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love_n	father_n	holy_a	son_n	15,395	5	5.8830	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27534	A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties chappel at St. James, upon the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady, March 25, 1686 by Jo. Betham ...	Betham, John, d. 1709.	1686 (1686)	Wing B2060; ESTC R9943	12,149	38

as to unite himself really and substantially to despicable Humane Nature for an endless Eternity Had not St. Leo just reason here to say Mirabilior nobis Dei humilitas quam potestas Serm. 10. de Pass That the boundless Power he shew'd in raising this fair World out of Nothing Peopling the Heavens with Angels the Earth with Men and all variety of Creatures was not so surprising and astonishing as the inconceivable Humiliations he underwent in the Redemption of Man Mirabilior nobis c. Were we here permitted O Eternal Maker humbly to expostulate with thy ineffable Bounty Couldst thou not have left a Race of Rebels Despisers of thy Laws Blasphemers of thy Majesty Monsters of Ingratitude Couldst thou not have abandon'd them to the utmost Rigour of thy provok'd Justice Had thy Divine Majesty been ever the less Adorable Had thy Eternity been shortned Had thy Immensity been confin'd Had thy Omnipotency been weakned Had thy Infinity been limited Had thy Glory been eclips'd What prejudice had God suffer'd if the vilest Ingratitude had been chastis'd if Man the most unworthy of Creatures had perish'd for ever Had thy Friends forsaken thee because thy Enemies were punish'd Had not the Father Son and Holy Ghost still enjoy'd one another in Boundless Knowledge in Infinite Love in Immense Glory Would not the Angels still have been ready at thy beck the Cherubims rapt in Contemplation of thy Greatness the Seraphims melted in the Flames of thy Love Would not the Earth and Heavens with all other Creatures have still trembled in thy Presence and submissively own'd thee as their Supream Lord altho' ungrateful Man had been treated according to his Demerits 'T is true Dear Christians God's absolute Independency and Supream Dominion places him infinitely above such Casualties upon the account of his Creatures Disorders And altho' that Power which created the Universe with a Word could with the same ease have sav'd or abandon'd all Mankind yet all this notwithstanding it was not to be done upon other Terms The Reason was Because God would not have the Greatness of his Mercy so manifested that he might seem in the least to neglect his Justice he would joyn together those seemingly opposite Attributes after so admirable a manner that his Mercy should never appear more Indulgent nor his Justice more Severe fully making good David's Prophecy Justitia Pax osculatae sunt His Mercy could never have pardon'd more his Justice could never exact more 'T is only here he was infinitely Merciful to satisfie himself in Person for the Offences committed against his own Laws 't is here he was infinitely Just and Severe in admitting of no less Satisfaction then what was offer'd by his own Coeternal and Coequal Son who could not atone for us had he been of an inferiour Rank as St. Leo observes Nisi esset verus Deus non adferret remedium Serm. 1. de Nat. God the Eternal Justice it self will have full Satisfaction for the Sins committed against his Person and Orders this cannot be had but from a Person equal to himself therefore his only Son who is God and Equal with himself crowds as I may say his Immensity into the narrow Womb of a Virgin mercifully takes the Form of a Servant and by it raises our Poverty to the rich Condition of being able to pay a full and just Ransom for the Sins of all Mankind Here stop a while my Soul and Contemplate the Eternal Word the Omnipotent Son of Heaven for thy sake become an Infant Child Behold his boundless Love for many as the Prophet Sophonias foretold has reduced him to a charming silence Silebat in dilectione suâ he was silent Sopho. 3. 17. in the dearest expression of his Love O Incomparable Invention of Divine Mercy Oh Silence more Eloquent than all the Tongues of Men and Angels more forceable in the sight of Heaven than all the Penitential Psalms of David than all the Lamentations of Jeremy than all the earnest Petitions and languishing sighs of the Patriarchs and Prophets which cries more loud tho' in a sweeter strain than the Blood of an innocent Abel pleads Man's Cause with a Heavenly Eloquence the happy Product of his infinite Love silebat in dilectione suâ Was ever Love carried to this height was ever Charity to be compared to this The only Son of Heaven the Immence Word of the Almighty reduc'd to the state of a newly conceiv'd Infant And why St. Paul tells you in a few but most surprizing words Peccatores salvos 1 Tim. 1. 16. facere to save Sinners his declar'd Enemies Ungrateful Rebellious Sinners to save you that have contemn'd his Benefits abused his Graces vilified his Glory blasphemed his Majesty for the Salvation of such who so little deserv'd it He is this Day miraculously made Man substantially united to one of his own Creatures infinitely beneath him in all Perfections Would any here present willingly consent that his Rational Soul his Humane Nature should be really and inseperably united for all Eternity to the Nature of a Serpent a Toad a Worm or what is more Vile and Abject amongst Creatures and this only to redeem from Slavery that Person of the World which most contemned him that let slip no occasion of shewing himself to be your most inveterate and implacable Enemy Alas all this is infinitely out-done in our present Mystery The Creator of all things is substantially united to that created Nature which of all Beings had been most ungrateful the supream Lord and Master of Heaven and Earth hath assum'd the contemptible Nature of his own Slave and Vassal God is become Man and will remain so for all Eternity to save his own Rebellious Creatures his Treacherous Servants Monsters of Sin and Iniquity Peccatores salvos facere 'T is here clear Bretheren the Powers of Heaven stand astonish'd and submissively adore the profound Abyss of the Divine Wisdom the Infinite severity of his Rigorous Justice the Charming Goodness of that God of Mercies who altho abandon'd by his own Creatures not own'd as their Father or Benefactor but despis'd vilify'd and hated as their inveterate Enemy yet appears this Day the most Gracious of Sovereigns the most Bountiful of Benefactors the most Tender of Fathers giving us all the Treasures of Heaven his only Son as the most Generous and Indearing Instance of an Infinite Love Sic Deus dilexit mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret May we not justly say with St. Aug. That altho' we have been insensible of all other Benefits his Bounty has heap'd upon us since the Worlds Creation yet certainly this strongest Proof of an Infinite Love must force some return from the most Stony Heart Si amare pigebat saltem redamare non pigeat That Nature upon which the First Adam had intail'd Temporal Miseries and Eternal Punishments is this Day by the Second Adam renewing its Title and Claim to Eternal Glory the Pressures and Calamities we sigh'd under as