{0 · .· R.o0\.4.17. El:ty.p.q·, :. The{:.,. Apoc ag.10. J.!'ct.t,lf· V~rf~7· ~~ti~~ti~~i~t~t~~ii~i~ii£~ititiii~tt~,~.. ~·9!!!$16!J.!'!l!~S!G~~'~~$-1$$Sl!.f..e~$~ll'~l!!f$ll!ll'M-'fMll!~''''*' A SERMON PREACHED before the K 1 N as :MA 1 EsT 1 E, at Whiie~HaU, on lVednefdaj, the XXV. of December, A. D. MD c v 1. being CHRISTMAS day. E SA. Chap. IX. Ver. VT. For, unto tu a Childe is bomt, ttnd unto tu a Sonne u giwn; t~nd the Gowrme•t i.s 11pon His Jhoulder; and He Jha!l call His Name WoN D E R FuLL, C o u N– SELLER,THE MIGHTY GoD, THE Ev£R'LASTlNG FATHER, T H E P R I N C £ Q F p EA C Eo HE words are out of Efay: ~nd~ ifwe had aot heard himll:lmed · might wdl have beene thought, out ofoneoftheEvangelifts, ;a; more like a Storie than aProphecie. !J borne, isgivm, found, as if they had beene written at,or fince the birth ofclii-ijl: yet were they written merethanfix hundredyeeres before. · There is no one thing fo <>reatafiay to our faith, as thatwefinde the things, we bdeeve, fo pYainly fore-told,fo many yc=ares before. Isf,orne, ts gwen l Nay,jhaU6e; fpealcehkeal'rothet: Nay,n- ;11· qttens defutur~per modum pr.eteriti; [peaking of things to come as if they were already pafi. This cannot be, that Go o, whua!leth thingsthatArt not, aJ if they wm, and cha!lmgeth any other, rodoethelilce. ltistrue; miraclesmovemuch: but yet even in Scripture, weereade of IJingmiraeks: :md the poffibilityoffalfedealin<>-lea– vcth place ofdoubt, even in thofe that be true. But, for one, fix hundreq yeares befor;Hee ~s born~, to caufepro;hecies, plaine direct prophecies to bee writtenof Him: that palfethall conceit; cannot be imagined', how poffibly it may bee, but by Godalone. ThereforeMit– homet, andall falfe Prophets came, (at leafi boafied to come) inftgnes. But,challenge them, at this; not a word, no mention ofthem in the world, till tpey were borne. True therefore, that S. John faith: The Ttjlimonie (that is, the great principal! tefiimooy) ofIef ~«, is thej]irit of prophecie. It madeSaint Peter, when he had recounied wha,t he himfe)fe had heard, 10 the M ottnt (yet, as iftheremi~htbe,even in rhat,deceptiofen/m) toadde,Habemm etiamjrn:iorem fermonem propheti.e : We have .sword of prophecie, befides 1 and that,jrmimm : thefurer ofthe rwaine. ' Thispropbecie is ofacertaine Chi!de. And, ifwe aske, ofthis place~ (asilie l!.u,l;ch Jtd; of another, in this Prophet) of whomffeaketh the Prophet this l wee mufi make the an[wer, that (there) Philip doth; ofchrift: and the ttflimonie of Jefm is thejfirit ofthis Pro;hecie. The ancient Iewes make the f.1me. It is but a fond lhift, to draw it (as the latter Iewes doe) toEzeki.u: it will not cleave. It was fpoken toLAh4z, E\;kias father,now King : and that • aftet: the-great overthrow he had, by theKings ofSyria mdlfrAel, in the fourth ofhis raigne. ~ut, it is deduced, by plaine lupputation, out ofthe eighteemhofthe fecond ofKings : Ez;,e. ' kiawas nineyeeres old, beforeAhAz his Father came to the crowne. I; was by that time, too late, to tell it for tydings, (then) that hewashorne;he thC?, being thirteene]etrts ofage. Befide, how fenfelelfe is it, to apply,to .Ezeki.o~,that m the next 'Vtrfe; that,,fhugowrll· ment and peace there jho11ldbe none end, that hitthroneJh~tddbe tflahlifhedfrom thenceforthfor ever: wher~as his peace and government (both) had an endwithill few yeeres ~ T~J
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