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Sermon
7·
andfAsTI
N G.
when the
trees
will flU in
trAv•ile,
andtheyandthee•rth (both)makcprofferto-
/.
ward, and give
pledges
inthm
bttds
and
bi~J!~mes,
of
fi'utt
that IS commmg, and will
follow in due time.
.
.
.
.
We are made thefe
ojfm
,chocYfe wh1ch we wlll; Ifwe w1ll keepe nme with the
h a ens
Now the
heavens
returne againe ro their
firll
degree: lt is
turning time in he
4•
:en~
If'with the
follies
of
hea_ven
(and them CHRIsT bidds us
!~~keto)
they know
Chlp.6••
~,
theii·
times
jufr and ju(lat tlus
mm
make thetr returne; the poore
(wallowes
and all:
And fo let
us~
that the
PropGet Icremie
upbr.1yd us not with them.
So,
whether wee
Icr.8.7.
willgocby
~eaven
and
thefowles
~f
heAven.;
or, by
eMtha~d
thefr:ms
of the
earth,
they all invite us to
t~edtfpcnfmon
of this
fea(on.
Yea, tf we w1ll giVe
ourf~uler
leave to keer;>e timew1th our
b1dzes, thetJmewe
take
phyjidu
for one, may be(tf we
will) allowed in like fort for the other : The
opemng
of the
yme
for both. Equall
· need is ofboth: if any
odd~,
on the
Joules
fide.
Nay it hath fo fallen out,that
Repentance, FA.fting,
and the
vay
feafon of the
yeare
(f~r
the moll: part) hit together. That of z:vnw,nhe mofif.1mous: by_rhe
fpringing up of
Ionb gourd,
wemayghdfe, what time lt :vas : v:re know
wh~t
nme
it is,
whengot~rds
fpnng. And, for our
Savtour
~H~
1
sT,Ifwewlll take up
Htsttme,
it is Cuppofed, He byd His al[o much about th1snme.
For~ whenthe,peopl~were
b
4
pti:ud,
then was CH
ll 1
s
~
al[owtththem,
as St.
Luke[alth
:
And1mm~d1ately L•~·P'·
of.,;
after His
Bapti(me,He
was
carrtedawAy :nto the
wtldmuf!e,~nd
therebegan Hts
fourty
dayes fajl.
Ex
emplum dedi vobr!,
A paternefor us; both for our
jAjf,
and for our
time
of it.
Itis true,
the~le//Jnt
faft
in the
Law,was
in Ti(ri,which anfwers our
September:
But then, take this withal!; when it was fo in
Tifri, Tifri
was with them theirjir:ft
'mo~~tth.
So they alfobegan their
repentance
with the
beginning
of the
ye.re.
·
And,take this bdides,that,in that
jirfl
moneth,
the
trttmpets
firft blafi of all, was
to affemble them to
th~ir
Kipher,
theirgreat
Repentance-day,
That
1
was theirfirft
woJke of all.
··
; Now
I
lhall tell you, how it was. Betweenethe
Faft
and the
Sahhoth,
it
is
well
"nowen, there was neere allyance,infomuch as the
F
4l
is called a
Sabhoth,
and both
are faid to be
fanEiijied. S•nelijie afaft
,as well as
Sanelijie the S•hhoth,
Their
Sahboth
lqd.•.r
t;
was the
(evcnth dAJ;
their
FaH
was the
feventh month.
And it may well be thought,
by
whom and when the
'Sa6both
was
removed
from the
feventh day
to the
ftrft;
by the
(ameperfons,
and at the fame
time,
was the
Faft
removed from the
(<venthmonthto
thefirft,
from
Tifri
to
Ni(•n
the
Jirft meneth
ofall. Now
Nifan
is allocalled
A
bib
of
the
firll
bringing forth fruits
init.
Now, inN
i(an,
was thetime whentheir
Pafcha/t Lambe
was
flaine
and
eat
m.
The
fame
u
•lfo
the time
ofthe
killing ofours
;
ofSt.
Iohn Baptifts L•mbe,the Lambe
DJ
God;
Ioh.
z..:;;
when CH
R I.sT
et<r Pajfeo'!lerwas
offered;
offeredfor
111
in
Sacrifice; offeredto
m
in
Sa.
r Coq,
r:
er~ment;
towhom St.
Iohn Baptift
will point us to takefpeciall notice of
Him,and
of
Huttmeboth.
. And
we,
now_ at this time,to Cet thofe
fowre herbes
and fee them come up,where•
llsod. u.t;
Wtth
thePajfeover
IS to be
wen;
which are nothing elfe but thefe
fruits
of
Repentance.
Now,to fet them; thar,then,wemay
gath~r
them
to
ferveus for
(awfe
to the
Pafchali
.cor.6.>!
L•mbe.
Thus every way, we may fay (with the
Apojlte)
Em, &c.
Beholdthil il the
due
fea~n,
Behold,now is the
convement time.
Now then,
Bring them forth.
.
th And,now all that hath beene fpoken would
~oo,
it might bringfonh but this;
. at,feemg the
11me
ferveth fo well, we can no way except to it we would not lltppe
lt.
If
we did but truly apprehend the words
zra ventura,
our
eye;
would not
jleepe,
nor
Pf 1
,
~~d <Jt-l~ds
flt•mber,nor
the
temples of our heads take
Any
reft,
till we had
t~ken
firaight
'
·•3•· 1:"'
f:
·t
With our felves, for the
when, when
it l11ould be; At what
ttme
we lhould not
t
{but todoeit; and nothing lhould lee us, but performeit once to purpofe, and
ea
e~
out felvesthisfmit; that, yet oncewelllily affure ourfclves, we are
m
good
earne ,and thatdone it is,and Cuch and fuch were the
fmits,
we had of it.
Y 4
Atime;