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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04618	The mysterie of Christes natiuitie A sermon preached in the parish church of All-Saints in Dorchester, within the countie of Dorset, the 25. day of December 1613. being Christmas Daye. By William Iones, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods Word.	Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2.	1614 (1614)	STC 14739.2; ESTC S107860	16,531	38

our creation and recreation are As in the worlds sixth day God did make man so in the worlds sixth age hee did redeeme man In the worlds sixth day the first Adam was made in whom wee are deformed and in the worlds sixth age was the second Adam made in whom wee are reformed Here arise now two questions why God louing man so wel had not beene borne before or presently after mans fal sith Gratia ab officio quod mor a tar dat abest Secondly why God minding to die for the sinnes of all the world had not defer'd his comming to the end of the world Six is a number neyther diminute nor superabundant but perfect sith all his partes put together doe make the whole as 1. 2. and 3. make six so then in the number of perfection came the author of perfection By sixe staires did men ascend to Salomons throne and by six ages came the word to the throne of grace These scruples thus I remoue First for Christ to haue beene borne before Adam fel had bin an action superfluous For the end of his comming being vtinquit Euang. to seeke the lost Sheep of the house of Israel to bind vp the broken hearted to call sinners to repentance and by it to saluation what needed this seeker before man was lost what needed this Phisition before man was sick what needed this Sauiour before Adam was a sinner Againe for Christ to haue come presently after mans fall had beene also very inconuenient Man sinned by pride and by pride was throwne into calamitie from which if straightwayes hee should haue beene freed perhaps the spirit of loftinesse and insolencie might haue come vpon him againe God therefore sixe ages lest him in his miserie that he might know his fault knowing it be humbled for the same Farther it was meet that as the entrance of a King into a Citie so the comming of so worthie a person as the sonne of God into the World should bee foreshewed by the predictions of such worthie messengers as were the Patriarckes and Prophets which could not haue beene had Christ beene borne in the time of Adam As for the deferring of his birth to the end of the World These reasons disproue it First the testimonie of Abacuc 3. where it is said of God there the workes of his mercie should bee reuiued in medio annorum Againe why should Christ then bee borne on earth when men shall haue no faith to beleeue on him no Charitie to loue him and no Religion to worshippe him But these things shall happen in the latter daies as the Euangelists write and therefore the Worlds end is a season rather for Christ to come in iudgment to reuenge then in mercie to redeeme This for the age Now for the yeare It was the two and fortieth of the reign of Augustus Caesar the Roman Emperor in whose time that Christ was borne it was in regard of the manie resemblances that were between them As Augustus was a temporal so was Christ a Spiritual Monarch As Augustus was the second Emperour of Rome so was Christ the second person in Trinitie As Augustus was so called because hee did amplifie his Regiment so Christ was so called because he doth annoint vs his seruants as Augustus taxing the world receiued tribute from men and registred their names So Christ preaching vnto the world had obedience yeelded vnto him and noted such as serued him in the Booke of life As Augustus hauing vanquished his enemies planted peace among his people for in his dayes the Temple of Ianus was shut that else in the time of warre was wont euer to bee open so Christ hauing subdued his foes Death and the Deuill placed quietnesse in the conscience of his Childrē who before were distressed with many troubles from the age and the yeare come we to the Month and the Day Christ was borne on the fiue and twentieth day of December then being the shortest day of the yeare and Sunday as both by the fathers is testified and by calculation may be proued wherof note with me eyther the reasons or mystries December is the tenth moneth and in it was he borne that came to make satisfaction for our transgression of his Fathers ten Commandements December concludes the old yeare and giues way to a new and Christ now born gaue an end to the old Ceremonies of the Law and brought in in steed thereof the new ordinances of grace Ten degrees went the Sunne backward to signifie to sicke Ezechiah that he should not die and ten moneths in assuming our flesh did Christ goe back as it were for his Majestie to assure vs of his mercie the number of ten is the first Article compound of the figure 1. and a cipher 0. and in the tenth moneth was he borne whose person did consist of the figure of his Diuinitie and the cipher of his humanitie In the shortest day is the Sunne in his greatest and lowest South declination and when was the sonne of God euer farther from the Aequinoction of his glorie and lower in basenesse then when hee came out into the world clothed with our flesh In the shortest day the Sunne is said to be in his Tropick that is so called of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to turne when so graciously as now in his birth did the sonne of God turne vnto vs saith Iohn Baptist of Christ Ioh. 3. me oportet minui illum autem crescere verified as in their qualities of dignitie and estimation So also in the times of their Natiuities Iohn Baptist was borne the longest day of the yeare and therefore being at the highest his time must decrease and Christ was borne in the shortest and therefore being at the lowest his time must needs encrease In the shortest Day the Sunne beginnes that returne that turnes joy and comfort to liuing thinges and Christ now put his first foot in that race that yeelds blessednesse and happinesse to all Christians in the shortest day the cold is greatest and therefore sayth Bernard Christ chose a time trouble some to his flesh that we should learne not to pamper ours on a Sunday GOD the Father in his power beganne the world and now on a Sunday GOD the sonne in his mercie began to redeeme the world Sunday was first made before any other time and Christ theron borne is called the first begotten of al Creatures On Sunday God made the light and on Sunday now produced was he that is the true light lightning euery one that comes into the world as also all those that sit in darknesse the shadow of death To proceed yet to more particulars What part of the day what houre was Christ borne in Luc. 2 records that it was in the night when the Shepheards were watching their flockes that though the Angell said to them there is borne this day to ye a Sauiour ye are to vnderstand it spoken not of the artificiall day that holds