lob ,,s. 9• Pfaf,.i2.• 3·+· lob 9 6+ Chrifts ru1nExpojition Exaltation.\ good children of God. D•uidaman after A1forthofourfelues inChrift: wemuft loath Gods owne heart was_ by S•muel annointed and thinkeas bafely of our felucs as pofsibly Kmgoucr lfraei, but Wtthall G 0 D mfedvp may bee in regard ofour linnes, .Chriftlefus 1.34 Saul to pe_rfecute him , as th~ fowl~r hunteth vpon the cro!fe was content for our fake , to the Partrtdge mthe mountames , mfo much become a wormt andno man as Dauid faith. that Dauidfaid, there was but one fteppe be-. which did chiefly appeare i;1 this Jowdt de: Pf~.n.o. tweene him aNd death. So likewife JOb a.iuft gree ofhis humiliatio, when asdeathdid as it man& one thatfeared God with all his heart, were tread on him in his denne;•and the fame yor how heanilydid God lay his hand vpon mind muft likewife bein vs whichwas inhiml him?his goods and cattle wereal taken away, The liking that we haue ofour feines muft be and his children Oaine, and his body ftricken meere nothing, b~t all our loue and liking by Sathan with lothfome byles from the foie JI!Uft bee forth ofout felnes in the death and ofhis foote to the crowne ofhis head: fo as he -blood ofChrift. · . was faine to take a potlheard,and fcrape himAnd thus muchofthis claufe, as alfo ofthe felfe fitting among the allies. And I•""h the flare of Chrifishumiliation. Now followeth feruant and Prophet of the moft high God, his fecondeftate, which is his exaltationinto wh~n hee was called to preach to Niniue, be. B glory, fet downe in thefe words, The thirdday caufe hee refitfed for feareof that great citie, herofeagainefrom tht dead &c•. And ofitwce God met with him, and he muft be caft into are firft to fpeakein gene:all, then inparticuthe fea, & there be fivallowed vp ofa Whale, Jar according to the feuerail degrees thereof. that fo he .mtght chafttfe htm:and thus doth In general,theexa/tatm~ ofChrift isrhat globe deale wtth hts own fcruants, to make them nous or 1-lappy eftate, mto which ChrHl: enconformable to Chrift. And further when it tred afterhe had wroughtthe workeofourrepleafcth GOD to lay his hand vpon our demptionvponthecro!fe. Andhewascxalfoules, and make vs haue atroubled and dited according to bothnatures,in regardofhii fl:relfed confcience, fo as wee doe as it were Godhcad,and alfoofhiS'manhood. Theexal• ftruggle with Gods wrath ~s forlife& death, ~~~ion ofthe Godhead ofCh:itt, was the ma; and can find nothtng &ut h1s mdtgnatton feamte!lattOll of the Godhead 10 the manhoed. zi11g vpon our foules, which is the moftgrieSomewill peraduenture demand,how Chrifts uous and perplexed cftare that any man can Godheadcanbeeexalted, feeingitadmirs no bee in: in this cafe howfoeuer we cannot difalteration at all• .Anfw. In icfelfe it cannotbe cerne or f<e any hope or comfortin our felues, exalted, yet beeing confidered as it is ioyned wee muft not thinke it ftrange , nor quite de- 0 withthemanhood into oneperfon, in this refpaire o( his mercy. For the Sonne of God fpecbtm•y be faid robe exalted: andtherehiml<lfedefcended intohel,and deathcarried fore I.Gy, the exaltationofChrifts Godhead him captiue, and triumphed ouer biro in the is the manifeftation oftheglorythereofin the graue:.md therefore though God feemeto bee manhood. For thou~;h Chrift from hi< incarour vtter encmie, yet we mufi notdefpaircof nation was both Godand man, and hisGodhis helpe. In diuersPfalmes wee reade how head all that time dwelt in his manhood, yet Dauidwas not onely perfecuted outwardly of from his birthvnto his death, the fame Godhis enemies, but euen his fouleand confcience head did little iliew it felfe,and in the time of were perplexed for his fianes, fo as his very his fuffering did as it were lye hid vnder the b•neswcre confomedwithinhim, andhu moijiHre vaile of his flefi1 , as the fonle doth inthe bowamernedinto rhedronghtinfommer, This eaudy,when am~n is Oeeping, that thereby in his fed Job to cry out, that rhearrowu ofGodwere humane nature hce might 1i1ffer the curfeof withinhim, Mdt hewnome thmofdiddrin/i! vp the Law,& accompliili the worke ofredemphuJPirit,rhcterronrsofGoddidfight a~ainjlhim, tion for vs, iu the low and bafe eft~te ofa ferand the .{riefe of hu fonk w.u aowa.ghty"' the uant. But after thiS worke was fimfl1ed,he befrmd afthe ft•, by rcafon whereof he f•ith,that D gan by degrees to make manife!hhe powerof the Lorddidmal(;him amark!&•butte toJh.ou hisGodhead in his manhood. And in this reat: and theretore when God iliall thus afflict fpect his Godhead may be faid to be exalted. vs,either in body, or in foule,or in both,wee The exaltation of Chrills hun:tanitie flood in muft notalwaies tl'inkethat itis thewrathfull two things.The firft,that he la~d dowoe a!the hand ofthe I.ord that beginnes to bring vs to infirmities ofmans nature, which hee carried vttercondemnation for our finnes, but rather abtluthlm folongas hee was 111 the ftateof a his fatherly worke to kill finne1 in vs, and to feruant,inthatheccafed to be wc:arie,hungry, make vs grow in humilitie,that fo we may betl1irfiie, &c. Here it may be deman~t:d,'!-~her come like vnto Chrift Iefus. Secondly,wherther the wounds and skarres remame mthe I as Chrifl for our fakes was thusabafc:d, euen body ofChrift now after it isglorified..Anfw. 'l 1 vmo rhc lowefi: degree of humiliation that Some thinke ~hat tl~ey rema_mc as t~fhmoni~s can l:;ee.. it isan (:Xamplt: for vs to imitate, as ofthatvictorte whtch Chnft obtamedofhts 1 Chrifl himfelte prefcribeth: Learneofmeethat and our enemies, and that they are no defor- : I ammcck,andlowry.And that we may the betmitie to the glorious body of the Lord, but \terdot. rlus, wee mufi: lcarnc to become noare rhemfeluts a~fa in him it~ fome v~fpeakath!n('" in nor (clue'>, that wee m:ty be all in all ble manner glonfied. But tndeede tt rather I tt:~mt:s O~ev.l.dt {ubfi,fctd &Th. Bc:t.
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