{ Of the PAssiON. cially, J17ben for theioy Jet before Him, Hee endured the Croffi, and de.JPijtdtbti jhame. Then,faith theApB.ftle, looke unto him. Saint Paul being el!ewhere careful! to fhew.'theCorinthians (and with them, ns) CHR 1sT; and as to fhew them CH R 1ST, Sotoihewthem, inCH R 1s r1 what that is that fpecially concerneth them to know,or looke unto,thu~ he faith: That' though hee knew many, very many things befides; yet he esteemed not t; know any thing, b'ut I E sus C }j. R 1sT ~Hunc crucifixum,Him,and Him mtcified. Meaningrejpe~iw! (as they terme it) that the }'erfeEtion ofour knowledge, is.CHRIST: and the perfeEtion ofour knowledge, in, or touching C Hit 1 s T, 1s the knowledge ofH1s Crojfe,andP'!fi'ton. Titat, the chiefe '!heorie : Nay in this, all ; [o that,fte thu,and fee all. .,.. The view whereof, though it bee not refheined to any one time; but; ·an the yeare long, yea all our life long,ought to be frequent with us. (and bleffed are die ~oures, that are [o fpent : ) yet, if at any time mor~then other certainely, this time,this day may moll jullly challenge it. Forrhis day .;as tbu Scripture fulfilled, and this day, are our eares filled fulh~ith Scriptures about it. So that, though, on other daies, wee employ oui eyes otherwife; yet tha~ this day atleafi, wewould(as exceedingfitlyth~ Apo.fllewiiheth us) •~·~"'' call: our eyes from otherfights, apd fixe theJU on this objc::Cl:,it being theday dedicate to the lifting up ofthe SoNN E of M,AJ!.. on hioh, that Hemay draw el>ery eye unto Him. • -. Theoccafign ofthe ffeaf<..ing, is (evey) the belt key to everyJPeech. The cccafion then, ofthis fpeech, was this. TheAp1jlle was toencourage the Fiebrewes'(and, ih them,us all) to hold on tbe 1vel! b·gtm profcfSion ofCHRisT andHu f aith. This our profesfion he exprdferh, in the former verfe in thetermes ofa ([?.gee, or Game; borrowing his fim1J ,i:ude from the Ga~es 'ofOlymptu. For, from thofe Gatne,s '(famous, then, overall the world)' and by termes from them taken, ifwas common to all-Writers ofthat Age, bothHory andHumane, to [et forth, as, in therumzing, the laborloM co~trft; fo, in ~hepriceofit, th~glorious rewardofa~ertu~us_life. . . t Which race; truely Olympique (becaufe they and we (the moll ofus) Cithet £land llill, or ifwemove, doe it but Oowly, and are ready to faint upon every occafioo) that we may run the [ooner, and attein the better, ttvofights he fets befqre us,to comfort us and keepe us from fainting. One, aCloud o{Witneffis,inthe firfl:Verfe,that is,theSaints i11 Hea'V,en: Witnejfes, as hable to depo!e, this race may bee run and thispri:<;,e mayoee won,fot they havemnthe one, and won the other long agoe. Thefe lookeon us now, howwell we carrieour [elves; and we to looketo them,that\~e~ may carry our felves well in the courfe wehav~undertaken. ~ t On which (lostdwhen we have £laid our eyes awhile,and made thent fitt foraclee~e Object, he fcatcereth the cloud <juite, and [efts us up afe· cond,even·our,bleffidS A v 1 o u R his own felfe. And heere he willeth us; "~'f"'· to turne our eyes from them, and to turoe them hirher, and to_fa·i llen~hem here on I,Esus c H tu s T, the Atttborand ftnijher ofo~rfadiJ. - -· ) .. .. . ,_,___ ___ . _ .. --·--- -· -- --- '. ~i
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