• lO Of theN AT 1v r T 1E. Sermon3. thejlefo•. 0 rharHe might be! and fo He was. _Nor onelf manife.fl, at all ;(that, isgreat:) but manifejlmtk Jl.tjh; (tha_usgre.ater.) For, tf gold mtxed, though it be with fJ..lver, is abafedby tt; whanftt bemtxedwtth the rull: oflronordroffe ofLeade ~ This mull: needs be great, in itfdf~: But greater, with us : With_ us cfpecially, that makefuch adoe at any, though never fo little dtfparage~ent; and that, tfany, (thougb not much our inferiour) be r~nked wtth us, take our felves mtghnly wronged•. We camliJt choofe, but hold this Myjle. rtefor Great,and fay wtth S. Aug:ljlme,) Deus: qrudglortojitu.? Caro: quidvi!i&1 Detu in carne :_guidmirabilim.? God: what moreglorious~ jlejh: what more bafe ( Then, GoD in thejtcfb :what more marvellous~ M~nifeBut,I aske~urrher :manifejledin theflejh;what jlejb .? 0 r,howmanifejled? In JVhatjlefh l lled~d What, m the pndeand beauty ofour Nature< No: but, m the moll: difgracefull ell:areofit ;g..mithat might be. And, howmanifejled.? Algloriam, for His credit orgloric ~ No: bur ad Ilia:.· a ignominiam, to His great contempt and fhai~e. So to have beene manifell:ed, as in the holy Chi/Je Mount ,(Htsface, as the Stm,Hts garments as ltghtnzng ; hetll'tene MofesandElias,in all glorie lllat.•;. ,: and glorious manner:) This had not beencfo great an impeachment.Was that the manner; No: But how~ In clottts, inajlab!e, in amanger- The G0 D'· whom the heavens, andthe .E«. ''·4 heaven ofheavens fannot containe, in a little childs flefh not a fpannelong: and that flel11 ofa As~·,~~: Childe not very well conditioned, as youmay readeinthe XVI. ofEzekiel. Jemntd So, to day: but after, much wotfe. To day, in the flefh of a poore Babe cryioo- in the perfon. ~ratch, in medio animalium : After, ~n the re!lt and tomejlejl> ofa condemned perfon~ hangthgontheCro.JTe, inmedzo latronum, mthemtdfl: ofother manner perfons, than Mofes and Eli,u; That, men evenhidthe!rfaces at Him; not, for the brightneJ!e ofHisglorie, but for &.b. 1 o.•ofo~rowandjhame. Call you thtsmamfejlmg.? Nay, well doth the Apojllecall it, thevei!e of hrsjlefo; as whereby He was rather ob[cured, than any wayJet forth; yea, ecltp(ed, tn all the dar,kell: points ofit. Verily, theconditionofthejlejhwas more thanthejlefo it felfe: and the manner ofthemanifejlation,farre more, than the mani(ejlation it felfe was. Both ll:ill make ,_ theMyjleriegreaterand greater. , The And now, to weigh the word manife~cd, another while; becaufe, that may fceme Manner to bee termint~~ diminuens, a qualified terme, rather abating than any way tendino- to ~th;{.. make grw the c.Myjlerie; In that, a thing may bee manifejled, and not bee that,"for ft a~" whi'ch it is manifelted; be manifejled for one thing, andbeanother. Would to G 0 0 Atson. wee had not too plaine examplesofthefe, even in that we are about,ingod/ineff'eirfelfe~ ~ Tim H Thattherewerenot, rhatmanifell:ed themfelves ''~"'F~·· • .,, in the vizor, or maskeofgodli– neff'e, but be nothing leffe. Well, this, how or wherefoever it may be with men, with GoD it is nor : Hee is not like to us: And howfoever, not herein this. For firfl:, it i5 not in the fbaddoi~, fbew, or foape ofjlejb : but, in very fief/> it felfe. Then, it is noc (faith the Greeke Scholiajl) ~4,~~,, but,~"''1"a,;,,~_,o,l,, whichimportethbut an apparition, tranfitory, for a fcafon, and then vani!11eth againe; •><v.r•o•,, amanifeJfation; fuch, as is (fay they)permanenr, which paffethnot, but)all:eth forever. And to put all out ofque– ll:ion, (that here is nihilper{Qnatum, but evenpe~a,) He that here is [aid robe Go o malo!m rj4; nifeJ!edin the.flefo, is, in anether _place, [aid to be Verbum ~aro facrum, r!1eWord madejlefo. So manifejled, that made: [o taking our narure,as Hts, and lt arc growne mto onepcrfon, ne– ver to bee fevered, or takenin funderanymore. And,infignerhereof, rhatjlef/J wherein He is manifejled, (in the beginning oftheVerfc; in the end oftheVerfe,) inthevery fame j!efb, He is received up intoglorie; And in the fame, l11all appeare againe,at His fecondma– , nifejlation• . And yet,to go further 1 I fay,that_this wo:d [ mani(efted,] isCo farre from beingTmnimu a1minuens,that 1t doth greatly amphate and mlarge the Myjlerte yet ll:tll. To be, and, tobe m•nifefted;Eife,aAd videri;Dici de_,andejfe in, are_rwo things. And,as,infome cafes,it is more to be, than to bemallifefted; [o, m fomeother, lt ts more robe manifejled than tohe: And namcly,inthishere. More,for Go o, to bemanifefled, than to heintheflefh. ltiswe!l lmowne, when a great high Perfon_doth fall into lowdr~te,he carethnotfon:u~h for being fo,as for appearing[u~h : Manifejl htm not, and yeu doe hml a pieafure. Mor~ lt 1s,for Hun, tobemadeknonme,than tobe, that, He is. 0 it is naturally given us, to hiae our abafing, what we can. Our mifericmuft be kept iQaMJfterie,andthat Myfterie is not manifefiedin~nv. wtfe~
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