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thejlefo•.
0 rharHe might be! and fo He was. _Nor onelf
manife.fl,
at all ;(that, is
great:)
but
manifejlmtk
Jl.tjh;
(tha_usgre.ater.) For, tf gold mtxed, though it be with fJ..lver, is
abafedby tt; whanftt bemtxedwtth the rull: oflronordroffe ofLeade
~
This mull: needs
be great, in
itfdf~:
But greater, with us : With_ us cfpecially, that makefuch adoe at any,
though never fo little
dtfparage~ent;
and that, tfany, (thougb not much our inferiour)
be
r~nked
wtth us, take our felves mtghnly wronged•. We camliJt choofe, but hold this
Myjle.
rtefor
Great,and
fay wtth S.
Aug:ljlme,) Deus: qrudglortojitu.? Caro: quidvi!i&
1
Detu in
carne :_guidmirabilim.?
God: what more
glorious~
jlejh:
what more bafe
(
Then, GoD
in thejtcfb :
what more
marvellous~
M~nife-
But,I aske
~urrher
:
manifejledin the
flejh;what
jlejb
.?
0
r,how
manifejled?
In
JVhatjlefh l
lled~d
What,
m
the pndeand beauty ofour Nature< No: but,
m
the moll: difgracefull ell:areofit
;g..
mi-
that might be. And, how
manifejled.? Algloriam,
for His credit orgloric
~
No: bur
ad
Ilia:.·
a
ignominiam,
to
His great contempt and
fhai~e.
So to have beene manifell:ed, as in the
holy
Chi/Je
Mount
,(
Hts
face, as the
Stm,H
ts
garments
as
ltghtnzng
;
hetll'tene Mofes
and
Elias
,in all glorie
lllat.•;.
,:
and glorious manner:) This had not beencfo great an impeachment.Was that the manner;
No: But
how~
In
clottts,
in
ajlab!e,
in a
manger-
The
G
0
D
'· whom the
heavens, andthe
.E«.
''·4
heaven ofheavens fannot containe,
in a little
childs
flefh not a fpannelong: and that flel11 ofa
As~·,~~:
Childe not very well conditioned, as youmay readeinthe
XVI.
of
Ezekiel.
Jemntd
So, to day: but after, much wotfe. To day,
in
the
flefh
of a poore
Babe
cryioo- in the
perfon.
~ratch,
in medio animalium :
After,
~n
the re!lt and tome
jlejl>
ofa
condemned
perfon~
hang-
thgontheCro.JTe,
inmedzo latronum,
mthemtdfl: ofother manner perfons, than
Mofes and
Eli,u;
That, men even
hidthe!rfaces
at Him; not, for the
brightneJ!e ofHisglorie,
but for
&.b.
1
o.•o
fo~row
and
jhame.
Call you thts
mamfejlmg.?
Nay, well doth the
Apojlle
call it,
thevei!e of
hrsjlefo;
as whereby He was rather
ob[cured,
than any way
Jet forth;
yea,
ecltp(ed,
tn all the
dar,kell: points ofit. Verily, the
condition
ofthe
jlejh
was more thanthe
jlefo
it felfe: and the
manner ofthemanifejlation,
farre more, than the
mani(ejlation
it felfe was. Both ll:ill make
,_
theMyjleriegreaterand
greater.
,
The
And now, to weigh the word
manife~cd,
another while; becaufe, that may fceme
Manner
to bee
termint~~
diminuens,
a qualified terme, rather abating than any way tendino- to
~
th;{..
make
grw
the
c.Myjlerie;
In that,
a
thing may bee
manifejled,
and not bee that,"for
ft
a~"
whi'ch it is manifelted; be
manifejled
for one thing, andbeanother. Would to G
0 0
Atson.
wee
had not too plaine examplesofthefe, even in that we are
about,ingod/ineff'eirfelfe~
~
Tim H
Thattherewerenot, rhatmanifell:ed themfelves
''~"'F~··
•
.,, in the
vizor,
or
maskeofgodli–
neff'e,
but be nothing leffe. Well, this, how or wherefoever it may be with men, with
GoD it is nor : Hee is not like to us: And howfoever, not herein this. For firfl:, it
i5 not in the
fbaddoi~,
fbew,
or
foape
of
jlejb :
but, in very
fief/>
it felfe.
Then, it is noc
(faith the
Greeke Scholiajl)
~4,~~,, but,~"''1"a,;,,~_,o,l,,
whichimportethbut an
apparition,
tranfitory, for a fcafon, and then vani!11eth againe;
•><v.r•o•,, a
manifeJfation;
fuch, as is
(fay they)permanenr, which paffethnot, but)all:eth forever. And to put all out ofque–
ll:ion, (that here is
nihilper{Qnatum,
but
evenpe~a,)
He that here is [aid robe Go
o
ma-
lo!m rj4;
nifeJ!edin the.flefo,
is, in anether _place, [aid to be
Verbum
~aro
facrum,
r!1e
Word madejlefo.
So
manifejled,
that
made: [o
taking our narure,as Hts, and lt arc growne
m
to
one
pcrfon,
ne–
ver to bee fevered, or takenin funderanymore. And,infignerhereof, rhatjlef/J wherein
He is
manifejled,
(in the beginning ofthe
Verfc;
in the end ofthe
Verfe,)
inthevery fame
j!efb,
He is
received up intoglorie;
And in the fame, l11all appeare againe,at His fecond
ma–
,
nifejlation•
. And yet,to go further
1
I fay,that_this wo:d [
mani(efted,]
is
Co
farre from being
Tmnimu
a1minuens,
that 1t doth greatly amphate and mlarge the
Myjlerte
yet ll:tll. To be, and, tobe
m•nifefted;Eife,aAd videri;Dici de_,andejfe in,
are_rwo things. And,as,infome cafes,it is more
to
be,
than to be
mallifefted; [o,
m
fomeother, lt ts more robe
manifejled
than to
he:
And
namcly,inthishere. More,for Go
o,
to
bemanifefled,
than
to
heintheflefh.
ltiswe!l
lmowne, when a great high Perfon_doth fall into
lowdr~te,
he careth
notfon:u~h
for
being
fo,as for
appearing
[u~h :
Manifejl
htm not, and yeu doe hml a pieafure. M
or~
lt 1s,for Hun,
tobe
made
knonme,than to
be,
that, He is.
0
it is naturally given us, to hiae our abafing,
what
we can. Our
miferic
muft
be kept
iQ
aMJfterie,andthat
Myfterie
is
not
manifefiedin
~nv.
wtfe~