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A02460 A sermon preached at Nevvport-Paignell in the Countie of Buckingham. By R.H. Hacket, Roger, 1559-1621. 1628 (1628) STC 12590; ESTC S119751 27,838 60

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for it pleased the father that in him should dwel the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily and in truth being the sonne of his father not by adoption as are we but by essence not by grace but by nature being the very image of the father and the engrauen forme euen of his substance he could not but be God For as euery creature bringeth forth their yong after their kinde so the creator of all must needes bring forth after his kinde God of God euen of the substaunce and essence of himselfe And therefore Paul speaking of our sauiour saith that he was in the forme of God and thought it no robbery to be equall with God for although the person of the father is distinct from the person of the sonne yet in the essence and nature of the dietie they are one I and my father are one wherefore as Christ spake to the disciples of Iohn which came to know whether he were that Messiah that should come goe tell Iohn what you haue heard seene Euen so may we answere to them that doubt of the d●etie of our Sauiour goe tell what you haue heard of him For when thou hearest that the dead were raised by him and restored to life that the diuels were cast forth and stood at his commaund that he cured all sicknes by his worde that he calmed the waters when they did rage and made the windes be hush when they did bluster how cāst thou but with Thomas fall at his feete speake to his glory and thy soules good My Lord my God how canst thou crie out with that elect vessel of a truth great is the mistery of godlinesse God is manifested in the flesh Now as our Sauiour is God of the same nature with his father so it is worth our labour to consider that it was most expedient that he so should be For otherwise how could he satisfie the wrath of his father due to our sins for when our sins were infinite according to the infinite maiestie of God whom they did trespasse it must needs be that he which is to satisfie for those infinite sinnes must either be of an infinite nature or must for all infinity be for euer punished But now since the sorrowes of death are fully losed in our Sauiour and he himself spake of them Consummatum est it is finished it must needes be since he conquered death and him that had the power of death which is the deuill also as S. Paule speaketh hee abolished death and brought life and immortalitie vnto light it must needes be that he should be of an infinite nature and therefore God For as none can forgiue sinnes but God so none can beare the burden of sinne but God for it draue Adam out of paradise and the angels out of heauen So that since Christ was to beare the burden of our sinnes which man and angell was not able to doe it must needes be that he should be greater then man or angell and that is God Nay when he willed vs which beleeued on his father to beleeue also on him and when we may not beleeue on any sauing on the Lorde of host for if we do we bring a curse vpon our soules most conuenient it is that our sauiour should be God especially since the Lord saith of himselfe that beside him there is no Sauiour To conclude if he were not God how should his eares be open to our prayers how should he see our sighes and inward gronings how should his merite be auailable to all except he were omnisufficient of himselfe and and through the infinitie of himself did make his merite of infinite price Wherfore that he might be able to beare the burden of our sin and to satisfie for the infinitie of the same that we might beleeue on him as we do on the father that his merite might bee made auailable to all it is expedient that he should bee God Now as he was God so is he also man therfore the Apostle when he had shewed that their was but one mediator betwixt God man he after addeth the mā Christ Iesu for who was to bruise the Serpentes head but the seede of the woman in whom was al nations to be blessed but in the seed of Abraham and this seede as the Apostle speaketh was Christ from whence came that righteous braunch that should reigne as king but from the seed of Dauid according to the flesh So that if to be the fruit of Maries wombe the which he was although most blessed if to be made of woman the which he was became for vs most cursed if to be the sonne of man with which name he often intituleth himselfe doth proue him to be man nay if to haue flesh bloud and bone the which we haue if to hunger and thirst the which we doe if to die and goe the way of all flesh doth proue our sauiour to be man then was he man in al things like to vs his brethren except only sinne euen man not in phancie but in truth of the very substaunce of his mother not of her shadow which had not onely a bodie but a soule too so that we may truely speake of him as we do of Adam Abraham all the rest he was man And as you haue heard out of the Scripture that he was man see was it most necessarie that he should so be for how could he die if he were onely God since the godhead is impossible and can no more suffer then doe the beames of the sunne which shineth on a tree suffer when the tree is fallen and cut downe Surely as Alamandurus answered the Manichees that would enforce him to beleeue that Christ was not man that he receaued a letter that Michael the archangell was dead to whom when they replied that that could not be because he was an angell In like sort said he no more can Christ die if he be as you say onely God And although he had some other nature than the nature of man wherein hee might suffer yet when man in his nature had offended and trespassed God it standeth in reason that God in mans nature should be satisfied For as Chrysostome reasoneth that Christ could not bee the Sauiour of our soules except he had a soule in which he might satisfie for such sins we had committed in our soules euen so we may conclude that he could not satisfie for the sinnes of man except that he had beene also man Nay whē this was the end of his comming to make vs of the sonnes of men the sonnes of God for but by Christ we haue no power to be called his sonnes how could hee effect this to our good except hee which was the sonne of God should first become the sonne of man wherfore that