______ ._ __ ~ ______________ _. _____________________________________________________ i_9_+_i ---=--=----C!.A __ Q_d._m_m_e_n_t_ar_i_e_'V.:._'f'_on _ _ ______ \'"'"""b. / \""hich purpofciy doe teach them; but-the pra- J AI way, then any one piece of hts promifc {hall \----- : Ctifc Qf thofc rules in cxJ.mplcs , can be no I failc. 1where better, then in Mofcs,tbc Prophets,and 1 The vfe is to teach vs, firft, robelceue God I I the Euangdith. And this mi.lfl: nccdcs follO\'\'C when he promifcth, ""har-cucr it be; for,hc is : 1 ~pon that, that h3dl alrcadi~ been gramed.For worthic to bee bclc:cucd, who ncuer flilcd to t !tf we yccld,thatRbctorick..,.e ts good and h"\.ful, pcrformc V·: hat he promifcd. He promifcd thd(.: I 1and pr:1C'tifcd in the Scripturc;thC it mufi needs Millions to A bra/Mm, when hce had but one '! \follow, that it is tl1crc pradifcd in the bcfl: chJ!dc; 11:1J yvhc:n he had ncucr aone:Gcn, 1 5 . manner: for f11:~ll the Di:siniuc there taught be 8. And Abraham beleeHed. Such a faith V\ as ! the loundcft? the llifto'l'ie there rrporrcd the excellent indct:llc, and dcfcrucs rtcmall comtrucil? the conclufions ofPhibfophie, Aflronomcnchuion(as here it hmh.) Let vs be childriof mie, Geometric, .Arithmcticks, Ccf-nographie, this f.'tJthfi!II..A/;Niham, :md the r3ther, fe~ing and Ph;Jickf, there dcliucrcd, the !i.trdl? the we fee we pcrform:wce, which he f::w1e noi• .J!,-fu:fic(e thee<: pro1£tifed, the exaCtdl? 1.hc Lo... "vVc thinkc: it adifgraccjif we be not bclccucdi giclzy there prallifcd, the fharpcfl? the Lawu cfpccially,if \\'C doc,.fc tokecpc ol!r \Yord:let therecnaCtcd,the iuHcft? and fhall not the Rhevs then knowc thercby,what difhonour it is to tone~ there praC1i1Cd,bc the pureH? Surcly,if the Lord, not to bcleeuc him.1which ncuer fai~ ft'IofoJ had \Ntirtcn abookcof his o~,-vnc, as he B led in the performance w any creature. was a mcere man, and as he \·v-as 4i4ofoJ.1bro11gbt Secondly, we mull here lcarne ofGod to be vp in Egypt: or Prwt ..\·rit. a bookc, as he was a true a~1d faithfull in our words :!nd promifcs. l Ph.:.rijie, and DoCtor oftne I.3w; they would God ipakcplainely, & dccciucd nocA!Jmham: 1 hauc becnc full of all excellent learning: for and after at the tinle performed it; So muHwe Paul was brought vp at che foote of Gamalicl, dcalc plaincly and fimplyln our words and bar~ ACH 22-. 3· And /i-!ofos vva~excccdingly lcargaincs, and thinke that to dcceiuc and oucrned in all the lc:uning of the· Egyptiansj and reach by craftiewords, and double meaningsj mightic in word and deed,ACts.7.2 2. and cquiuocall phra~s arc not bcfccming chriShall they then be the Secretaries- ofthe mofi Hianity. And wc mull fnakc confciencc ofa liC, high God j ·the founhine of ._,,jfcdomeJ and clfe we :~re ltke the dcuiJl and not God. Alfo a learning; and !hall not their bookcs be fi.Ucd Chrillian man mufl take hectic what,howj and with the mo1t excdlntt learning in :1:ll kindes? to whom he promifhh : buc hauing promifcd Doubtldfe,who 'euer fcuchcth lt,fl1allfindc it he nmfl perfonnc ~though it be lo11C or hanne to he fo. : j eohimfdfe: ifit be not \Hong to God, or to Seeing.therefore E}oquencC is lJv,·fuJI, nnd the Church, or State. V\·rang tO himfeHC 1 mufi that Prclchers may la..vful!y v[c it: let thtm al- C not hinder him fi·om performance. Chrifitan fo know, whcr.:: to hauc it: let them tludie mens words rnufi: not be vaine,thcy fl10uld bee Gods bookes, and t~<r<: they lha1l finde not .s good as bonds, though Iknowe it is lawful, onely Diuinitic, but knowledge and !earning and very conuenicnt in regardofmonali.tiejto of all forts,and that mofi exquifttc: ~nd as ex.. .take filch kindc of affuranccs. cellent patternes and prefidcms ofEloquence, Laflly , Abr•ham bad the promife hi; feedo as are to be founJ in any authors iri rhe world. fo(}u!d6e fo, Gen. 15.8 . .atld here we fee it is. And let them, ifthey would prqch with fpirifo, but l)e himiclfe faw it not:fo rbatAGYAham tuaH pow.er and :eloquence;lookc howMofoJ> had the promifc j and V\'C rhc performance. So the Prophm ,, ou"rSauiour Chrift, •nd his AAdam had the promife of the Meflias, but we poftiCJpreached ;for, to follow them is the true fee it performed: The Patriarkes and Prophets way. · thcpromife <>fthe call>ngof the Gentiles, but Thus we (ce the manner he,_ vfcd by the ho we {eo it performed. · . ly Ghofl,in rhefc two comparifons,to d<fcribe I See here the glorie of the Church mdcrthe thegrcatncsofrhishcrpoftcritie. NeweTdlam~nt abouc the Old~. This mufi Now, them.tttcr in them contained is, th~t teach vs to be fomuch better then thcy.,a.sGod here is the pcrfoim:tncc of one ofthe greateft 0 is better to vs,then he was to them-: and to cx.- promifcs made 1 to Abraham. The promifc is, cell them in faithj :md all other venues of:hofiGen. >2. 17. I willft~rc!J hlejfothu, andgreatly, ndlc; o't Clfctheir faith, and their holy obcdimu!tiply thy fo~dc, tU the ftarru in the bumetl,' encc !h:tll turnc toonr greater 'ondcmnationj 4n<l"' the fa>zc& by the fe.t fboue. There isthe whiCh hauc had fo farre ;;rcater caufe, t.O beprOmifc: and behold here thCpcrformance, in lecUc~nd ob.cy God, and fo farrc bcttex:.rncans' the"very fame words, and that mo!i true and then they. vYhich if ic b~ fo: then ala~ what eifeC\uai!:For,atthe time "hen the holy Ghoft will bccomtl oftl1em, 'vho colne bchi11<j \l.JCm, wrott thefewords, the Ifrulites were multinay ham: no care to follow them in t11eir,F.lilhj plied to many milli'Ons; yea to a number pafl nor holyncffc, nor any duties of holy·ob.cdi· number. cncc. ' So tharhcre welc>rne, God;, trse in all his Thus ni!Jch for the Ex-ample ohbis.holy promifcs,be they neuer fo great or wondcrfull; wom;:ms faith j and of _the commcn<i;tdon if hcfpcakcthc word, ifthe promife paffe him, thereof. . • .. . it is fu.rc: Heaucn :t.nd earth fuall rather paffe aNow before hecome to a1ly morr partj,£tJbr l CX·~I
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