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A41726 A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ... Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing G1459; ESTC R3870 19,094 36

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it is most just for God so to do seems to be the main design of that so much disputed and mistaken Chapter the Ninth of the Epistle to the Romans But if God spared not the Natural branches on the like provocations most certainly he will not spare us And if they escaped not who refused him that spake on Earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from Heaven The Promise was made unto Abraham and to his Seed not the Natural Seed of his Body but the Children of his Faith For they which are of the Faith the same are the Children of Abraham as we are told in this Chapter of my Text. And if we do the Works of Abraham then are we the Children of Abraham John 8. 39. according to the estimation of our Blessed Saviour who best could judge of such a matter It is greatly our concern then to clear up our Title to the Saviour of this Day which can no way be done but by the observation of his Laws the imitation of his Practice and walking worthy of him who hath called us with an holy Calling This is truly to keep Christmass the most Christian and to God the most acceptable way of celebrating the Nativity of our Lord. St. Paul does not only assure us Rom. 11. 4. that whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning but more particularly that the Punishments of the Jews were recorded 1 Cor. 10. 6. that they might be Examples to us nay that they hapned unto them for examples Ver. 11. and are written for our admonition Therefore that I may still use the words of that Apostle of the Gentiles Let not us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed 9. What can we imagine was the meaning of this Eternal Consultation of Heaven this operose Provision and almost unconceivable Condescension that was made to bring about this wondrous Day big and swell'd as it is with Miracles of Mercy We cannot conceive that God who never needlesly contradicts or discomposeth the Order that he himself hath establish'd in Nature would thus heap Wonder upon Wonder for mean and little purposes much less for any thing unbecoming the Purity and Perfection of his Nature He did not then descend from his Eternal Throne and step into the Womb of a poor Virgin become an impotent Infant and a Man as miserable as Earth and Hell could make him meerly that afterwards there might arise a Generation of Men who should be only stil'd Christians The Effect was to bear more proportion to the Cause The design of Heaven was upon our Natures not our Names God propos'd to himself the Salvation of our Souls and Tit. 2. 14. in order thereunto to redeem us from all iniquity and purisie to himself a People zealous of good works He took our Nature upon him that we might take his that is be made partakers of the Divine Nature and Eternal Glory For these great Purposes he liv'd and died for this he preach'd published and bequeath'd to the World the most perfect Precepts the most incomparable Example the most glorious Promises the most dreadful Threatnings together with all sort of the most inviting convincing and perswasive Arguments that the Wisdom Goodness and Power of Heaven could contrive and furnish out for the benefit of Mankind May we therefore all sincerely endeavour to cast away the Works of Darkness and put upon us the Armour of Light now in the time of this Mortal Life in which our Saviour came to visit us in great humility and let us purifie our selves even as he is pure that in the last day when he shall come again with power and great glory we may be made like unto him in his Eternal and Glorious Kingdom where he now liveth and reigneth with the Father and the Holy Ghost to which undivided and ever blessed Trinity be all Honour and Glory Power and Deminion now and for ever Amen FINIS