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Sermon
1,·
Elay J8.J6.
Abac.~·3•
they did n?t looke for Him,the fame afternoone; nor frayed but till rhe mo-;:;----–
ter
A{ce/JfhmDay;
nor (as the
&thulians
ilint
was)foure
or
jive dayes,
atthe
fa~~
t
and then waxed wearie, and would wait no longer: But, as Hewilledthem tot. e. '
fo they did wait ;nor
jive dayts,but
five,
a~d
five : And focontinued wairia
;~lt,
ufque dum Complmntur, tiUthey were ammplifhed:
And then brake not up
nei~h
ven
keepe
Holy-dAJ,
bur held on their waiting,
Holy-daye1,
and all.
.
.
er,to
We fay before; this Fe.afr had divers names:
•The Feaftofrhe Law,'
The
Peaft
?fharvejl,
l
The
Feaft
of
Pentecoff:
We
~ay
put to
a
fourth (otit of
Dwt,r6,
9 .)
le
rs tbere. called 4the
Feaftof
Weeke~. lt1~not hot~res wll~
ferve the uune, noiyer
dayes:
rt mufr be
weekes,
and asmanyweckes as be dayesm aweeke, to make
itPtn.
t:coft
(that
is)jiftie dayes.
Thus long they fare by it (as it is in the next verfe)
aild
tar.
ned
p~tiently
the L oR
o' •
leafure,
till~e
came unto them,
.fl.!!j
crediderit
ne
[tjli.
net (farth the Prophet
E[ay) He that heleeveth, let hzm not he haftie :
And,fi
mor..,
fmrit,expefiA Eum
(faith
AhAcuk)
I
fNehappm toflay ,flay fsr Him.
And fo we !hall
ifwe call to minde this, that He bathwaited for us and our converfion, moreyeares'
than we d?edayes .for Him. And this.withal!,
veniendo veniet;
fray Hee may for;
time, but 1f we wart,
cw;e He
tPtll
certamly;
and when Hecomrneth,
Manehitvobis;
3
.tternum,
He will never forfake us, but continue·with us for ever.
Dum
tompltrt»t•r
Jhall
h.·v ·His accomplifhmenr.
And in this manner dorh the
Scripture
bear~
witneffe.ofthem,they
rr>ere
prepmJ,
and that they
[
ped ofthe
Spmt
; and let us of lrke
preparmg,
looke for like
f•mf{e.
The
Mann~r,
And nowwe come to the
Manner,
of
H
iJ
c~mming
• And that, firfi in
type
fenft.·
q';:{u
P"''·.
bl}' ; rhus defcribed. •
There came
~found;
•
There werefeenetongues;
·which is
a
fen–
~
;' ""''"''g
fible
kinde of
Comming.
.
.
,
·
'"YP•·
And that is acommiog rare, and nothingufuallwirh the HOLY Gnosr;
which as an
invijihle Spirit,
commerh (for rhe mofr part) invifibly.S.faith
~ob: H~
commeth to me, and
I
{ee
Him not; Hepajfeth hard
by
me, and
I
perceive Eimnot.
ltwas
Ch'p
,o.v.,
4 .
thus here,forthis once: But
a
fieri we fee (in the tenth Chapter)He
cam: upon
C9rne,
Chap.,.•.
luu
and hu company;
And after that,
upon the Twelve at Ephefm
(rnthemmh Chap.)
Bur on neither, that ought could
befeeneor heard :
Onely difcemed by fomeclfed,
Hewroughrinfuem. Hdh:ubefl:knewtheSpirit (Cn"
I sT)
fersusdownethe
manner of His comming;
Spiritut fPirAt,fednif"ci!Nndeaut quo, He
tlothcomeandi~
JPir~, bt~t
how or which
way,
that know yoi• not,
Yechere, in this prefent cafe, for this once, it was meet, Hefhouldrhus come
in
nate; and that there fhould be a folcmne, fer, fen!ible defcending ofir. .
.
I
Meet : that no leffe honour done to this
L~w
of Sion,
than to that ofSinli,
which was publike, and full
ofMajeftie;
and fo was this to be;
~
Meet: That having once before beene, and never but once,upon C
axr
~
r
the
He•d:
it 010uld be fo once more, on the
Church
too, the
Bbdie.
It pleafedH•m
tovouchfafeto grace the
Chnrch
His
~eene
with like folemne
inaugurati~n
to that
.of His owne, when the
I;I
o
L
v
G
Hos
T
defcended on Him in
like11<ffe
of
a
D0111;
that fhee might no leffe, than Hee Himfelfe, receive from
Heaven
like fokmneat:
tefl:arion.
.
d·
3
Laf1:ly, meet it was, it fhould remaine to the niemory of
all
ages
teflifie,
that a day there was, when even apparamly
to
fenfe, Mankind wasvilltedfro:n
°
0
high: And that this
Wind
here, and rhefe
Tongsm
carne not for nought, at fo hrgh
a
Fea.ft,infogrearanAJ{emhly.
d
This Comming then ofHis, thus in Stare,
is
fuch, as it was bothto
be heAYJ
an
Jeene,
To the
e~re
and the
eye
both. So faith Saint
Peter
of it after
(Yerfe
33·)
Bet~
thtu
exalted(fanh
he
o[C
a
"I
s
T)andhavmg
recewedthep~omifeofthe
Father,h:
hath jhedforth thu; whtch
yot~
now hoth
fee andheare. And wnh go?d r.eafonf,b(,tof
To
borhfen{es
is the
J:I
o.i.
l'
G
Ho s
~ prefented.Toth~
earewh1ch
rsthe en
~J,
faith :
T.o the
eye,
whrch
1S
th~ fe~fc
of
love.
The
eare,
that
IS
the
groun~
ofthe
~hie•
Yfhichisaudible: the
eye,
wh1ch
IS
the ground of
thc:Saframms,
wh1d1are'l'iji
TO