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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

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.

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