophe, a great upbraiding, to us; a great aggravatingourfinne,orourfolly,orboth• . , Efpecially in them,who (as, in thenextverfe he faith) would hold it great fcorne; Vcrrc s. tobe reputed of, orherwife than as deepe rl!ife mm; that they,lhould paUe their lives, ' with as little conlideration (not, as Heathen men, for they bemen; but, with as little) yea,leffe, thantheheafts in the field, or thefowles in the aire. Thus fpeaketh GoD; often, and with diverfe. Thejlothfullbody Hefetteth to fchoole,to the 4nt (Prov. Prov.G.G. 6.) The unthankft~llperfon, to theoxe: the diftruflfuUman, to theyoung R,wens: Er.,y q . theCovetom wreteh, to thatbeall which reprovedthe madnef!e uf the Prophet, who for Lukt • ~-·~ thew•ges oftmrighteoufne(fe,rvM ready to makeJale of hufotil~ (rhat is)Balaam's beaft, • Pet.>.~ 1-'6.· theAI{e (~ Pet.z.16.) And, here now in this place, thewilful/impenitentfirmer, one fo farregone, as Heappointeth him not one (as to all the former) but, no leffe tha!l ~oure at once. Belike, eithetthe number is great, that fo many rjbers need(and fo i~; IS:) Or~ ~hcircapacitie very dull and hard to take, that no fewer will ferve the~ (and fo, •t 1s too:) Or~ He forteththe~ thus, that every counrrey may be provided f<fior,of one to teachm1t. For though, m fame places, all are nor; yet, inall places, ome ofthem are tobe found. The leffon, with thefefoure(all ofthem, from theStorke in the top ofthe Firre ·r •., t~ee, to the Swal!o,vthat buildcth undereverypent-houfe) wouldtakeusforth, is, . : ~t wfhlCh they themfclves are fo perfeet in,that they may be profeffours ofit. And, lt 15 0 foure forts: '·They have Mime, to returne in. ~.That time, iuertaine antl cert<tnly knowne. 3• They know it. 4• They obferve it. . They have• time. Theplace, the Climate, which the coldofrhe weather ma~ lieth them to leave, they faile not but findc a time to iur/U backe thither againe.' S 4 This
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