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heaven_n	earth_n	let_v	lord_n	16,608	5	4.1180	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86139	A ha! Christmas, This book of Christmas is a sound and good perswasion for gentlemen, and all wealthy men, to keepe a good Christmas. Here is proved the cause of free-will offerings, and to be liberall to the poore, here is sound and good arguments for it, taken and proved out of scripture, as hath been written a long time. / By, T.H.	T. H.	1647 (1647)	Wing H128; Thomason E421_5; ESTC R204668	4,534	8

the believing world which lay hold on him by a lively faith then wee Christians have great cause of joy and thanksgiving for the birth of our Saviour the blessed spirits the Angels were never seen in such multitudes since that time or before on the earth praysing God in that manner and singing as they were that day the people of Israel which were God Almighties true Church were comanded to keep the Feast of the Paschall Lambe for ever which was but a type or shadow of Christ especially untill Christ the Lambe of God came which took away the sins of the believing world Exodus 12. 26. and it shall come to passe when your children shall say unto you what mean you by this service ye shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lords Passover who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians delivered our houses and the people bowed the head and worshipped So when our children shall aske us or thinke upon Christmas we may say unto them Christ Iesus came into the world to redeeme mankinde God so loved the world that he gave his only son to save mankind therefore let us be merry in the Lord and give thanks to God Almighty and be liber all to the poore on that day and so leave a good example to our children and successors For the Lord is very well pleased with free will offerings of praise and thanksgiving and King David saith What shall I pay the Lord for all his benefits to me the wholsome cup of saving health I thankfully will take on the Lords name will I call when I my prayers make And Ps 118. 21. I will praise thee for thou hast heard me and art became my salvation the stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner this is the Lord● doing and it is marvelou● in our eyes this is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it and Luke ● And it came to passe in those dayes that there went a Decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed and this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria and all went to be taxed every one in his own City and Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the City of Nazareth into Judea into the City of David which is called Bethlem because he was of the house and linage of David to be taxed with Mary his espoused wif● being gr●at with childe and so it was that while they were there the dayes were accomplished that shee should be delivered and she brought forth her first born Son and wrapt him in swadling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the Inne and there was in the same Country Shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flocks by night And loe The Angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shon round about them and they were sore afraid and the Angel said unto them fear not for behold I bring you good tydings of great joy which shall be to all the people for unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord and this shall be a signe unto you ye shall finde the babe wrapt in swadling clothes and laid in a manger and sodainly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Hoast praising God and saying Glory to God in the highest on earth peace and good will towards men and it came to passe as the Angels were gon away from them into heaven the shepherds said one to another let us now goe to Bethlem and see this thing which is come to passe which the Lord hath made known unto us and they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in the manger and when they had seen it they spread abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child and all that heard it wondered at those things that were told them of the shepherds but Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart and the shepherds returned praising and glorifying God for all the things which they had heard and seen as it was told them here was great joy among the Jews but in Mat. 2. we read of greater men among the Gentiles and of greater joy and of greater pains and travell to finde out the birth of Christ and of greater cost of gold and rich commodities which may be great joy unto us which were Gentiles and Heathens before Christ came into the world as well as they now when Jesus was borne at Bethlem of Judea in the dayes of Herod the King Behold there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem saying Where is he that is borne King of the Jews for we have seen his s●ar in the East and are come to worship him and ver 10. When they saw the star they rejoyced with an exceeding great joy and when they were come into the house they saw the young childe with Mary his mother and fell down and worshiped him and when they had opened their treasury they presented unto him gifts Gold Frankinsence and Myrrh Thus we see what love and joy and pains and travell and great cost these wise men thought well bestowed upon their Saviour but now our Saviour is gone into heaven and is there glorified and now he is very well pleased when men relieve the wants of his faithfull people for his sake well then I say this is the greatest deliverance at the first hand by God Almighty that ever mankind received and therefore we should return the greatest free will offering of praise and thanksgiving for it Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbott FINIS