f*tttttttt~~ttt ttttttt *'tttt_,_~,~-~ 't***'* etttt**'~'**~' '**'''' ''tt.tettt'''*~'* ' tttt A SERMON P RE1 A; (:HED BEFORE THE ICINGS MAIESTIE AT VVHITE--: H.AL L, on the V. of :J\@!ember• .11. V. M n ·cxv r. PSAL. ·CHAP;:XXXVII. VER. III: Yenerunt filii ufqu~ ad partuiv, .& virtus non efl: pari~ endi. · The children are come to the birth, and there is noflrength to: bring forth. Have taken this peece, and no more,; More I could not (you fee :) It will nor fit our turne,or this day (the fore-end ofthe verfe :) This iid day oftror•ble,rebuke,hlaJPhemie, cannot we fay. We mull: fay: This is aday, not oftrou6!e, but of joy; not of rebuke, but ofprai(e; not of b!afphemie, but of thankfgiving, with us. And fo may we fay too, and yet keepe thefe words for our ground, ll:ill. Nothing lets, but that one and the fameday, may be,both aday ofjoJ; andof(orrow. They that have theday,and they thatlofe theday, the day is but one: but, ro the: wiooer, a Ioyfi•llday ; to thelofer, not fo; bur, f. day of(orrow, and ofb!afphemie, otherwhile. And fo was thisday, aday ofSorrow, to fome: they might have taken up the wholever(e,as it fiands: thofe(I meane) thar~ doe what they can, mull: be feine to father thechildren, that this day werecomming. but ca~enot forth. That they camenot forth, the want ofjlrength robe delh.med,; made1ttothemaday ofSdrrorv(fome[ay, ofb!afphemie, too:) Notfo, to us; ·'I_'o us, aday of praifeand thanlces;that they loll: their fo looked-for and long.ed-forchtt– dren; that they were not borne, who ifchcy had beene borne, would have beene the bane ofus all. To us then,~sthis, aday; So·this, avelfl DfjoJ•. J'll~ 9JI
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