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B11188	Tvvo sermons preached before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall. Of the birth of Christ The one on Christmas day anno 1609. The other on Christmas last anno 1610. By the Bishop of Elie his Maiesties almoner.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. Sermon preached before the Kings Majestie at White-hall, on Munday the 25. of December, being Christmas day, anno 1609. aut; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. Sermon preached before His Majestie at White-Hall, on Tuesday the 25. of December last, being Christmas day. aut	1610 (1610)	STC 628; ESTC S100160	36,554	97

shall obserue a good correspondence still This Ecce here to the last a Cap. 1.31 Ecce concipies of the Blessed Virgine That to Esay's b Esai 7.14 Ecce concipiet Virgo That to Dauid's c Psal 132.11 Ecce de fructu ventris tui That to Abraham's d Gene. 22.18 Ecce in semine tuo and so vp till ye come to e 3.15 Semen mulieris There they first begin and take light one from an other till they come to this Ecce natus est bodiè the Ecce of all Ecce's the last and highest of them all And as a Beacon serueth to call and stirre vp men to haue regard so is this here to excite them and in them vs all with good attention to heare and to heed these so great good tidings And indeed who is not excited with it whose eye is not turned to behold this Ecce whose eare standeth not attent to heare this Euangelizo Chap. 1.29 whose heart doeth not muse what maner of message this should be THis it is then Quòd natus est The birth of a Childe That there is borne that there is one borne this Day the cause of all this ioy There is ioy at euery birth Sorrow in the trauaile saith our Sauiour but after the deliuery the anguish is no more remembred for ioy that a man is borne into the world But the greater hee is that is borne and the more beneficial his birth the greater adoe is made And among men because there are none greater then Princes and great things are looked for at their handes Gene. 40.20 Mar. 6.21 their birth 's are euer vsed to bee kept with great triumph Pharaos in the Old Herods in the New both their Natus est's dayes of feasting Now of him that is borne here it may truely be said Ecce maior hîc Mat. 12.24 Beholde a greater is borne heere One whose birth is good newes euen from the poorest Shepheard to the richest Prince vpon earth Who is it Three things are saide of this childe by the Angel 1. Hee is a Sauiour 2. Which is Christ 3. Christ the Lord. Three of his Titles well and orderly inferred one of another by good consequence We cannot misse one of them they be necessary all Our method on earth is to begin with great In heauen they begin with the good first First then a Sauiour that is his name Iesus A Sauiour Soter and in that name his benefit Salus Sauing health or Saluation Such a name as the great Oratour himselfe saith of it Soter In Verr. 4. Hoc quantum est Ita magnum est vt latino vno verbo exprimi non possit This name Sauiour is so great as no one word can expresse the force of it But we are not so much to regard the Ecce how great it is as Gaudium what ioy is in it that is the point we are to speake to And for that men may talke what they will but sure there is no ioy in the world to the ioy of a man saued no ioy so great no newes so welcome as to one ready to perish in case of a lost man to heare of one that will saue him In danger of perishing By sicknesse to heare of one will make him well againe By sentenceof the law of one with a pardon to saue his life By enemies of one that will rescue and set him in safetie Tell any of these assure them but of a Sauiour it is the best newes he euer heard in his life There is ioy in the name of a Sauiour And euen this way this child is a Sauiour too Potest hoc facere sed hoc non est opus eius This he can doe but this is not his worke a further matter there is a greater saluation He came for And it may be wee need not any of these we are not presently sicke in no feare of the law in no danger of enemies And it may be if we were we fancie to our selues to bee releeued some other way But that which he came for that sauing wee need all and none but He can helpe vs to it We haue therefore all cause to be glad for the birth of this Sauiour I know not how but when we heare of sauing or mention of a Sauiour presently our mind is caried to the sauing of our skin of our temporall state of our bodily life and further sauing we thinke not of But there is another life not to be forgotten and greater the dangers and the destruction there more to be feared then of this here and it would be well sometimes we were remembred of it Besides our skinne and flesh a soule we haue and it is our better part by far that also hath need of a Sauiour that hath her destruction out of which that hath her destroyer from which she would bee saued and those would be thought on Indeed our chiefe thought and care would be for that how to escape the wrath how to be saued from the destruction to come whither our sinnes will certainly bring vs. Sinne it is wil destroy vs all And to speake of a Sauiour there is no person on earth hath so much need of a Sauiour as hath a sinner nothing so dangerous so deadly vnto vs as is the sinne in our bosome nothing from which we haue so much need to bee saued whatsoeuer account we make of it From it commeth vpon vs all the euill of this life and from it all the euill of the life to come in comparison whereof these here are not worth the speaking of Aboue all then we need a Sauiour for our soules and from our sinnes and from the euerlasting destruction which sinne will bring vpon vs in the other life not farre from vs not from him of vs that thinketh it farthest of Then if it bee good tidings to heare of a Sauiour where it is but a matter of the losse of earth or of this life here how then when it commeth to the losse of Heauen to the danger of Hell when our soule is at the stake and the wel doing or vndoing of it for euer He that could saue our soules from that destroyer were not the birth of such a one good newes trow Is not such a Sauiour worth the hearkening after Is hee not It is then because we haue not that sense of our soules and the dangers of them that we haue of our bodies nor that feare of our ghostly enemies nor that liuely apprehension of the eternall torments of that place and how neere wee are to it nothing being betwixt vs and it but this poore puffe of breath which is in our nostrils Our carnall part is quicke and sensible our spirituall is dead and dull We haue not the feeling of our sinnes that we haue of our sicknesse if we had we would heare this newes with greater cherefulnesse and holde this day of the birth of such a Sauiour with ioy indeede We

