476 { Oj the RE s·u R a E c T 1 o N. Sermon 9 • K ~u. ; Be will ·have tnore honour of men, t~an of the pillarsin the~ wtlll":av.eusbonfrheknteJ: l\nd.letllS.bo~Hhemm Go os Name. e ::::,;~ Hi• ' ,~T.o· bow the knee, and to His.f'{gme, to bow it. For, this is another prerogative· Het IS e:x;alte4, to whofe Pcrfon, Knu~ioebow: butHe,towhofeNameonly much ;c~: ,';;.~· mor, . But the ca\lfe, is here.otherwife. For, His Perfon is takenup out of ou: fight • all we candoe,will11ot reach umo it. Buc,His 'ZVme, He hath left behind to us that w~ may•lhew by·ollr r.eve-rence and re(pe.cho.ir, how much we cfreeme Him; how true !'fal.sll.,. the Pfalmdhall be, Holy andreverent is His 'l(gme. But if we have much adoe, to get it bow at all : much more lball we have, toger "'') '. it done to His Name. r. There be,.chat doe it not. z, What fptam: I.<ofJnot~dJing it 1 There be, that, nor only forbeare to doe it themfelves, but put themfdves, to an evill occupation, to finde faults where none is and cafr fcruples into mens,min9es, ~y np meaoesto doeit. ' 3· ~ottodoelt at•Ris Name ?•Nay; at the holy My!leries themfelves, not to doe it : Where, HiS' ~me is <I am (u't'e) and more th1m His Name,even the body a!X{ bloud,~of ou~ Loa. o I, sus C·u " x s T : And thof7, ~ot without His foule: Nor-tl\at, wtrhourHis Deil'ie': No'r alithdc, vMhout mefhmable high benefi~of .c-Ja. Ar<l. graceittending onth~m.• ~nd y~t tliey, that w:oald be~ladandfai~e,aPardonfor bom. 10 ' this 1 1 fe? or Comeorl\erPatenr, Wltfl{lll hnmtlltteto recetve upon thetr knm: This • Mot.•. " · fo great,' fo hig~l, foi,Jeavenly a'Gitr,they !haine, ana make dangerous, tabowtbti; • chryfot/.h•"'· Kne(> tQ"tecdve i( '.as if it were fc;u'ce wonh fo much. B!lt, it hath ever beenerhc :;,:r,·:"''" manner in C >1 R i 's ':, s' Church, \vhttber we~ otfeno Him, ~or receive oughtof. -'mbrof .i• • fered from Him;in rhis·wifeeodoeit. ;!';;~8· 1·~·l· ~uil\okeepe us t.o~he Name :~This is ~ur~1 the words th~mfelvesare fo plaine,:~.~ ncspir. s. they ar~ able to cobvmce any mans confctence : :Andthere IS noWriter (not of rhe -'•t-inP[»· Ancl.ent) on this place, that! can finde *' (fave he, that turned all into Allegories) ,';,~_·,~:pi(l. but literally underftands it, and li~es well enough we fhould actually performeir. · A.,;,.fHtx. Yetwillyee fee, what fubt.iljicsare taken up, to lhift this duty f ';;;~-;;~ Ef•· · A,ll 'Knm are called for, and all have not Knm. Here are three rankes recko: 4 f. ned: and ,two of themhavenone." Wharistliatto us~ we have : To us, it is, pro. Cyril.in Ef•· petly fpdken, and wbtoloof<eto iiJ A'nd if this wereought, that the fpiritsinHea· ~~;;;/· i• vcn and Hell have no.bodies, and Co nuKnees: Why,rhey !ravenoTonguu neither l'bil. •• properly, and theri by the fame rule, take away fonfefing too, and fodoenei· l th<!r. . . 1 ( ~J' '· ~.< 'd ·~ ~Cot. ..... Iiut the v!poflle•, that' ·in anpther place, gives the Angels t~ngues (with tk tongtleS of men and LXngels,) might·afwell 1 i/t.thisplacc, givethemKnW :they have one,as much as the other. l).dd ln both 'pl'aceshuman11mdicit, he fpeakes to 115, llom· 6:r 9 • after tl/e it•4imer 'of men : that Y'e byou~ owiie la,nguage, might conceive, what they c;loe. For, fureiti~, the fpirits of both kindes,asrheydoeyeeldreverence,Ca they have theirway~; lind mcanes,to exprefi'elit,by fomewhat,<i>J":>-"to the Kna. They ddcit, their w<ly,:'we to doe it, ours. And this is ours :let us look to our owne then, and not bufie our braines about theirs.•·But for us, and for our fakes, they are J!.m!. 4 •• o; divers times expdlfed in the Revelation, even doing thus, falling downe before s.s.Ja4,7,''· Him. ~ Secondly, why tO'thisName, morethantotheNa~mofCu R 1sT~ There -l'b•N•,.••fwantnotreafonswhyP ' ·, · . d ·!s·s vs. C Ha Is T is not, cannot be, the Name of Go n : Go n cannot beano,nte • But; I B s \1 s is the ?f.ame of 9 cl' n, and the chiefe zvmeof G 0 D (as we have heard.) , ' . . . The nameo( c H 'it I • 'I' ,is commimicated,by Him to others,rtamely tO Prmces· ~"'Y· 4l·"' So is not 1as us: that is proper. Ego fum, &pr.cter menoneft alitH. Andever that which is proper; is above that w)lich is holden in common. . h ad c H " I s T is anointed, to what end~ to be our sA V I 0 u R· Thaus t edtc then. Arid ever, the end is above themeanes: ever thename of health, above name of any medicipe. )lur;
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