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Of the
NATIV
r
Tu.
SermDn3.
R~iles
wercfaineto be fer, to
~eepethem
backe. It is,
~ecaufe
it is helda point of adeepe
Gen.4'.
wa, to fearch
outfecrcts:
as; m
lofeph.
At leaft offpenal! favour, to be received fofarre
as
45·
robis dat11m
eft,
no!Te Myfleritt.
All defire to be in credit. The mention of
LMyfteries
w'i!t
~'t~r
8
;';,
make us !land attentive: why then, ifour nature like fo well of
Myjleries, Ecce ojlmdo vobi&
•
51
Myflerir1m,
Behold I
fhewyouaUJtyfterie
(faiththeApeftle.)
z
A Myfierie of
G~dlinejfe
•.
The world harh
!~er
011y.fteries
in all Arts;
arid
Trades, (yea;
~~y~e: ~echamca/t,
pmammg to this ltfe;) whKh are Imparted to none, bur fuch as are
jilij fcien–
l,'!J.
d
n..
,apprcnnces to
~hem.
Thefe have their
Myftems :
have them, nay, are nothing but
My.
jlerm.
Sothey delight to firle themfelves by the name of fuch and fuch a
011yflerie.
Now
VcrfeB.
Pieta. ejlqtt.tjfru, (Chap.Y_I. Ver[e
6.)
and (in the next
Cha!'.) ad
omniat~tili<,
a
Trade
of
good
retttrne;
to be
m
requefi With us; whether welooke
to thu lifeprefent
(faith
he)or to tiMt to
come.
Therefore to be allowed her
My(feries:
at leafi, as all other Trades are. The rather
• The!!'.>.
for that there is
011yfterit~m
iniqttitati&:
And, it were fomewhat hard, that there lhould no;
7
"
be
011yfterium pietati5,to
encounter and to march it: That
Baby/on
fhould bee allowed rhe
llpo.t
7
.
5
·
name ofa
MJflerie,
and
Sion,
nor.
Ir
were an evident
N
M
fequitltr,
thatthere lhould
bepro·
>->i·
f!md" Satan&, deepe things ofSatans;
and thereihould nor be
deep~
and
proformd things ofGod
and Godlinejfe,
for the
Spirit
to fearch out.
Bur,
fuch there be;
Myfteries
of
godli,;eJJe.
And
we will
(I
trufr) fiand affected, as in all other Trades,fo in this, to be acquainted with thefe;
'Cor.•.
and (as the
Apoftll
fpeaketh) to pierce
adinteriora Velaminis
,to that which is
w#hinthe veile·
Heb.6.~;:
to the very
Myjlerie
of
Godlinefle.
•
3
... ·
Iris nor oncly
a
.011yf!erie
of
Godlinejfe;
bur a
Grwone. The
Apeft!e,
(where he f.1irh;
·A~reat
*If
I
/mew all
Myftmes~ giv~th
usro underfia_nd, there be more than one; there 1s
a
plurality
c...M:Jff.rJ
ofrhem. And, (here,
m
th1s place) rellerh
us~
they be not all of one fcanrling
l
there is
•
1
Cor·
magi; andminru
in them:
fomelittle, fomegreat.
'Some
great
;(if you will)accordino to
Eph.;,
3
J
ail
~he di~enfio'n?,length
and
breadth, &c.
:Or,
Great, Virtute,. npn mole,
.ofgreater value,
~P<'·'+·m.oreprecwusrhanorher:
l
Or,
Great,
athird way, that
ls~gravtdaMyJierzi5;
one
Myflerie,
t
bm hath many
Myjleries
with it. That fuchrhere are,andthatrhishereisoneofthem:
-Great.
Now, that which leadeth us to make
accotmt
of
Myfteries,
willlikewifdead us ro
.make
Great account,
of
Great 011J.fleries;
fuch, as this is.
z
Yet have we not all,onepoinr further.
It is
agreat one;
a great one, Without
contro-·
A
great
'tlerjie.
For, evenofthofe
~fteries,
that are
great,
all are
notg:reat
alike. Many
great
th~re
one,
are
5
yet is not the
greatnejje
ofall generally acknowledged,
tn confejfo.
Doubts are made,
11>itbout
qudlions arife about rhem: all are QOt
manifeJfe magna.
We fee, in our dayes, how meA
co•tro-
languilh about fome points, which they would have rhoughrro be
great; andgre4t
comro~
ver.fie.
verfles
there bee,'and great
bookes ofcontroverjies
abourthe11!1. Well, howfoever it is with
other it is not fo with this. This is;,'"""-'"'"''"''
takenproconftjfo, Great;
Great
without con–
troveif,e: the manifeftinguf.
Go
o
ill
thejlejb,
is
a
Myfterie manifeftlygreat.
Bein~
then one
of-the
011yfteries
of
Religion;
a
great
one among them ; fo
great,
as though quelbons grow
aboutthegreatneffe
ofothers, none may about this: I hope there
;~ill
be no more <jUeilion,
or
controverfie
ofour
ucotmt,
and our
great acco11nt
of1r, than there
IS
ofrhe
Myjlem
It felfe,
and rhe
Greatne!Te
ofit.
.
Bur, before wee goe any"further, to remove the
veile,
and ihewwhar it is, !et us paufe
here a while till we haverendred thankes
to
God, and fa1d With
'10lzranzen,
x•
1 ,
rrJ
f'"".!JP;9'
eEn, &c.N
~w
yer, blclfcd be G o o, that
am~ng
diverfe other
Myfteries.,about
which rhere .
are fo many
mifls
and clouds of
controverjies
ra1fed
mall
Ages, and even m this of.ours,harh
yet left us fome cleare, and
witho11t controverjie; manifeft,
an~.
yet
great;
andagame,great,
and yet
manifejl.
So
Great,
as
noexcepttonto
be taken: fo mamfefi,as no
q11efizon
to
be made
about them.
Wirhall,roreformeourjudgementsinthis point. For, a fJlfe conceit is crept into
themindes ofmen, To thinke, the points of Religion, that be
manifeft,
to
becerrame per–
tie points, fcarceworth the hearing: Thofe,yea, thofebe
great,
and none but thofe, that
ha~egreat Di{putes
about them.
Iris notf?:
Td.p.•'vdv.-y,fi<,&c.
Thofe that are
nccef–
{a~te
He hath
madeplaitte:
thofe, that
notplame,
not
.n~cejfam.
What better proofe, rban
, tlus
here~
This here, a
Myfterie,
a
Great
one, (ReiiPion hath no
greater~)yet
011anifeJf,
;tlld
m
conf~,
with
all
Chriftians.Zacharies
PropheCIC,and prom1fe,touchmg
C
u a r s
T,
-
where.