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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05280	The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder.	1609 (1609)	STC 15424; ESTC S103610	66,134	240

shall finde that from the first conception of Christ in the wombe to the yeelding vp of his Ghost vppon the crosse In articulo mortis the Crosse was euer his companion his life none other then a painfull passion it hath beene euer in the practise of Sathan to maligne the truth and by all possible and potent meanes to bury the Babe in his birth Gabriel no sooner came from heauen with that ioyfulll message but straight waies hee raised a doubt in the heart of Mary so as shee demurred vppon the point and sayd How may this be Being found with child of the holy ghost Ioseph was iealous of his wife What should I say more Herode was cruell and Bethleem was vncourteous when Christ found more humanity kindnesse with the beastes in the cratch then with men in their Courts Sathan stirred vp the Galileans from a high steep hill to cast him downe headlong The Gadorens to driue him out of their cost coūtry The Samaritans to deny him lodging His owne brethren to circumuent him Iewes and gentiles to bandy at his death and to conspire against the truth of his resurrection So as I may well say Inter flagella dat filium He gaue his sonne to the tormentors And the child grewe and waxed strong in spirit and was filled with wisedome and the grace of God was with him Being now fallen into the dangerous daies of the world wherein all the creatures of God are in a wofull declination and there is nothing more geason amongst men then growth in godlinesse I am bold to moue your patience in your wonted piety yet once more to beare with mine importunity whilest I make the growth of Christ a president for your practise and so returne againe to the honor of his Priesthood in whom I told you out of this text three things were of speciall note to proue him perfect man incarnate of the blessed Virgin Mary First his subiection to the law Secondly his subiection to persecution and flight into Egypt Thirdly his subiection to increase in that he grew as a child in body spirit and grace both with God and man Of the two former I haue already spoken now of the last if God wil wherin two things are respectiuely to be considered out of my text That as the child grew in our flesh to make him a perfect man so wee must growe in his faith to make vs perfect Christians And that as our humanity was his to make him the son of man so his diuinity must be ours to make vs by prerogatiue the sons of God And as he through our humanity had feeling of our miseries so we through his diuinity must haue feeling of his mercy If the child increase men may not decrease or degenerate the bowe from the boale the member from the body This child is the boale building and body we must grow vp with him till wee come to bee perfect men euen vnto the age of the fulnesse of Christ otherwise we are but blasted bowes pible stones rotten members neither fit for boale building or body In that he grew it proued him a creature of God by generation of a locall being subiect to alteration like vnto vs in all things sin only excepted In that he grew it ouerthoweth a creation of Christ which some vrge without generation like vnto that of Adam who was made perfect at the first as all other creatures were In that he grew in body and waxed strong in spirit it ouerthroweth the Papists monster of transubstantiation and all power of Priesthood to make Christ of bread or of any other matter or mettle for if he make him he either maketh him a man or a child if a man at the first how then did he grow from a child if a child at the first how then did he grow to a man If Christ so made was a child by generation then the priest was his father if by creation then the priest was his God but he is neither of both but their breaden Christ by vsurpation sitting in the holy places We say Christ was made by the powerfull working of the holy ghost by a perfect generation They say they make him by words of consecration without any generation We say the child was incarnate of the virgin and so grew They say Christ is impanate by them and needeth no growth We say body bloud and bone grewe together in this Child They tell vs nay for the child they make and offer vp is Incruentum sacrificium an vnbloudy sacrifice What should I say more the child we preach is quadratus homo ful of fauour and fairer then the sonnes of men The Sauiour they make hath no spirit life liking or grace ether with God or gracious men The heauen of heauens is his habitation whom we preach and hee sitteth in glory at the right hand of his father A poore box must couer and cary your Gods crouding one another till they moule together and fall to rottennesse But good Lord how long how long shall euil men thus deceiue and be deceaued how long shall the child Iesus be hindred in his growth by such vnkind stepdams● Lurida terribiles miscent acconita nouercae How long shal these vnnaturall mothers make all Nations drunke with the poysoned cup of their popish fornicatiō But leaue we the controuersie and come we to his misery and much mercy which he would effect by weakest means to the consciences of your Christian hearts who heare mee this day and now answere mee in soule as in the sight of God Ballance the iudgments of our God with the inundation of our sins and whilest we see a growth in both let vs grieue vnder the burthē that sin hath increased vertue hath decreased in vs old mercies are wearing out new iudgements are comming on The hand of God goeth forward aboue in this vnseasonable weather nor is it much weakened in his stroke of plague and pestilēce God grant his hand may likewise go forward in the holy worke of our repentance and that we may growe with the child Iesus to the abating of these iudgements Spes est there is hope for that the Lord vsually cōmeth to help when our cause is most desperate when all other succours faile then commeth the suckling child in weaknesse to worke our wonders according to that of Esay 8.4 Before the child shall haue knowledge to cry my father my mother he shall take away the riches of Damascus and the spoile of Samaria We haue stood much vppon our owne strength power and puissance and what is that but as Damascus and Samaria All our good must bee wrought by the weakest meanes and in the growth of a child will be all our gaine Lastly Christ his humanity is cleared in this that he did growe in strength and increased in wisedome and fauour both with God and man But his diuine and