© 25620 16504 PHOTOSTAT FACSIMILE HENRY E. HUNTINGTON LIBRARY PARABLE "THE rede || pan ABLE, F THE SOWER AND OF THE a SEED. i DECLARING IN FOVRE SEVE- rE a rall grounds, amongother things : Isonema cinthong mara, scaled ih ate bond lim, sutsthe lit an bom diane paler Seay ap pe Semi mds hc ference Trae rincof eporoureneof Sits apache fib ole heli sed rl ed play | |. zromahecy nt inboard nf Loerie corde gone and By Tuowas Tay 108, late Fellow of Chrifts Col. | icone weig Tips at London by Flin Kyo fn io ‘er ad wctobeolac te igi of ged ‘Cup, in the Goldnichs | espe tse |) | | | | NE |WORSHIPFVL, MASTER | Wacrex Barauan, Mayor of the Tove of! | Reding, Matter Eowann Cranxe, one of the | safer ofthe Chencerysand Steward of thefime Towne, | gfe Lou SavaDERs, lie of eae ate der Necouns Graran, lite layer, Her Cuntatouen TeRnen iy dp Ciel frend with alte rh of the Mie rarer, and. Burgafes of the {ams Corporaion: Grace and platy of pewce from Godse, nrowr wonsHinFr bE, HE reade, that when Obed- edow entertained the Arke of the Lord, the Lord blefled Obed- dor; and all) % that hee had, becaule of the Arke of God. That Atke wasa figne of Gods pretence, and arype af our Minittery, ro | Az which | een) The Epifile | \which Tefas Chrift hath tyed his tpeciall |ptefence, That Arke was graced with many | \ miracles : Byit,che waters of lordan diui- | dled themfélues, and gaue way to Ifrae to | |paffe,as ondry land, By it, the hugewalls | |of letico fell downe vo the ground. By i, | Dagon, the Idoll of the Philifims, was throwne to the earth and diCmembred. is our Euangelicall Arke is countenan- ced with asmany,and mighty miraclesase- uer that was :Iepaffethall the Ifrael of God |thorow the mighty flouds, andimpaffable ‘Mircames of affiidions and impediments, that otherwife would ftop them in their way to Canaan,By tthe huge walls of wic- kedneffe,and lus, euen all high thoughts, lifevp againft God, aud reared vp again lieawen, are throwne downe, and catt to | ground, By it,the adored Dagon of Popith Molacry, and tuperttition of errours, he- refies, falle-worthip , and ignorant con- «citsiscaft ypon his face,not able to abide the prefence of the Arke,and truth of God: and a thoufand fuch miracles are dai wrought by it'in the conuerfion-of men. From| Dedicatory. Fromthat Arke, the Lord gaue immediate anfweres,anddiuine Oracles. From ours, we haue as {ure directions, in all cafes of | faith,and found do@rine, and alfo of Chri- ftian manners. Inthat, were the Tables of | Rone written with Gods finger: In this, are thofe Tables, not laid vp, but vafolded, and Chrift, theend of the Law, included. | Beforethat,wasthe Pot of Manna,andthe flourithing Rod of Aaron. This exhibireth ‘Chrift the Bread of Life, andithe Manna that came downe from heaiteng together: withhigRod and gouernment; which fee- med quite cusoff,and withered,inhisdeath;| bus glorioufly budding; and fourithing a- gaine inhis powerfull Refurreaion; Now the way to meete wich blefling, is;to enter= taine our Acke, as Obed-edom didthat. For| it,was not tlie prefence. of the Arke, but | Obed-edoms reucrent entertainment of in) | that procured his profperity. No more isit the prefence of a powerfull Miniftery(fup- pofe by-Chrifts owne perfonarid prelence) | but he kind and loving re(peét of it, chat |may expeébleffing from it, This kind en- Lites A3 tertain-