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spirit_n	father_n	flesh_n	son_n	7,126	5	5.5139	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

wherein we were created aud thereby depirued of our Heauenly inheritance And now our Sauiour by being made of a Woman doth make vs to be true sonnes againe for hee by clothing himselfe with our nature becomming our brother as Paul termes him primogenitꝰ inter multosfratres by a consequent drawes vs in to be the sonnes of his father so giuing vs of his spirit to be the children of God as hee tooke of our flesh to bee the sonne of man he by our flesh counted the Virgin his Mother and we by his spirit as the Apostle sayth crie Abba Father Thus not onely to make vs freemen but also sonnes the sonne of God came The summe of this point is briefly this Christ came as Manna from Heauen to feede vs being hungrie as the cluster of Grapes out of the Vineyard to satisfie vs being thirstie as Oyle powred out to cure vs being wounded Hee came as our head that giues vs spiritual sense and motion as our Mediatour that being God and man best reconciles God and man as our foundation which we build our faith as our doore giuing passage to Paradise as our Shepheard feeding vs our sacrifice expiating vs our Priest praying for vs as our way in example life in reward Hee came as a man to make vs gods as a seruant to make vs Lords to earth to lift vs vp to Heauen He came mortall to make vs immortall poore to make vs rich and base to make vs glorious In a word He that was the bread was hungrie that we might be fed he that was the fountaine was dry that wee might be satisfied Hee that was joy was sad that we might be comforted and he that was the way was wearied that we might be directed to heauen And thus haue yee heard the circumstances of Christ his comming the Time Causes Manner End The Doctrine wherof for a conclusion let vs put to these vses First Sith in the fulnesse of time came he that was full of grace and truth let vs also fulfill our times that wee spend in godly labours In time of prayer deuout in time of preaching attentiue in time of prosperitie bountifull in time of pouertie patient in time of feasting temperate in all times vertuous and honest and then no time shal passe emptie of dutie Next sith God sent his Sonne Let vs acknowledge the benefit hereof how much we are bound to the Lord that so great a person as hee would bestow so great a gift on vs most vnworthie Creatures and withall prouide our hearts to haue such roomes in them as may be fit to enteraine so honourable a guest thus sent vnto vs let our repentance sweep cleane the chambers of our soules let a good conscience be his bedding and let graces and vertues be the ornaments of his lodging Next sith he was made of a Woman and vnder the Law let vs learne that sith he hath so dignified our nature as with it to cloth himselfe to haue a care that wee spot it not or defile it with sinne A poore maide married to a King ought to forget her base bringing vp and to forgoe her clownish qualities and our Nature married to God must vnloose the filthie actions of her corrupt generation and put on the new man to be like to Christ Further sith vnder the Law let vs remember what a heauie burden hee tooke on him to ease our shoulders and so be the more willing to beare any crosse that he shall lay vpon vs. Finally sith hee hath redeemed vs from the Law and makes vs adopted sonnes let vs carrie our selues as men that haue Christian libertie scourging Sinne Death Hell and the Deuill that with the chaines of slauish feare would stil keep vs captiue Last of all sith we are his sonnes by adoption let vs doe our dutie to our Heauenly Father Let vs loue feare and serue him with all our hearts soules and strength let vs bee taught with his precepts let vs be guided with his counsailes allured with his promises terrified with his threatnings but especially be wonne with his mercies Then as gracious sonnes will hee reward vs with the glorious inheritance of his Heauenly Kingdome To the which place hee that was borne for vs bring vs. Amen FINIS * Math. 11. 6. 3. Ep. Ioh. v. 9. Act. 8. 18. Matth. 26. 15. Mal. 1. 9. Ioh. 3. 30. Luc. 2. 8. 11. Gen. 3. Gen. 22. Psa 132. Gen. 49. Deut. 18. Num. 24. Esa 7. Mich. 5. Dail 9. Ioh. 8. Gen. 49. Ps 48. Ps 47. Deu. 18. Esa 64. Col. 2. Ioh. 1. 16. Ioh. 8. 42. 5. 36. 37. Rom. 8. 32. Ioh. 16. 28. Luc. 5. 35. Ioh. 3. 16. Ioh. 1. 18 Ioh. 3. 13. Ioh. 1. 3. Heb. 1. 2. Cor. 5. Rom. 8. 29. 1. Tim. 3. 2. Tim. 2. Heb. 2. Luc. 1. 48. Gal. 5. 18. 2. Cor. 2. Rom. 8.