Luke 6,1, Ofthe GuN,POWDER.-TREASOM, Serm;;-;,• {hewed Htmfelfe, to be (in heaven) of tile fame minde, He was onean~ was then better, to this Towne, than His Difciples; fo, taus He'was bett~r nh as He Fathers of HisSocietie, and rebukedthem too: and bleifed be Go 0 a;r~ an the ends, fa did the matter; in Non p!rdere,fedfalvare: none dejlroyed, all/awd, eText Fmdmg here:hefe words ~ N011 perdere] mtheText, which amoumro as m as Ne perda1, lt bnngstomy mmde, that thts Text wtll fecond well D 4 vid's N uch d&. As, whemime was,we had D.wid's NeperdtU, to fave a King: fa here wr't"· nowthesonof David's (CH A Is T's)Neperd.u,tofave(arownein;heText·bve with us) an Aifcmbly morewonhthanSamaria, and all the Townesin it. · ' Ut This Ne perda; of CH RI s r,befide theS,tbGath it fdfe, isto us (this day) ter of a fecond Sabbath · and fo, this (like that in the Gofpeli) .MmeJoe;.m afe~a~ befldes rhefrjl, two Sabbaths in one; wherein,the voice ofpraifeand eha~/{givi M here, and is all overthe Land, for the happie nonperdcre,f~dfalvare, of this da;giS The SH,,; The whole Textis aquellion, upon~ C~fe : the Cafe, this. CH R 1 , r was journeymg fromGalttte, tolerH{ulem: Bemgmthat country upon His way Hefent f6this Towne,to taktup lodging .. Nolodgingwouldbehad; agenerallrefi;ainr· no man to re~eive Him·: the quarrell, becaufe His face w.u towardiemfalem; wouldnot rvorfb•p wtrh them, tn thezr mount. Vpon th1s Cafe, thts quellion: Whether this Vcrf<.fJ• Towne. for not receivingCH ~ I s r, upon pretence He was not oftheir Rdioion might not be confrtmed? Or make the Cafe ( ifyou will) blowne11p wichfre. Som~ little difference there is, and but little: Vis,dicimm de(cendat (fay they;) ru,facim 111 d{i-uulat (fay.ours: ) defcendat, or afcenclat, both end, in confrtmet eos de/lrudionof them and us. In this qudlion, we /!Jail divi~e C " R r s r an4 His ~ampany. For, of them, two here na!ned were ready to doe It, and therefore refolve, it might bee done. But C HR I s r rulerh the Cafe, for the Towne, that it ought notto be done; No, not for this quarrell, Non receperu~t Bum; No not uponthefeparties,sa~ maritam; No not by that meanes done by miracle. It was an errour (this) ofthe Di{t:iples i we feeir plaine, byNefciti;: but, of if may well be [aid, that Gregory faith of another of theirs, ofalfltAriJ error, q11i Wi~ mundiJr'.ftt~literrorem I Ableifed errourit was; for, by ir the world was nd of the likeerrour,everafrer. Rid oftheerrour ofthisday:What CH!t r s r anfwered in rbis Cafe, Hewourd have anfwered in ours, a fortiori; Ifnor a poore Towne, not fuch an Alfembly. Ifnot, by a(ttpernatt~rall and miraculous; nor, by an un»•tnrAU, :tnd monfl:rous act, Ifnor, for Himfdfe; not for Saint Peter. So that, this dayescafe determined here by C H~ I s r, before ever it was propounded :and determined quire contrary, by I E s u s, ro His Difciples, then; or to His Societie, oflacc. We areall much bou1d to Saint Luke, for recording ir, or to rhe Ho 1 Y GHo s r ra· ther, for infpinng him, foto doe. For, fo long as this Verfe thall /land in this Go· {pel,ir wil ferve for arefolurion to this quefiion.Whether uponpretenceofreligion; CH R I sr will allow, the Jew thould blow up theSamaritane? Vpo'nnon rece;eru~t m, any ofHis Difcipks may doe that, which they (here) would haved?ne ~ Th1s rehuke here ofrhcfe, will reach to all undertakers in the fame kindc. Thts Non per. dmfed{alvare, f.tvesallour Townes, Cities, and States, fromconfummgby fire, from any of CH 11. Is r's company. '[neDiviJi•w. To palfe then to.the entreaty. In the former verfe, thereis aMoti'l!e, and aMo: I. tion. 1 TheMotive in rhefe: .Andwhen His Difciples,Iames and Ioh11,jarv thts. fi • The Verf<!J. . II. Motion in thefe: Theyf.tid, L o .. D, wilt thaN that n~e, &c. • Somewhatthcy •rv, to move them : and what they faw, ~s in the verfe before; './{g11 receperunt E1111" , CH a 1 • r's futferiog repulfe; and for no othercaufe, but becaure Hu face rvtt4. 10 • zerufolem-ward: that is, were not atfeel:ed, as they were in religion. 2. ThehMpltiD~ • ro have the Towne def!royed for it ': • ddl:royed by fre: l by fire from eAVttl·., 4 from heaven, onely by dicamu;,[peaking aword onely: and sthis, upon warrant, SiCIIt fecit EliM, EliM's ~xample~ lri \
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