.L Of the NA T 1 v 1Tu• Sermon I. Vcrfc '+· defiroyeddeath, and the Lordofdeath, the DiveU. Them, He could not deflroy, unlelfe He .Jitd: Die He could nor, except He were mortaU : Mortal! He could not ~e, except He , tooke our Natttre on Htm, that ts, the feed of A • ~ A H A ., • But, takmg tt, He became mortal!, d~ed, deflroyed death, delivered us; was (Himfelfe) apprehended, that wee migh1; belet goe. One thing more then, out ofthis word A;prehendit, The fermer toucheth His love · whereby Hefo laid hold ofus,as ofa thing very precious to Him: This(now) roucheth ou: danger; whereb>:, Hefocaughtus, as, ifHe had not, it had beene a great venture, but wee hadfun~eand ~enfhed. One, andt~e fame word, [ <.Apprehendit] forteth well, to exprelfe borh Hts affechon, whereby Hedtd lt; and our great peril!, wh~reby we needed it. vVe had beene(before) laid hold of, andapprehended,by one,mentione~ in the 14.• verfe he that lllth porverofDeath,even theDive!/: We were in danger, to befwallowed up by hi~. we needed one, to !ay hold on us fafi,andto pluckeus out of his jawes. So He did. And I \~ould hav~ you to marke: It is the fam~wo~d, that is ufed, to SaintPeter, in like danger,(Mat.14.13.) when, bemg ready to finke,'"""''''' CH R 1sT car<ght hzmby thehamJ,and faved him. The fame here, in theGmke ;that, in theHebrerv,is ufed (Gen.x9.16:)roLot and his dau<>hters in the like danger; when,rheAngelt caught him, and by firong hand plucked him oufof So~ dome. One delivered, from thewater; the other, from thefire. And it mal:' truly be [aid, (inalinuch as, all Godspr~mifes, as well touching temporail; 1 Cor.r.>o as, eternal! d.ehvcra~c.es; and as well .corporall, as _fpmruall, be (11 CH " 1 s T yea and _ Amen: Tea, mthe gtvmg forth; Amen,m the performmg) that even our temporal! delivery • 1 from the dangers, that daily cornpalfe us about; even from rhis bit, fo grcar, and fo fearful!' as the like was never imagined before; all have t~eir ground, from this Grtat apprehenjion .~ areftuitsofthis Seed, here, this blelfedSeed, for wl\ofe fake, and for whofe trutht fake that J.o~>~.~·'9 we (though unworthily) profelfe, we wereby Him cartght holdof, andfo plucked out 'of it: And, but for whichSeed,(afli ejfemutjicut Sodoma,We hadbemeevm 11< Sodome, andperifhed in thefire; and the powder there laid had even blowen us up all. Hcbr.s. 9 . And II_IlYnot I adde to this [apprebendit, m_liberaret,] the other (in the eighth Chapter followmg) 4fpr<hendzt,ut mam• dr<ceret: to thts [ oftakmgusby thehand,toddiverus,] that, [oftakiPg 111 by the hmd, togsia'eus:]and fo, out ofone word, prefemHim to you, notondy, as our Deliverer, butasourguide, too~ OurDeliver<r, ro riddeus from him, thathathpower ofdeath; Our Gr<ide, to Him, that hathpoweroflift. To leade us, evenby the way of truth, to the path oflife; by the fiations of well doing, to the man{ionf ofH;. John•P Fathers houfe. Seeing; He hath fignilied, it isHispleafurenottoletgoeourhands., but: Iohn '4·3 to hold us frill, till He have brought us, thar, where He is, we may'alfobe. This alfo is inci– dcn: r?apprehendit; bur, bccaufe it is out ofthe compalfe ofthe Texr, I touch it onely,and paile lt. . . 7he reaAnd, can we now palfe by this, but wemufi aske the quefiwn, that SaintiohnBaptifts Ions of Motherfometime asked, on thelike occafion ~ * Vnde mihi hoc.? Cfait)l fhe:) rndenobir hoc? thisap· (may we fay:) Not, q11'odmater Domini ;but, quodDominmipfevenit ad nos; Whencecom• P"hendit. meth this unro us, that the LoR D Himfelfe, rhus came unto us, andtookeus, letting the .'Luk.<·4! -Angelsgoe ~ Angel!are better than the befiofus; and, reafon would• ever, the better lhould. be taken: how then were wetaken,thatwere not the better~ Sure, not without good ground, (fay rhe Fathers,) who have adventured to fearch out ~ theTheologieofrhis poim: fuch reafons, as might ferve for inducements, toHim, that is,prq– nU< 4dmiferendt~m, naturally enclined to pitty; why, upon us, Hewm1ld rarher havecom– paflion. And, divers fuchl finde: I will touch onely one errwo ofthem. 1 Firfi, Mans cafe was more to be pitried, than theirs, becaufe man was tempted, by another; had aTempter. The An~els had none, None, tempted them; None, butthemfelves. Et levius eft alienJ. mentepecdffe, qugmpropriJ (faith S. A11guf!im.) The offence is the lelfe, ifit grow from another, than ifit breed in our [elves: And, the lelfe the offence, the more pardonable. ,. Againe, ofthe Angels, when fome fell,otherfome fiood; and lO,th~y (all) did 11ot perilb; Dur, in the fir!! man, all men fell; and fo, every motherschilde had died,and no fldhbeeoe 1 faved; For,all werein Adam;and[o, in,and withddam,a!l h~dcome tp nought. Then c.om– m~b
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