Andrewes - Heaven Collection BX5133.A56 X3 1641

Sermon JZ, Ofthe R E suR R E c T r o N. Andlafr,what this Signeportends,or fignifies. That whatfoeverit was,to them; . -1t 1· 5 Signum in bonum, a Stgnebodt~~ggoodto-us-ward : Afigneoffavourand P'!BL 6 (OUS, b h ,r; r>· f S . S . "• v. l • oodhope, which wehave y t _e~eJ_ttrre•stono our "vI ouR. peC!ally, ifwe - · - gb the trueSignattmof1r, wh1ch 1s rrue repentance; m i ToaskeaSigne, is (of it fdfe) not~vill; <?ood men,l~oly Saint'S !lave d?ne it. ;h•.d•nilll of Gedeonaskedone of Godand had !t: He1s pa1nted wtth thejlu~e(that!s, the d,r;;z:: Noa f Signe given him) inhis hand. Ezechi.u askedoneandhadtttoo: Inthe Iudg.6.;6. sun-dial! of Ahaz, ·thejhadow went ~tndegru! backe• . Yet, this fu1t here is denied by • King..o.s. c H R I s T : and C n R' s T demerh nerhtng thatls good :Speoally,nor w1tb. hard termes as here (we fee) He doth. The re.ifonfn · Somewhatisamilfe fure: and it is not in theSiglie, or in the{i1it, but in Et5, the Eu,themen. men: rhe fuit, was not evill, theSuitours were_. In threewords, threebrands fer upon ihem: • Evil!, •adufterous, l agemrattonof evtllandadulterous, 1 Evil!. There be markes of evilJ winded men; even intheir very fuir. They Theyl'lere wo 11 ldfee aSi!{ne : Ifrhey bad never feene an:y: beforc,ir had not beene evill :b:~r,they Evill. came now trom aSrgne; they hadfcarce w1ped rhetrcyes; fincerhey faw one (the Verfe ,;.; Signeofrh~blindanddumbe man, made to fee and fpeakc) immediately before : It . wasSpiransadhttc, yetwarm_e, as_rheyfay. That, rheyfaw; and faw they nota SignelAlittle before, even mdus very ~hapter, a '}"tthmdhAniwas rell:ored to an- VerCc,c;: ·other: Whar,could notrhey fee aSrgne,mthat, pmher ~- Goeback ro th~ chapters · before, yee l11all have no lerfethan adozen,{ignes, one after another : and; come they now with a rolrtmus videre? They woulcfliave that !hewed them, that, when it is v"rc 38 . fhewed, they will nor fee : A badmindethis, certainly. ' · , z Nay worfe yet: Fory~lhallnotemalic~int~em _( whi~histheworll: k!nde Naym 11 ;,;,.r: , ofevdl.) For, tfyeemarke, th1s Vofumus of rhe1rs, 1s, w1th a'k!nde ofJfnte, wtth a IJ <vjll, kinde ofdifirace, tothofe he had !hewed before; Theywotddfee one : as who 010uld fay; thofe werenone, they had feene: that was none they faw, even now. Maliciou[- ly: IfHe!hewed none,rhen He was no body; could not indeed !hew any; and fo vi" lifie Him with the people ; If He l11ewed one, rhen carpe and cavill at ir, as they did atthar even now: Say, it was done by theblacke art. So, cavill out one; and call for another, to deprave rhat too. 3 Na~(\~hich is worfr ofall)E":'i/1and ~bfurdmen(faith the Apmte.) When is And Abfordly that~ Vtdtmtqflttattm& contra dtfironem, fa1th therJafmtff. Ye !hall fee, how ab- oviiL furdl}\ they contradicl:themfelves. But even now, they charged Him, to worke by ~!Iim,-J-11· -. theDi11ell: and here now they come, and would haveHim !hew amiracle. The dea ·H·g_. vi/!cannot !hew amiracle;a rricke ofSorcery he can: Such may be done by the claw oftheDivtll : mir4cles not,but by the finger ofGod,bypower divine.Hirn then,Him, whom they even now had pronounced, to dearewirh the D ive/1; Him come they to now,fo: a mirAcle. So abfurdly malicious, as they cared nor, in their malice, to comrad1etthemfelves. Tomen, fo eviU, fomalicioujly evil!, foahfHrd!y evil!, Sig-. "tlm"'"da6ttur eu. • Well: howfoever they might erre that way, the men otherwifetob~e refpe.:' ~ed, they werefo venuous men, fo nreigntliversi See yee not their phylafieries, ow broad they weare them~ Nor that neither (faith C u,;, 1sT ; ) but, tviH, and Adolt<rott< too. As, of eviUmindes, fo ofevil! lives, too. Yee !hall con;~e jbOWstotheuncafingofaPhari{ee. For, Cu n Is T liftsuprheirphy/&C1eries, and · ewes whatlurkes under them. lld.l For, by ad~lterott<, I uqderftand not, asifHe charged them, they w~re borne of lltery,camemto the world the wrong way: the feed of Can&an, and not ofiuda; ~ Zz 4 As'

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