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A07876	The excellencie of the mysterie of Christ Iesus Declared in an exposition, or meditation vpon the 16. verse of the first epistle of Saint Paul vnto Timothie.	Moffett, Peter, d. 1617.	1590 (1590)	STC 18247; ESTC S114252	40,698	147

they were of a more excellent nature and an higher degree but taking compassion on sinfull and wretched mankinde made one with vs or God with man that the baser creature should bee made like an elect Angell What the onelie begotten and the sweete ioy of the heauenlie palace couered and girded round about with my weakenes thirst hunger drowsinesse and such like infirmities of bodie nay with agonies feares passions and affections of the soule Oh where are yee now a daies yee Christian hearers and professors 1. Pet. 11. who desire with the Prophets godly people of old time to see these misteries vnfolded or who thirst euen with auncient Kinges and Princes to heare the doctrines or discourses of the woorke of your redemption Luk. 10.24 Nay nay where are you ye skilfull and faithfull sheapheards and teachers who continuallie resound the praises of that chief shepheard of the Christian flock Psal 24. which causeth his sheepe to lie downe in greene pastures and leadeth them by the calme waters Come forth and paint Christ Iesus as crucified before the eyes of your people Gal. 3.1 shew them the prince valure and vertue of this mysterie Neuerthelesse whensoeuer euen those whose hearts are furnished with most diuine knowledge shal come to handle this chief argument of Diuinitie albeit they shall also speake with the tongues of men or Angels yet shall they neuer bee able fullie to declare or vnfold this one secrete of the incarnation of our Lorde or by any speeches sufficiently to shewe the excellencie of this matter which is most wonderfull in many respects For who can but maruell how the Virgin Marie should bee the mother of the sonne of God and yet not onely bee a virgin before the conception Luk 5.14 but a virgin at the conception yea a virgin after the conception of him What reason of man can conceiue how the holie Ghost should ouershadowe the virgin Marie in such sort as that taking out of her the whole lumpe of the humane nature of Christ by him it should not only be seuered from all corruption but vnited and knit vnto the diuine after such an vnspeakable and incomprehensible manner as that a diuine nature and an humane consisting of a soule and bodie should vnseparablie and eternallie be ioyned and concurre in one and the selfe same person the sonne of the highest But seeing we are conceaued and formed in sinne to the end that not onely actuall iniquitie might bee washed away but euen originall naturall vncleannes cured and clensed it behoued the branch to arise out of the stock of Iesse and a fountaine to bee set open vnto the house of Dauid and the inhabitants of Ierusalem for the purging of sinne finallie a scepter to be erected against the raigne of death who medled with those which neuer sinned actuallie as Adam did But the speach by the Apostle here vsed is verie diligentlie to bee obserued Rom. 5.14 namely that God not onlie hath been in the flesh but that he hath been manifested in the flesh The which words import thus much namely that the sonne of God first conceaued in the virgins wombe was afterward brought foorth into the worlde Of this matter as the Prophet Esay long before had expresselie and plainlie prophesied saying in the person of all the faithfull that vnto vs a child is borne Esa 9.6 and vnto vs a sonne is giuen so it was meet and conuenient that this heauenlie light should breake out as the Sunne and the saluation of Gods people shine foorth and be held vp as a burning lampe For so long as this most excellent treasure was hid in the wombe of the Virgin the price or glorie of it not being seene but shut vp as it were neither could the beautie of it vnknowne as yet bee earnestlie and generallie desired neither could the vse or fruit of it so well be felt or so fullie be enioyed But after that Christ Iesus once pight his tent amongst vs for the time neither onely lay in the maunger but walked on the earth the faithfull disciples sawe his glorie as the glorie of the onely begotten of God and beleeuers or Christiās haue more fully since that time been made partakers of his grace Ioh. 1.19 Now what a wonderfull thing againe is this to consider namelie that the ancient of daies was borne in time he whom the heauens can not containe Naz. did lie in a cratch the preseruer of all things did sucke his mothers breast the feeder of Israel hungred and thirsted the only wise increased in wisedome hee who knoweth al things was ignorant of some things finallie the King of glorie became in all things like vnto man sinne only excepted These mysteries are maruellous indeede but they are no lesse comfortable than wonderfull seeing now wee may behold the sonne of GOD approaching vnto vs not as a mightie giant with a barre of yron to breake vs all to peeces not as an earthlie King or Captaine garded with an host of armed Soldiours to destroy vs but as a childe whom without feare wee may take in our armes or as our naturall brother in whome wee may acknowledge flesh of our flesh and one of our bones Heb. 2.17 The lawe was indeed giuen with thunder with lightnings with storme and tempest and the sound of a trōpet Heb. 12.18 and it was pronounced out of the middest of a flaming fire but as for the Gospell it was proclaymed without any signe of terrour at all yea on the contrarie side it began so to bee published and witnessed by the Lords appearing and doctrine as that God gaue testimonie therevnto with many wonders tokens of good will and mercie The next point here offered by the Apostle to our consideration is that God hath been also iustified in the spirit Before hath bin shewed that the sonne of God being in the forme of GOD and equall to GOD abased emptied and humbled himselfe and drawing a curtaine as it were ouer his infinite Maiestie walked in the shape of a poore seruant and manifested himselfe to be also man in all poynts like to vs sinne onely excepted Now here is further declared that the glorie of his diuine nature power office so shined through his flesh and through the course of his whole conuersation euen as it were through a glasse or a lanterne if I may so speake that thereby appeared who he was euen that Mediatour betweene GOD and man that Messias or person annoynted with the oyle of gladnes aboue his fellowes Psal 45.7 touching whom the Scriptures foretolde and spake many honorable thinges who also hath wrought the work of our redemption For as the Prophet Esay testifieth of him the spirit of the Lord Iehoua was vpōhim Esa 61.1 yea the spirit of Iehoua rested on him namely the spirit of wisdome of vnderstanding the spirit of comfort and of power Esa 11.2 the spirit of knowledge