·~~~------~--~~------------ \ 1.2 'I · (!/f [ommentarie rvpon 1 :;~,;.~·h· 1 l be paucnt we loole.nothing: but if we be im- A The fecond is of H l · ' pattC.\lC we get l~ochmg. Let vs therefore hold \ \ thcfc '\'Ords enoc 110 :. F.x~mrlt, our ~ongucs: for, the wrong done to vs crieth . • ' H,;,lueh. loud c•;ough ro God for rcucugc,\\ho wil here 'By farth Henoch wa.s . { I tt as atlurcdly as he did Abc!s. And thus we f.:c ?fl . "" 1 ·5• how .Ab:lfpakc thm. cuen afm he was dead. I tTt1npated, that hee /houldnot , Thclccoudpointis,Hecfiwkyalfbyet;and !fee death neitber'" h fi d : t)13t three Wales. ) • w/U C .OUn > I Ftrlt,. his f,:,h yet fp"kcth, bcc>ufc it>dI for (jod looke him t/}'Ptly : fi• mon~fhcth all men cucry \\'here, ·who Clthcr1 b of. 1 \ . (jf' . hcare or ''"d' this noric, to. be<ome fuch as I e; ore me was tranflated hee .A_bef .... ,·~s, ~1:tmcly, true: \\'or!l1ippcrs ofthe erne d J "} J God; for,m .AbdJCX3>11plc,it prouokes all men I W4S reporte o, ehat hce had to be hkc hun, be<:ule ic afiur<th them of the pJeafed(jocf. & fame regard and reward with God chat A bel \ /"' ' C• h:~.d: and (o A!u!J faith is a ncucr dyingPrea- B ; THe fo:ond examp!~ offatth, is rakcn alfo eher to all ages of rhe Church. out ot rhc oldc world, before thcflo d . Here ~\'C lcarnc, that the holy Examples of :md iti<j of llmocb the tCaucmh from Ada:.:t~ Gods ~lu!drcn are :call te<lching, and loudc whom, fh:~.~gc a.nd miraculous things befell by prcadung to other men. rcafon of h1s fatth. Let the meanino of the For thcr~ is 3 doublc~"'·ord, words be firft cx:~:mincd. t) tcaching,nJmcly, in or . . Byfaith, . _dccde. That 15, by h1s l"Onfidcncc in the Mdiias or It bd9ngs to the MiJtd!erto teach inword; his fauing faith, he was taken 3\\'ay. ' andtoallmm to tc3ch by ~hcit· dccdcs, and Tai?_;nt!way, goo~ e~J.~lcs.And ifthe mil11fl.~r teac~ not thus . T~:lt is, from c:uth .ro hcauen, not byan oralfo, it IS the worfc: both for hll"n & h1s hearers. dmanc workc, but nuraculouily; it is cuident It fufliccth not for him to teach by vocall by the next wol'ds, Sermon!, that is, by good doelnnc;but withall That hee pJo:t!dnot fcede4th, by re4llScrmonJ,that is,by good life; His faith, Th.at is, r.hat he1houldnot f('elc death, nor his z.ca1e, his patience, hismcrcic,:lndall other a.ny d1ffoluuon of foule and bodic: and therehis venues IUUfl fpCakc, and cric, and call toofore his t:tking away was miracHloHJ. For to be rher men to be likero him; which 1f hce pra- 1 take-n away by death is an ordinarie worke; but 8.:ife carefully in his life as .Ahe!did, then fhall C to be taken away, and yet not dic,that is micahis vertu~s fpeak for him to pofl:critics when culous and extraordinary:& fuch was J-lenoch 1• he is de<~.d. ~ So then the fubllancc ofthcfe word~ is rhus Ag3inc, Ahel though deAd, m:~.Y befaid to much; Hmoch hauing.this grace f'i-om God to ]'pe4ke, bcc<'lufc ho\.\'focuer his bod~c be dead, ~clec~c !lcdfaflly in the Me!Jias to corn~, '~'as yet in foulc and fpirit hce liueth with God in ltkcwife hono~rcd yvith this high prcrogatiuc. heauen. And thus the word fp-tlfk$th may btc To be taken llltQ heaucn, without rafiihu of vndcrflood,bccat!fe it is here oppofed toiuuh: death, and to the end that bee might n~rdie. by whichhecbedngdcttd, yctfpeifk§lh: rhacis, Thuswehaucthcmc:mmg. bccing dead in bodic·,ycr liucth in fouh:;which Now concerning thistr~tnjlatlon of Henoch: 'Jifewith God, '"'asobtaibed "mo· by his true there arc two opinions. . and fautng faith. I Some thmkc bee: was tranfiatcd_in [of!!CI'JneThirdly, he m>y,be faid to ffeal:!-;,t, a. all 9, and not in !'odic:and they fay he died in the other Gods Mttrtyrs arc fai'd to cric in the R('- ~rantlation, fo as his foule onely w~s taken vp !i.e'/'.d.l~J. uclat.ion, from.vndcr the alt11r, HDwlo1f._'{ Lord m to hcaucn, and his bodic fkpt in the eanh. halj and true 'dtJe.ft thou tztJt 4Hmge Dllr hloi'Jdon l Though this.appearc.s falfe at the firfl; light,yet themth.<ttdwcllonthcearth: A! this is true of D lctvsfccthcurcafons, and what th,cv c:1nfily all Martyrs,fo fpecially of .Ah! the ti'rll Marfor thcmfclucs. ' tyr ofall: which words are not fpoken,ncither Their fir!l: rc~.fon is this, No mortall bodi_e by him nor them vocally with vttcrancc of vnglorificdcan enter Into hcauen; but there ts .voice: but it is fo faid, to fignifi~: v.·ho.tfcru~nt no mention of his glorification: therefore his defire the fcru:mu ofGod h:tue ift hcauen, of hodic could not come in hcaucn. . .v the full m:mifcfbtiohof Gods glorie in their .Anfi"er. It is ccnain~ it was glorified ere it b,odics, Oilnd ofan vttcr :~bolil11mcnt of finne in eame in hc!ucn.lfrhey rcplic, it is l}O.t mcmi.othNvholc world.Which their dcfirc, theydoubtfled: I anfwcr it followcth nor, that therefore leffevhcr to God in a more excellent manner, it was not: for cuc-ry circ.umfhmcc ofcucry athen in this world we can vtter any.thing \\'ith CHon is notmcRriOI:led. For_ m~ny circll4bnccs ~ur voice: and thus Ahdjpeai:J;ct ,& fll!l fpcak of oC\iom n~ull nccdf,~rily be fufpofcd,& fuch till the worlds end, . .aoro~:e was thJs. Agounc, the glotification ofhis · Hithertoof the fir!l: Ex<1mple, the !x3mple bodic is here pbind}' enough impiied where it of Abel. ~· is (aid, he wl~ tranflatcd,that he 01ould not fee -----------------------------death~~----
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