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B11188	Tvvo sermons preached before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall. Of the birth of Christ The one on Christmas day anno 1609. The other on Christmas last anno 1610. By the Bishop of Elie his Maiesties almoner.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. Sermon preached before the Kings Majestie at White-hall, on Munday the 25. of December, being Christmas day, anno 1609. aut; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. Sermon preached before His Majestie at White-Hall, on Tuesday the 25. of December last, being Christmas day. aut	1610 (1610)	STC 628; ESTC S100160	36,554	97

send Himselfe To haue sit still and bene content that we might send to Him and haue our message and petition admitted and not He send to vs. That had bene as much as we could looke for and well if we might haue bene vouchsafed but that But it was He that sent not we to Him first nay not we to Him at all but He to vs. He to vs And what were we that He to vs Vs Ephes 2.12 as elsewhere he termeth vs meere Aliens from Him and His Houshold Not that onely but Vs in case of men whom the Law had passed vpon So is our estate described in the end of the Text for Him to send to Vs so great as Hee to such as wee to thinke vs tanti so much worth as to make any mission or motion or to disease any about vs This may well be the first Be it then so that to vs or for vs or concerning vs God would trouble Himselfe to make any sending A fulnesse there is in this Full Hee was a fulnesse there was in Him euen the fulnesse of compassion in His bowels ouer our estate else such a Sender would neuer once haue sent God sent His Sonnc Sent and sent his Sonne That I make no question will beare a second Others He might haue sent and whosoeuer it had bene Hee had sent it might well haue serued our turnes If sent by the hand of any his Seruants any Patriarch Prophet any ordinary messenger it had beene ynough So hitherto had bene his Sending So and no otherwise euer till now Then if to send by any may seeme sufficient to send His Sonne must needs seeme full For euer the more excellent the Person sent the more honourable the sending the greater He the fuller it Now greater there is not Colos 2.9 then His sonne His first His onely begotten Sonne in whom the fulnes of the God head dwelt In sending Him He sent the greatest the best the fullest thing He had To heape the measure vp yet more with the cause of his sending in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It was voluntarie Hee sent him not for need but for meere loue to vs and nothing else There was no absolute necessitie that He should haue sent Him He might haue done what Hee intended by the meanes and ministerie of some besides God could haue enabled a Creature a Creature enabled by God and the power of his might could soone haue troad downe Sathan vnder our feete But if it had bene any other He had sent his loue and regard to vs had not shewed so full It had bin ostendit Deus charitatem but not Ecce quantam charitatem ostendit Deus 1. Iohn 3.1 Whomsoeuer He had sent besides his loue had not bene full at least not so full as it should haue beene if He had sent his Sonne That therefore it might be full and so appeare to vs for full Misit Deus filium suum Enough it was in compassion of our estate to haue releeued vs by any Men that are in need to be releeued care not who they be that doe it Enough then for compassion but not enough to manifest the fulnesse of his loue vnlesse to releeue vs He sent his owne Sonne This is full Made one would thinke Yet the Manner of his sending him is fuller still Misit filium Filium factum Sent his Sonne His Sonne made Sent Him and sent Him made This is a third For if He would haue sent Him He should not haue sent Him made but as He was neither made nor created but like himselfe in his owne estate as was meete for the Sonne of God to bee sent To make Him any thing is to marre Him be it what it will be To send Him made is to send Him marred and no better Therefore I make no doubt Christs sending is one degree His making is another So to sende as withall to make are two distinct measures of this filling As He is Hee is a Maker a Creator If God make Him any thing Hee must be a thing made a Creature and that is a great disparagement So that howsoeuer the Time is the fuller for this He is the emptier 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The fulnesse of Time is his emptinesse The exalting of that Phil. 2.7 his abasing And this very Exinaniuit seipsum emptying Himselfe for our sake is a pressing downe the measure and so euen by that still the measure is more full Yea the very maner of this making hath his encrease too addeth to it still In the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is not euery making but making it his nature To haue made Him a bodie and taken it vpon him for a time till He had performed his Embassage and then laid it off againe that had bene much But so to be made as once made and euer