ktittnstW4tktiMSvÌgSt`?gStroltsoe20211Mtsi T ' r LJ.t.i.ß. : . +é'fa THE XXXIII. SERMON, VPON THE cMY.X,D eAY e fFTER% PASSION SVNDAY. Ion N. 7. eMiferunt Principes Sacerdotutm e4fin/ros, apprehenderentpefum. TheChiefe Priefis fens their Officers to apprehend Iefus. Ere,the chicle ofthe Priefts(waiting onthe voyceand crie of the people,& watching which waytheywere inclined, &beholding how theywere ready to mutine,& that many dayly were conuerted,conuinced by thofemyracles,which were fo great both in quality&number,that they could not be wrought byanybuttheMeffias, whom theyhad fo long looked for) fearingfome alterationboth in their State and Religion, anddeuifingwith themfelues, how they might cur off this Good, as if it had beene fouie Canker or Plague ofthe Common- wealth,Theyfest officers to takehim. Inwhich Difcourfe is difcoueredthe force and efficacie of Gods Word,and how little the induftrie and policie ofman is able to preuaile againft thisDiuineWifedome. The High-Priefisfen: to takebim . The motiue hereunto was their enuie, a vice fo vnfortunateand fo vnluckie, that accounting for it's felicitie,andfor it's good, anothers ill, commonly the ill raineth downe vpon the head of the En- uious,and the good, vponthat of theEnuied. iefephi brethren threw him into a pit, and then fould him, and all but outofenuie ; and this theirfelling ofhim, was themeanes ofhis excellingof them ; and theircartingof him downe, the rafting ofhim vp : thus purpofed aduerfitie turned to future profperitie.Haman that was K ingviperms his Fauorire, had lifted Gods peoplein feuerail rolles, with a ful refolutionto haue themmatfacred all inone day ; he had fet vpahigh gallowes whereon to hang csbtordochey : thishis enuiewas themeanes that Gods people found fauour, cimordochey was aduanced, and Hamaís hung on the Gal- lo is which he had Trade for another. The like fucceffe hadSotwith Daaid; and Kebucadnezars Princes,with pooreDaniel; and the Lewes, with our Sauiour Chrifl; : f4 Nopolicie preualent againti the wordandwif dome ofGod. Enuieof all vices the moil vnfortunate to it relfe, & for- tunate to other:.
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