Preached at Essex House, at the Churching of the Lady Doncaster [? December, 1618]

              preached at essex house at the churching of the lady doncaster doncaster V december 1618 CANT 5.3 53 53 1 HA hape HAVE VE WASHED MY FEET HOW SHALL I1 DEFILE THEM LLL THINGS HINGs desire to goe to their owne place and thats but the Nskeffectofnature butifmandesirestogoegoctherightway A thats an effect of grace and of religion A stone will fall to the bottome naturally and a flame will goe upwards naturally but a stone cares not whether it fall through cleane acleane water or through mud a flame cares not whether it passe through pure aire or cloudy but a christian whose end is heaven will put himselfe himsdfe himselfe seife into a faire way towards it and according to this measure be pure as his father in heaven is pure that which is our end salvation we use to expresse presse expressed ex in schooles by these two termes we call it visioner visionem visionem dei the sight of god and we call it unionem unioned unionem an union with god we shall see god and we shall be united to god for our seeing we shall see him sicuti siculi est as he is which we cannot expresse presse expressed ex till we see him cognoscam Cognoscam ut cognitus cognitum cognitus I1 shall know inow as I1 am cnown jnown known which is a knowledge reserved for that Sc schooie hoole and a degree for that commencement and not to be had before moses obtained a sight of god here that he might see posteriors posteriora Posteriora gods hinder parts and if we consider god in posteriori bus in his later works in the fulfilling of all his prophecies concern- ing our redemption how he hath accomplished in novissimis novissimis in the later times all that which he spake ab initio inirio by the mouth of his prophets which have been since the world began if we see god in I11