Andthc&p•· fi•?.· Gods good· ndfe in gran.. tinghim, 1 Life. Yiram.dtdit, :But VitR!IJ pt– liit fidl~ OftheCoNsPIRAc·u · Sermon 5 , their heads: And accordingly, to fiilethemfelves, e"<'~ii,,~ Deo coron4to-;;;-– by Go o :as wellrhey might (this, Ttlpo{Hijli, here, is their warrant.) ' owned . z. Secondly, againfl:u{iJrping of a power,todepofe. Go o alone,isin the P , Juiftt,attheJettmgtton. None but He, there: Go o harh (etiton. Now whJtG' o. harh Jet on, let not aoy prefume,to take off. Not any,but fie that {et it on. Whar'~ !> Htm alone done, by h1m alone, to bermdom. Thelaw 1s; .Adqu~minjlirurio,&c.' / whom the Injfttullonbelongs, to H1m and none oth~r thedeflitution. To whom rho impojing, to Him and noneothcr,the..depoftng: none to interpole himfelfeinrharbu~ nelfe,but He. And now, there comesaTuinterpo{t•ifli; andHe,willhaveto doe with that th' Tu pofuijfi, put on. Hath not pottjlatem ponendi (he confe!fes, and a\J rhe;orld ~nowes)andyet wouldhave~otejfatem tollendi,to take"/' thar,he layednot 'do~>ne. Bur 1f noPonent,no Depo»ent•. If none bur_G,d, at the Plfi•ift•, atthe{etttngiton; none: but He then, atthedepoft•iftt, at the t-aktng lt off. TheCrowne, the Coronation, theCo– ronant (all three)hleJ?mgsof Hu goodnejfe: but the lafl:, the chiefefr (thcT~taDomint ;md a Te) the Tenure of ir of Him, and Him only. Nowthell, to joynethefe three, to the firHthree. f\llow themwnea/,r 4 hitur; and to theCoronatton, or {ettmgzt er., an ex11ltabtt: bur oquam! is for T11 pofuijli (the Coronant.) To whom,they owe lt; of whom,rhey holdlt,Without any TNinterpofoi· fti, at all: And now, to his life. ·" For, whatiscor6n""impofuit, without vitam dedit; acrowne, without life toweare it~ Here is that then: and that, in a new triplicirie, ' life it felfe, •along lift, and J alife for ever. YitAm petiit. It isnot, his firfr vitampetiit, this {wee fpake of even now, inSaul$ time :) it was, after his fecond crownewas fer on; as is evident, by thus!\anding,aftet i~. And thisvitam petiit,bodes no good matt~r. For bypetiit,idhould [eeme (by all hkelyhoods) he was mcafe, toaskc 1t, andfomhaprd tolofeit; it, andcrowne,and all(aworfe matter, than any yet.) It was not for nothing ( thelafr verfe, before rhis Text) theycrie, 0 L6rdJave the King; by like, theKingwas in fome danger,ofpe· vcrre"· rijhing. And fo he was, asappearerh by theSequele of theP{atme, and that, bya i1010 . Mezimma, a {ecret mifchiefe,imaginedagainft him: were it,that of .Abfalom,or fome other like exigent. But hard befread he was, when it touched his life. Pfal.u,.•H· In that fl:raight, here was the fumme of rhedeftreof hu heart, ofthe requeftpfh~ ~Sam. ;~·"· lips : 0 let myJoulelive, o let the Joule Qf thy fervMtt, beprecious ilit th-rfight. And now,upon this Petiit,asupon a ground, followes flraight vitam dedit. And herein firfi appeared thegoedm(fe of Gad, ingr.tntingbudeftre, in not denyinghim. q11eft; 'v-itam petiit, and Vttam dedit; life he a; ked, and life hehad: Nolooner lfhrl, but obtained. This was {atisfying. . . ~,r. long li('. But then,he frayed not there; but prevevtedhim further :gave it him, wirhadvantage, with that he.ukednor. Life hegave him, So farre his petirion,fo f.meno prevention : but Hegave him, long, too; lungwas notinthe_petition, a?dfoa mecre prevention (the fecond kind of prevewting, that before we fpakeof.) Life, wa_s w~e req~eft, longwas not; Hegave it him, with long to.o, Dies Juper dies Repsadpcttn °• &...ddding d;.yes to the Kings dayes, tillitwaslengthof dayes (thatis).alo;~glijt, and ~f'1 ' 6'·6~ a long reigne both. Which very point of (tong) makes, that thtsTcxt:vlllnot fall in fit with everyKing,unle!fe he have livedandreigned,as long(DavzJs ;tme,tha( is fsrtie yeam:) for,fo he muft,yer dedifti longam,canbe faid or fun~ of htm. . But yet,here he fiayes nor, neither : but heapes upon him more !\111, and goes 00 ·~ Alike[or r1 ftr >m, to ,J;tam·in (eculum feculi. For(to fay truth)what is /Qng life, yea,neveno mg,,h t b.eenot Saint Hieroms long, 'l!{J,hillongum q110djirmn babet ~ Ifye fpeake of lo~g~ r 3 a is truely IMg, 'that lhall Jafl: for ever, that neverlhall have end. Our lo~g;, 15 Xve lhort tong. which goes, but by comparifon, of afhorrer. Elfe, what IS tt, ~0 /if out ~he f~ll compalfe of mans mrermofi age_, i~ hce tiv~ not fo, in .:bts : ~ as arter this, hee may live forever? Themeamng IS ! what1~ long lift, Wttbo\e, I
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