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A77221	Comfort from the cradle, as well as from the crosse of Christ. Being meditations upon Isaiah 9.6. / The substance whereof was delivered in two sermons. Preacht at VVinchester upon the feast of the Nativitie last past. By Tho. Bradley Dr in Divinitie, lately one of His Majesties chaplaines, and Rector of Castleford and Ackworth neere Pontefract in Yorke-shire.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4130; Thomason E637_1; ESTC R19661	52,275	95

Fathers of former generations was preacht and pointed at in types and figures promises and prophesies sacraments sacrifices under the law That child whose day Abraham saw a farre off but dimly as it were through a perspective glasse and at a distance that child which was the joy of the world the expectation of the nations the hope of all the ends of the earth that 's the child which here the Prophet speakes off and in the Text presents to us as visibly as if with old Symion he had him in his armes Unto us A Child is borne And to this give all the Prophets witnesse Micah foretold long before the place where he should be borne at * The very name of it did prophesie and promise some singular good to us out of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies the home of bread and out of it did hee come that was the bread of life Bethlem Micah 5.2 little Bethlem in this Honourable above all the Cities of all the other tribes Act. 10.34 yea above Jerusalem it selfe in that it was the birth-place of our blessed Lord which therefore St Ambrose often calls Christi villula Christs little village Old Jacob 1000 yeares before that foretold the time when he should be borne Gen. 49.10 when the Scepter was departed from Judah and the Lawgiver from betweene his feet not before This our Prophet 19. Generations before he was borne foretels us out of what stocke tribe family he should come Isay 11.1 That hee should be a branch springing out of the roote of Jesse of the Tribe of Judah of the stocke and linage of David And in the 7th of this Prophesie and 14th verse hee comes nearer yet and describes the very woman of whom he should be borne tels us what manner of woman she should be and what manner of child he should be that was to be borne of her that his mother should be a Maid Behold a virgin shall conceive and beare a sonne and the child should be a twin and yet but one neither but that one consisting of two natures united together in one person and these natures as different one from the other as heaven is distant from earth and therefore had he a name assigned him from heaven suitable to them both and comprehending both of them in the signification of it His name shall be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Immanu-el So then you have the time when the place where the tribe and family out of which this child should be borne you have him described by two distinguishing properties besides the one in the mother that should beare him the other in the child that should be borne by which he may be knowne from all other children in the world Then wee need goe no further in this enquirie lay all these together and compare them with what you read in the first chapter of the Gospel by St Matthew Mat. 1. and the second by St Luke and you have found the child that we looke for Luk. 2. what here you have in the prophesie there you have in the history This day are all these Scriptures fulfilled in your eares There is no stronger prop to our faith to confirme us in the truth of those things which wee beleeve then when wee see that those things which are come to passe were so long before foretold that they should so come to passe and among all the great things which time hath brought forth since the creation of the world there is nothing wherein this hath beene so punctually made good as in the things concerning this child of whom there is scarce any passage in his conception birth baptisme life death buriall resurrection or ascention so small but wee can shew it you either in promise or prophesie or type or figure or sacrament or sacrifice long before many of them some thousands of years before foretold and foreshewed whence it is that you read so often in the Gospells such expressions as these That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the mouth of such a Prophet Matth 1.22 and that it might be fulfilled which was written by such a Prophet Matth 2.15 That you may see how in all things concerning the Messiah the Prophesie and the history agree and answer each other as in a glasse face to face Nor to be trembled at then the impudence of the Athist that dare call them into question In so much as there is nothing more to be wondered at or indeed to be lamented then the judiciall blindnesse of the Jewes which to this day doe not see these things nor acknowledge the Messiah come in the flesh but doe with great earnestnesse still looke for him out at the window when he is long since come in at the doore The Lord open their eyes that they may see him and that they may looke upon him whom they have pierced Zach. 11.9 and and mourne for him abundantly even as a mother mourneth for her sonne and as one that is in bitternesse for her first borne And that they may do so here it is necessary that we remove the scruple in the Text which they stumble at arising from the time wherein the Prophet gives you in his birth which here he expresseth in the praeter tense as a thing done already is borne is given whereas they say even the child that wee speake of was not borne till about 700 yeares after this prophesie uttered And it is true that they say for if we search the Chronologies of time and the Genealogies of this Child Mat. 1. we shall find there were 19 generations between this of Ahaz in which the prophet prophesied this and that of Mary wherein and of whom this child was borne which tooke up much about this time that they speake of But it is an usuall thing with the penmen of the Holy Ghost especially writing the historicall and propheticall parts of Scripture thus to expresse themselves and to speake of things to come as if present or past already by a figure usually found in Scriptures called Anticipatio Anticipatio But there is more in this expression here in this place then a bare figure the prophet hath a further meaning in it and would thereby teach us and point out unto us these three things 1. First the certainty of fulfilling the promise of his comming that it was as sure as if they had had him then amongst them what you have in hope grounded upon a promise from the all-sufficient God is as sure as if you had it in hand in whom all the promises are yea and Amen If the Lord hath said it shall be done write it done already it is as sure as if it were done Hab. 2.3 though the vision tarry wait for in the end it will surely come it will not tarry If the Lord hath said hee shall be borne the Prophet dares boldly write him borne already unto us A Child

