AN Advertisement TO THE READE R. T HE following Sermons were preached feveral years ago, in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry in London; and being now revised and enlarged by the Author are bere made publick: The true Reason whereof, was not that which is commonly alledged for Printing Books, the importunity clamours and malicious calumnies of Others, whom the Author beartily prays God to forgive, and to give them better minds : And to grant that the ensuing Difcourfes,the publication whereof was in fo great a degree neceffary, may by bis Bleffing prove in Jome measure useful. SER SERMON I Concerning the Divinity of our B. Saviour. Preached in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, Decemb. 30th. 1679. JOHN I. 14. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us; and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. HESE words con First, His Incarnation, the Word was made, or became, flesh. Secondly, His Life and conversation here among us, and dwelt amongst us, ἐσκλωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν, he pitched his Tabernacle amongft us; he lived here below in this World and for a time made his refidence and abode with us. Thirdly, That in this ftate of his humiliation he gave great and clear evidence of his Divinity; whilft he appeared as a man and liv'd amongst us, there were great and glorious Teftimonies given of him that he was the Son of God: and that in fo peculiar a manner as no Creature can be faid to be; And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, &c. I fhall begin with the First of thefe, his Incarnation; as moft proper for this folemn Time, which hath for many Ages been fet apart for the commemoration of the Nati |