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A68116 The blessed'st birth that euer was: or, The blessed birth of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ Preached at the Fleet, the 25. of Decem: A. Dom. 1627. By Henry Greenvvood preacher of the word of God. Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. 1634 (1634) STC 12332A; ESTC S113901 12,140 45

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and watereth their soules with the dew of saluation To you therefore a Sauiour is borne Is borne An old prophesie here fulfilled To vs a Childe is borne to vs a Sonne is giuen Is borne words full of admiration words full of consolation Words full of admiration Christ to be borne of a Virgin without an earthly father a birth most admirable Thrée things especially reported are miraculous Christs Incarnation Christs Resurrection A Christians Regeneration And as they are words full of admiration so they are full of consolation for if we be wise and learned Christians we must know that the mercy of God could not saue vs vnlesse in euery respect his iustice were satisfied Now that his iustice might be satisfied man offending true man must satisfie in the same nature that God was wronged in the same nature must his Law be righted And Christ satisfied in humane nature both the command of the Law by his life and the curse of the Law by his death Christ therefore of necessity must bée borne of a woman and must bee like to man in euery thing sinne only excepted Now the proprieties of our humane nature are thrée Essention as Dimension Circumscription Termination Accidentall as Sanctification Resurrection-Glorification Naturall as Mortalitie infirmitie Iniquitie All these were in Christ Iesus only iniquitie set aside All such Heretikes are here refuted that deny the humane nature of Christ affirming his body to bee a phantastike body but for their paines I will allow them a phantastike saluation O miranda bonit as ô miranda humilitas Christi Oh the wonderful humility of the Lord IESUS that being eternall and without beginning would of a poore Virgin take flesh vnto him bee borne and haue a beginning Who being equall with GOD would take vpon him the forme of a seruant and bee found in the shape of a man blessed bee his goodnesse for this his loue to man for euermore Amen This day The Angel did not say This night though it was in the night for the shepherds were féeding their flockes by night but this day and the reason was quia laetam rem nunciabat because he deliuered ioyfull newes Hee saith this day Non pro qualitate temporis Sed pro qualitate rei Not for the qualitie of the time but for the qualitie of the thing So wee finde in the holy Scriptures when heauy reports are mentioned the night is named but when ioyfull tidings are told the day as Ambrose well noteth vpon the 22. of Luke Peters deniall was in the night But his confession was in the day The friendly comming to Abraham of the Angels was in the day at noone but their fearefull comming to Sodome was at night in the euening The foure Lepers going in their famine to the tents Aramiticall the Aramites being gone fearing Israels pursuit finding meat drink and gold and goodly refreshing called it a good day though indéed it was night This day said they is a day of good tidings That foole in the Gospel threatned with death had the night not the day accompanying his sorrowes Thou foole this night shall thy soule be taken from thee c. So here an Angel bringing swéet and ioyfull newes the day naturally being cheerefull and the night fearefull vseth the word Day not Night To you is borne this day c. As it is in the Corinths also Ecce nunc dies salutis Behold now the day of saluation Worthily called a day because then the true light was come into the world and turned the night of all feare into the day of all ioy and saluation In the Citie of Dauid which was Bethleem It is called the City of Dauid for two respects 1. for Distinction 2. for demonstration 1. For Distinction there were two Bethleems one in the Tribe of Zabulon Ios 19. 15. one in the Tribe of Iudah where Dauids father dwelt and where Dauid himselfe was borne So the Prophecie is fulfilled And thou Bethleem Ephratah that art little among the thousands of Iudah out of thee shall hee come that shall rule in Israel 2. For Demonstration To shew that hee should come of the séede of Dauid Hée was conceiued and liued in Nazareth but was borne in Bethleem Dauid Bethleem signifieth the house of Bread the Bread of life is borne in the house of Bread not in a Palace there but his house was a thorow-fare and his bed a cratch This makes not onely for the Iewes refutation that would not receiue him though the Prophets thus rightly had pointed him out but sheweth also both the truth of all Prophecies concerning Christ and the Lords faithfulnesse in their performance A Sauiour which is Christ theLord A Sauiour Oh heauenly word whose worth and comfort passe all expression A Sauiour not a temporary but an euerlasting Redéemer and there is no Sauiour besides this Sauiour as the Prophet speaketh Here is another swéet Prophecie fulfilled Behold your God will come and saue you He saues vs from sinnes guilt and punishment and that by his imputatiue passions Hee saues vs from sins regiment and that by grace deriued vpon vs for out of his fulnesse we receiue grace for grace And by his imputatiue holinesse he presents vs spotlesse to life and glorie euerlasting Christ that is Anointed For the worke of our Redemption Iesus was anointed into a triple Office to be a King a type whereof was Solomon to be a Prophet a type whereof was Dauid to bee a Priest a type whereof was Melchisedech Melchisedech not Aaron Aaron a Priest but not a King Dauid a King but not a Priest Melchisedech both King and Priest therefore a notable type of Iesus Anointed to bee a King to rule his Elect and protect them Anointed to be a Prophet to teach his Elect and direct them Anointed to be a Priest to ransome his Elect and redeeme them If Christ bee thy Christ as King then the Deuill reignes not in thee but Christ If Christ bee thy Christ as Prophet then his Word not thy will is the rule and square of all thine actions If Christ be thy Christ as Priest then thine affections are slaine concerning sinne and thy whole man sacrificed to God Our Lord. Lord a name of power giuing to God his essence and being shewing that the Lord hath his being from none but from himselfe alone as all thinges else haue their beings from him for in him wee liue and moue and haue our being Here is his Deity described and here is another sweet prophecie fulfilled Behold a Virgin shall conceiue and beare a Sonne and his Name shall bee called Immanuel that is God with vs. God with man conioyned A necessary and as happy a coniunction Our blessed Sauiour must not only be Man but also God and that for two causes 1. To ouercome and deliuer his humanity from death and misery 2. To dignitie and make