C ii* A r . 5.6. ofOthe Churchvnder the Lain,&c. 389 to the World in twoeminent Vertues, Graceand Truth, which hec had, not in meaftne,norby participation,but the whole nature and fulncffe of them. b Whereunto b perfc r5, lohnTaptif himfelfe bare record,highly magnifyingthc Perron and Office of Chria ahoue his ov'ne : though he were in the number of his Auditours,and did follow him, ( as Schollers vfe to come behind their Ma- fier) yet had the precedcnce,and was infinitly preferred before him ; for fo his worth and excellencie, farre be- yond fohns, did require. But both thefe Vertues,really reading in himfelfe, he bath beetle plcafed tocommuni- cate vuto vs in large and aboundant manner : firff , tou- ching Grace : s From the fulneffc of Chrift anointed c very 16. with the fubaance ofit, we receive grace for grace : the fame very grace,and al the gracesthat are inhim,though not in the fame meafure, as the waxe doth the print of the Scale print for print : and the child the fathers li- neaments, limme for limme. d Whereas the Law (the d verge 17. Ceremoni all Law) dcliuerc d by ()floret, hauing but a fhaddow ofgood things to come , was not able to get a liuelyprint,and to fiampe grace vpon them,Tie6.ro.i. Secondly, ForTruth : e Hee, onely Het, one withhis ¡'f 'ge Father, and ofthe fare nature and 'effence,hath euiderr. ced hitn, and madehim vifible, whobefore was hidden under the fhaddowes and ceremonies of the Law. The Apolile to the Coriuths, handling the fame Argument , bath in effecîthe fame Metaphore,a.Car.3.13,I4,18. In the Old Teffament, a vaile or covering kept away the eleere light,that their cies were rather dazeled,then able,. to looke into the bottome ofMofes miniflerie.But now, in there times of the Gofpell wherein wee behold the Glorie ofthe Lord, inhis Sonne manifef#ed in the flea), as in a Glaffeor Mirrour the beames of his Glorie re.: fleaing, leaue au Image or print behind them, to make vs alto glorious by a fecondarie kind of glorie. 'Here> Ynto it maiceth, that the flare of the Church under the Nef-
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