Sermon f. Of the R .&: s v B. REcTI ON. } 0 B, fearing (it lliouldfeeme) if iie had but barely propoundedt~epoip.t foll<h~· t. ling it would have beenc but fienderly regar~ed; doth enforc~ h1mfelfe; to fee I_t Th< p,.J,i•r dow;e with fame folemnity; to make the deeper1mprellionl (wh1ch I ~all the Para[- ~;:::FuJ:."on, &eue:) th:K:wemight not reckon of 1t;,js alight holy-day; but; as a liighFeaft. He ·· would have the Sci~ ofit.~amped inftone; asworc~yeverl4Jit?'g remr:mhra11ce; and the spenof it carefully latdup; as wonhyprmomaccompt; It1s as rrtuch asSt. Paul hadfayd: it u a fAithful! fayingandhy Jll meanes wurthy t~hereceived : FortheScio, , Tun.r.rr:· f•ithfuU; for thef!ero,wmhy allrmiving : For the trtith,tobegra'l)ep inmarhle l for 'H! themnfort, to be lodgedin the ltcfome. . . .. . . . • For die firft, thus hee proceedeth; Hee was dymg now; and feemgHee muftdye 1 onething hee had, hee would not have dye with him : It \vas that, when ·bee had loft all; hekeptinhuhofomef/iHj 'whenallcomforters; andcomfonsfor– fooke him,and (as heCaith)his.Phyjicians grew ofno value,he found comfort in.This, he thought; it was pittidhould perifh : bYt, though he dye; it!ive. It wascertaine words ; and, becaufe they had beene cdrdiall td him (had beerie, to him i and might be to others) he dellteS they might remaine tO memorieS and becaufewriting f.i:rves tothatend,they mightberiirttten. . , . Which his rtiifh of writing conlifis ofthteedegees : isasitwerethree\vilh,s in one. . . . 1 They bee rJiqrds i and.becaufe.words be.but windc (his owrieProverhe) that rThu i< l'lere they might n<it~low away With the.wmd, he WJiheth they.were Jtmtten : J!l!!,:s msbt cf::".~. , 6 , lribuAt, Who w1ll helpe h1m to aclerke, to fer themd01vne mwntmg I P • z Butthen,he bethink~ himfelfe better: they were n.ocommon ordili~rie rrtatterl ~~~~~ttcn in ~ therefore not to be committed to commonurdmary vmtmg. So 1 they m1ght be rent · ' or loa: they be more worththan fo. Therefore now fecondly, hemends his wilh: he would not have them to be barelywritten,butregiflrtdin .ibcoke 1 enrolled upon re. cord,as publike infiruments, mens deeds; judiciall proceeding i or (as the very word givesir)A8s of PArliament, orwhatfoeveris rrtofi.iuthentica!i; . . . . . . . And yet; upon f~rther~dvice, he calls backe that to~, by a.t~rd wifh. If they A!~:~~h': wereupon record, Records Wllllaft long, yet, even them, nmewtll mjure. No inke, penot iron for noparchment, but w'lll decay with time. Now, there hi:\vouldhave la£1: for ever : cv._., therefore hegi~esover h!sS<ribe; and in fiead ofhim wilheth for aG~4ver :nopaper, orpArchment w1ll ferve; it muft bejlMt; and the hudeft f/~nt, the rocke. For this pa· per hcmuft haveapenneof iron: tlm he wifheth too. Buc,hcteis rrterttion oflrad : what is to be done with that ~ If we beleeve theHebrewes (that bell knew the fafhi. iOn of t~eir Country Monuments;) whe~ it isgravev 1 the graving may bee choked ,vlthfmle,and the edges of the letters, bemg rough;and uneven,may be worm: in, or \broken and fo de£1eedl roprovideforthar; thegfAvinghewouldhavefilled with 'Jede, that f? it mi!1'ht kcepe fmooch and~vcn, from defacing; and full, from choking uv. Thmt be,l~ (the lafiword) thatlS, laftfti'rever;to thelaft Ages and Generations to come, dever to beewotne llurro hold forever. 1f ir were the befiin rhe iorld,more cannot be done, ot wilhed, than this : and thishe wilheth and not cold~ tbutearne!Hy. ob!hat it wrre,wouldt;oditwere! fl!!.i; mihitrih 11 at? Who will doe omuch, Vfho~ as 1f hewereearnefibegginoof Go o andmanto have it done. 1 . ~Wlnthenatne of Go n,what may this be,that all this worke is kept about~ \\'hy, in!lonc; t IS di \vorke of this day. And why wonldnota&ooke ferve forchis ~ Why no &c. ~me e Ut it muft be lnf/Me? Thete Want not reafons . Lee me couch fome few. ts and I~b ar~ holden to have lived at one time. U11.o{u LAwwasgr.wen.inflmt, r. Rcafon. we now. ThiS of lob (here) is Goj}ell, the fuhjl411(t, thechiefe Ar!;icle of ir. No ~xe!;~ ~·,':,., r~:afon
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