made so to take it as neuer lay it of more but continue so still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it to become his very nature so to be made is to be made indeed so to to be made is to make the vnion full And to make the vnion with vs full He was content not to be sent alone but to be made and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be made so as neuer vnmade more Our manhood becomming his nature no lesse then the Godhead it selfe This is Filium factum indeed Made and twise made for so it is in the verse factum ex and factum sub made of and made vnder Of a woman vnder the Law So two makings there bee either of them of it selfe a filling to the measure but both of them maketh it perfectly full Made Made of a woman first of a woman that I take cleerly to be one For if Hee if the Sonne of God must be made a Creature it were meet He should be made the best creature of all And if made of any thing if any one thing better then another of that made some glorious Spirit Some of the orders of the Angels Iohn 1.14 Heb. 2.16 Nay made but made no Spirit Verbum caro factum est The word became flesh made but made no Angel Nusquam Angelos He in no wise tooke the Angels nature vpon Him But made man First I will aske with Dauid Psal 144.3 Domine quid est homo Lord what is man And then tell you his answere Homo quasi res nihili Man is like a thing of nought And this he was made this he became made man made of a woman did not abhorre the Virgines wombe as wee sing daily to the high praise of the fulnesse of his humilitie to which his Loue brought Him for our sakes For whatsoeuer else He had bene made it would haue done vs no good In this then was the fulnesse of his Loue as before of his Fathers that He would bee made and was made not what was fittest for Him but what was best for vs not what was most

ioined together When S. Matthew had begun his Gospel thus Matth. 1.1 The booke of the generation of Iesus Christ the son of Dauid one nature His humanitie Saint Marke vvas carefull to begin his thus Mar. 1.1 The beginning of the Gospel of Iesus Christ the Sonne of God the other nature His diuinitie But Saint Iohn hee ioynes them verbum caro factum est Iohn 1.14 the Word became flesh Verbum the Word there is Dominus and Caro the Flesh that is Natus And euen this very coniunction is a new ioy For that such an one that the Lord would condescend to be borne besides the benefit there is also matter of Honour Euen that He so great a person would become such as we are would so esteeme our nature as to take it vpon him This certainely is a great dignitie and exaltation of our nature and it is matter of new ioy that He vvould so highly value it as to assume associate and vnite it into one person vvith the Sonne of God By this wee see why a Sauiour vvhy Christ vvhy the Lord. A Sauiour his name or benefit whereby he is to deliuer vs. Christ his name of Office vvhereby he is bound to vndertake it The Lord his name of power vvhereby he is able to effect it We see also why Man and why God First So it should be for o● right none vvas to make satisfaction for man but man And in very deed none was able to giue satisfaction to God but God So that being to satisfie God for man He vvas to be God and man Secondly So vve would wish it our selues If we would be saued we vvould be saued by one of our owne nature not by any stranger He is borne and so one of our owne nature Againe if wee vvould bee saued we vvould be saued by no inferiour but by the best Hee is the Lord and so the very best of all And so our desire is satisfied euery vvay This blessed birth of this Sauiour which is Christ the Lord thus furnished in euery point to saue vs throughly body and soule from Sinne the destruction and Sathan the destroyer of both and that both here and for euer this blessed and thrife blessed birth is the substance of this dayes solemnitie of the Angels message and of our ioy And now to the Circumstances The Circumstance of the Persons to whom and first of the persons vobis I bring you good tidings That to you is borne c. We finde not any word through all but there is ioy in it and yet all is suspended till wee come to this one word Vobis this makes vp all This word therefore we shall do well euer to looke for and when we find it to make much of it Nothing passeth without it it is the word of application But for it all the rest are loose this girds it on this fastens it to vs and makes it ours But for it we are but in their case Mat. 8.29 Quid nobis tibi What haue we to doe with thee This Sauiour Christ the Lord in this good time and fit place Quid ad nos What are wee the better Omni populo is some what too generall and the hundreth part of them shall not be benefited by him We would heare it in more particularitie Why vobis for you it is Borne for you yea now ye say somewhat And twise it is repeated for failing Euangelizo vobis and Natus vobis in either verse once Euangelizo vobis and natus vobis that ye may know the message is yours and the birth is yours therefore the message