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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73518	The recoverie of paradise. A sermon, on the incarnation and birth of our Sauior Christ. By Michael Birkhed	Birkenhead, Michael.	1602 (1602)	STC 3088.5; ESTC S125282	28,795	68

THE RECOVERIE of Paradise A Sermon on the Incarnation and Birth of our Sauior Christ By Michael Birkhed Mercy and Truth are met together Righteousnesse and Peace haue kissed each other Psal lxxxv verse x. Printed for Nicholas Ling and Thomas Bushel and are by them to be sold 1602. To the Right Honorable Sir Tho. Egerton Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and one of hir Maiesties most Honorable Priuy Counsell IT hath bin Right Honorable well debated amongst the Learned where Learning was first professed and it is as truly recorded of many worthy Writers who were the first that did teach for to Write and surely as our forefathers did reuerence them as Gods which spake wisedome so we may extol them as men somewhat superior vnto men which inuented the arte to Write what they spake The first benefitted the persons that heard them by the latter are instructed al posterities that shall reade them the one instructed those onely that were present with them the other gaue lessons vnto all nations whatsoeuer though neuer so much distant from them And therefore very well saith a certaint Poet nowe liuing O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past and make one liue with all By you we do confer with those are gone And the dead-liuing vnto Counsell call By you the vnborne shall haue communion Of what we feele and what doth vs befall The consideration of which premises together with the respect of this ouer-fruitfull age of the Children of the Prophets the Land hauing more Church men then Churches and more Preachers then Parrishes to Preach in hath moued me though least of the Apostles yet vnwilling to hide my talent with the vnprofitable seruant to write what I haue heretofore spoken and to publish what I haue Written which I prostrate as my free-will offring at the foote of the Aulter as the poore Israelites did their Goats haire when they had no better to bring and as the Widdow did hir mite when she had nothing greater to giue And forasmuch as Curtesie is the true note of Gentilitie and Learning is best fauoured of such as are best Learned and matters of Religion of those that are Religious I haue therefore made choyse of your Honor for Patron of these papers not doubting but that in regard of Gentilitie you will curteously receiue it in respect of your Learning willingly pervse it and for the matter and subiect of it Patronize and protect it Your Lordships fauourable entertainment of this shall encourage me in greater matters hereafter to imploy my Labors vnto the memoriall of your worthines and mooue others to peruse it the more diligently being entertained of a Personage of such Honour and Iudgement Thus wishing vnto your Lordship the accomplishment of your wishes crauing pardon for my perhappes ouermuch boldnes I humbly take my leaue this first of Ianuary Your Honors to commaund Michaell Birkhed THE RECOVERY of Paradise Luke 2. 10. Feare not for behold I bring you tidings of great ioy that shall be vnto all People That is vnto you is borne this day in the Citty of Dauid a Sauiour which is Christ the Lord. GReat is the Solemnitie of this feast of Christ his Natiuity but the shortnesse of the day requireth to reade but a short discourse and no maruell if the words we write be short seeing God the father made as at this time his word the subiect of this booke very short If you would knowe the shortnesse of Gods Word behold that Word which said by his Prophet I fill both Heauen and Earth which was neither Included in any thing nor excluded out of any thing but was all in euery thing euen that Word which the Heauen of heauens could not coÌ„taine which was from euerlasting without beginning or ending Was now included in a place swadled in cloutes laied vp in a cratch and become a child of a dayes age a long word indeed become very short and yet what length of time or multiplication of words is able to descipher the incomprehensible length and breadth thereof for euen in his humilitie his glorie is exalted and in the shortnesse of his name his name is enlarged Great are the works of the Lord as himselfe is great but greatest is that which he did in his little one Paruulus nobis venerit sed non parum attulit noÌ„ parum nobis contulit He came as a little one but he brought not a little with him it was no little benefit he did vs. It is no vnknowne thing to him that knoweth any thing how glorious was the estate of Adam in paradise being created in the Image of the God of glory liuing in a place of all kinde of pleasure vnder the shade of the tree of life with a coÌ„panion that was meet fit for him Inioying the sight of God himselfe whose countenance is the fulnes of al ioyes felicities nothing being forbiddeÌ„ him that might any wise delight him saue onely the fruite of one tree that was in the midst of the garden the penalty if he tasted of it was the expulsing out of paradise the depriuation of his pleasures death damnation to his body soule euerlasting miseries to either amoÌ„gst the diuels in hell-fire But what followed Thy princes saith Esay were rebellious and became the coÌ„panions of theeues Our parents disobeyed the charge of the Almighty accompanied Lucifer in his the euery of Gods glory and so became subiect vnto the forenamed damnation Great was their fault so obstinately to haue sinned and great was the punishment that was inflicted for their sin For the Earth mourneth for it yea euen vnto the children as Zoroastes speaketh Though the father did onely eate the sowre grape yet his childrens teeth are also set on edge by it so that we were Damnati antequam nati Condemned to die euen before wee beganne to liue Glorious was mans condition beeing created in Gods Image but better had it bin that he had neuer bin created then so to haue defaced the glory of that Image But as God is the happiest and chiefest good containing all happines and goodnes in himselfe so such was his loue and fauour towards man that he would make him partaker also of that his happines and therefore presently he promised him a medicine for his malady and a salue for his sore namely that as Sathan had deiected him into the pit of hell so his sonne should erect and lift him vp into the kingdome of heauen if he would belieue in the one as he had giuen credite to the other Falshood had seduced and deceiued him and Truth must reduce and instruct him yet so that after he know the Truth hee renounce falshood and cleaue vnto the Truth this Truth was that word this word was that Sonne this Sonne was that Sauiour which was made short became little and was borne as this day in the Citty of Dauid But lest this so precious and peerelesse a Iem should

