496 Of the RE suR RE c T I o N. Sermon Ir , JnJ;is P"l•• . Yc:t,even to Hisperfon,wccan: There is away,to doethat,inafm~ "'u11ittd" bir Hts Church, are now growen into one make but oneperfon: what is faid or d ,and cb"" 11 • ir, isfaid or done to Himfelfe: Blejfe it,'and He i5blejfed. one to . In a word then: to blejfe Go n,is to wilh, His Namemaybegloriom; to wifh , Hts. Word may bee proJPmru; to ~ilh, His churchm~ybeehappy. By.wearing of wh1ch Name, and byheanng of whtchWord,and by bemg m, and of whtch Chr~rch 1ve receive theUefing here upon earth, that ll}all make us for ever blej[ed inhe 4 w,/ Th.is we fay,if we marke what we fay, whenwe fay Blejfed be Go n, ' GOD,andt1" G 0 n, ttndthe Father of OilY L 0 R D rE sus c HR Is To This isflylonovothe. ~"~"four fly le of the 9.'\sw Teffament; ye read it not in the Old: No, nor in Zachariesncithcr. · c':r;j~ ~' Hetweene that of Zacharies,and this of St. Peters, it fell out, this. TheSunmwas Style of rhc yet under the Horizon;when Zacharie made his: But (now) up,and of a good hei•ht. ;:::::.Tell•- And thereupon, this taken tipby St. Pmr, here: by St. P411l, I Cor.I. Ephef.I, 0 and ~ Cor.q ; upongreat reafon. Rphd.r.;. r. Bleffid bee Gon.: Say that, andnomore, andncvcraiew,Turke,orP•g 411 ; :, To fnm but w.JI fay as much. Blej{ed be Go o, wee; Blejfed be G o o, they. It is neverrhe Himfrom:>ll worfe for that. Bwtyer, feeingtheworldrhenwas, fiillis,fullof m•ny Gcd 1 and {•g:;;~;: m4nJ Lords (I Cor.8 .) It would be knowne, which Go o. For, wewouldno;beftow our Benedillm uponany,butthe true Go n : neitherthey, nor we;ldJ.J:efay. Which is then the true Go n ~ Pater Domini nojlri Ie(tt chrifli : and Herhatisnot fo, is a falfe fained God; is an Idell. Put them to it then, put this addition to and . neither T11rkc, Jew, nor PagAn will fay after you : None,but theChriflian. For,thisi$ theC!.riffian mans BenediBM. · . Now, ever fince Idolatrie firll: tooke head, it hathb~enc held fit, theythatare Go o s chofcn People of all the people upon earth, they lhould have fomemarke of fcverance,todiil:inguilh,as theirs, the true Go n ; [otbemfebves, the trueworjl>ip– pm; from the falfe. So, to fettle our BenediBuJ right, upon the right ,GoD, this is added. , • As Hi< blp :.1 For this caufe: bur, not forthis alone. When webtej[e Him, I dare fay, wee Tirtr. would blej[e Him, with His btfl Title. So hath it becneever. You lball obfervein Icr..•J.7,8. ' Title;, ever, upon thecomming of agreAter, theleife is llyddowne. 7(g more, the Lord liveththat brought thee out of .l£gypt; but, the Lordlivetb that brought thy c.pti· 'Vityfromthe 7(grth. And now, no more that neither; For, here is one, that afredt came, puts them downe all, as being indeed the greatell: of them all,the greatelt that ever wa~, orthat everll1all be. One, which when we adde, we fet our BenediBmlt thehigheil:. · For,if 'this bee to bee Go o, to beebounteotu, benifcia!i(as wefeemeto think(,· when we fay homo homirJi Dctu:) In nothing, was Go n ever fo benpeiaU, [o 6oun. Ioh.J· '"· ieoru ; and fo,in nothing ever fo Go o,as infending H,j only begotten Son into theworld. Inrhat, Go o, lpecially; and,forthat, fpecially to be bteffed. And becaufe, agrea– ter than HisSonne He bath not, and fo agreater than this /hall never come, therefore this /hall never belayd downe. This /hall be HisTitle, for ever. For everto have a place, and a chicfe place, in our BencdiBm. . . And yet there is anorher,on C H a r s T s behalfe,Ortr Lord: even to bnngH~m 6 1o;~SgT in too. For, feeing all that whichfollowes, comes nor, but by the rijingof Chrif/, iu,roo. andfo, by CH" r s T; lfcenot,how (well) weecanleaveHimout. Allthe good, that comes to us, as it comes to m from Go n, [o it comes to us, by Chrifl. , Goo,thc~; Chrift, thcl'erquem. Goo, thecaufe; fromHimcommcrh.all, chrifl and all: Chrift the meanes; by Himcommeth all, Gon andaU. Allthmgs, from Go o ; and nothing .from Go n immediately, but medianteChriflo. He, .the ' c,w(i: mediate, the Mediator, the Medium. No 6enifac11l< (and fo,nobenedh1ru) wtth· out Him. ' .1. This is mo·ll: pbin,in this here. BenediElmDuu,qttigener~vttchrifl~m:firil:,that did gmer~tc Cl;rift; before JJencdu:111s De114, qut regmera;vrt nos, that dtdregmerate tu.
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