- 6 OFtheREsURRECTION, AfiJ. Sermon =-:·___.-:J:_--=--~-:-:-:~:--;----:---'---___:-:::.:r..:_,_~ -JI J· Thil is the·day of the Pajfe-over, This iS Eafler-day, the d9 of the E~fierJirce aJU, •· :J" .rf rec1i~~c to r'ccurneto the flril: maki.ng of all: By the true courfe oftl~e yeare,. ~hls Monerh'being the very Moneth,thts day.bemg.the very dax, of t~at, ofihe §ralay; · . f 1 •. 8 adjloru. weare(asbeforewChriftoDommo,foa~JJJ;Jehcrc) m chrif/ 9 tngo nts e. -fcecut~ it with 'Davi4s cry of Hofat~na, and Bc~dic1r#: and with JJommt, to pto . · 1 • H 1 ' . h . 1 mation ofGrace, Graceuntott,even to tltS eaa- dnc. c,ace,mHis Zac artesace a ' · ·. · · " dh 1 l r. ade ro 1 t · And agame, Grace tn thetr eyes an c1rts tow 1.o.n Hee jO eyestlat,om · · f 11 G · h k H d r . But above all the Grace o a races, r at you m. y tna e t.n c>v~r ma e 011 · .. ~ Tollrjio:Cor chie~'e trttn, and Tour markc of highejl regard; in .111 Tour 'Ar.;oyr.J~J(J).;:~ , 'J Jl ~r A I r. 1 J· ~ . y .Counfels and purpofes that {o made T 011 : ne , tC~ke to reduce r 1e ""}erra Later~~~hefides and walls flyen'off, of this great Building(for which the world it felfe was built) ail church, a'nd reduce them to onev.fngle : The grearefi SetvJcc, rhat can b~done Him, on earth. And fo: Bee that this day madeTo1tthe Head, fo mak~Tou, and fokeepe To# long, a!Jdmany dayes. Heethatre(ttfedd!~m, thatreju{cdYor; (re(it{edr._hem, with reprcbation} !till may He fo doe, totm .quottes, to then· conunuall confuiton: That, the Headover theTriangle, and the~r<angleunderthe Head, may many yearesthnd fait and Jlouri!h, in all peace, plenne and profperme,-health, honour, and happi. nelfe, And, after all: Bee that bath crowned Tot< here, wtth two Crown~s, alrca. clie; crowneTor; alfo with the third, of Glory and Immonalitie, in His He.tvenly Kingdome. . I havenow done. Onely I would moveo~e thing, and ir lhalhgree well with that, bath beene f•id of the Corner-jlone : and It thall fcrve to fun her ou, dutie of thahkes 3 and be a good doling up of the whole. Many wayes, :·~<•s CH • r , 1' our bleffcd 5 A v I ouR aCorner-ftone.: among others, efpeCJa!ly Jn th.s,faith Saint Hierome ; ~tando agn~tm, cumrane COn]UnXtt,jimens"~llm, tnchoA~S altemm, tttrmn:j; perji&~en! infemetip(o. One chtefeCorner-pomt of Hts, was'. when He }oyned the Lambeof thePaffe-over, and the Breadof the Et.charift.' endmg the one, and begin– nino the other, recapitulating both Lambe and Bread mto Htmfelfe: making that Sa~ament (by the very infiitutionofit) tobe, as it were, the very Corver-Jlone of both the Tefiaments• . No A& then, more fit for this Feajl (theFeajl{)fthe Pa/fe-over) xhan that A.& whichisitfelferhepaffageover, fromrheOld Telbmenttothe,N~ \Y• ~o way: berr.er; to exprcffe our tharikes,_forthis, Corner-jlonc, than by t~~g)y Enc/jarifl, whlcljit felfeisthe Corner-flone, ofthe Law, and the Gojjte/1. And,there islnit, a perfeCt reprefemation ofthe fubilancc ofthii verfe andText, fet before our eyes. Wherein, two poore Elements ofno great value inthem1~·lvcs, but that they might well berefufed, are exalted by G o n, to the eil:are of a divnie Myfiery,evenofthehi_$hcffMyfierie,inthe Church of CH R r s T • . t.' And, a kinde ofrejtwrel1ionthere is in them, and therefore fit for the day of the z R.eflerrefiion (as ever, in CH R I • .,., s Church, Eajler-day hath plead:d .1 fpeci~ll • Cor.• >· 4J1 prop~rrie in them.) Sorven, as it were, in wMknejfe anddijbonor~r : and (after they be <:onfecrated)rijingagaine, in honoNr andpower:-. . And tlm; a great honortr and power : not onely to repref~nt; but to exhibite J that, tt reptefcmeth: nor to fet before us, or remember us of; bur even to ferve ~s for aCorner-flone. •Fi.rfi, u~itiqg us to C HJ,( I ~ ..,. the Head, whereby we grow mto,one frame of Bmldmg, mto one body myfitcall, with Him. And acraine, ~~ttlng us alfo, as ltvingjlones, or live!ymembers, omnes in id •p[111n, oneto an~ther, /; ~~~together mone, by mumalllove and charinc. 1'0,• comed 1 t de hoc Pane, & Iohn 6. )6, f 1~ ehoc Caltce, wanet znMe, & Ego inzllo. He thateatethofthis Bre.td,anddrmketh ~ 1 uc,.p,abtdethinMe 1 andlznhnn. ThereisourCorner with Him. Andagaine, B;.:;corpu.omnes[umm, qui de 1mo J(ane partwpmJut: v.fll we, thatp..re.keof~ne •C~r.1o.17~ h ' or Cup, grow all, 1nto one Body myjltcafl. There is our Corner, etther With ot er' By the fame .meanes, exprdiing our than~cs for it ; and by the fame, S f ~ poffdiing
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