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' To this cloth
Chry[offome
joyne a fccond lllnnony. !hat as, under
t~
'sibtFta/Jof
11tt,;m,i1tgof
Eajltr.
th1s
Feaff,
they _firfi
put thezrjicle to the Corne; (Harveft,
mt?at
Climate,
b~ in~~at
With them mthis Moneth ') the
fir
(I
fhlits
whereofthey offered at
EaJ/er.
~
d
mg
called therefore by them
Feflnm mefis:
In like fort we fee, rhat this
veryda~
ths
L
o
x
o of theHarvefr fo difpolina it, who not long before
lifting up
H
1'
eyes,
~~
Johni·lf·
looktng on the regzens roumlabout,_/nv them whzte and ready to the harveJI;
His
tirQ
Mauh.s 3. 3
s. Workemen,thc.Apoifles, d1d put In their firfr fide mtothe great
Harvef/,Cuj;u
4
17
Vcrfe
r
ejl Mundtu,
whereofthe world
uthefield,
and the feyer,all furrowes of it
all
the~
··
'
,
tionsunderheaven.
On the Feafr of
Pcntec1f,
then fecond, becaufe
the~
beganth.
great
Spiritual! Harvejl.
e
Tbr 'Fea/1of
To thefc two doth *Saint
.Attguffine
addea third,taken out ofthe number inthe
Miltt.
very name of
Pentecojf,
and that
•sfiftte.
Wluch bemg all along the Law thenu
111
A•t".fl·'l·"~· ~er
ofthe
Iu_hilte
(which was the time
offorgivi~g
of debts,
and
reftoring~entothn;
jirjl
eflates)
Jt falleth fit w1tb the procla1mmg of the
Cojpelt
(done prckorly herein
the 38. Verfc ofth1s <;:haptcr) which
is
an
AY
of Go o's mofr gracious
gm~Jt
jreepardo11
of all the finnes, ofall the finnersin the world.
c
1
,;t.
car. •,.
And noleffclit falleth it for our
Refiitution,
whereunto
Cyril
applyethexce!lenr.
Ffll.
1
•
0
+·Jo,
lytheXXX.Verf~ofthe
Cl V.
Pfalme, Emitte Sp_iriwm '"""'drcnahuntur,(;
renovahisfirciem terr
"·
Shewmg,there was firfr an em1llion ofthe
Spirit
inro
m•n
at
his
Creati.n;
Which, being lince choked with finne,
~nd
fo come ro nothing:
rh~
day, there is here
afecondemifron
of the fame
Spmt
mto man, fuliytorljlm, and
renew him, and in him the_whole Maffe of the
Creation.
On the day of
Pmt"oft
then !aft, becaufetherem,.Js the true ntJmbcr and force ofthe true
Ju6ilee. Thi1fortbe
choice
of
the time.
IY.
The Number thus ferlcd, wee delccnd ro thefecond point, ofthe
Manmr.
And
)'he
manntr.
firll: on their pans on whom the Ho
L
y G
H
os
·r
came: how Hee found them
1
fram.ed, and fit to receive fuch a Guefr.
le is called by the Fathers,
Parafrevt
o.,.,;,
P" 1'·
S
P
r
R 1
r us-, The
prepar&tion
(as there was one for the
Pajfeover,
fo here) for
~hnc.1r
prtpara·
Ptntecojl.
1
Theywe:re
aUD{tmttn·
tDrd.
.E:zck.37·7•
8,
ll·
It is truly faid by the
Phi!ofopher,
That
.A{fm aEiivor11m{rmt inpatimtedif}lfttl;
if the
patient
be
prepared
aright, the
Agent
will have his
wurke,
both rhe foonerand
the better. And fo confequemly, the
Sptrit,
in His comming; if the parriesto
whom He commeth, be made
Perj}irable.
And this is three-fold, fet downe in thcfe words,
r.
They were allwithl/lur–
cord.
2.
They were allin oneplace.
A double Vnitie :
1
Vnitie of
minde
tfois
~l"'lvp.a.J'Iv,'lvp.>')
or of
hearts
(fo is
accord, cordium.)
•
And fecondly, unitie ofp/,re.
3•
And thirdly, thefe two,
dr1m complerentnr;
Patiently expecting,
whilohtfftie
dayes were
acco
mplifbed,
Vnitie is the Jirfr:
uniticofminde.
And f'orir, takebutany.!Jirit,thatisro
give life to a narurall body; Can any
[piritanimate
or give life to membersdifmem•
bred, unlef[e they ·be lidl: united and compact together
~
It cannot:
!'mtte mull
prepare the way to any
fPirit,
though but
natural/.
A faireexampk we have, m
E z
~
K I E L,
chap.
X XX V I
I.
A fore of fcmered dead bones there lay:
They
were to be
revived.
Firfi,
the honescame together, ev<ry bone to his bone; then, the
jinewesgrew and knit them: then, thejlejh and skinne, aTJd covered them : and then,
when they ••ere thtu united, then andnot before, called Hee for the Spirit fromthefm;
winds, to enter into them and t•givtthem life.
No Spirit, Notthe
ordmary,natttf4
Spirit
will come, but where there is a way made and prepared by
accord
and unme
ofthe bodic.
. .
Now then take the
Holy Ghoff,
the
Spirit
of ali
f}irits,
the
third
~erfonin
'l'rt;"'
tie:
Heis the very
tjfmtiallrnity,Love,
and
Love.knot
ofthe two Perloos,che
Fat'
1
d
and the
Sorme
;even of G o
1>
with G oo, J\nd He is fent robe theYmon,
Lwean
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