Preached to the Nobility

              preached to the nobl Nobi nobilify nobility nobiliy lly liy LUKE 23.24 2324 FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO Ffsr ay vr w HE WORD of god is is either the co eternall sternall and co essentiall essentials sonne our saviour which tooke flesh nerbum verbum caro factum est or it is the spirit of his mouth by which we live and not by bread onely and so in a large acceptation every truth is the word of god for truth is uniforme uniforms uniforme and irrepugnant and indivisible as god amne omne verum est omni vero consentient consentiens more strictly the word of god is that which god hath uttered either in writing as twice in the tables to moses or by ministery ministeri ministery of angels or prophets in words or by the unborne in action as in john baptists exultation within his mother or by newborne new borne from the mouths of babes and sucklings sucklings or by things unreasonable as in balsams balaams asse or in- sensible as in the whole booke of such creatures the heavens declare the glory of god & c but nothing is more properly the word of god to us then that which god himself speakes in those organs and instruments which himself hath assumed for his chiefest worke our redemption for in creation god spoke but in redemption he did and more he suffered and of that kinde are these words god in his chosen manhood man hood saith father forgive them for they know inow not what they do these words shall be fitliest fitliest considered like a goodly palace if we rest a little as in an outward court upon consideration of prayer in generall and then draw neare the view of the palace in a second court considering this speciall prayer in generall as the face of the whole palace thirdly we will passe thorow shorow the chiefest rooms of the palace it self and then insist upon foure steps i of whom he 1