Chap.' 4. according to St. J oH N. voluntarily fubmitted my felf to the office of a Mediatour. Loe, here thisSunne of righteoufneffe is gone back ten degrees in the diall below his Father. Thouhaft made him little leffe then the An- Pfai, 8. gels ; there ( as man ) he is goneback ten degrees below the An- gels. I am a wormandno man : there he is gone back ten degrees belowmen. eft living dog is better then a dead lion : there he is Pfal goneback ten degrees below worms. For he was not fo much as Eccief.. a living worm, butwas laid in the grave as a dead Lion , there to have been meat fot wormes, but that it was impoffible for Gods holy One to fee corruption. See how he emptied and hum- xxE'vevov. bled himfelf ; that he might exalt and fill us with his fu1- iY. yWO`v. nefl'e. Verfe 29. Andnow Ihave told you before] Which none betides God himfelf could do, but by divine revelation. The knowledge of future contingents is of God only, and of fuch as to whom he is pleafed to communicate it ; as he did to the Prophets : who when they foretold things only as in their caufes, they might fall out or not, as.Ifa. 38.1. ?onah 3. 4. and i King, 21, 20. But ¡teem( his ex: when they foretold things, atfutura in feipfìs, then they fell out ercita infallibly. Thedevil alfo may come acquainted with fuch things, Cufanns abiit; and beable to foretell them, ifGod reveal them tohim, as he did anuo Do.1464. e4Ihabs death : and as Trithemitu the Abbot , and Cufanus the Alfted. chron. Cardinal,foretold a changeofreligion to fall out in the year 1517. Tñthem.ter whichwas the year wherein Luther began to ftickle for Chrift a- an.15o8. gainft the Pope. Genius veró Verfe 3o. Hereafter I will not, &c.] Make we the bell of our qui Ttitheml6 Chriftian friends while wehave them ; as we would do of a bor- 1eC d,ílantt, rowed book or tool, that we knownot how loon theymay be fent albua an ater 5 Y fmatt, ego non for, by the right owner. facile dixerim. ThePrince ofthis worldcommeth] Inhis limbs and inflruments, Buchoker. thofe breathing devils that put Chrifi todeath. Perfecutorsare fet . aworkby Satan ; The devil(hall cartfume ofyou intoprifon,Rev.2.1o. Why? Is he become a Juftice of peace, to fend men toprifon ? Yes, by his Agents. But why would Chrift be fo ufed by him and his ? Hear the next words. Verfe 31. Put that the worldmay know] Not you only, but all muff take notice of my ready obedience to the will of mine heavenly Father ,. even to the fuffering of death. Chrifis paffion muff thine as a perpetual) pifture in our hearts : there- fore it is fo accurately defcribed by all the- foute Evangel.. tlis 93
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