SAint Luke calleth Faith, the Act. 14.27. Doore of Faith: At this Doore let us enter.I. Their Faith. Here is a comming: And He that commeth to GOD (and so, He that, to CHRIST) must believe, that CHRIST is: so do these. They never aske, An sit; but, Vbi sit? Not, Whither, but where He is borne. They that aske Vbi, qui natus, take natus for granted: praesuppose, that borne He is. Herein is faith: Faith, of CHRIST's be∣ing borne, the third Article of the Christian Creed. And, what believe they of Him? Out of their owne words heere: 1 First, that Natus, that Borne He is; and so, Man He is: His Humane Nature. 2 And, as His Nature, so His Office, in natus est REX, Borne a King: They beleeve that too, 3 But, Iudaeorum may seeme to be a Barr: For then, what ha they to do with the King of the IEVVES? They be Gentiles, none of His Lieges; No relation to Him, at all; What do they seeking, or worshipping Him? But, weigh it well, and it is no Barr. For, this they seeme to beleeve: He is so Rex Iudaeorum, King of the Iewes, as He is adorandus a Genti∣bus, the Gentiles to adore Him. And, though borne in Iewry, yet, whose Birth concer∣ned them, though Gentiles, though borne farr of in the Mountaines of the East: They, to have some benefit by Him and His Birth; and for that, to do Him worship, seeing officium fundatur in Beneficio ever. 4 As thus borne in earth, so a starr He hath in hea∣ven of His own: stellam Eius, His starr; He the owner of it. Now we know, the starrs are the starrs of Heaven; and He, that Lord of them, Lord of Heaven too; And so, to be adored of them, of us, and of all. Saint Iohn putts them togither:Rev. 22.16. The Root and Generation of DAVID, His Earthly; and, The bright Morning starr, His Heavenly or Divine generation. Haec est fides Magorum, this is the Mysterie of their faith. In Natus est, Man; In stellam Eius, GOD: In Rex, a King, (though of the Iewes, yet) the good of whose Kingdome should extend, and stretch it selfe farr and wide, to Gentiles and all; and He, of all to be adored. This, for Corde creditur, the day-starr it selfe in their hearts. Now, to the Beames of this starr. Next to Corde creditur is Ore fit Confessio, the Confession of this Faith.II. The Worke of their Faith.1. Their Con∣fession, Dicentes. It is in ve∣nerunt dicentes, they came with it in their mouthes. Venerunt, they were no sooner come, but they spake of it so freely, to so many, as it came to Herod's eare, and troubled him not a little that any King of the Iewes should be worshipped, beside himselfe. So then, their faith is no bosome-faith, kept to them-selves, without ever a dicentes, without say∣ing any thing of it to any body. No: Credidi, propter quod locutus sum; They belee∣ved, and therefore they spake.Psal 116.10. The starr in their hearts cast one beame out at their mouthes. And though Herod, who was but Rex factus, could evill brooke to heare of Rex natus; must needes be offended at it; yet they were not afraid to say it. And, though they came from the East (those parts, to whom and their King, the Iewes had long time been captives and underlings,) they were not ashamed neither, to tell, that, One of the Iewes Race they came to seeke; and to seeke Him to the end to worship Him. So, neither afraid of Herod, nor ashamed of CHRIST: but professed their Errand, and cared not who knew it. This for their confessing Him boldly. But, Faith is said (by the Heb. 11.1. Pro. 14.15. Apostle) to be , and so, there is a good Ground;2 Their Ground: Vidimus enim. and , and so, hath a good Reason for it. This, puts the difference betweene Fide∣lis, and Credulus, or (as Salomon termes him fatuus, qui credit omni verbo: between Faith, and Lightnesse of beliefe: Faith hath (ever) a Ground; Vidimus enim, an Enim, a Reason for it; and is ready to render it. How came you to believe? Audivimus enim; For, we have heard an Angell (say the Shepheards:) Vidimus enim,Luc. 2.20. for we have seene a Starre, (say the Magi:) And, this is a well grounded Faith. We came not of our owne heads; We came not, before we sawe some reason for it; saw that, which set us on comming; Vidimus enim Stellam Ejus. 0