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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

one of the Sybils whether there were any where a greater person then himselfe saw in the Sunne a Virgin giuing an Infant sucke to whom afterwards hee dedicated an Altar and called it Aram Coeli the Altar of Heauen And thus yee see it proued that it was the fulnesse of time when he that as S. Ioh. saith full of grace truth was borne amongst vs. The Iewes expect yet a Messtas to come denying Iesus whom wee beleeue on to bee the Worlds Sauiour And the Turkes dare to compare him with their Mahomet But this doctrine of the fulnesse of time wherein Christ was born doth most plainly and forcibly confute them For sith all the promises and mercies of God sith the prophesies figures and desires of our famous forefathers and manie admirable Miracles met in the time of Christs Natiuitie and that neuer Mahomet had the like nor any Creature can haue the like wee are fully to bee resolued by this fulnesse of time the true Messtas to bee borne I could spend more time in discoursing vpon this time but that greater matters viz. The causes of Christs birth doe now offer themselues vnto mee in these wordes God sent his sonne Where the Efficient cause is God the formall cause his sending and the materiall cause his Sonne Christ himselfe God sent Who the Father the Sonne or the Holy Ghost Surely all three of them For know that opera a Trinitatis sunt in-diuisa and vnlesse in personall respects euermore in Essentiall actions what one doth they all doe as now in this worke of Christs birth the whole Trinitie shewed their industrie The Father sent mee saith Christ Ioh. 13. 20. Here the Father labours I went out from the Father and came into the World Here is the labour of the Sonne The Holy Ghost shall come vpon thee quoth the Angell Gabriel to the blessed Virgin when she was to conceiue Christ this is the labour of the Holy Ghost Thus the three persons being one GOD had each of them their action in CHRISTS Incarnation and that most fitly sith it being a worke of great power Wisdome and goodnes it was requisite that the Father with his power the Sonne with his Wisedome and the Holie Ghost with his Goodnesse should accomplish it What more powerfull a thing then to joyne two such extreamely distant Natures as the Creatour and the Creature together It is GODS especiall power in compound bodies to joyne the foure Elements together it is greater power to joyne our bodie to our created spirits that is to say our soules But to joyne all these to the increated spirit God this is a might aboue all measure Againe what more wise thing then that to the perfection and complement of the whole the beginning and the end of a worke should hang together And now note this mysterie The Word was the beginning of the VVorld for by it GOD made the World and Adam was the last Creature of the VVorld The Word then becomming Man the first and the last that is to say GOD and man were vnited together Againe what greater goodnesse can bee then that the Creatour should communicate himselfe to the Creatures It is his great kindnesse that God giues himselfe to his Creatures by his essence presence and power it is his greater kindnes that he giues himselfe to good men by his grace but that hee should giue himselfe to our nature by Vnion with it that is to say by assuming our Humanitic into his Diuinitie this surmounts all fauour that may bee said or thought vpon Thus I say the Fathers power the Sonnes wisdome and the Holy Ghosts goodnesse were all Actors in clothing Christ with our flesh To the doing whereof what moued them our merits no Brethren but their mercies according to that of Ioh. 3. God soloued the World that he sent his sonne c. Loue is manifested three wayes Dono passione opere in giuing suffering and working The Father shewed his loue when he gaue vs his Sonne the Sonne shewed his loue when hee suffered Death for our sinnes and the Holy Ghost shewes his loue in setting vs forward in good workes Thus the manifestation of the blessed Trinities power wisdome goodnesse and mercie are as it were the foure wheeles vpon which the Charriot of Gods prouidence brought Christ into this world Who came as sent God sent sayth my text Heere is a doubt worthie to be discust Christ was neuer separated from God his Father For when Saint Iohn saw him vpon earth hee yet acknowledged him to bee in the bosome of his Father secundum id 1. cap. vnigenitus quie st in sinis patris c. as also that hee was in Heauen secundumid tertio capite nemo ascendit c. qui est in coelo yea that hee was in the world before his birth sith hee made the World as it is cap. 1. and how then may it be said that God sent him when hee neuer went from him An Interpretation shall make euident all this Missio saith Thomas Aquinas commenting vpon this place fuit assumptio Carnis non depositio maiestatis Christ left not to bee God when hee became man but tooke more vnto his Godhead when hee became man viz. our Humanitie into his Diuinitie that through our visible nature assumed he might acquaint vs with his inuisible excelencies which els could neuer haue beene known of vs. As the Sun shining in his perfit brightnes can not be looked vpon but in a Cloud or mist hauing his beames refracted may bee beheld so God in his infinite and incomprehensible essence being considered of vs cannot be knowne of vs for he is too powerful an object for our weake vnderstanding but in our Nature by his sonne assumed hauing his glorie and Majestie contracted wee may take a full view of him And thus Christ his incarnating is his proper sending But why sent God his sonne the second person in Trinitie Wherefore had not the Father and the Holy Ghost come to be man aswel as the Sonne Brethren this is a high point in Diuinitie requiring judiciall and attentiue eares which if yee lend mee thus then I resolue yee Truely there wanted no power in any of those persons to performe this for they are all Omnipotent and able to doe what soeuer pleaseth them But yet why the sonne did it rather then the rest great reasons are to bee alleaged First It was meete that by what instruments God made the World by the same he should repaire the World But God by his sonne made the World as it is Heb. 1. and therfore as it is 2. Cor. 5. well was God in Christ by whom hee reconciled the World Secondly It was fit that hee who was the sonne in the Diuinitie should also bee the sonne in Humanitie least if the Father or the Holy Ghost had bin the sonnes of men they had then beene temporall sonnes to the Eternall sonne Thirdly the Father is of himselfe

