Preached at Lincolns Inne [January 30, 1619/20]

              Preach preached preachedat edar edat at Lin lincoln coIns inne january JO 30 16120 6iq12o1 JOHN 5.22 522 532 533 THE FATHER JUDGETH NO MAN BUT HATH COMMITTED ALL JUDGEMENT TO THE SONNE HEN OUR saviour forbids us to cast pearl before swine we W WHEN understand ordinarily in that place that by pearl are un- derstood derstood the scriptures and when we consider the natu rall generation and production of pearl that they grow bigger and bigger by a continuall continua continuallyll succession and devolution of dew and other glutinous moysture moisture moysture that fals upon them and there condenses and hardens so that a pearl is but a body of many shels chels many crusts many films many coats enwrapped upon one another to this scrip- ture which we have in hand doth that metaphor of pearl very prop- erly appertain because our saviour christ in this chapter under- taking to prove his own divinity and godhead god head to the jews who acknowledged and confessed the father to be god but denyed denied it of him he folds and wraps up reason upon reason argument upon argument that all things are common between the father and him that whatsoever the father does he does whatsoever the father is he is for first he says he is a partner a cooperator with the father in the present administration and government of the world my father mot wor hot workett worjeth worketh Jeth jets hitherto and I1 mork work hork mori well if the father do ease him- self upon instruments now yet was it so from the beginning had he a part in the creation yes what things soever the father doth those also doth the son likewise but doe those extend to the work properly and naturally belonging to god to the remission of sinnes to the infusion of grace to the spirituall spirituals resurrection of them that are