send Himselfe To haue sit still and bene content that we might send to Him and haue our message and petition admitted and not He send to vs. That had bene as much as we could looke for and well if we might haue bene vouchsafed but that But it was He that sent not we to Him first nay not we to Him at all but He to vs. He to vs And what were we that He to vs Vs Ephes 2.12 as elsewhere he termeth vs meere Aliens from Him and His Houshold Not that onely but Vs in case of men whom the Law had passed vpon So is our estate described in the end of the Text for Him to send to Vs so great as Hee to such as wee to thinke vs tanti so much worth as to make any mission or motion or to disease any about vs This may well be the first Be it then so that to vs or for vs or concerning vs God would trouble Himselfe to make any sending A fulnesse there is in this Full Hee was a fulnesse there was in Him euen the fulnesse of compassion in His bowels ouer our estate else such a Sender would neuer once haue sent God sent His Sonnc Sent and sent his Sonne That I make no question will beare a second Others He might haue sent and whosoeuer it had bene Hee had sent it might well haue serued our turnes If sent by the hand of any his Seruants any Patriarch Prophet any ordinary messenger it had beene ynough So hitherto had bene his Sending So and no otherwise euer till now Then if to send by any may seeme sufficient to send His Sonne must needs seeme full For euer the more excellent the Person sent the more honourable the sending the greater He the fuller it Now greater there is not Colos 2.9 then His sonne His first His onely begotten Sonne in whom the fulnes of the God head dwelt In sending Him He sent the greatest the best the fullest thing He had To heape the measure vp yet more with the cause of his sending in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It was voluntarie Hee sent him not for need but for meere loue to vs and nothing else There was no absolute necessitie that He should haue sent Him He might haue done what Hee intended by the meanes and ministerie of some besides God could haue enabled a Creature a Creature enabled by God and the power of his might could soone haue troad downe Sathan vnder our feete But if it had bene any other He had sent his loue and regard to vs had not shewed so full It had bin ostendit Deus charitatem but not Ecce quantam charitatem ostendit Deus 1. Iohn 3.1 Whomsoeuer He had sent besides his loue had not bene full at least not so full as it should haue beene if He had sent his Sonne That therefore it might be full and so appeare to vs for full Misit Deus filium suum Enough it was in compassion of our estate to haue releeued vs by any Men that are in need to be releeued care not who they be that doe it Enough then for compassion but not enough to manifest the fulnesse of his loue vnlesse to releeue vs He sent his owne Sonne This is full Made one would thinke Yet the Manner of his sending him is fuller still Misit filium Filium factum Sent his Sonne His Sonne made Sent Him and sent Him made This is a third For if He would haue sent Him He should not haue sent Him made but as He was neither made nor created but like himselfe in his owne estate as was meete for the Sonne of God to bee sent To make Him any thing is to marre Him be it what it will be To send Him made is to send Him marred and no better Therefore I make no doubt Christs sending is one degree His making is another So to sende as withall to make are two distinct measures of this filling As He is Hee is a Maker a Creator If God make Him any thing Hee must be a thing made a Creature and that is a great disparagement So that howsoeuer the Time is the fuller for this He is the emptier 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fulnesse of Time is his emptinesse The exalting of that Phil. 2.7 his abasing And this very Exinaniuit seipsum emptying Himselfe for our sake is a pressing downe the measure and so euen by that still the measure is more full Yea the very maner of this making hath his encrease too addeth to it still In the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not euery making but making it his nature To haue made Him a bodie and taken it vpon him for a time till He had performed his Embassage and then laid it off againe that had bene much But so to be made as once made and euer made so to take it as neuer lay it of more but continue so still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it to become his very nature so to be made is to be made indeed so to to be made is to make the vnion full And to make the vnion with vs full He was content not to be sent alone but to be made and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made so as neuer vnmade more Our manhood becomming his nature no lesse then the Godhead it selfe This is Filium factum indeed Made and twise made for so it is in the verse factum ex and factum sub made of and made vnder Of a woman vnder the Law So two makings there bee either of them of it selfe a filling to the measure but both of them maketh it perfectly full Made Made of a woman first of a woman that I take cleerly to be one For if Hee if the Sonne of God must be made a Creature it were meet He should be made the best creature of all And if made of any thing if any one thing better then another of that made some glorious Spirit Some of the orders of the Angels Iohn 1.14 Heb. 2.16 Nay made but made no Spirit Verbum caro factum est The word became flesh made but made no Angel Nusquam Angelos He in no wise tooke the Angels nature vpon Him But made man First I will aske with Dauid Psal 144.3 Domine quid est homo Lord what is man And then tell you his answere Homo quasi res nihili Man is like a thing of nought And this he was made this he became made man made of a woman did not abhorre the Virgines wombe as wee sing daily to the high praise of the fulnesse of his humilitie to which his Loue brought Him for our sakes For whatsoeuer else He had bene made it would haue done vs no good In this then was the fulnesse of his Loue as before of his Fathers that He would bee made and was made not what was fittest for Him but what was best for vs not what was most