

.L
Of the
NA
T 1
v
1Tu•
Sermon
I.
Vcrfc
'+·
defiroyed
death,
and the
Lordofdeath, the DiveU.
Them, He could not
deflroy,
unlelfe He
.Jitd: Die
He could nor, except He were
mortaU :
Mortal! He could not
~e,
except He
, tooke our
Natttre
on Htm, that ts, the
feed of
A •
~
A
H
A ., •
But, takmg tt, He became
mortal!,
d~ed,
deflroyed death,
delivered us; was (Himfelfe)
apprehended,
that wee migh1;
belet goe.
One thing more then, out ofthis word
A;prehendit,
The fermer toucheth His love ·
whereby Hefo laid hold ofus,as of
a
thing very precious to Him: This(now) roucheth ou:
danger; whereb>:, Hefocaughtus, as, ifHe had not,
it
had beene a great venture, but wee
had
fun~eand ~enfhed.
One, and
t~e
fame word, [
<.Apprehendit]
forteth well, to exprelfe
borh Hts affechon, whereby Hedtd lt; and our great peril!,
wh~reby
we needed
it.
vVe had
beene(before) laid hold of, and
apprehended,by
one,mentione~
in the
14.•
verfe he that lllth
porverofDeath,even
the
Dive!/:
We were in danger, to befwallowed up by
hi~.
we needed
one, to !ay hold on us fafi,andto pluckeus out of his jawes. So He did. And
I
\~ould hav~
you to marke: It is the
fam~wo~d,
that is ufed, to Saint
Peter,
in like danger,(
Mat.14.13.)
when, bemg ready to finke,'"""''''' CH
R 1sT
car<ght hzm
by
thehamJ,and
faved him. The
fame here, in theGmke ;that, in
theHebrerv,is
ufed (Gen.x9.16:)ro
Lot
and his dau<>hters
in the like danger; when,rhe
Angelt caught him,
and by firong hand plucked him oufof
So~
dome.
One delivered, from the
water;
the other, from the
fire.
And it mal:' truly be [aid, (inalinuch as, all Gods
pr~mifes,
as well touching temporail;
1
Cor.r.>o
as, eternal!
d.ehvcra~c.es;
and as well .corporall, as _fpmruall, be
(11
CH "
1
s
T
yea and
_
Amen:
Tea,
mthe gtvmg forth;
Amen,m
the performmg) that even our temporal! delivery
•
1
from the dangers, that daily cornpalfe us about; even from rhis
bit,
fo grcar, and fo fearful!'
as the like was never imagined before; all have
t~eir
ground, from this
Grtat
apprehenjion
.~
areftuitsofthis
Seed,
here, this blelfed
Seed,
for wl\ofe fake, and for whofe
trutht
fake
that
J.o~>~.~·'9
we (though unworthily) profelfe, we were
by
Him
cartght holdof,
andfo plucked out 'of it:
And, but for which
Seed,(afli ejfemutjicut Sodoma,We hadbemeevm
11<
Sodome,
andperifhed
in the
fire;
and the powder there laid had even blowen us up all.
Hcbr.s. 9 .
And
II_IlY
not I adde to this
[apprebendit, m_liberaret,]
the other (in the eighth Chap-
ter followmg)
4fpr<hendzt,ut mam• dr<ceret:
to thts [
oftakmg
us
by
the
hand,toddiver
us,]
that,
[oftakiPg
111
by
the hmd,
togsia'e
us:]and fo, out ofone word, prefemHim to you,
notondy, as our
Deliverer,
butasourguide,
too~
OurDeliver<r,
ro riddeus from him,
thathath
power ofdeath;
Our
Gr<ide,
to Him, that
hathpoweroflift.
To leade us, even
by
the
way
of
truth,
to the path of
life; by
the fiations of
well doing,
to the
man{ionf ofH;.
John•P
Fathers houfe.
Seeing; He hath fignilied, it isHispleafurenottoletgoeourhands., but:
Iohn '4·3
to hold us
frill,
till He have brought us, thar,
where He
is,
we may'alfobe.
This alfo is inci–
dcn: r?
apprehendit;
bur, bccaufe it is out ofthe compalfe ofthe Texr,
I
touch it onely,and
paile lt.
.
.
7he rea-
And, can we now palfe by this, but wemufi aske the quefiwn, that Saintiohn
Baptifts
Ions of
Motherfometime asked, on thelike occafion
~
*
Vnde mihi hoc.?
Cfait)l fhe:)
rndenobir hoc?
thisap·
(may we fay:) Not,
q11'odmater Domini
;but,
quodDominmipfevenit ad nos;
Whencecom•
P"hendit.
meth this unro us, that the
L
oR
D
Himfelfe, rhus came unto us,
andtooke
us, letting the
.'Luk.<·4!
-Angels
goe
~
Angel!
are better than the befiofus; and, reafon would• ever, the better lhould.
be
taken:
how then were wetaken,thatwere not the
better~
Sure, not without good ground, (fay rhe Fathers,) who have adventured to fearch out
~
the
Theologie
ofrhis poim: fuch reafons, as might ferve for inducements, toHim, that
is,prq–
nU<
4d
miferendt~m,
naturally enclined to pitty; why, upon us, Hewm1ld rarher havecom–
paflion. And, divers fuchl finde: I will touch onely one errwo ofthem.
1
Firfi,
Mans
cafe was more to be pitried, than theirs, becaufe man was
tempted,
by ano-
ther; had a
Tempter.
The
An~els
had none, None, tempted them; None, butthemfelves.
Et
levius
eft
alienJ.
mente
pecdffe,
qugm
propriJ
(faith S.
A11guf!im.)
The offence is the lelfe,
ifit grow from another, than ifit breed in our [elves: And, the lelfe the offence, the more
pardonable.
,.
Againe, ofthe
Angels,
when fome fell,otherfome fiood; and
lO,th~y
(all) did 11ot perilb;
Dur, in the fir!!
man,
all men fell; and fo, every motherschilde had died,and no fldhbeeoe
1
faved; For
,all
werein Adam;and
[o,
in,and with
ddam,a!l
h~d
come tp nought. Then c.om–
m~b