412, kD7 [O7 _CiOr e__!@tow) °"PED7t f!D) a at.3Cs ' , } i a Teq:?.,2?``'2 `'.'" :?.J.2i.3: THE XXII[I. SERMON, UP- ON THE SATVRDAY AFTER THE THIRD SVNDAY I N LENT. JOHN 8. Perrexit kfis in 914onte»i Oiiueti. Hee went into the Mount of' Oliucs, &c. What is typi- fiedby the Mount of0- hues. Vr Sauiour Chrift the eueningbefore, had preached in the Temple til that the drawingonofthenight enforcedhim to makeán endof his Sermon. Euerie orie ofhis Auditors hiedthem.hometotheir ownehoufestocafe andreft.them- felues;butour Sauiour Chrift , whohad neuer a houle of hisownetoput his head in,nor was inuited toanyoftheirs, betooke himfelfeto the Mount ofOliues, asatother times he was woont todoe ; which ftood in ehiat diftancefrom Hierufalem,that it was but awalke, as it were, oreafieSabboth dayes journey: inthe middeft whereof was thatlittleBrookebefet with Cedars, bending towards Bethania, where 0/artha and Marie dwelt. Heere our Sauiour Chrift fpent that night in prayer, but early in the morningcameágaine into the Temple, andall thePeople floc- king about himto hearehim, this Hiftorie hapnedof thewoinan thatwas taken in adulterie ; whereofwe are nowto treat. He went into the (Meantofolives, &c. Saint 4aguflinein aSermon De Verhie Dimini, (takenout rof that Tract which hemade vponCohn) calls the Mount of Oliues, Menton chrifmatis vnguenti : AndBedeaddeth, That the top of this Mount loth typifie the heigth of our Sauiour Chrifts pittie and mercie. And the Euangelift here aduifethvs, That hee came from the Mount of Oliues to theTemple,where this Storie fucceeded ;becaufe aworke,offo great mer- cie and clemencie, could not conueniently come fromany other place. c.Pwofes defcended downe from Mount Sinay, but with forigorousaLaw, thathebrake theTables in pieces, thatall the Peoplemight not therebyindanger their dam- nation. Sinay is aBufb, and fromBufhes what canbe expeétedbut bruifes and brufhings,and all fharpeneffeof rigour? But from the Mount of Oliues, no- thingcould comethence butOyle, whichis that commonHieroglyphofmer- cie andcompalion. Firft, For it's foftnefl'e and fweetneffe ; andtherefore did the Diuine proui- dence fo order the bufrnefl'e, that Priefts and Kings (hould bee annoynted there-
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