Sermon 9· Ofthe NAT IVIT lE. 1 • It will be [aid; This, was nor His Name in the end, for ~urh is, bu_r I • sus. 1 True: and s. Matthew knewrhar well enough; for hefers tt downe fo. Yet even in Hmv ,,,., . that place he fers it fo downe, prefently he vouthes this ofEfay, of ~mm!llii.:t: as in11!;"!/s~ot J;nmarue~l,andi< s u• both came to one; as (mde,·d)rhcy doe; One mfers the other. lmmanuel G 0 v with 11s: Why~ to what end~ Tofaveus fi·om our lins; and from peri0 1 ing by them. Ifthere be any oddes, it is in bnmanttei:Y.,hich is, oflarger compaLfe. Go Dwtth tu, tofave us; though that be ':"onh all, yet, not that way onely, bur, ,.itf.u;s, other wayes, belides; And all, m Immam•d•. .. , . :' . .. , , 2 • G 0 owith Vs; Why, was He not alfo wtth thePatrrarlw, :tndProphet.s, and H ~ , :li_{ay himfclfc~as well, as weth Vs? Hee was: but; nor, a.<we/t.SomePreroganwc we "'~;: ~h;~ ci7; mull allow thts Name, tfbe but fvrthts Ecce. NoEccebelongs tO thefe. SomCIV1Jat Patrb.rkes! • more, to Saint Matthe~v's Gofpell,rhan toEfay\ Proph,ct.. Thts name mufr needs imply a fecret antith<{isro His former beingwith tts. We fay norhing, in faying; He is nowwith11s, ifHe be not fo with 11s now, as never before. Withthern, in types and figuresofHimfdfe; His1hadow was with them; burnow,He Himfelfe.Wirh theni He was,even rhus,in this verybmnanu : but how~ in the futurerenfe,Concipiet,pariet; as thingsto come are made prefenrto hope. But now, concept/IS eft, partfls eft; Re; nor inJPe; all is pall: and done. So that, now, Ita nobifcmn, ut, de nobis; Nay, .ut ipft nos: So,.ithus, aseveno{ttS now; of the fame fubitance, Nature, flefh, and bone; that we :WithM; in~oncipiet ;conceived, as we: With us, inpariel; borne;as.we. Now true,asn~vcrrill now: Now fo;.asnever fo before. . ' . And, now, to looke into the Name• .It is col)'lpounded, and to be taken in-peeccs. Th<f!'" of Firft,into Immiinu;and El: Ofwhich,E/;(rhc latter) is the more principal! by f.me: •;·~1• ~~;~. for,El;is Go o. Now,for any.rhmgyctfatdm coimptet andparut,allts but man ri>ith ' us: Nor, Go o w,ith liS; till now~ B,Ythe name, wee rake our fidt notice, that this Chi!de is G0 D: And, this is aweat additiOn, :And here rioe)'is the wonder·: For; ;Is for any childe ofawoman, to rat .hutter andhoney (.the words, that next follow) . where is theEtce? Bur, for El, forGo o, to docir.; nhat, is worth anEcce indeed. V~~re '~ El, is GOD: And, not Goo, every way; but ·(as the force ofthe word isj Goo, inhisfullllrengrh and vertue: Go o,c~tmplenitudinepoteftt~ti6 (as we fay-) \virh all lhareverHe can doe: And that is enough, I amfitre.. ·., , . · .. ,. .. . . For the orher,lmmanu:thoughEt berhemor_e prin:ipa!,yet,I can~~t tell;wh_etqer ;/,::~':!!:: lr,or Immanu, doe more conceroe us. For, as, mEl, tsmtght: So; mImmt~nu; ts our j', A•• No· right;to Hismighr,and toall Hehath,or is worth: By that word;we hold;therefote, liis. ' • we to lay .hQld ofir.Thev~y francling ofir,rhus before; thus,ln rl1e firfl place,tou~ ~heth us forrlewhar;, The firfrrhing ever, that we to lookeft•H·, is Nos ,Nobi<_;arid N6~ fterrhe Poffeffives: For, they doemittere in polfefionem; p\!t \lS in p0ffellion. . Wee !ooke forirfirft; arid loe;it fiarids here firfr: Nobifcum, firfr; and rhen, Iiem, after; I lhall not need to tell yoti, rhar., innobifcutn, there is muum?. lnnoGifet~m for us all, amecum, for ev~ry one of u;;· Our of rhii generalitie, of.wit'h tu; in groffe,·may every one deduce Ius owne pamcular; wzthme,andme; andme. For, all put t6gether makebur no~i[cum. · ' . · ,-, · The Wifc-m_an (Prov. 3b.) 6ut of immanuel (tHat is, nohifciimDetu)' d6th de- l'cot.J o. ii du~e Itttel, (rhatJs,) Mm~mDetu; Gobwithme; his o\vneprivare inrereft. AhB . S:unr Paul, whenh~ had f:nd to theEpheftans, of CH lt r s -r, Who to'r:ted IH, 'J.ndg•ve Ep~ef.~:~l ,r lfz>nfetftfor m : mtght With good nght, fay to theGalatiant, nihvloved,kt) 4ndg4'lle Gal,!:~~ llzm[elfeforme. . ' . ' '. ' , 't ~his Immanu is aCompound againe iwe may take ir,in [under, into :N*'it, ancf urn. Andfothenhavewethreepeeces: 'El, rhenlighty Go 0 : • andAnte, wee, ·' l ;:I1~r~~e; (Poore indce~, i~we have all the world ~elide, if_we.have nor-Hi in ~o be Detu G) 3 And lm, whtch IS Cum, And that,cum, mthe m1 dfr between~ n9buand Qn ' I 0 and Vs; to couple GoD and tu: thereby to conveigh rhethmgs ofrhe c:.' r,oltJe other. (Ours, to G 0 D: Alas, they be not worth the fpeaRing of:) theyte_: Y(~hdn, to conveigh ro us,thethings ofGo o, For,that is worththe white: - e m eed) worth the convcighing. . , • H 3 :rhiS
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