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A19761 A sermon preached before the Kings Maiestie at White-Hall, on Munday the 25. of December, being Christmas day, anno 1609. By the Bishop of Elie His Maiesties almoner Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626. 1610 (1610) STC 619; ESTC S100197 17,329 40

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we could desire And this is our Fieri out of His Factum ex muliere We made the Sonnes of God as Hee the Sonne of man We made partakers of his Diuine ● as He of our humane nature To purchase our pardon to free vs from death and the laws sentence this seemed a small thing to Him ye● this is Lex hominis Mans goodnesse goeth no farther and gracious is the Prince that dot● but so much For who euer heard of a condemned man Adopted afterward or that thought i● 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 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 adopts vnlesse He be orbe haue no childe or i● He haue one for some deepe dislike haue cast him of But God had a Sonne The brightnes of his Glorie The true character of his Substance and no displeasure there was No In quo complacitum est In whom He was absolutely well pleased yet would He by adoption for all that 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 should admit ioynt Heires to the Kingdome hee was borne to and that admit them 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 sei●in of this our Adoption wherby we now call him the Iewes Abba the Gentiles Pa●ter as Children all and He our Father which is the priuiledge of the Adoption wee hee● receiue And now are we come to the fulnes indeed● For this Adoption is the fulnesse of our optio●● We cannot extende we our wish or He 〈◊〉 loue and goodnesse any further For what can w● aske or He giue more seeing in giuing this 〈◊〉 giueth all He is worth By this time it is 〈◊〉 Sea All the Banckes are filled It is now as E●●●kiels waters that he sawe flowe from vnder 〈◊〉 threshold of the Temple ● that tooke him to 〈◊〉 ancles first then to the knees after to 〈◊〉 loynes at last so high risen there was no mo●● passage 1. From the fulnesse of his Compassion 〈◊〉 sent to release vs 2. from the fulnesse of 〈◊〉 loue He sent his Sonne 3. In the fulnesse 〈◊〉 Humilitie Hee sent him made 4. Made 〈◊〉 Woman to make a full vnion with our nature● 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 Ours and that we be not emptie in thi● 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 yeeld Him of ours againe of our duety I meane that it to him in a measure and proportion be like full as his Bountie hath ●eene full aboue measure toward vs. That so from vs. on our parts it may be plenitudo temporis or tempus plenitudinis the fulnesse 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 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 hau● got the reuersiō of a goodly heritage Only tha● we forget not the principal that this outwa●● ioy eate not vp euacuate not our spirituall io● ● proper to the Feast that we haue in mind 〈◊〉 the middest of our mirth the cause of it Christ● sending and the benefits that come thereby And it shall be a good signe vnto vs if we c●● thus reioyce if this our ioy can be full if we ca● make a spirituall blessing the obiect of o●● mirth Beatus populus qui scit iubilationem Blessed is the people that can reioyce on this manner And after our ioy-fulnesse or fulnesse of ioy o● fulnes of thankes or thank-fulnesse is to ensue for with that fulnesse we are to celebrate it likewise Our minds first and then our mouthes t● be filled with blessing and praise and thankes t● Him that hath made our times not to fall int● those emptie ages of the world but to fall within this fulnesse of time which so many Kings and Prophets desired to haue liued in but ●ell short of And liued then when the times were full of shadowes and promises and nothing else How instantly they longed to haue held such a Feast to haue kept a Christmasse it is euident by Dauids Inclina caelos by Esays Vtinam disrumpas Caelos Bow the Heauens and Breake the Heauens How much I say they longed for it and therefore that we make not light account of it To render our thankes then and to remember to doe it fully To forget none To Him that was sent and to Him that Sent Sent his Sonne in this the Spirit of his Sonne in the next verse To beginne wi●h Osculamini filium it is the first duetie enioyned vs this day to kisse the Babe new borne that when his Father would send Him sayd Ecce venio so readily and when he would make Him was content with Corpus aptasti mihi to haue a body made him meete for him to suffer in who willingly yeelded to be our Shilo to this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heere yea to be not