is sent to you because the birth concerneth you But yours they be both May we then be bold to change the person The vse we haue of it and vtter it in the first which he doth in the second and say nobis We may sure Puer natus est nobis Esa 9.6 Esay hath said it before vs. And thereby lieth a mysterie The Angels they say Vobis The Prophets were men men say Nobis Bid the Angel say Nobis he cannot Heb. 2.16 neither sing nor say it Angelis he cannot to Angels Nusquam Angelos but Hominibus vers 14. vnto men he can and doth And this is a speciall high prerogatiue that which the Angels can neither sing nor say wee can doe both If then he be borne to vs it is to some end Esay tels vs what it is when he expoundeth Natus by Datus Borne to vs by Giuen vs. Borne to bee bestowed vpon vs. And if giuen vs bestowed vpon vs then hee is ours Ours as a Sauiour ours as Christ Ours as the Lord. Ours His Benefit His Office His Power His Benefit to saue vs His Office to vndertake vs His Power to assure vs. Ours His saluation as Iesus His anointing as Christ His Dominion as the Lord. And if He be ours then all His are ours Luk. 15.31 Omnia eius nostra sunt His Birth ours and if His Birth all that follow His Birth ours too Now then seeing He and they be ours will it not be well done to make our entrie to take seisin of him and them and dispose them to our best benefit And how can we doe that better Then as God hath offered Him to vs this day that he was borne for vs so we reciprocally this day that He is borne offer Him againe to God as the best pleasing Oblation that we can offer him To day as in the Temple aliue for our morning oblation And when the time cometh of his death offer Him as on the crosse slaine for our euening Sacrifice So shall we as Bernard wisheth vs vti nostro in vtilitatem nostram de Saluatore salutem operari Employ or ma●e vse of him for our best behoofe drawe his proper extract from Him and worke Saluation out of this our Sauiour Now a word onely what is to be done on our parts that respectiuely to these two points what we are to returne to them what to this Message and what to this Birth To the Message Euangelizo vobis Our duety reciprocall this we are to returne this is due to a message to heare it 1 To heare the message And that we doe and that is all we come to the Sermon wee heare it and little we doe besides But we heare it but heauily with a faint affection God knoweth wee heare it not as an Ecce as matter of high admiration we heare it not as gaudium magnum with that alacritie and cheerfulnes wee should We heare it not as nobis as if it neerly touched vs but as a matter that little concerned vs it skilled not much whither wee heard it or no. Many meaner things affect vs more but this should be the ioyfullest hearing that we euer heard And shall we not likewise performe some duety to Natus est yes euē to that also 2 To receiue him And not heare of Him

for his glory but what was most for our benefit and behoofe Made of a woman For man He might haue bin made yet haue had a body framed for Him in heauen and not made of a woman But when he saith Factū ex muliere it is euident He passed not through Her as water through a Conduite Pipe as fondly dreameth the Anabaptist Made of Factum ex Ex dicit materiam Made of Her She ministred the matter Flesh of her flesh Semen mulieris Gen. 3.15 The seed and Semen intimum substantiae that is the principal and very inward chiefe part of the substance Made of that made of her very substance And so haue we here now in one both twaine his Natures God sent his Sonne There his Diuine made of a woman Here his humane Nature That from the bosome of his Father before all worlds this from the wombe of his mother in the world So that as from eternitie God his Father might say that verse of the Psalme Psal 2.7 Filius meus es tu hodie genuite Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee So in the fulnesse of time might the Virgin his mother no lesse truely say Filius meus es tu hodie peperi te Thou art my Sonne this day haue I brought thee into the world And heere now at this word made of a woman He beginneth to concerne vs somewhat There groweth an alliance betweene vs For we also are made of a woman And our hope is as He will not be confounded to bee counted inter natos mulierum No more will He be Heb. 2.11 Rom. 8.29 saith the Apostle to say in medio fratrum to acknowledge vs his Brethren And so by this Time He groweth somewhat neere vs. This now Made vnder the Law is full for the vnion with our nature to be made of a woman But so to be made of a woman without He be also made vnder the Law is not neere enough yet For if he be out of the compasse of the Law that the Law cannot take hold of Him factum ex muliere will doe vs small pleasure And He was so borne so made of a woman As the veritie of His conception is in this factum ex muliere So the puritie is in this that it is but ex muliere and no more Of the virgin alone by the power of the Holy Ghost without mixture of fleshly generation By vertue whereof no originall