Chap.'. any other et of God then living by him ? Verte 20. But while he thought on thefe things] , And was . not fo well advifed upon hiscourfe,God, who referveth his holy hand for a dead lift, expedites him. The Athenians had con- ceit, that Minerva ( their goddefre ) drove all their ill cöunfels to Jun L'mbtem.. a happy ifiue.' The fuperftitious Romanes thought that an Idol, Ab erroribur which they called Vibilia, kept them from erring out of their v' r 1149 Deal way. The divine providence is our Vibilia, that will not fuffer us to mifcarry, fo long as we have an eye to the paterne that was Genres. (hewed us in the Mount, Exod. 25.4o. In the Mount will the G_11.1,304, Lord be feen. j'rov. a. 36. , 73ehold, the Angel of theLord appeared unto him] As of old Becill_ca in he had done to Daniel, being caufed to flee fwìftly or with weari- ftuttitia tort nes,af flight (as the Hebrew hath it ),with fogood a will he did it, maorr ß tea oll as thinking he could never come foon enough. Hicrcfot.) i e.. 7ofep! , thou fonne ofDavid] Albeit a poore Carpenter. A man in rebtur in gtci -. may be as high in Gods favour, and as happy in ruff_t, as in a;P r tawett Tiffue. I knave thy poverty (faith Chrifl to that Church, ) but, aien t omirus, that'snothing, thouart rich. Feare not to take unto thee) viz. From the hands of her pa- R.v,s.ge rents, who have, by all right, the difpofe of their children, as a, cheif part of their goods : Therefore when Satan obtained leave tovex yob, and to touch him in his pofl'efliotis, he dealt with his. children alto. For that which is conceived 'in her] That holy thug; Lttk. r;. -35, that Holy of Holies wherein the Godhead dwelleth bodily, that is, perfonally ; and is called the Sonne ofGod, faith the Angel. there. Yet not in refpeft of his humane nature, for then there. fhould be in the perfonof Chrift two fonnes, viz,. one of the Fa- ther, and another of the holyGhoft. Befides,,Heb.7.3. he is with- out father, as Man, and without mother, as God. All that canbe gathered out of'thatplace in Luke, is, that he, that was fo concei- ved of the holy Gholii, was the natural! SonofGod.. The union of three Perfons into one nature, and of two natures into one Per-. áVTan uez fon, thefe are the great mytteries of Godlines. The well is deep, Jon.4a .1 as the faid, and we want wherewith to draw. , Is ofthe Holy Ghoft.] As the Efficient, not as theMateriall, caufe. The virtus fermatrix, the formative faculty which the Vir- gin had not, is afcribed to the power of the Holy Ghoil, framin and faihionin.g Chrilt of the lubitanceof the Virgin fandihedmi raculoully,., accordit?g to St' M A T T H z: v v. T;3.
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