SermonS. Of the R&s v RREcTI oN. } i1i htly, fo flcnderly,as itdeferved not thena~e.of {-eking. Pilateasked, Ji!.!!jd eft {o .g? and then fome other matrertookehrmmrhehead, andfouphero[eand Ioh.r~. l~ vent~ ay bef~rc he had his anfwer : He deferved never tofinde what truthwas, Aerx fu:l~s durfeekint mofi whar ; feldome ornever fedoufly '. but fome quefl:ion, n croffe our braine,forthe prefent: Some Jl..t!,td effverttao? fo (6ught,as if, t~at comeflught were as good loft as found. Yet, thi>,wc would faine have goe for ~e~:;ve\u~ir will nor be. 0 ji qu.eritif qt~.trite([aith Efay; looke the place) The m.r- Efay >t.ri; J'. ~ • 1 fodoththe night, that is, our dayes fpend apace; and we fay, wewtll(eeke: nltfng com 1 eJi let us once doe it indeed: feeke it,as they did, this day; follow it hard, !oh.• ~ .•, wew, · ' 'hhb ·makeit ourrace, with the one; ourmormng-worKeWit t eor er. Jlur we {hall never(eeke, as we fhould, unleffe we puttotheother word; Set our i ;ni11deso~them. For,~ill am~neverkindlyfeek~tha~ hehath nommdet~ ~ Never. Stt ,,.,,.;,J. The minde is all. Be 1t whatitwlil,orwhencelt will, aboveoc6ene_at~,1f weajfd1 it nor, wefhall(eekebut faintly. That w.ema~ f'eke thmgs above, as lt lS meete, wee Pro. 1 .r 4 • tnufrpriu them; prize rhem,as afilver mtne(faithSalomon :) as a trea{ttre htdma field Mat\~·'Hf, (faith our Savi011r) andgoefe!lall, to compaffe them. Then !hall we feeke to fome , purpofc. . . . . . . · . Butin the word ~e9,;;,, there1s more. There 15 <1 told you)tdem Senttte, thefenfe; (He that feekes,. fhould have as well eyes todi{cerne, asfme to goeabot~t it : Iris n<> bufineffeforablmdeman, nom~re than for alame, to feeke:) And rhar ts howledge, which would be had too. To(eeke, we know not what, is bur toerre, andneverfinde that we feeke for. Toqte.erere then; but, Sapere, to be wif'einourfeeking, roger u~ true direCtions ;elfe, for all ourfleking, we may be tofeel« frill. Which ,e9,;;,, is aword, the Apofflemuch ufeth, as being very lignificant, full,' imdforcible. Foure thingsareinit i I. Tofettheminde;rhemiNde,notthepha11jiN not to rake up aphanjie, and fall tofeeking, as we fee many now adaies ; noground in the world but their owne conceipts. Yetfeeketbey will needs,and have all the world follow them, and have nothing to followthemfelves,buttheirownf•/ly. Soas, . being very idiots, they take tliemfelves,for theonely men ;·And·till they come into it, never was wifeman in the world, that knew what tof'el:eor how. z It is rhenanafl of thetmderftanding ('e9'"') bur not ofitalor~e :for then""'· wereenough. Yet thegrearefi part make no matter ofir,bur evennobJJa. Iris, as r<> ftt our minde, not ourphanjie; fo, ourminde, not only to know ir, but tominde it. It is Sentire, and Sapere; And iris bell: feene inSapite, which is not only to difringuiih tajls; bur, in and withthetafte, rofeelefomedelight, rohaveafenf-ofrhefweer– nelfewirhall,which will make us(eelceit againeplmmagis : and without ir, oorfee• ki11gwillbebuttm[av~rie. - 3 So tofavour it as we holdqturere,tobe Sapert ;that,tofeeke,is our JVif'damt i · that we doe not rem (apere, unle!fe we doeho,'[apere. H.trerit[.<ptenti~ veftra(faith D<ij~f.~ !.Mofes) ThU/hallbeyonr wi{edo111e, beforeG o o andm.m,and you fo to reckon ofit : even this, t<? feeke ~hinguhove;and to rhinke,when ye are abour that bulindfe,ye are about a poinrofh1ghwifedome; and that to performeit well, is the wifeft acti.nnof ~~ . 4 To hold it ourwifedome: and<lall:) I a~ke what wifedome ~Nor that whidt doth contemplate,rhat is.,~;. ;but theaflive wifedome,forrhat is 'eJ'""''· rer11W: 4 genda- . nm. To fliew that not only our GrDu~ads, for Judgement · bur our Rules for Allio11 · ar~ to be fer thence. Thitherto get us; thcnceroderiv~ourrrA'Ons ~hy wedo~ tht I h d ,. ' b ngs,or eaver ~mun one. Thusrocaftwirhourfelves: this rharnowlamaMut, Hethat.Jittetk 011 high,.at Go o s righth411d,what will He [;y or rhinke ofit ~ Wfu I 0.ffenrto Ht~~ Will He.allow of ir~ WiliHehelpemeforward with it" . . . _" t b ~em the end reward me for it~ Yea,even our .,.,.;T&f" (as to rhePhllipians) is ihtllp.po" Ifitt romrhence,ev~n thewifed•me, that f\vayerh rhere,to be from.alwT/t,if[urfum, ""'·J.·~1·' · enor, St.Iawm IS fomewhat homely witRit. -
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