308 'God why called thehidden God. FTy45ts. God is woon by weake means tocon foundthe Mightic. . Vpon the third commended by them. So faith Saint (Mathew , The (multitudes wondred; and feeing the Dumbe toflieake, theBlind tofee, theLame to walke, they magnified the God ofIliad. The ,other , The force ofour Sauiour Chrills words. Ecclefiaflicus faith, That the words of a wife man are like fo many nayles that finke the foule through,and wedge it fafl. Ifa wife mans words haue that force,what efficacie full Godswords carrie with them tlcertainewoman lifting vpher voice, e7c. Efay called our. Sauiour Chrift, Thehidden God, Verè to es Deusabfonditus ; Hidden in the Heavens. And for this caufe feme do deriuethename ofCrelum,,iCazlando.lobhe faith,2',ubeslatibu- lum ei os.Hewas likewifehidden inhismothers womb ; ,é ctelicapere nonpote- rant, tuogremiocontulgi. Who would thinke that this immenfitie which the Heaiens could notcontaine, fhouldbee Phutvp in foftreight aroomer Hee hid himfelfe:alfovnder his humanitie ,infomuch that theDeuills eyes , beeing fo fharpe lighted, anecable todifcerne things afarreoff, could not know him,when his Dininitiewas hidden vnder thofe pains and torments which heeendured. Efay faith , Quafi abfconditus vultus elus It was hidden from the Worlds knowledge ; Buis cognouitfenfi.<m Domini ? Who knew themeaningofthe Lord:? Thegreateft Clerkes in Ierufalem faid, In Beelzebub eÿcit D emonia, Through Bel- hee caps out Deuills. And ifany man shall preffe meewith that placeof Saint Paul,That heewas manifeftedandmade knowne to the World ; I abfwer, That he did hide himfelfe,but the Fatherdidmanifefthim inthe Cratch ; bee hidhimfelfe in themanger, but his.fwathing cloathes driueled on bythe Oxe and the Affe, and the teares that trickled downe his cheekes, did difcouer him to be Man ; the Kings fought to concealehim, but the Sheepheardsdid reueate himin the Temple ; hismother, bearing him as a Sinner inher bellie, who was to redeeme the World, didhide and couer him, butSimeon and Annethe Pro- pheteffe did proclaime himto the world; his kneeling downe in Iordan before hewas baptifed, didhide hisworth ; but the opening ofHeauen,and the voyce of the Father diddeclare him to behis Sonne;and the Holy-Ghoft defcending downe vpon his headin the forme of aDoue, didmanifefthis Maieflie. Vpon the Croffe, the Nayles, theGall,the Vincgar,hiswounds, hisferipes,his fhame, and his beingforfakcnofhis Father, did hide hisglorie ; but the Centurion,the Thecfe,his Executioners, the Sunne, Moone, Stones, and Sepulchres rendring vp their Dead, didmanifeft his power. And here the Scribesand Pharifees cal- ling himthe Minifter of Beelzebub , feeke to hide him ; but (Marcella and her companions with a loud voyce,makehim tobeknowne what he was. (.4*certaine woman,&c. In the weakeneffeofthis womanGod diddifcouer the greatneffe ofhis power. Of Judith it is faid, That a womanofthe Iewes did confound the pride ofNebucadnezar : And here it is faid, Thata Iewifhwoman gauethe lie to all the power ánd wifcdome of Ierufalem ; ftriking the Scribes and Pharifees dumbe,confoutiding their vnderftanding,and making them alba- med -. ForMarcella feeing them thus conuincedby the reafons ofour Sauiour Chrift, file liftedvp her voyce aloud, in tokenof viétorie, andto (hew that our Sauiourhad thebetter of them. King Balthazar in the middeft ofall hismirth and )ollitie,was witha hand that he efpiedvpon thewall, ftruckenas dead as a doore nayle. Pharaohwith ablaft ofGods mouth was drowned in theDeepe PlauitSpirituseius,&c. Thefe were orangethings ;but much more firangewas it, That apoore fillieoldwoman fhould with twoor three words confute the wifedome of Ierufalem, and put them to fuch a nonplus that they had nota word
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