Of the NATIVIT IE. zThef.,. 7 and fignijies; but, rvorkes nothing: A Myflerie doth both. Belide that itjignijiet!t, it hat6 his operatioi'J; and, rvorkcitdoth; dfe,Myfterieis it none. You may fee it, by the MJflerie ofiniquity; Thardothoperari ;wasabvorkeinrhe v1pofllesrime; And it is no way to be admitted, but that the Myfferie ofgodlineffe lhould have likeoperative force. . Ifyou aske,whatit is,toworke? It is to doe,asall other Agents; rt ajimtdetfthipaffi•m, to make that, it workes 011, likeit felfe; to bring forth in it the very fame quality. This, the rather, for that, this day being aBirthday, and the Myflerie ofit,a Birth, or generation; in that,,(we know) the narurall .and moll proper worke is Suiftmile procreare, to beget and Vcrfe 7. bring forth the very like to it felfe. And what lhould the Myflerie ofgodlimjfe beget in us, but,~odlinejfe? What, the Myflerieofgodlinejfc (in this Chapter,) but the Exercifeofgodli– neffe(in thenext~ ) Tolhew, we mull: make SaimBaji/s M•"1"" of it: For, his An•O"-·~ and Within l Saint Patdsrv'""""~' I take to be all one. .theNJfi<- Fitll:, wiihin, (after the mlnner ofa Myflerie,) by enrring into our fdves, and C.tyina ~'i•ec.p1 (with Saint Peter,) Seeing then, Go o bath fo dealt with us, whatmamzerofper{onsought hlTI. 1· 27 -we to be, in all holy converfatiOII andgodtinejfe ? How ought we to cilecmeHim, that fo eileemed us~ How to ell:ecme 0urfelves, whom Hehath fo ell:eemcd ~ How, without foile, or jfot to keepe that jle(h, wherein Go o bathmanifeJJedHimfelfe, That nothing come from it but fuch astm.y become t!mjlcjh, which is now all one with thcftejh ofthe SoN N• of Goo. Wllhour, Provided,that it be not all Within: For, we dealenotwith a Myjl:erie<J.lonc, but with a the Mani- ManifeJ!ation too. That therefore our godlineffe be not oncly myfficallbut manifeJt, a~ fiJI.eton. G 0 0 was. As the UUyfferie, fo the Godlineffeofit; Great, and confpicuousboth. For, Gal. p 9 . that is the complaint; that, in ourgodlinef!e, now adayes, we goe very m'yflica!ly to worke lam.•• 8 • indeed; \VC keepeit under aveile; and nothing manifeJ!, but oftra CarniJ. Which maketh '~~:·:·,.Saint J&mes crie, oflende mihi, ]hew "it me: and Saint Paul tels us, that the life of I • sus mull: not onely behad in our (fir#, butmanifefl !n ourflejh. For, Codlineffi is not onlyFaith, which refcrreth to the 011yjl:me (as we have tt dtreetly, at theiX. Verfe, the011yflcrie of , Ioh. ~- Faith :) But, it is Love too; which referreth to the Manife(lation. For, in hoc cognofcimus '\ •·'l· (faith Saintlohn,) By thio, we know,ourfdves; and, in hoc cogno(centomnes (faith CH R 1 n,) Io ·'l·li By thisjhallallmen know, that we areHt!. And, ifFaith worke by Love, the Myilerie will be [o manifefl in us, as we !hall need noprofpefliveglajfes, orother optiqree inll:rumems, to make *By the it vifible ; all men !hall take notice ofit. , ].,,,.,;.. And yet rcmaineth there one poitlt; than which, there is not one more peculiar to a ofusmto Myflerie. That which the Apoll:le (Heh. X. verfeXX.) calleth Initiating: whereby we "· grow into the felloiVjhip of this, .and what Myjleries focver. For,this we arc to underl!:and, .• Cor.41 chatMyfleries goe not a!J, by hcar1ng; No, they bedifpenfedalfo: And men are roe.ftem" o(us (faith he)not oncly, as ofthe Vnfolders,bttt, a< ofthe Stewards (or Difpencers) of the MJ– jleries of Go o. operari My.fterijs,is a phrafe well knowne,to the very Heat!Jenrhem[clves: That, Myfleries, as they worke, fothey arc to bewrought. That they are to be handled; and that our handsare to be cleancwalhed, yerwe offerro touch them. By which, I underHand the Myflerie ofgudlinejfe, or Exercife ofgodlinejfe (call it whe– ther ye waJ,) which we call theSacrament: the Greek hath no other word for ir,hur M•<>lf'"') whereby the churchoffcreth to initiateus, into the fellowjhip ofthisdayes Myflerie. No– thing forteth better thanthefetwo.My.fleries one with the other; theDijjtenfation ofaMyfle– rie, with the 011y.fterieofDifpenf•tion. lt doth manifel!:lyrcprefent; itdoth myl!:ically im– part, what it repre[enreth. There is in it, even by the very inll:imtion, both a M•nifeflation, and that vifibly to fer before us thisjlejh; and :rmyll:icall Communication, to inf~offe us in it, ormake us partakers ofit. For theElements: What can be more properly fir, to reprefent unto us the union with our Nature, than things, that doe unite themfelves to our Nature~ And, ifwe be to difpence the Myfleries in due feafon; what feafon more due rhan that His flefh and bloud be [et before us, that time, that Hee was 1/Janifefled injlejh andbloud for us. Thus we lhall be initiate. l<po:io.7 You looke to heare ofaCon{ttmm•tionofit too ; And con!ummate it!hall bc,but not yet: Not, tiU.the daycs ofthe"voiceofthe Seventhv111gell. Then &all the 011yflerieof Go o be finilhed. So we finde it directly, but not before. When, He that was, this day mani– fe.fled
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