soile was in Him lust borne He was 1. Tim. 1.9 and Iusto non est lex posita No law for the lust no law could touch him And so wee neuer the better for factum ex muliere For if one be in debt and danger of the Law to haue a Brother of the same blood made of the same woman both as we say lying in one belly will little auaile him except He will also come vnder the Law that is become his Surety and vndertake for him And such was our estate As Debters we were by vertue of Chirographum contra nos Col. 2.14 The hand writing that was against vs. Which was our Bond and we had forfeited it And so factus ex muliere to vs without factus sublege would haue ben to smalpurpose No remedy therefore Hee must bee new made made againe once more And so Hee was cast in a new mould at his second making made vnder the Law vnder which if He had not beene made we had beene marred euen quite vndone for euer if this had not beene done for vs too Therfore He became bound for vs also entred Bond anew tooke on Him not only our nature but our Debt our Nature and Condition both Nature as men Condition as sinfull men expressed in the words following Them that were vnder the lawe for that was our Condition There had indeed beene no capacitie in him to doe this if the former had not gone before factum ex muliere if He had not bene as we made of a woman but the former was for this Made of a woman He was that He might be made vnder the law Being ex muliere He might then become sub lege which before He could not but then He might and did And so this still is the fuller And when did He this when was He made vnder the lawe Euen then when he was circumcised Gal. 5.3 For this doth S. Paul testifie in the third of the next Chapter Behold I Paul testifie vnto you whosoeuer is circumcised factus est debitor vniuersae legis He becomes a debter to the whole lawe At His Circumcision then He entred Bond anewe with vs and in signe that so He did He shed then a few drops of his blood wherby He signed the Bonde as it were and gaue those few drops then tanquam arrham vniuersi sanguinis effundendi as a pledge or earnest that when the fulnesse of time came He would be readie to shed all the rest as He did For I would not haue you mistake though we speake of this sub lege being vnder the law in the termes of a Debt sometimes yet the truth is this debt of ours was no money debt we were not sub lege pecuniariâ but Capitali and the debt of a Capitall law is death and vnder that vnder Death He went and that the worst death law had to inflict euen the Death of the Crosse the most bitter reprochful cursed death of the Crosse So that vpon the matter factus sub lege and factus in Cruce come both to one one amounts to as much as the other Well this He did vndertake for vs at His Circumcision and therefore then and not till then He had his name giuen him the name of Iesus Luk. 2.21 a Sauiour For then tooke He on him the Obligation to saue vs. And looke what then at his Circumcision He vndertooke at his Passion he paid Col. 2.14 euen to the full and hauing paid it deleuit Chirographum cancelled the sentence of the lawe that till then was of record and stoode in full force against vs. Howbeit all this was but one part of the lawe But He was made sub lege vniuersâ vnder the whole law and that not by his death onely but by his life too The one halfe of the lawe that is the Directiue part He was made vnder that and satisfied it by the Innocencie of his life without breaking so much as one iot or tittle of the lawe and so answered that part as it might be the Principall The other halfe of the lawe which is the Penaltie He was vnder that part also satisfied it by suffering a wrongfull death no way deserued or due by him and so answered that as it might be the forfeiture So He was made vnder both vnder the whole law Satisfying the Principall there was no reason He should be lyable to the forfeiture and penaltie yet vnder that He was also And all that the whole law might be

it he knowes what it is and how great a benefit to bee got thence But is this all No He leaues vs not heere but to make the measure compleat yea euen to flowe ouer He giues vs not ouer when he had rid vs out of this wretched estate till He haue brought vs to an estate as good as He himselfe is in After our Redemption we stood but as Prisoners enlarged that was all But still we were as strangers no part nor portion in God or his kingdome nor no reason we should hope for any He now goeth one step further which is the highest and furthest step of all For further then it He cannot goe That we might receiue the Adoption that is from the estate of Prisoners condemned be translated into the estate of Children Adopted Of Adopted for of naturall wee could not That is His peculiar alone and He therein onely aboue vs but else fully to the ioynt fruition of al that He hath which is fully as much as we could desire And this is our Fieri out of His Factū ex muliere We made the Sonnes of God as Hee the Sonne of man We made partakers of his Diuine 2. Pet. 1.4 as He of our humane