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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	person_n	son_n	3,185	5	5.8825	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

some men that is to say to his Mother and to Ioseph whom men tooke to be his Father to whom he was subject as it is written in the second chapter of Luke And for the forme of a servant he said My Father is superiour unto me And for the forme of God which he never left he said in the tenth chapter of Iohn I and my Father are one thing that is to say one substance In forme of God he was superiour to himselfe and in forme of man he was inferiour to himselfe And therefore not without a cause the Scripture saith both the Sonne equall to the Father and the Father superiour to the Sonne the one for the forme of God the other for the forme of man without confounding the one nature into the other both natures of God and man being in one person In the forme of man which he tooke for us hee was borne and he suffered and hee arose from death to life and ascended into heaven By the first two that is to say by his birth and his passion he shewed to us our estate By the two last that is to say his resurrection and his ascention he shewed to us an example of our reward The two first all that be borne doe feele and the two last we shall attaine if we doe beleeve in him And as the Apostle saith Christ thought it no robbery to be equall with God so Saint Iohn in the beginning of his Gospell saith That the word which is the Sonne was God And as Paul saith here That he did abase himselfe to take upon him the forme of a servant so Saint Iohn saith The word of God is made flesh that is to say Man and hath dwelt amongst us God and man in one person For as the number of persons is not increased when the soule is knit to the body to make thereby one man so is not in Christ the number of persons increased when man is knit to the word of God to make one Christ It followeth in the Text He was made in similitude of men that is to say he tooke all our nature upon him albeit he was without sinne and he left no carnall procreation by generation carnall Nor that onely was in him that appeared in outward visage his manhood but godhead also was in him For he was not onely man but in his person godhead was knit with manhood And therefore he saith here that he was like to men but more was in him then is in men For we be made of soule and body he had both soule and body and godhead and therefore he saith here in similitude of men As Saint Paul saith in the eighth chapter to the Romans God sent his Sonne into the world in similitude of sinfull flesh not because hee lacked flesh but because the flesh that he tooke lacked sinne and yet was it like to our flesh which is subject to sinne like by nature but not like by wickednesse It followeth in the Text That in shape he was found as a man that is to say where hee was without bodily shape he tooke upon him the for me and shape of a man abiding still God as he was before but in figure that is to say in flesh he was made a man and clad with manhood as with a cloathing not that his godhead was changed thereby into manhood as the members of a man be not changed by putting on of a new garment And he saith that he was found in shape as a man because hee seemed outwardly but one of the common sort of men and yet he was more then so For he was God therewith and yet was he a very man in nature not in phantasie and imagination Saint Paul also in the second chapter of the first Epistle to Timothy calleth him a man saying There is one Mediator of God and man A man Christ Iesu And as he is in the forme of God perfect God so is he in the forme of man a perfect man It followeth in the Text Christ hath humbled himselfe and became obedient unto death Here wee may learne humilitie as Christ doth teach us in the 11. of Matthew saying Learne of me for I am meeke and humble in heart He was made for thee a man without sinne And thou sinfull man why wilt thou not come to him that calleth thee and saith Come to me all ye that doe travell and be overcharged and I shall refresh you Thou proud sinfull man why art thou so proud Christ became obedient for thy sake to be incarnate and to take part of the mortality of man He was obedient so farre that hee suffered First to be tempted of the devill He was obedient to suffer the mocking of the people of Iewes He was obedient to suffer to be bound robbed and spitted at to be stricken and to be scourged And yet he was further obedient to dye for thee thou sinfull man It was a great humility at his birth to lye in the manger with beasts for lacke of a Cradle It was a more humility to live thirty three yeeres amongst sinners he being without spot of sinne The most abundand humility was that he suffered upon the Crosse betwixt two murtherers It was a hard suffering that he suffered for wicked men it was more hard that he suffered of wicked men And the most hardest of all was that hee suffered with wicked men the same death that wicked men murtherers doe suffer It followeth in the Text. That he suffered the death of the Crosse which death was worst of all other kindes of death For those that were put to that death were first nailed upon the Crosse hands and feet drawne on length and stretched abroad hanged up in the ayre quicke naked and bleeding not because longer life should follow thereby but because the death it selfe was prolonged to make the paine the more lest the shortnesse therof should lesse have beene felt Hanging or drowning or striking off of the head be paines soone overpassing but the death of the Crosse long time doth indure In which they were wont to breake their legges to make them dye more painfully as we reade in the 19. chapter of Iohn This death of the Crosse was the worst death that the Iewes could imagine for him to dye but yet Christ did choose his death and intended to make it to be his signe and to make of it his badge that all men beleeving in him should in their foreheads make his signe of the Crosse as it was prophecied and figured before in the 9. chapter of Ezechiel and glory in the Crosse of Christ As Saint Paul in the last chapter to the Galathians saith God forbid that I should glory in any thing but in the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ by which the world is crucified to me and I to the world There was nothing before more intolerable to the flesh of man then death of the Crosse And there is now nothing more glorious set