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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04618	The mysterie of Christes natiuitie A sermon preached in the parish church of All-Saints in Dorchester, within the countie of Dorset, the 25. day of December 1613. being Christmas Daye. By William Iones, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods Word.	Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2.	1614 (1614)	STC 14739.2; ESTC S107860	16,531	38

alone and the Sonne is of the Father Now then more seemely it is that he be sent who is of another then he that is of himselfe Fourthly the Sonne was sent to be man that wee might know how the father did loue man in sending so precious a thing to redeeme man therby thus to strengthen our languishing hope that sith God thought not his Sonne too good forvs how can wee doubt but that hee will bestow all other things on vs whatsoeuer wee begge of him Fiftly GOD bath predestinated vs saith Saint Paul Romans 8. to bee conformable to the Image of his sonne that therefore had hee not sent his Sonne how could wee bee like to his Sonne had not he come that was the Naturall sonne wee should neuer haue beene adopted sonnes The sonne of God therefore was made the sonne of man that we sonnes of men might bee made the sonnes of God Sixtly God the sonne is the middle person betweene God the Father and God the Holy Ghost and therefore was fittest to bee sent to bee the mediator betweene God and man Seuenthly He that was to worke our redemption was to be an intercessor and supplicator to God for vs. But these properties are more proper to a sonne then a Father for a sonne is to intreat the Father and not the Father the sonne And therefore did God best to send his sonne Last of all the Mediator betweene God and man was to pacifie so to teach and guide man to be obedient vnto God Now then Christ being the word of God and wisdome of God as Saint Iohn and Saint Paul affirme meetest was hee the sonne to be mans Teacher and Counsailor Why God sent his Son yee see the Reasons Now behold wee in what manner he sent him the third thing I am to speak of It is said made of a woman and made vnder the law What is written before in my text of him that in the fulnesse of time God sent him pointes to his Diuinitie and his glorie but that now Hee is made of a Woman and vnder the Law this shewes his Humanitie and Humilitie How the two Natures Godhead and Manhood were vnited together in the vnitie of his person Paul 1. Tim. 3. talkes of a great mysterie of pietie How God was manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirit was seene of Angels was preached to the Gentiles beleiued on in the World and assumed into glorie And heere behold this production of God to be made of a woman is the beginning of it opening as it were the doore to the other most admirable actions But what a strange thing is this that the maker of the World should thus bee made of a woman and that the Creatour should haue his being from a Creature This rightly to conceiue ye are to note this Christ in respect of his Godhead was increated in respect of his soule he was created and in respect of his bodie he was made of a woman As we Christians are borne first naturally of our Parents and afterwards are born spiritually of the Holy Ghost So Christ beeing God was begotten naturally of God and now being man was made temporally of a woman Verbum caro factum est c. saith Saint Iohn cap. 1. Paul affirmeth 2. Tim. 2. that he came of the seed of Dauid and Heb. 2. that no where hee tooke on him the Angels but the seed of Abraham tooke he on him and all this by being made of a woman Of a Woman ' yee will say what reason had God to effect so strange an action I will tell yee to aduance his glorie and doe vs the more good O how kind did God shew himselfe in taking vpon him our fraile nature Hee might haue come to vs as he did to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinay in thundering lightning fire and smoake hee might haue come to vs in the substance of an Angell assumed but yet because hee loued man to man he came in the estate of man O how just did God shew himselfe to bee made of a Woman The Deuill before had conquered all flesh in the first Adam and now the second Adam took flesh in it to subdue the Deuill O how wise did God herein shew himselfe that when one man by sinne had displeased him another man by his righteousnesse should pacific him I meane Iesus who being God therefore became man to be the mediatour betweene God and man Which office no other Creature neyther man nor Angell could possibly haue executed sith infinite being the Maiestie of him that by sinne was offended by no person but him that is of infinite goodnesse it could be appeased Christ therefore tooke God and man into the vnitie of his person to reconcile God and man into the vnitie of affection These such like inuisible excellencies of kindnesse Iustice Wisdome to make visible vnto vs he took on him our visible nature in mercie descending to vs sith wee in might could not ascend to him Secondly Christus factus est c. As for the promotion of his owne glorie so for the procurement of our good in many things to help vs to instruct our faith which could not but beleeue when she heard God himselfe to speake to comfort our hope which could not but bee cheered when she saw God vnited to our nature to kindle our charitie that could not but loue God sensibly perceiuing how God loued man to draw our actions to vertue that could not but imitate God giuing himselfe for an example and to make vs partakers of his Diuinitie that as God was the sonne of man so wee men should bee made the sonnes of God Againe Christus factus est c. to remoue many euils from vs that the deuill the author of sin though hee were an Angell should not be preferred before vs that man considering the dignitie of his nature how it is in vnion with God should not spot it with sinne that our presumption with the thought of Christes merites our pride with the remembrance of his humilitie and the feare of death and hell with the consideration of his person might bee daunted and abated Further Dei filius factus est c. to verifie his Incarnation Valentine held Christ to haue brought a body with him from heauen and to haue taken no flesh from his Mother Marcion Apelles Cerdonius and Manes affirmed Christ to haue but a phantastical body such as Angels and spirits assume The Turkes and Moores imagine Christ to bee the breath of God whom because God saw that the Iewes would crucifie he therefore suffered Christ to delude their eyes in seeming to doe and suffer what hee did not But these heresies are notably confuted in this That he was made of a woman For if a woman were his true Mother bearing him ten Monethes in her wombe bringing him forth giuing him sucke then vndoubtedly he was a true man and had a true naturall and not a celestiall