lie hid in the dunghill and be in the world and the world know him not it pleased the Lord by many signes and tokens by many Prophesies and prefigurations to describe him plainely vnto all posterities that none might aledge Ignorance for an excuse of their wickednesse Therefore his starre was shewne vnto the wisemen of the East by the conduct whereof they came from the rising of the Sunne to the citty of Hierusalem to signifie that a new Sonne of Righteousnesse was risen in the Earth who by his bright resplendent beames should inlighten and delight euery one that commeth into the world many rare and prodigious things also were seene at that time euen amongst the Infidels and Heathen people declaring the Restauration of the world the Restitution of man the Solace of the Iewe the Saluation Redemption of all mankinde to be come into the world For as Orosius reporteh out of a certrine streete in Roome there sprung vp a fountaine of oyle which flowed most aboundantly for the space of a whole day and also which is worthy to be noted though the Romane Emperour had obtained the Scepter of the whole world and a generall peace was concluded so that the Temple Ianus was shut vp close a thing scarce euer seene before Yet Augustus forbad that any should call him Lord not without the wondering of all that heard it and about that time he set at liberty 30000. bond-slaues which had fled from their Lords being prouoked no doubt by the motion and Instinction of God himselfe These things did God ordaine to be done in the Imperiall citty euen in the citty of the Earths Emperour to declare vnto the world that the mediator of mankinde the Oyle of Gladnesse the Prince of peace was come into the world vnto whom the title of Lord is onely or most rightly to be attributed seeing he is the true deliuerer of miserable man the Vassall and Bond-slaue of Sinne flying from God from life and from Heauen vnto Hel vnto Death the seruice of the Diuel and restoreth him vnto his true Lord and Maister againe that so being freed from Sin and made the seruant of God hee might attaine vnto Liberty of the Angels in Heauen What neede I recite many Records hereof seeing God did point at him and distinctly name him the Angels came ministred vnto him millions of men did heare him see him the very diuels of Hell did acknowledge and confesse him But of all manifestations that is none of the obscurest that was shewne the very night of his Natiuity vnto the shepheards of Iurie which we haue chosen for the ground-worke of this booke and the foundation of our writing An History which will bring you like the Wisemens starre vnto the place of his Birth and an History which if you marke it wil vnfold vnto you the fruites of his Birth Feare not for behold I bring you tidings of great ioy which shal be vnto all People That is vnto you is borne this day in the Citty of Dauid a Sauiour which is Christ the Lord. These wordes are an Epitomy or short sum of the whole Booke of the new Testament coÌ„taining the long expected Tydings of mans happy saluation in Iesus Christ They were vttered as I saied vnto certaine shepheards of Iury Shepheards that were faithfully attending their flockes in the fields being the true Resemblance of gods spirituall pastors and faithfull ministers and that by an Angell sent as a solemne Embassadour from the Court of Heauen The summe of whose message was this That God considering the wretched estate of his woefull creatures and the damnable condition of the sons of Adam how they lay sweltring in their fathers goare how they stuck fast in the mire and clay and were not able to Recouer the tree of Life from which they had fallen but continued subiect vnto the Doome of damnation froÌ„ which by the Law there was no Redemption without satisfaction for their fathers transgression That therefore God of his mercy not vnmindefull of his promise that he had made vnto Adam That the seede of the Woman should breake the serpents Head Which also by an oth he had ratified vnto Abraham viz That in his seed all the Nations of the Earth shoulde bee blessed Had now sent his son from Heauen into earth to bring man froÌ„ earth into Heauen vnto him that by becoÌ„ming Sin for Man though he knew no sinne that man might be made the righteousnesse of God in him And therefore that they needed not to feare the death damnation that was due vnto them for their Fathers transgressions but with Ioyfull harts should embrace the Life and Saluation that was comming vnto them by the sonne of Gods Incarnation in whom whosoeuer beleeued should not perish but haue life euerlasting Feare not for behold I bring you tidings of great Ioy which shal be vnto c. The words as you may see do generally containe an argument vnto encouragement and in it more perticularly I obserue these 3. partes First the encouragement it selfe in these words Fare not Secondly the reason of it for I bring you Tidings of Ioy. Thirdly the ioyfull tidings what it was in these words vnto you is borne this day in the Citty of Dauid c. And first of the first Feare not As the comfortablest comfort that Adam receiued in his Paradise of pleasure was the pleasant fruition of his Creators presence it being replenished with all ioyes and consolations So since his fall like a guilty malefactor he hath shunned nothing more then that his sight presence and therefore as soone as euer he heard his voyce in the garden hee presently sought a bush to hide his head thinking to flie from him from whom no man can flie but by flying vnto him So likewise all of his posterity being partakers of their fathers impurity haue shunned the fight of God as the Executioner of their eternall misery The Israelites had rather beene encountered by an hoste of the Philistines by whom they were in no other likely-hood but to be vtterly destroyed then to come into the presence or voyce of God by whom oftentimes they had beene most mightely protected And Sampsons wifes parents thought the sight of God so fearefull and deadly a thing that they halfe despaired of life when but an Angell appeered And so these simple shepheards were stroken downe amazed when the Glory of this God began to shine about them Thus sinfull Cain shaketh at euery shadow euery tree he thinketh a gallowes euery one that meeteth him he deemeth will massaker him yea euen his owne friendes he mistrusteth will kill him for he knoweth that stuble can not stand before the fire that darkenesse cannot continue when the light approacheth and that man must needes perish when as the God of Iustice is come in presence seeing man is as stuble and God a consuming fire seeing man is Darkenesse and God is a Light seeing man is wicked

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