His beadlr as finegold. ( \ c~mpaay,as ifit were a dHhonour. Let us there-· S B a.XVI~ fore learne this from the Church bene, to be much inthoughts and meditationsof the excel. lencies of Chrifi, and fo our expreffions will be anfwerable to our meeiitations. So theholy Fathers thatwere godly (tiii another kindof Divinity came into the worldof~r~esand fubtilties) there was ttone ofthem but wasexcellent t~is way. PAIIl admirabl~, accounting all dung :md dr<;>tfe incotnparifonofChrift. In fpeaking of him when he begins, he goes on frQm ofte thing toanother~as ifhewere ravHhed,and knew not how nor where to end. The foule hath.· fights of Chrifi that God Tbt~t the foulel h•tb peculiar fbewe~ to it, and which the~ foule prefents to it fight Pfitt _ felfeby the help of the Spirit. The figh_ts that oA"~e. God in this kind fuewes,are to thofe inaffliction efpecially, as Daniell and Ifoy faw Chrift in his glory in avifion : fo Er.echietl had avifion, and Iohn Rev.I. where Chrifi was prefented eo him glorioufly. So there is a glorious defcriptionof ·Chrift prefent tothe Church,Rev.4·~· · Sightt of faith which the (oule ftaTIItt ofCbrift \ And as there 3re fights let downe from God into the foule, fo there 3re fights that the foule frames of Chrift, fuch as the Church here con– ceives ofhim byfAith: ThusN1_(es fawhimbefore he was incarnate,and t.,..4 brah~tm fawhis day Ioh 8 • ' and rtjoyced : fo iliouldwenow have fpirituaiJ fights, Ide.,uof Chrift framed to our foules, this is to ·bdtow our foules as we fuould doe.-· So muc·h for gc:nerall , now wee c.ori1e to ' fome particulars. HiJ heAd is 111 fine gsla, Ms lockes 1 --'"'"""""--·~ _Aa_ 2 _ .... _ _.•. _ ar_e ;
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