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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77221	Comfort from the cradle, as well as from the crosse of Christ. Being meditations upon Isaiah 9.6. / The substance whereof was delivered in two sermons. Preacht at VVinchester upon the feast of the Nativitie last past. By Tho. Bradley Dr in Divinitie, lately one of His Majesties chaplaines, and Rector of Castleford and Ackworth neere Pontefract in Yorke-shire.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4130; Thomason E637_1; ESTC R19661	52,275	95

thing among hand which may make amends for it some thing which you doe not read every day some thing which it is very necessary for your Sexe to know especially in the second Sermon something which I doubt not will afford you much comfort and good satisfaction and that in some necessary but clouded truths such as it is what ever it be yours it is most peculiarly and to your hand and view I present it Read it over Deare Lady and in it my love to your Soule my due respects to you my tender care of you and all that may speake me most faithfully really and affectionately yours desiring of Almighty God that you may receive as much comfort satisfaction and assurance out of it as he that pen'd it hath grounded on it and daily receiveth from it who is and ever will be Yours in all things according to the Covenant which once I made you THOMAS BRADLEY From OXFORD Jan. the first 1650. COMFORT FROM THE CRADLE AS WELL AS from the Crosse of CHRIST Being MEDITATIONS upon ESAIAH 9.6 For unto us a Child is borne Vnto us a Sonne is given AMong all the Prophets that arose in the Church from Moses to Malachie there was none that had more cleare visions of the Messiah than this the Penman of our Text the Prophet Isayah who spake and writ of him more like an Evangelist than a Prophet as if he were to deliver not a Prophesie of things to come but rather * Is borne is given sayes this Text whereas he was not actually borne till 700 yeares after a hystory of things already done and long since accomplished hence it is that he is usually called The Evangelicall Prophet And it is no idle conjecture that in reference to this he had his name not by chance but by speciall providence assigned him Isayah which if you will read in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeschaiah imports as much as salus Domini The salvation of the Lord or as some read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeschaiahu Conservet Dominus or det Dominus salutem Let the Lord save les the Lord give salvation namely according to his good word unto this Prophet according to the manifold visions concerning the Messiah revealed unto him and the cleare prophesies of him contained in this booke It is observable that out of this Prophet there are no lesse then * Musculus in Isayam sixtie testimonies alleaged by our Lord and his Apostles in the New Testament which is more then they have done out of any other of the Prophets besides one onely excepted namely the Prophet David out of whose booke of Psalmes there are alleaged sixtie foure and out of both so frequently for the same reason because they writ more clearly more fully more distinctly of the Messiah then any of the rest of their brethren the Prophets had done Amongst them all there is not found a more famous prophesie concerning him then this wee have under hand in the words which I have read unto you where you have him presented to you in the very cradle For Vnto us a Child is borne Vnto us a Sonne is given For the better understanding of these words you must consider well the occasion of them and to what purpose the Prophet brings them in at this time and that was to comfort the King in a case of distresse as you may gather out of * The history there refers to the prophesie here 2 Chron. 28. and this was the case Ahaz King of Iudah was at this time brought very low being sore opprest by the Kings of Israel and Syria with one of which hee had lately fought a great battaile wherein hee had the worse of it so farre the worse that hee lost 120000 men upon the place 2 Chron 28 besides 200000 more of all sorts taken prisoners and carried away captives so great a blow as that he was afraid it might not onely weaken his Kingdome in his hands but even shake the foundation of the Monarchie for ever In this case hee comes to the Prophet for councell and for comfort and the Prophet gives him both and the grounds of both hee fetcheth from the child in my text he bids the King be of good comfort and that the losse of that day should not so much trouble him nor the feare of the ill consequence which hee did misdoubt might fall thereupon in as much as there was a child borne in whom he should be relieved in all this A mighty Prince that should do valiently that should raise amongst them a greater and more glorious Kingdome then that was when it was at the highest that should fight against the enemies of it a more terrible battaile then that which hee had fought and win upon them a more glorious victory then he had lost though not with sword and speare Isay 1.25 but with sword and fire with a two-edged sword proceeding out of his mouth Isay 4.4 and with the spirit of burning the spirit of grace power conquering by the Gospell all this in the fift verse Every battaile of the warriour is with confused noyse and garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and fewell of fire And then in the sixt verse hee tells you who it is that shall execute all this that is the Child in the Text whom he describes by nine glorious attributes in all and every of them making him out a mighty Prince indeed The government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonderfull Counsellour the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end Hee shall sit upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdome to order it and to establish it with judgement and justice from henceforth even for ever * The Prophet under the type of Hezekiah preacheth to the King the Messiah The Prophet all this while and in all this under the type of Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaz a hopefull Prince and as yet but a child with singular art preaching Christ unto him and prophesying of the glory and greatnesse of his Kingdome the spirituall Kingdome of the Church for the protection and preservation of which he should doe wonderfully To him the Prophet leads the King now in the day of his distresse as to a ground and pillar of hope comforts him in the advancement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ even against the losse of his owne Be of good cheare For unto us a Child is borne unto us a Sonne is given This was the method and the meanes by which the Prophets before the comming of Christ were wont to comfort the people of God in the time of their trouble by leading them unto Christ by pointing them to the Messiah in whom was laid up all their hope and comfort this was a standing comfort in the Church which never failed them a reserve