SERMON A PREACHED before the K I N G s M A 1& s T 1 E, at White-H~tU1 onWednefday, the XXV. of'Decemher>A· D. MD ext. heilzg CHRISTMAS day. . _______ _._ I 0 AN. Chap. I. Ver. XIIIL ,; c.And the '1Vord-wasm'a1ejlefo~ finddwelt among~.r, (and~e_fo»?the (jlorie thereof, aa the Gloryofthe One{y hegotten ~ ~ N N~ Of th~ FA T H &R) full of9race and.Truth.~ ,. ,: , . HER·E is, in the,oldTdfamen't (in theX. ofEzekiel) and.ln the 'J'{_en{(in the IIII.oftheRevil~tion,) arijionoffourdlllid~y lhapes~ A t!Man, a.Lton,4n oxe, andanEagle. It harh beene.~fually recei– ved; to apply thcfe foure eo·thefoHre E'l[angelijls, and ofthem the }!ftgle, to Sai11t John. The narureoftheEag/eis,by G 0 0 flim– felfe, defcribed (Jo.b39.) by two properties ; 1 Elevqe ad ard11a~ ' no fo..yleunder heaventowreth fo high : • and ubicunquefueritca– daver,jlattm adejl; Nonefof90(1COr fo fuddenly do,wn~uP,on the Mat-•• .s , bodie, as he. Boththefedoe ~i.v~ly ~xpre_lrl! 1h~1J1felve~ i{) ·S,.iohn: and no where morelively than inthis Gofpell. ·. Wherein, ,~sanE:ag./e' IHtlie c!otids, Jiee llrll: Gen.u . mounteth wonderfully high, beyond c.Mo(ed.h/lhis'Iii'ft~incipio,' wl;)}.'~n ~igper lnprincipio V<rfe 1 • than ic ; beyondGenejis atid theWorlds Cr(4t~ol1: Tl\a~ the 'f¥ord f6a1[ thip with Go n, aid f)'M Go o. This may wdi,'b~~ termed,rh&ii.:tgles'~lg~~; fo·'Cxceeqinifhigh, ~stheclearell: eye hath much adoe, t9 follbw.hi~; 'Yet (~·farre1,a:tt/1~Y, can follow him,.rhe very Phi– lofqfhers have beene dnven,'r4~dm1re toe_pep.mng ofnus fioJPffi. Bur afterthts, as anEagle I..ke , 7 , agame, (rb; corptu,tbi A_quzla; a own~he,c?ll'n~eth4n'~ly from the hetght ofheav_en~ and F· lights upon the "body oflusjlefb, themy'ftemdHls·rncarnatton : and tels us, that Hethat m the beginning, wasapud Deum, andDet~s, He, in t/Je/ulneJTe oftime, wasapud homines, and Homo. Hedwcltnotlongalofc; heknew, itwasnorro purpofe: Verbum De11s isfarreaboveour reach. r erbnm caro, that concernes·us. No time, but it concernes us: bur, this time, abovs others. This Feajl is held, thisAlfembly met, for no other end, butto celebrate the con– tents ofchcText, that theWord, being liJttdejlejb, this day, came to dwell among us. . - Th•DiTwo parts therebe in the Text, fenfibly parted by a Parenthefts. • That without the fJiji••· Parenthejis, is, that he would have us beleeve, rerbr11ncaro, &c. •That, within, is the AfI. fidavit, Vidi111.•s, &c. Inthe f<Prmer three things are affirmed oftheWord. 1 Fa- ; '~·>. f . llres e no6is; 'i"iJabit4vit in nobis; l 'plem•mpro nobis: 1 That the Wordwasmadejlejhofus ; •dwelt with us; fwasfullforus. II. Then followeth the Afjdavit of th~fe. That Sr. John t:and other more,beiides,) faw ; ·. , · and
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