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

and phantasticall body Last of all Christ was made of a Woman to grace women kind with his birth that before had disgraced it selfe with the deuils temptation A woman in Paradise was a meane to make man a sinner and a woman in Bethlem was an instrument to bring forth to man a Sauiour Wherefore an ancient Father saith thus Because the male kind is more noble Christ would be a man and yet that woman should not bee contemned hee was borne of a woman But why doth Paul here name so expressly a woman and not mention a man Because indeede man had no action in Christs generation For as our Sauior being God had a Father no mother So being man he had a Mother but no Father Where note that mankind is brought forth foure kind of wayes Adam was made without man or woman Eue was made of a man without a woman We are made of men and women and Christ was made of a woman without a man If yee aske of what woman I answere yee Marie the Virgine Whom all generations doe call blessed Of her bloud or seede by the working of the Holy Ghost was Christ made O what strange birth was this that a virgin was the Mother and God the Sonne saith Bernard It became not God to haue any Mother but a maiden and it beseemed a maide to haue no sonne but God Wonders are in this mother and in this sonne This mother was sanctified with the fulnesse of grace with the ouer-shadowing of the Holy Ghost and the inhabitation of the Sonne of God Shee was saith Saint Bernard Sinepudore foecunda sine grauamine granida sine dolore puerpera By bearing Christ shee was the starre that gaue light to the Sunne the branch that bare the Vine the Riuer that yeelded the fountaine the daughter that brought forth her Father the creature that gaue being to the Creatour shee was I say the Mother of her Father and the daughter of her Sonne yonger then her birth lesser then what shee contained a maiden and a Mother to haue a Sonne with God the Father whereas Virgines were cursed for barrennesse and wiues for bringing forth with sorrow Marie was free from either of these For being a Virgine shee was fruitfull and bringing forth child shee felt no paines As the Sunne shines through glasse and corrupts it not So God came made of a Virgine without breach of her chastitie And because shee conceiued without sinne shee was therefore deliuered without paines Aganie wonders are in this Sonne In the instant of his conception and now by succession of time he was a perfit man in soule and body voide of sinne and full of grace Hee had a father in heauen and a mother on earth but yet a father without a mother and a mother without a father Further by being made of a woman of a Lord he became a seruant of eternall he was made temporall of infinite he became an infant of high he became low of incomprehensible locall of intelligible sensible borne hee was in a womans wombe himselfe bearing the World and suck he did at a maidens brests himselfe giuing food to all things Thus of a woman was Christ made and not onely so but also Vnder the Law made of a woman is the humilitie of his birth made vnder the Law is the humilitie of his life in birth in life and in manie other thinges crying out vnto vs that we would learne of him to bee humble and meeke Among the Iewes diuers lawes were in vse in Christs time the Morall Ceremoniall Iudiciall and vnder all these our Sauiour was made Yee will object how can this bee They saith Paul Gal. 5. that are led by the Spirit are not vnder the Law but Christ was led by the spirit and was full of the spirit and therfore the law had nought to doe with him For answere accept this To be vnder the Law carrieth a double sense to bee vnder eyther the obseruance of the Law or the oppression of the Law Now then Christ was vnder the obseruance of the Law For he was circumcised the eight day presented afterwardes in the Temple and did those things that the law required but not vnder the oppression of the Law so as the breach thereof did any way burden him sith hee was harmelesse and innocent And yet in respect of our sinnes the guilt wherof in mercie he vndertooke he was vnder the lawes oppression Also for the punishment due to our offences the Law inflicted on him it accused him and condemned him before the Tribunall of God of all the sinnes of the World it made his bodie sweat water and bloud it made his soule heauie to the death and on the Crosse so perplexed his whole humanitie that he cried out My God my God why hast thou for saken me Thus the blessed maker of all thinges was twise now made First Of a Woman to entertaine our Nature and secondly Vnder the Law to sustaine our sinnes And all this to what end It followes in the end of my Text which shewes the end why Christ came c. To redeeme those that were vnder the Law that we might receiue the adoption of sonnes See Deere Christians how proportionable Gods meanes are to the effecting of his purposes Christ was made vnder the Law to redeeme vs from the Law and was made the sonne of a Woman that we might receiue the adoptiō to be the sons of God Two generall and singular blessings containing all that Christ hath done for vs are heere conueighed vnto vs Redemption and Exaltation Freedome and Aduancement Redemption and freedome to be exempted from the Law and Exaltation and Aduancement to haue the adoption to bee Gods sonnes The Law before Christ came did dominari as S. Paul saith playing the Tyrant amongst men as Pharao did among the Israelites it stil cried out keep the Commandement with infinite curses to those that eyther would not or could not keep euery jot of it It imposed vpon men an insupportable burden it aggrauated sinne it terrified the conscience and as it is 2. Cor. 2. it was the administration of death and damnation Now then Christ made vnder the Law did free men from this Law and how but by his fulfilling of it for vs His humilitie satisfied the Law for our pride his fasting for our gluttonie his Chastitie for our wantonnesse his mildnesse for our wrath his kindnesse for our enuie his obedience for our negligence his excellencies for our infirmities that when the Law gaping so for righteousnesse as a Lyon for his prey hauing the morsell of Christ perfection and holinesse throwne into her mouth she was presently satisfied and appeased and vpon that doth feed yet at this houre which otherwise could not not be contented with anie thing which poore man could yeeld vnto her Againe as before Christ came wee were bondslaues vnder the Law So were we Bastards in nature degenerated from that Holinesse and righteousnes