...:----;:; Sermon 8. ofthe Ho L Y G H o _s T • S . John come and baptize Him, at home; but, with the multitude, the mea· 0:~~f them : rh~}', and Hce together. :And when~ Nor uponaDay by Him– {elfe, bur, when they. And whet·e ~ not m a bafon by Htmfelfe, but even in the Common River, with rhcrefr of rhe memy, When, and where, they; Then, and thcre,He. ·t· d ' 11 · I d I dl · This (Cure) was great Hrtmt zty;an tott wee we mtg 1r,an g a y wee would Notofhumi; r, r'be it· bur that Himfelfe wtll not let us [o do. For when the Baptift fhatncd cour- l<tio,butof Iu~ a fie 'a,·tt ·He bade '!er be, Thtu itbehoved, implmomnemjujlitiam. ltif/itiam(marke f?Mi"'h .. re te - ' ' f . ,(J• f . ·r. ,(J· /l.. ltt ·j.tf, that:) No courrefieburjriflice; He makes a marrero Jllrtce o tt; ast J'il'tce lll6uld r have becncdonc (atleaft, nor alllllflicc) :f He had nor beenebapttzed. no Why,what]lif/ice had bccr.e broken~ what peece of it ~if Hcbad nor. To~1ew Th~ Iuf/ireiri YA'J how rhiscomes topaffe; we are to confider CH R 1 s T, as havtng two capactnes Cbnf/tw• , . ~, . ~1' . I r d d , r d W>ycsconfiu<– (asrhey rermerhem.)-:.o are we to confider Htm (t 1e 1econ A am:) For 10 oe we rrd. · the firfl Adam: as, aperfonof himfelfc; and, as the Attthorof aRace or Headof aSo. 1 Cot., i·••·, <iety. And, even fo doe we, CH RI s T·:Eitbcrastotrtmintcgrale,aperConentire (they call it abody natllrall;) or,as pars commrtmtatu(wluch they call abody poltttke) in conjunction, :tnd with reference to others : Whteh others are HtsChurch; whtch church, is His body. They His body and He their Head([o told us often, by the Apo- Epher.•.u,,J; Jlle.) And, as by Him(elfe confidered,He is Vnigenitu;,the only begotten, hath never Iohn p6, abrother: [o, as rogerhenviththepeople, He is Primogenittu inter mrdtPs, the firfr be- Rom.8.u. gotteuamong many brethren. , Toa'pply this,t? our purpofe. Take C " R I s T by Hi;nfelfe, as fevered from Notasbyhi.,• us; and no rea(onm the world, tobapttzeHu11. He needed tt nor. Needed!> not~ ftife(roiiiU<, Nay; take Him [o; Jordan had more need come to Him, than He to Iord~n, to bee clcanfed. Lavrt aqrt.u Jpfe,. nonaqtt« Ipfitm, the waters werebaptzzedby Htm, they baptizedHim nor: He went tnto them,Vt aqu"' nosrrgatu~,. prrmte~ Ipfumpurg.tren.- lMAnthor.uol . tur(it is Epiphanim) that they whtchlhould cleatu us, m1ghr by Hu111irfr beclean- - fed. It is cerrainc; Co, He recetved nocleannelfe, no venue; butverrue He gave, to Jordan, to the waters,to the Sacrament it felfe. But theu, take Him the other way, as in conjtlnctionettm populo, they and Hee 73ut aspa:tof ombodie,and the cafe is altered. For,if He be fo cum populo,with them, as He be one •neb•dJ "'"~ of rhem; as Hee be, a part of a body withthem (a pt1ncipall Parr I grant, yet apart "'· though) rea[on would, He doe as they doe, parr and part alike. Jn.j1nu.:h(fairh the vfpojlle) _.u the children 1Vmpart.•kers ofjlejh andbt.ud, He alfo tooke part with them. Hebr.•.ri~ And fo, mafmuch ~s they baptized, Hee alfo rooke fuch part :ts they, both went to · ' baptifme together. For ("1 pars toti congma) a kinde ofi"flice there is in it, they fl10uld fo doe. . Bmif we looke a little fimher, then llull wefindegreater realon yet. A part He Notorlly"iii .Is; and parrs there be, thattn lome cafe undertake for the whole;as the arme, to bee part witb114• let bloud,for all the body. And itc,zme to paffe, tha~fuch a parr Hewas 1 Heeunder· ~;;"'"'~ tooke for us. for, in Hisbaptifme He pur us on; as wcprtt Himon,in ours.- Take H'm o. then, not onlr as crtm populo, but aspropoprdo; not only, as no.bi(w;n, but asprom- G:II. ~·!T, bH: Put Htm mthe cafe, the Prophet doth, Po{mt fi•pcr Ipfrtm znzqmtates omni 11 mno. flru.,,yur upon Him th~ trart{gref;ons oftu all: Pur Him as the ApojlteputS Him, Fa· ~~~::.~;; c?u; esl peccatttmpronobu, make Htm (inne, fortu; put all our finnes upon Him . and · then, it will come topaffe, Hewill needbaptizing: He will need that, forme and~hee, that for HimfdfeHe needed not,andbaptifme in that calc,maywell be mitiillred un- Towalholl' ro~ ~~ Naythen,as in another cafe the Prophet f.1ith, that all Lebanonw.u!ittfe enortgh Efay4•·!~ tofind w~odfora Sacrifice: $o may we in this, >hat all Jordan is littleenMgh tojinde water to Hts baptifmc. A whole Riverroo little, in that cale. For, being fir!t baptized(as I mJ.; fay) mfo many millions of finnes,of fomany millions of finners (info foule apu :lie;) well might He then b~bapti'{:d,if it were but to wall1 away that His for- WM! hapri(~~~t mer foule baptifme. Well m1ght 1t coriletp palfe then. wafbetl>fin•"!. One oncly fcruple remaines: HowJordan or any war~rcould doe chis;wafo away '/.' finneI - ··~"411''
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