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oe 596 —ti«(‘«‘é Of the Gn-poiwder-Tireafon, = Sermon. |
‘4 " Bucif ic were Sicut fecit coo, it would not ferves Ic is:a:Nefcitis fill; and this is our Saviour |
: (Chriffss ditegted to cheit allegations of Elias’. I oblerve , they aske ofthe a& 5 and Chrif? anivers J
«. of his Spirit,’ So that Sicut fecit Elias 3 isnocenough 3 is'but. a weake warrant: you mutt be of
- his Spirit, as wellas do his act: His Siew will not beare y ourac , unlefle you have his /pirit, too, Ie is
|< mor enough to fay , thus did Eas, unlefle youadde ; Tam of the fame fpirit. 0 S
-9 2: ..4, Then, ic remaines ; they muft fay, they ate of Elias’s /firit; and into fome fuch phanfe ( ic
. feemes ) they were fallen: but , chat,is another Nefcitis. Why, what harme is that ?-Elias’s fpirit
(tho pe )was no evill {pirir, No: but, every good fpirit, as good as E/ias’s , is not for every per-
> fon, place, or time,’ Spirits are given by God jand men infpiréd with them j ‘after feverall manners,
: upon feverall occafions, as the feverall times require. The Times fometimie require one spirit; fome-
» ytime, another 5 Elias’s time, °Elias’s Spirit.’ As his'2&+good, done by his /pirit : fo his Spirit
oe “+ . good in his-own time. <The time changed’, the fpirit (then , good) now} mot good. For both \
ae : . > are faulty :. the. aiZ, without the fpirit 5 andthe fpirit , without the‘t:me.’ And , fo it may fall out,
So v that a fome'time ; one may be rebuked, for being of E, d i a's ‘piri well enough, when Elias’s Spirit is
© out of times. ses do fey gud pte WAP ee Lae a ea
©. . 3 Buty why is it out of time?: That is another Nefcitis which C xxi st fets down plainly ,
so when He renders the reafon :/For ,. the fon of man'is come: ( for ;we may well make a paufe there.) i.
Hecl.3.3° As if He fhould fay: Indeed, rhereis'a time to deftroy (faith Salomon ,' Ecclef.3:) ‘that, was un-
Daet.33.20 . derthe Law : Igvea lex, the fiery law yas Mofes calls it then, -a fery spirit would not be amiffe ; |
, ~then, was Elias’s time, But , now ythe Sex of man vs come: ye know not what manner of sfirit ye i
~ are of. The ffirit of Elias wasgood till the Son of man came ; but;' now. He is come, the date of
that éfirit is expired, When the Son of man is come, the ffirit of Elias muft be gone. Now fpecially:
: for, Adofes and he refigned lately, i the mount. Now, no. Law-giver yno Prophet, but Currst ,
' Curisr now , and Hisfpirit , co take place: You move out of time: will ye be of Elia’s Spirit’,
7 seca Lae ene
_ and the Son of maniscome > Aplainé Nefcitss, . -- He: a eee
‘+ 6, The Fathers work out another. Wefciris, out of the’ Emphafis [Voss] Cujus spiritus Vos. i
~ Vos y is no idle word + it makes 2’plain feparation , betweenthem and Eliai. Voss You :’ Why,you
rare my Difesples, (I trow : )'you miuft anlwer , to Cujus [piritus vos? Cujus Sfiritus Te, CHRIST S — '
le oo i Diferples.5' and Elias’s Sfirit'? that'cariot bé, Choofe ye now : for, of whole first ye are His Difcs-
ou . >" cples ye muft be-If you be His,what do you here with me ? get youto'his Taberaacle, If ye be mine, off :
i i . .. Bor3tr4,
-WithElias’s mantle and {piric both. TheDi/cipleyand the AZafter are of one /pirit.To make a Difciple,is ‘
ode Do _ Iohn 1.32, nothing,but to do as GOD did, at the door of the Tabernaclestake of. the A¢afters ffirit,and put iton l,
: ied . - Genefis8.112 - the Difciples. «But; if ye be of My Spiritymy Spiricis in fpecie Columba, not Aquile 3 not of the‘ :
; i DSS: Eagle, thaticarriecth Inpiter’s: Thunder-bolt 5: but, of thé Dove, that brings the Olive-branch in i
