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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27499	The still-borne nativitie, or, A copy of an incarnation sermon that should have been delivered at St. Margarets-Westminster, on Saturday, December the five and twenty, 1647, in the afternoone, by N.B., but prevented by the committee for plunder'd ministers, who sent and seized the preacher, carried him from the vestry of the said church, and committed him to the fleet, for his undertaking to preach without the license of Parliament ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1648 (1648)	Wing B2018; ESTC R18366	26,917	36

THE STJLL-BORNE NATIVITIE OR A Copy of an Incarnation Sermon that should have been delivered at St. Margarets-Westminster on Saturday December the five and twenty 1647. in the afternoone by N. B BUT Prevented by the Committee for Plunder'd Ministers who sent and seized the Preacher carried him from the Vestry of the said Church and Committed him to the Fleet for his undertaking to Preach without the License of Parliament NOW Published by the Authoritie of that Scripture which saith Preach the Word be instant in season out of season 2. Tim. 4. 2. Isaiah 37. 3. This is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of Blasphemy for the Children are come to the birth and there is not strength to bring forth LONDON Printed for their sakes who love our Lord Jesus and his Birth day Anno Dom. 1648. To the whole Congregation of Beleevers assembled at St. Margerets Church in Westminster on Saterday December the 25. 1647 in the afternoone Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and the Lord Iesus Christ Worthy Christians I Had at the appointed time of preaching the same judgment befell me which befell to Zacharias the Father of John Baptist Luke 1 20. When I thought to have spoken unto the people that waited for mee and marvelled that I tarried so long I was struck dumbe and not able to speak And could I conceive it had been done by an Angel I should as a cause of it suspect in my selfe the sin of unbeleife But as it is I am constrained to use Zacharias his way of expressing my meaning On the day of your meeting in the Temple I could only becken but remained speechles whence you all perceived I had seene a Vision in the Vestry and were not long in suspence what kind of one it was But whatsoever it was I was transported or carried away with it and am yet dumb by it But as the Angell though he strooke Zacharias speechlesse yet tooke not away his writing tables v. 63. So I conceive by the tenour of that order which commands a constraint both of my Tongu and Heeles I am not interdicted the liberty of Pen and Paper but I may lawfully use both without contempt And so by this meanes I shal saving my regard to authority now acquaint you with that message of God I should then viva voce have delivered in your hearing It is true I in this Sermon represent as in a Sciagraph all the Ioynts of the History of Christ but insist only on the blessed mistery of the Vnion of the two natures God and Man in one person without reaching unto his birth or so farre as his conecption by the wholy Ghost Nor indeede as it falls out is there any neede I should put forward to speake of his Nativity though that were properly opus diei the worke of the day For all the circumstances doe sufficiently proclame the Nativity and are now newly revived Was all tho World taxed Lukt 2. 1. when the Messiah was borne Alas for the day of the Lord It is so now Was their no roome for Christ in the Inne Luke 27 There is none for him now in the Churches Were there Wisemen that sought to worship him and a Herod that under pretence of worship sought to destroy him Mat. 2. 1 It was so now there were that came to Church to worship Christ and there were that came to apprehend his Ministers Was there a voice heard in Ramah lamentation and weeping and great mourning Mat 2 18. There is another Rachel whose child is not if the newes of Cornehill be true Doe these things cause a necessity of Christ his going into Aegipt the sonnes of Israel's quondam bondage Mat 2 18. There will I fear but O the good God prevent that necessity be such another violence to drive us to such another flight Lastly was that Herod not longliv'd Mat. 2 19 I prophesie no eternity to the men of his carriage Psalme 55 23. But beloved I must once more crave your patience for I must leave you and waite upon the Committee Whome as Gentlemen I respect as in Authority I Honovr as my Enemies I love blesse and pray for Mat. 5 44 and that I may performe all the duties I owe upon that score I shal labour to doe good to I must tel them that I have read a story of Tiberious the Emperour That he upon the relation which Pilate made unto him of our Saviour had an intention and to that purpose signified his meaning to have Jesus of Nazarath reputed and received among the Roman Gods But the Senate of Rome withstood it because that Honour had been given him by such as never asked their consents But after this I provoke any Historian to shew me where that great Councel did ever any act either Honestly Wisely or like true Romans but were made the properties instruments either of the Caesars lusts or Souldiers villanies And now I wish these men seriously to advise how much short this insolence is of the former When men may not Honor Ministers may not preach Christ without their Licence under paine of imprisonment without Baile or maine prise I speake not this out of Stomack for what I suffer but as hartily as I would beg pardon for my sinns doe I wish them a better exit hoping yet they may acquire a better and more glorious conclusion then these distempers can promise or the Roman Councell had And now I return to give you an account of that which otherwise migh seem strange Which is that way of application you shal meet with all revers'd upon my selfe I confesse it is not usuall nor indeed proper for one that speakes to others But first as it is the Minister of Christs part to appeare in innocence a Dove Math 10 16 So as the Doves feed their young ones with that which themselves have taken down ought Preachers to digest in their owne brests and be fore-tasters of that spirituall food they divide to others and this I had laboured to do Secondly these meditations being now to be read not heard I thought good so to dispose them that each Reader might as I have done suc● in the juice and influence of them and by reading as it were engage himselfe upon the practicall part of them Vnto both which no way so Organicall as prayer And I doe humbly pray that every Reader may be also a Beleever and have a heart open as well as an eye For I conceive with humble reverence that the Gospell if it go no further then the eye or eare is mortiferous and deadly a killing letter But if it be transmitted to the more noble and vitall parts it is Soveraigne Food and Physick Meat and Medicine Christ in the Flesh may vouchsafe to accept the Stable and the Manger but comming in the Spirit he must have a Temple to entertaine him And by so providing we shall supply what was wanting not at Bethlem onely but at Westminster also If any