nature To purchase our pardon to free vs from death and the lawes sentence this seemed a small thing to Him 2. Sam. 7.19 yet this is Lex hominis Mans goodnesse goeth no farther gracious is the Prince that doth but so much For who euer heard of a condemned man Adopted afterward or that thought it not enough and enough if Hee did but scape with his life So farre then to exalt his bountie to that fulnesse as pardon and Adopt both Non est lex hominis haec No such measure among men Zelus Domini Exercituum The zeale of the Lord of Hosts Es 9.7 was to performe this The fulnesse of the Godhead dwelt in Him that brought this to passe For to speake of adopting We see it dayly No father adopt's vnlesse He be orbe haue no childe or if He haue one for some deepe dislike haue cast him of But God had a Sonne Heb. 1.3 The brightnes of his Glorie The true character of his Substance and no displeasure there was Mat. 17.5 No In quo complacitum est In whom He was absolutely well pleased yet would He by adoption for all that Heb. 2.10 bring many Sonnes to Glory Is not this full on his part We see againe no Heire will endure to heare of Adoption nay nor diuide his Inheritance no not with his naturall Brethren Then that the Heire of all things Heb. 1.3 should admit ioynt Heires to the Kingdome hee was borne to and that admit them Rom. 8.17 not out of such as were neere him but from such as were strangers yea such as had beene condemned men vnder the Lawe Is not this full on his part To purchase vs and to purchase for vs both at once And not to doe this for vs alone but to assure it to vs For as his Father in this verse sends Him So in the next verse He sends the Spirit of his Sonne to giue vs seisin of this our Adoption whereby wee now call him the Iewes Abba the Gentiles Pater as Children all and He our Father which is the priuiledge of the Adoption we heere receiue And now are we come to the fulnes indeede For this Adoption is the fulnes of our option We cannot extende we our wish or He his loue and goodnes any further For what can we aske or He giue more seing in giuing this He giueth all He is worth By this time it is full Sea All the Banckes ar filled It is now as Ezekiels waters that hee sawe flowe Ezek. 47.3 4 5 from vnder the threshold of the Temple that tooke him to the ancles first then to the knees after to the loynes at last so high risen there was no more passage 1. From the fulnes of his Compassion he sent to release vs 2. from the fulnes of his loue He sent his Sonne 3. In the fulnes of Humilitie He sent Him made 4. Made of a Woman to make a full vnion with our nature 5. Made vnder the Lawe to make the vnion yet more perfectly full with our sinfull condition 6. That we might obteine a full deliuerance from all Euill by being redeemed 7. and a full estate of all the ioy and Glory of his heauenly inheritance by being adopted So there is fulnes of all handes And so much for the fulnes of the Benefit we receiue Now for the fulnes of the duetie we are to performe this day For in the fulnes of time all things are to be full Plenitudo temporis tempus plenitudinis And seing God hath suffered vs to liue to see the yeare run about to this plenitudo temporis if it be so on Gods part meete also it be so on Our's and that we be not emptie in this fulnes of time It is not fit if He be at the brincke that we be at the bottom But as we be willing to receiue of his So we be like willing to yeeld Him of ours againe of our duety I meane that it to him in a measure proportion be like full as his Bountie hath beene full aboue measure toward vs. That so from vs and on our parts it may be plenitudo temporis or tempus plenitudinis the fulnes of time or time of fulnes choose you whether 1. And a time of fulnes it wil be I knowe in a sense of fulnes of Bread of fulnes of brauerie of fulnes of sport and pastime and this it may be And it hath beene euer a ioyfull time in apparance for it should be so with the ioy sayth Esay a verse or two before Puer natus est nobis Esa 9.3 vnto vs a Childe is borne that men reioyce with in haruest Not to goe from our Text here with the ioy of men that are come out of prison haue scaped the Lawe with the ioy of men that haue got the reuersion of a goodly heritage Only that we forget not the principal that this outward ioy eate not vp euacuate not our spirituall ioy proper to the Feast that we haue in mind in the middest of our mirth the cause of it Christs sending and the benefits that come thereby And it shall be a good signe vnto vs if we can thus reioyce if this our ioy can be full if we can make a spirituall blessing Psal 89.15 the obiect of our mirth Beatus populus qui scit iubilationem Blessed is the people that can reioyce on this manner And after our ioy-fulnesse or fulnes of ioy our fulnes of thankes or thank-fulnes is to ensue for with that fulnesse we are to celebrate it likewise Our minds first then our mouthes to be filled with blessing and praise and thankes to Him that hath made our times not to fall into those emptie ages of the world but