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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14015	A sermon preached on Palme-Sunday, before King Henry the VIII by Cuthbert Tonstall ...	Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1474-1559.	1633 (1633)	STC 24323; ESTC S1387	33,985	52

A SERMON PREACHED ON PALME-SVNDAY BEFORE KING HENRY the VIII By CVTHBERT TONSTALL Bishop of DVRESME LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper M. DC XXXIII TO The Honourable Knight Sir IOHN TONSTALL Servant to her Sacred Majestie AND To the Right Noble Lady his WIFE The Publisher Consecrates This Devotes Himselfe Wishes all Happinesse T. H. Hoc sentite in vobis quod in Christo Iesu c. Ad Philippen 2. Let the same minde be in you which was also in Christ Iesus who being in the forme of God thought it not robbery to be equall with God But made himselfe of no reputation and tooke upon him the forme of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himselfe and became obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a Name which is above every Name That at the Name of Iesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confesse that Iesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father THis is in English the sentence of the Epistle of this day And first I doe intend by your patience to declare particularly the literall sence therof containing the infinite and inestimable humility and obedience of our Saviour Iesu Christ Secondly I doe intend to speake of disobedience of men by pride done to man against Gods law And how that may be eschued Thirdly I intend to speake of disobedience of all men by pride done to Almighty God against Gods law And how that may be amended And so to make an end And to returne to the first Saint Paul in the second chapter to the Philippians next before the words of the Epistle of this day commanding humility with charity to be used saith Yee must thinke by humility every man to be your superiour not considering every one of you his owne furtherance but the furtherance of other And therefore he exhorteth all men by the example of Christ not to regard nor to take heed to their owne advancement but the advancement of other saying See the same minde be in you that is in Iesu Christ that is to say shew humility and patience for the wealth of other as Christ did Whose high degree the Apostle Paul here first speaketh of From which he was content to come downe for our sake For he being in the forme of God thought it no robbery to be equall with God what is this to say in the forme of God The sense thereof is this He was in full substance in full essence in full glory in eternitie equall with his father As for to put for our better erudition of things incomprehensible farre above our capacitie an example of things that we may understand to direct us in some part to the attaining of higher things As the brightnesse is in the fire and as the image or print is in a seale and as a word is in the minde so the Sonne of God is in the Father For the brightnesse is as soone as the fire is and the print is within the seale as soon as the seale is And the word that man will expresse is in the minde as soone as the minde hath conceived it Saint Paul in the beginning of his Epistle to the Hebrewes saith that the sonne of God is the shining of the glory of the Father As in the foresaid example the brightnesse is of the fire and figure of his substance as the print is of the seale supporting all things by the word of his strength and vertue as the minde bringeth forth the word And where saint Paul saith that Christ thought it no robbery to be equall with God he meaneth that he made not himselfe equall to God by usurpation but God the Father begate him in the beginning equall to himselfe For if he should have made himselfe equall to God not being so by nature he should have save fallen by ravyn as Lucifer did For he because he would make himselfe equall to God being but a creature did fall and of an Angell was made the Divell and this his pride he perswaded to man by which he was overthrowne himselfe saying to Eve before the fall of Adam Taste of the fruit that is forbidden you and ye shall be as Gods That is to say in effect take upon you by usurpation that thing that yee have not by creation for so was I overthrowne But Christ was borne in the beginning equall to his Father not made after equall and borne of the substance of the Father Wherefore he did not usurpe equality unto God but was in that equality in which hee was borne in the beginnin●… It followeth in the text But he did abase himselfe taking upon him the forme of a servant which he did not losing the forme of God in which he was before but taking the forme of man which he was not before And thereby he was made inferiour to his Father And yet he abode still equall with him both in one person that is to say by reason that he was the word of God equall to his Father and by reason he was man inferiour to him one sonne of God and the same sonne of man One the sonne of man and the same the Sonne of God Not two Sons of God God and man but one Sonne of God and man God without beginning man from a certaine beginning our Lord Iesu Christ For as God doth grant to his creatures being temporall and subject to suffering that they may beget the same thing that they are how much more God the Father being eternall and impassible did beget his sonne not of another substance than he himselfe is but of the same Which is yet to our great admiration because he begat him without any alteration and in such equality with himselfe that neither in power nor in age the Father goeth before the Sonne But the Sonne doth attribute unto the Father and not to himselfe all that he hath and may because hee is not of himselfe but of the father He is equall to the Father but he had that same of his Father Nor he tooke not of himselfe to be equall but he is equall by nature As he was ever borne he was ever equall Wherefore the Father begat him not inequall to himselfe And after he was borne gave to him equality but in begetting him gave it unto him because he begat him equall not inferiour to himselfe But yet he saith his Father is superiour to him because he tooke the forme of a servant not losing the forme of God by which forme of a servant he was made inferiour not onely to his Father but also to himselfe as to the Sonne of God and to the holy Ghost Nor onely he was inferiour to the Trinity in his forme of manhood but also he was made inferiour under Angels And he was also inferiour unto