.63o Of the SE No 1 No Sermon 4 . Ny going, my abfence; will procure you Him : Mittam. I love you not fo evill ftay with you for your hurt. Be not you grieved; be not againll: that, which'· 3 £.to yourgood. IS or The manner of this :mfweris, 'Firfl: retorquendo (holden evertobeethe b a Youthinke,itwillhinderyou: Ifayuv;<~ly«,itwillbeneftyort,thatigoe. • The .) prove it, He proceeds, abducendo ad abfurdum. For why, if Igoenot, therewiltf,tl low amaineinconvenience, which by no mcanes is to be admitted, and that is No· veniet Paracletlll, Theexpedience ofveniet, we deduce out of the inconvenien~e::f non ventet. This inconvenience, if Hegoe not, What if Hegoe ~ He will comecertaim/ , For, Hee will be fureto {end Him. Now choole, whether! lhallgee, and youh?v· Him: or fl:ay, and you want Him. Theanfweriscleare: have Him yemu{\. wa~ Him yee may not. So,if this be the cafe; If novifcenjion, no Penteco.ft; weyedd Afcendat Chriflm ut de{cendat ParaclettP. ' The Divijion. Where we bve to confider of thcfe: I. Of the rea[on: It u expedient, expel. client for you, Igoe. 11. Then, of the two. ' Theinconvenienceof non veniet, the Ho 1 r G.H osr - '/JOt comming : • And of the necdliue offinon abiero, that CH R r s r mull goe, that He may come. I I I. And lafl:, of veniet and <Mittam, His cemmingandChrifls fending. Wherewe are to treat, •of Paratletm, His name and nature firit; • and then of the time and manner of His fending. ' · r; THere is no aCl: of our Saviour Chrifls, but ever, at the fir£!: view,there lheweth 1 be I<~«!••· forth; nor fpeech,but ever at the fir£!: hearing,there foundeth fomc venue in Jcuu 1 tdirnr. it. As here, in this; that venue which theApojflt (z CDr.I.Io.) calkth•5' ~7n7a. His mildnejfeandequity; the beames of thatvertue brake forrh in this. •Here– in is cquitie: This very firfl:, that He would yec:ld to yeeld them are~fon of Hisdt– parture : Not ule His authoritie (as well He m1ght;) come, andgoe at His pleafure, who ~puld aske Himwhy~ but even condefcends to renderrhem (though tarre His inferiours) a reafon of His going and comming; which (fure) Hee was noway bound to doe. z And whatreafon ~ rhatis next. It is nor Li>et, what is lawfull forHim;but Expedit, what isexpedient or meet to doe. 3 And thirdly, His expedit is not expedit mihi, but expedit vobif: me<:re orex;e- . dimt, not for Himfelfe, but for them, to whom He renders it. I . There was, among£!: the heathen, one, that would have His willfl:and for mfon. Art~fo•g••'"· And wastherenonefucb,amongthepeopleof Go o ~ Yes: wedinde(IS•m.z.) ·' Sam uG. one, of whom it was faid : Thtu it m11jl bee, for Hophni willnot have it fo, but thH<, His rcafon is, for, hee will not : And G o o grant, none fuch bee found among Chrtjlians. Not 1;~, Bur, among Chrif/ians, there were, that ll:ood with St. PaHl, upon licet :' what buwpcd~. they might doe, this was lawfull fort hem, and who lhould abridge themof 1t ~ St• .• Co'· 6 ·"· Paul may well feeme to have had relation there, to His Mafl:ersreafon here, where ',,, l· He teacheth them abetter mle, if they could hit of it : That licet is not it; expedit is 3 CH a r s T s and is the true Chriflians reafon. · Not expcdit A ' J· l F {i k h · fi . · Ttmaybe mibi,buttxpend not expeutt, at arge. or o, we now not w om1tre cnes to! 1 di&<obu. to
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