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A16557	The third part from S. Iohn Baptists nativitie to the last holy-day in the whole yeere dedicated vnto the right religious and resolute doctor, Mattheuu Sutcliffe, Deane of Exeter / by Iohn Boys ...	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1615 (1615)	STC 3463.3; ESTC S728	114,320	152

freely confesse what they thought of him Whom doe men say He did not aske this question as being ignorant hereof himselfe but to teach other especially his Apostles and such as hold the like place not to be negligent in examining what opinion the world conceiueth of them that if they heare ill they may labour to cut off all iust occasions of so bad a report if well indeuour to deserue and preserue the same to Gods and the Gospels honour or he began with this quaere whom doe men say that he might hereby come the better vnto that other whom doe yee say hee did not enquire what the Pharisees or Priests say for they reputed him a deceiuer a Samaritan a glutton drinker of wine but he doth aske what the people say for so S. Luke doth expoūd S. Matthew whom say the people that I am The son of man He did ordinarily vse this stile speaking of himself for three causes especially 1. To put vs in minde how much he did abase himselfe for our sake who being in the forme of God made himselfe of no reputation and tooke on him the forme of a seruant and was found in shape as a man 2. To confute the Manichees and other Hereticks denying his humanitie 3. By his example teaching vs how we should thinke and speake of our selues with humilitie Some say that thou art Iohn Baptist some Elias some Ieremias They who conceiued he was Iohn Baptist agreed with Herod the Tetrarch for when he heard of the fame of Iesus he said vnto his seruants This is Iohn Baptist he is risen againe from the dead and therefore great works are wrought by him other thought him Elias for that he did so sharply rebuke all degrees of men in his preaching other said that he was Ieremy for that he was indued with excellent knowledge which he learned of no man and that as Ieremy from his childhood Hence we may learne that the rumors of the vulgar sort are most vsually false Bugs as one said to feare children fooles Again we note here that there were sundrie discrepant opinions of Christ among those who were not of his schoole some sayd he was Iohn Baptist other Elias other Ieremy as Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus But his owne disciples agreed altogether in one truth one speaking it and all according in it Now the reason why men erre so much and haue so many Creedes almost as heads is because they be men for all men are lyars and being left vnto themselues are not able to thinke any thing which is good The Philosophers ingenie was great and industrie greater yet because they were not guided by Gods spirit their imaginations were so vaine that as Augustine notes alij atque alij aliud atque aliud opinati Schollers of the same Schoole differed among themselues dissenserunt à magistris discipuli inter se condiscipuli neuer agreeing in any thing but in the vnitie of vanitie The tale-tell Astrologers and Chronologers are so constant in their vnconstancie that it is truly sayd of them inter horologia magis conuenit quàm inter exactos temporum calculatores Erasmus hath obserued the like of the Rabbins and all Hereticks are in the same predicament for being once run out of Christs Schoole they be diuided among themselues hauing confused language like to the builders of Bab●…l and contrary tales like to the wicked accusers of Susanna 〈◊〉 mari magno c. quoth a Poet It is a view of delight to stand on the shore and to see Ships tossed with a tempest on the Sea or in a fortified Tower to behold two battels ioyne vpon a plaine but it is a greater pleasure for the minde of man to be firmely setled in the certaintie of truth and from thence to descry the manifold perturbations errours wauerings and wanderings vp and downe of other in the world Blessed is Peter and blessed are all such as endeuour to keepe the vnitie of the spirit in the bond of peace confessing one Lord one Faith one Baptisme Whom say ye that I am As who would say men haue diuers yea peruerse iudgements of me because they be meere men but what say ye which are more then men as being directed by the spirit of God For S. Hierome Ardens Anselme Druthmarus vpon the place haue noted an antithesis here prudens lector attende quod ex consequentibus textuque sermonis apostoli nequaquam homines sed dij appellantur The sonnes of men as being lighter then vanity it selfe haue many fond imaginations of me but I would know of you which are the sonnes of God of you which haue seene my wonders and heard my words of you which haue long conuersed with me whom say ye that I am Simon Peter as the mouth of the rest and head man of the quest answered for all the company saying thou art that Christ the sonne of the liuing God a short but a sweet confession comprehending in one sentence the whole Gospell of Christ as well concerning his natures as his offices he confesseth his natures in affirming thou which art the sonne of man art also the sonne of the liuing God his offices in auowing thou art thaet Christ. It is a witty saying of Bernard Fides linceos habet oculos and therefore Simon Bar-Iona though he beheld Christ with his corporall eyes in the forme of a seruant as the sonne of man yet with his spirituall eyes of faith he perceiued that he was also the son of the liuing God The Lord is tearmed a liuing God to distinguish him from Idols which are dead Gods hauing mouthes and speake not eyes and see not eares and heare not neither is there any breath in their mouthes And for as much as Angels and Kings are stiled Gods in holy scripture to distinguish him also from these liuing Gods he is called the liuing God in whom all other Gods liue and moue and haue their being And because Saints are called often sonnes of God he is tearmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the son insinuating that Christ is not a son of God by grace but the son of God by nature that only begotten son of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As for his offices it is said Emphatically that Iesus is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not a Christ onely but also the Christ or that Christ euen the promised Messias of the world for so that word is expounded Iohn 1. 41. Wee haue found the Messias which is by interpretation the Christ. Iesus then is that anoynted of God anoynted with oyle of gladnes aboue his fellowes our anoynted King to gouerne vs our anoynted Prophet to teach vs our anoynted Priest who did suffer and offer vp himselfe for our sinnes and for the sinnes of the