Hi.s head~ d~finegold. 357 / love bath beat t.imfelfeoutas' low as may be,aH SB tt.XVI. for our good. What abafement like to Chrifts.~ That which is moft precious is moft communi- ·', eating, as the Sunoe a glorious creature, what , · , dothJo much good as it ~ fo Chrifr as he is the moft excellent ofall, the chieft Df tenthlt~.jA.nJ, fo is he alfo the mofr communicative : what good to the good that Chrift did f hce was beaten out of love to mankinde to loweft abafement for us , though this be not mainly aymed at here, yet(by the way)fpeaking ofgold,we may pr~fent to our [elves fuch comfortable medirauons. Well then is Chrill fuch an exeellent head,a golden head, in whom are hid all the treafures of wifedome to governe his Church,what need we then goe to that triple crowne, having fuch agolden head,thc Apofl:acyoftheChurch bath fot1nd out another golden head , is not Chrifr precious enough ~ Let us take heed of leaving the head Chril1:,as it is (ol.~.rg.lt is adamnable thing to forfake him. ·Let the Apoftaticall Church alone with her Antichrift. Againe, if Chrift be a golden head,let us his members labour every one to be futable,though ther~ be difference between the head and the members in many refpeets, efpecially in thofe three formerly aamed,Eminency, Government, and lnftuence ; yet for nature they are one, head andmembers make but one: So that as the head ofthe body is gold, fo fl1ould everymember be~ therefore the feven Churches are fiilcd feven Aa 3 golden, Vfo ~ ~ That there ut no golJen be4J/ of the Cburcb hut '»rift. 2. We muft he fo· table teChrift otiThe~:~J.
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