4 ret Sse sher bill, the figne: of Nox porderey fed falvare. If this fpiric be in you’, Jet all your motions |
j ba ‘ wo: so ‘fimell of the Olive-bzanch , not of the thunder-bole 5 come’ from faging grace, and not from con {
i ee Th, we. fuming xealeg 0 Nts - Pe BE eee a ‘
doy “po ~- Jy But yet; the wort Nefcités is behind. For worfe it is, to be miftakenin Chri, than in i
ye | _ , ourfelves. And Him they miftooke, in that they would move Him ,‘to that , whofe coming was
ays 1 | contrary , quite contrary to that, they would have Him do, This is Ne(citis ,indeed. Vere ne(citis, i
i | : | qui petstis a Alagistro manfuetudinis licentiam cradelitatis, <A’ néfcitis, to feck, at the hands of i
yb hier oye ‘ Sor] :-Him, thacis the Mafter of all meeknefs,a licenfe to commit fuch cruelty, Bee :
Aye ‘| Se ovis The very tide of the Sor of man, is enough for this. For ,whatfoever as the Son of Go ps i
7; i 2! Hemay da sciriskindly for Him , as the So of man , to fave the Jonnes of men,’ Specially being the
Hoo ae Genefis rg x: Son of fuch men; as He was. the Sen of Abraham , whoentreated hard that even Sodom might 5
Gh ja. | - Genchig ta ~, not be deftroyed., The Son of Izcob , who much mifliked , yea, even curfed rhe wrath of his two is
Boyce be : 2Sam, 3. 30, » fons,in dettroying Sichem.\ The Son of David, who complained much of the fonnes of Zervia that |
oy . (7°?" that they were toa hard for Him. (As Chrift doth here, of the fonnes of Zebedee : whof as if indeed, |
Hoe po -e ot a they had been borne of a thander-clozd,and not of a man)were fo ready to make havock of the lives of
Moje ps .«Pfalmae’gg:8:{ :men.)It coft the Sox of man more to redeeme men,then to‘have them b/own up fo lightly. And,if Iames
ep gt pas] : sand John were to pay for them , at His price ; they would not be fo evil advifed; as to make fo quick
aba gb bles. a : - riddance of the lives of men, :. EST ST a beg . Tk yee ° i
Wg py . Chrift doth here warrant us, that, to tell cxjzs sfiritus, the way is, by ad guid venit 2. what spirit {
\ tol .. 218 he of, by to what end comes he’; whéther blowes it 5 which way is his face , to falvare, or to per- ye
_ dere? For; to the end of His coming , GOD hath framed His fpiric. ‘You may know it ,. by His firlt i
. Lukegir8i- Text. The Spirit of thé Lord is upon me,to heale the broken, to delvv:r the captive 3 to fave that was loft. i
: i He fent me: ‘therefore He was fent’,:and therefore He came. You may know it,: by His, Name, he
mo . aldhn vag: LE sws.a$ avi our? you may know it by His Similes (no deffroying creatures; ) a aLambe,n0 i
do . bMatth23.37, Wolfe; abHen, no Kites acViney no bramble, 4 out of whith came fire to burne up all the trees |
ep, etobnis.s, ‘anthe foré/?. Of His comitiz, cléamcontrary to this, fpeaks the Prophet ye He (hall come down like the \
7 be Ce 2: sh rain ( {peaks the Apoftle) 5 H ic eft ile JES us qui venit in Aqua 3 came in water to quench 3 NOt,
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‘ £1 Iohn.s.6,- ti fire, to confume, ee be ea Te eo “ oe |
<: Again , thac-He Doth not’ this [ nos perdere , fed falvare ] by accident’; as it hits
but; on fer,purpofe + Ic wasithe caufe , the final: caufe, “the very end, GOD fent ‘Him, and
Tote, © Hecame for, sc ea bee
‘ ... °. 2,2 In which point, to take away -JVefcitis clean for ever, he fets it down pofitively, and privative-
tee eel fy both :; Wherefore He came not ; and wherefore He came... Came not to deftroy 5 but, came t®
COS is: faves this 345 plain dealing, :: But firit 5 not te deffroy.s that they which cannot fave , may yer, be
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