obtained and purchased unto his Church in so doing Let not the Jewe stumble at the Crosse of Christ by telling us that we beleeve in a crucified God nor let the Atheist stumble at the Cradle of Christ by telling us we embrace a Child for our God Nestorius his Blasphemy Nor let Nestorius reproach us with our bimestris aut trimestris Deus a God of two or three months old as hee blaspemously calls him If the Child seeme little in your eyes behold the Sonne if the Cradle offend you behold the Starre if the Crosse offend you behold the Heavens without a Sunne and the Starres withold their shining at the spectacle And be not faithlesse but believe and you shall see greater things then these You shall see this Sonne of man comming in the clouds Matth 25. with power and great glory Now you see him in the Cradle then you shall see him in a fiery Chariot riding upon the wings of the wind now he came in Virgine then hee shall come in Libra with a ballance in one hand to weigh the actions of the sonnes of men and a two edged sword in the other to cut them off and to be avenged on his enemies now he came attended with a few fishermen and others of the meaner sort that followed him but then he shall come attended with thousands and thousands of thousands of Angels and Arch-Angels now he came in humility then he shall come in glory now he came to be judged but then he shall come to judge both quick and dead yea to judge even them that judged him the souldiers shall looke upon him whom they have pierced Zach 11. and the Jew shall looke upon him whom they have rejected and the Arrians Eunomians Ebionites Corinthians Photinians Socinians and Mohomitans shall looke upon him whom they have denyed and despised and shall be confounded when they shall see him now armed with power and authority to be avenged on them for their contempts and injuries done to him and his for his sake And those that have confessed him shall say unto them by way of reproach and insultation Behold yee despisers and wonder and perish Act. 13.41 Luk 19.27 And the King shall say unto them as sometimes to those Rebels in the Gospell Those that would not that I should raigne over them bring them hither and slay them before my face Psal 2.12 Oh then kisse the Sonne lest hee be angry and so ye perish embrace the Child in the arms of your faith and best affections Ambrose that so hereafter he may embrace you in the armes of his mercy Infans est noli timere filius noli spernere Behold he is a Child that you should not be afraid to draw neare unto him and a Sonne that you may not dispise him Let the meditation of the former raise in you hope and confidence and of the latter beget in you feare and reverence and both together that saving comfort sound joy and settled peace that flowes from your reconciliation with God and your adoption to the honour to become the Sonnes of God brethren to this Child and coheires with this Sonne of an inheritance in glory the very end of this his Child-hood and of this his Sonship the very end why he was borne to us and given for us Lord let him have his end in us that we may have our fruit in him even the end of our hopes the salvation of our soules in blisse and glory that never shall have end Amen The end of the first Sermon COMFORT FROM THE CRADLE AS WELL AS from the Crosse of CHRIST The second SERMON ESAIAH 9.6 Vnto us a Child is borne Vnto us a Sonne is given I Have given you an account of the first generall part of the Text inquiring of the person who and what hee is of whom the Prophet speaketh this as he is here represented to us under the names and notions of A Child A Sonne Transitio and there in I have discovered unto you the stupendious mystery which lyes coucht under these two words and is clearly made out from them and that is t●●●w● really distinguisht natures united in the on● individed person of our Mediatour the Deity the Humanity of the Son of God both made good not only out of the text but all along throughout the whole course of his life from his birth to his baptisme from his baptisme to his death as in the severall passages of them all I have observed In his birth you had A Cradle for the Child and a Starre for the Sonne In his Baptisme water for the Child and a voyce from Heaven for the Sonne In his passion A Crosse and A Crowne of thornes nailes and a speare scourgings and whippings and stripes for the Child and thundrings and darknesse and an earth-quake and rocks cleaving in sunder and graves opening and the veyle of the Temple rent for the Sonne and generally throughout the whole course of his life in the severall eminent passages of it you saw the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud infallible evidences of the Deity breaking out through the cloud and veile of his flesh I shewed you the reasons of all these wonders they were wonderfull things that he was to doe and therefore not to be transacted but by wonderfull means and by a wonderfull person even by him whose name is called VVonderfull And I shewed you the friuts issuing out of them all Glory to God on high peace on earth below and towards men good will I am now to examine the second generall proposed Luke 2. wherein we are to consider what it is which is here affirmed of this Child and of this Son and that is laid down in two words more Is borne Is given The Child is borne but the Sonne is given First The Child is borne That is was necessary that our Mediatour should be made man it is confest and we have shewed the reasons of it but why A Child why borne of a woman why to be conceived in the wombe this is much more and surely there is more of the mystery in it which yet we have not discovered when the first Adam was created he was made A man not A child created not begotten A man in full strength and perfection of life and so was excused all the impotencies and imperfections of Childhood and infancy And when the second Adam came to repaire and to restore what he had lost was it not reasonable and agreeable to his type that hee should be made a man too in perfect state stature and perfection of life as the first was and so have beene abated all those parts of his sufferings and degrees of his humiliation which in the wombe and from the wombe in his childhood and infancy hee past through must he needs become A Child be conceived in the wombe and borne what was the reason of this Yes surely there was reason for it

the mystery of godlinesse and what 's that 2 Cor. 5.19 God manifested in the flesh Joh. 1.4 God in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe 2 Cor. 5. The Word made flesh Joh. 1. A mystery indeed which the Angels themselves desire to looke into 1 Pet. 1.12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Originall to pry into to the very bottome implying that the farther they pry into it the farther they may and the more still they discover of the mysterie affording matter of admiration even to those Angelicall spirits And although wee are not able to looke so farre into this great mystery as those Angelicall spirits are nor to discover so much of it as they doe yet let it be seriously lookt into and the discerning spirit will easily perceive how in this high mystery all the most glorious Attributes of Almighty God doe meet together and worke together and in most eminent manner display themselves how his wisedome his power his justice and his grace are all set aworke in this great designe and the result of them all is just the burthen of the Angels song Glory to God on high peace on earth beneath Luk. 2.14 and towards men good will 1 First his wisedome in laying the plot in contriving the way how mankind lost should be restored and saved and yet he not suffer in the honour of his truth and justice which had past against them the sentence of death In quo die commederis morte morieris Gen. 2.17 In the day that thou eatest thou shalt die the death 2 Secondly his power in bringing this about being contrived against so great oppositions so many difficulties standing in the way and effecting it with such happy successe as he hath done though it cost him deare 3 Thirdly his justice in punishing sin so severely and that in his owne Sonne being but an undertaker for it and that meerly out of his love and compassion to poore soules lost and undone that they might not perish 4 Fourthly his grace in being at such cost to save and to restore sinfull men his enemies that had so highly offended him and undone themselves All these may he that runneth read in this mystery There s in the 85. Psalme and 10. verse a sweet passage of the Prophet David Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other Behold in this mystery they are met together and in this glorious designe they kisse each other His mercy such that rather then mankind shall perish his owne and onely sonne shall become a Child take their nature upon him and in that nature suffer all that mankind should have suffered and doe all that hee should have done that so all this being imputed unto him he might have the benefit of it that he might be excused from suffering and accepted in the sight of God as holy as innocent and as just as if he had never offended And yet his justice such that rather then sinne shall goe unpunished hee would punish it in his owne sonne yea and that with great severity too he would not spare him although in the extremity of the conflict he begg'd of him that he would he desired that that cup might passe from him Matth. 26.39 yet he would not heare him nor excuse him but laid on load of wrath and justice upon him gave him up to the bitternesse of death and lockt him up in the prison of the grave till hee had paid the uttermost farthing of our debt See here how in this mystery mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace in this Child and in this Sonne kisse each other Behold how the wisedome and the power the justice and the grace of Almighty God all worke together and proclaime with loud voyce Glory to God on high And these make up the first part of the Angels song The second part of their song proclaimes good will unto men and declares the unspeakable good which by this mystery they receive and there are five great blessings and benefits which they receive by it 1 First the ennobling of their natures what an honour is this to our flesh to be taken into union with the divine nature in the person of the Sonne of God What an exaltation is this of our nature that the Prince of Glory should vouchsafe to cloth him selfe with it and in it to appeare and converse among the sonnes of men but how much more that in it hee hath victoriously triumphed over sinne death hell and the grave that in it he is ascended into heaven and there sitteth on the right hand of the Father in that part of our flesh which hee tooke hath taken possession of heaven for us and in our names of the heavenly mansions which hee hath purchased and provided for us Quid est homo Lord what is man that thou shouldest thus consider him Psal 8 4. or the sonne of man that thou shouldest thus regard him thou hast made him little lower then the Angels Nay in this respect higher then the Angels for he tooke not upon him the nature of Angels Heb● but hee tooke upon him the nature of Adam the seed of Abraham hence arises a nearer affinity consanguinity rather betweene Christ and us then is between Christ and the Angels he becoming flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone by this are wee made sonnes of God brethren of Christ and coheirs with him of an Inheritance in glory Gen. 2 23. Ephes 5.30 This is an high priviledge and a great benefit which wee receive by this mystery The enobling of our natures And 2 The second is like unto this The enabling of our natures to gratious and spirituall performances of holy and heavenly duties for by vertue of this union of our natures with his and his with ours th●re flowes from him into us an influence of grace by which he through his spirit lives in us and workes in us by which he informes actuates and animates us as the soule doth the body of which it is the forme hence followes the enabling of our natures to holy and spirituall performances by vertue of this influence of grace of Christ by his spirit living in us and working in us we are enabled to live that life which is according to godlinesse to mortifie our corruptions to deny our selves with all our corrupt lusts and passions to crucifie the flesh to despise the world with all the corruptions that are in it through lust to doe and to suffer for his name above the power of nature by a higher power and principle of grace received from above This is a second benefit derived unto us from this mystery 3. The third is an interest in the Lord Jesus and with him in all that is his in all his righteousnesse merits holinesse obedience in all that he hath done and suffered for us it is all ours wee have a right in it for from this