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go ~””~S*S*«C Of tbe Consrinacy Sermons
“inult keep our Zerabinir ,Qill alive’? "The caufes were, falstem mifit, de[iderhim prevenit, soronans po~
[uit, vitam dedit.: “To perform our Vowes then { Vora publica, L trutt) to defire,that this Chain of
_caufes, may keep whole ftill; and roca link of ‘it be broken, or foft: that they may ‘pafsinto. the. fss-
“. ptresalls GML falscens mittee, defiderinm pravenitt, coronam ponct, and vstam dedit,,
Prov. 14:30.
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Pal, 132.38. °
Pal. 89.°27,
. .fent among them,
+ [will not go through them all: only touch the ed/pha and Omega, the firttandthe laft: and fo
Thave done,*’ Letabitur,and vitam dabit (ie Uyyetitee Ses
_ 2 Latabitur, Foy firfts if ic be but for vitam d de’. For; Foy isa prolonger of life, dk edo car-
‘dis & fanitas offinm (as Salomon calleth ic :") Andeven for that cauve, we begin wich it... But (to
fay truth ) leave out /etabitwr, and what is chete wih-worthy ? Truly, without ir,neither faving,nor
Crown, nor Life, worth the withing, For who would befaved to /:ve ftill-in forrow? And the
Crown it felf, ic isnot Corona defiderii, if it benot Corona gaudits “Yea,and who would with Jife 5
but cotakefome joy and comfort init ? Iwillfay more: lecone bein Paradife,as Adam, was;Even
there, when Adams had lofthis joy, Paradife itfelf, was no Paradife: as goodin adry Defart, asin
_ its without joy, Paradife it {elf is not worth withing. Joy isallinall, Let thac chen be capae.
. vote: thatthe oyleof gladacfs, may run down throughthem all, and over them all, make His favixg,
precious toHim 3 HisCrown flourifh; His life, vitam vitalem,and worth the defiring, That, Joy.
may be the unity, of this Trinity, 1 falutis, 2 corona, 3 vite. pe
’ But then, laft, becaufe all four of them hold upon Jife; tothe end, they may hold, that. that
' may hold; hold, andhold /ox¢.Some think, itislong enough already (and fo long may they think.)
Tknow not whatcothink: For (1 cannot tell how ) Jong and fhert, are faid but compararize; that
fo,a life may be long, and not “oxg, diverfly compared. To ftand ‘raring it, as the Law doth, feat
| years (0.2 life; {0, feven lives already : fo compared, itis (inafenfe)) mg. Bur, we will none of
that. Noras compared with the Princes round atout Him: For He hath ftood themall, ard longer
than any of them all: and hath had the honour long, to be Priwogenitss inter Reges Terre, Govs,
firft-bora now ' of all the Kings of the Earth: and long mayHehaveic. Long, if thus, | But then
again ; ‘not long, if compared with! the defires of our hearts, with the regzefts.of. our lips: Not long
is compared with that, that may be : and whatfozver may be in this kind, we with, it might be: even
as long, asnature poffibly candrawitour. Let thisthen, beour Omega, our fumma voti; and that
in no other words, than the ufual words of the old Councels,to the Emperouis or Kings, then pre-
-: FACOBO REGI,ADLO coronato, a DEO ciffodito, Vitara longam, Anos milios, >,
To KING FAMES, crowned by Gon, preferved by Gop, ALany dayes, long life. So. fon .
Seculi, nay, ix fectla faculorans, and make all confummate. And folend. ..
till He changeit, fora doger : tillthere come eternal falvation, an immmtal Crown life in faculans
. «| But before I end, in any wife Jet us not be fo ravifhed, with our /etabitur ; but that we remem-
Pla. 116.33- ber, Tua Domine withall.He, that fent this falvation, fulfilled this defire, the Setter on of thefe Crowns ‘
the Giver of this life. So reioyse, asin every of them, our joy come upto Him... Sotake calicem.
Selstis (as weterm it, I pray Gon, we fo term it, and fo take it aright: ) but, aright we thalldo borh
if we forget not to callapon His Name, even the Name of the Lord. That He, which faved to
day ,:may fo fave ever: that falilled his defire, may keep ic (ill full: thatHe that fer ov His
Crowns, may hold them on, hold them on faft sand la{t of all, addto theCrown, life ; and to Life,
eng 5 andto long, forever andever,, 9 ayy aie
py Sey VE epee
~~ Andeven fo, conclude we, asthe Pfalme doth : addreffing our fpeech to Heaven. °
Be thon exalted, O Lord, in Thine owe Strength: Thow wert {o, this day : Be fo
? J 5 {tll again and
s-again. Sofhall we fing and pratfe Thee for it. “We now do fo, for this dayes falvaticn , and ‘all the
Jyfol Giplicities of it: So may weftill : So may we tong: So may we ever. oo
“And: (Good Lord ) exalt Thos this Thy frrength,and treble thefe chy triplicities tous; that we
may forthefe Thy ‘exaltation and triplicities, double and treble our thanks and praife to Thee:--As
eis day, foall the dayes of our life,” And this with one heart and voyce, befeech we Thee, to grant,
oat nie oe Pao: