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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wonder_n	wonderful_a	word_n	33	3	3.6366	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

thankfulnesse for the unspeakeable good purchased unto the world by it to meditate upon the benefit of his conception and incarnation and to rejoyce before the Lord and in the Lord for the favour and good will which thereby hee hath shewed to the sonnes of men duties which though on no day unseasonable yet then surely most suitable when a day being set apart for those duties we set our selves apart for that day and suspending our thoughts from all worldly cares and taking our selves off from all other distractions wee bend our minds with most serious devotion and intended affections to the performance of the duty of the day in the day of the duty And this is the day that calls for that duty at our hands Come let us rejoyce and be glad in it harke how the Angels sing their Gloria in excelsis Mary exults in her Magnificat and why should not we amongst them beare a part in this heavenly Choyre for our part in this holy birth Let us also with joy and praise sing Glory to God on high for his Peace sent on earth below and for his good-will shewed to the sonnes of men let our soules magnifie the Lord and our spirits rejoyce in God our Saviour for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lanu Lanu unto us even unto us This Child is borne SO then you see by the help of the Starre we have found the child we spake off The second branch of the first generall part The Sonne But what say you to the Sonne whether is it the same with the Child here in the Text or some other and if the same why doth the Prophet so suddenly vary in his expression but even now a Child and presently in the next word a Sonne surely there 's something in it what may be the meaning of it Nothing at all saith the Rabbi but only this in the first word Rabbi Kimhi he told you there was a Child borne and in the next he tels you what manner of child it was it was a man-child a sonne and not a daughter 1 But by the Rabbies leave there 's more in it then so If indeed the former word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jelad here rendred a Child were of the Common-gender as in our English it is and did signifie a woman-child as well as a man-child indifferently then there were some ground for this conjecture but if you examine the originall text you will find it otherwise you will find that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jelad is of the masculine gender can signifie no other but a man-child And so for the Prophet to bring us newes that a man-child was borne and presently tell us it was a sonne were an unnecessary tautologie therefore there is more in it then so 2 There are which tell us that by these masculine expressions of a Manchild A Sonne is intimated to us the honour and prerogative that the man hath above the woman in this businesse and the interest he hath in Christ before her in that hee was borne a man-child not a woman-child a Sonne and not a daughter But to this we answer if this circumstance may be a ground of an argument whereby to prove the priviledge of either sexe and whether of them be nearer a kinnne to Christ certainly it will conclude for the woman rather then for the man for although our Lord tooke upon him the nature of a man in that sexe yet he tooke that nature of a woman not of a man yea without the help of man and so hee hath united that sexe unto himselfe in a kind of consanguinity which the man cannot chillenge But Saint Ambrose hath reconciled this difference by dividing Christ equally between them thus Virum assumendo de foemina nascendo utrumque sexum honoravit Christus Our Lord Christ by taking upon him the nature of man and yet taking that nature of a woman hath hereby equally honoured both sexes and shewed that they have both an equall interest in him in Jesus Christ in this respect there is neither male nor female 3 But yet wee have not sounded the bottome of this mystery there is more in it yet then all this let it be well lookt into and it will be found that in these two words is contained and taught the greatest mystery that is in all the Christian Religion and that is the two really distinguished natures united in the one and undivided person of our Mediatour the humanity and the Divinity of the Sonne of God Vnto us A Child is borne there 's his humanity and Vnto us A Sonne is given there 's his Divinity As he was a child so he was the sonne of Mary as a sonne so he was by eternall generation the naturall Sonne of God as a child so he had a Mother but was without a Father as a sonne so he had a Father but was without a Mother Heb. and so was the true Antitype of him in whom hee was long before typified Melchizedek without father without mother without generation in respect of his humanity without a father in respect of his Divinity without a mother and therefore his generation who shall declare Isay No wonder if a few words after my text the Prophet tels us his name shall be called Wonderfull And as here in my text so all along throughout the whole course of his life fom his birth to his baptisme from his baptisme to his death and passion you shall observe how this child and this sonne the Divinity and the Humanity of Christ like Hypocrates his twins goe hand in hand together His birth was meane his parents poore there was no roome for them in the Inne they are faine to take up a stable for their quarter they find more kindnesse among the beasts then among them that owed them there is he borne Luke 2.7 Behold the Child But do you not see at the same time a strange and new created starre appeare in heaven waiting upon his birth and the place where the child lay and doe you not heare the Angels singing Luke 2. Gloria in excelsis in honour of his Nativitie Behold the Sonne Luke 2. As his birth was meane so his accommodations are meaner being borne he hath not a place where to lay his head This shall be a signe unto you saith the Angell you shall find the babe wrapt in swadling clothes and laid in a manger Behold a Child But do you not see at the same time Kings by inspiration come from the East to doe him homage do you not read how they brought their presents to him Gold Frankincense and Myrrhe Gold representing the Kingly office Francumcense the Priestly and Myrrhe the Propheticall office which hee was borne to The Kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring gifts Ps 45. and which he was to beare and exercise in the Church Behold A Sonne When he was to be baptized he submits himselfe unto an ordinance and to