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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	receive_v	spirit_n	3,955	5	5.1071	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04366	The sonne of Gods entertainment by the sonnes of men Set forth in a sermon at Paules Crosse the seauenth of October. 1604. By Richard Iefferay of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Jefferay, Richard, b. 1567.	1605 (1605)	STC 14481; ESTC S103337	27,971	49

patience armed him his charitie reuealed him by wordes and miracles Gregor Cum tempus completum erat opus compertum sacrificio quo veniret Christus vltro venit sponte se hominibus videndum attusit occidendum obtulit mirandum contulit credendum transtulit When the fulnesse of time was that Christ should come and performe the worke of sacrifice he came willingly of his owne accord yeelded himself to be seene by men offered himselfe to bee slaine for men conuaied himselfe to bee wondred at amongst men translated him from men to be beleeued Cumplenitudo temporis erat tunc missus erat Christus Chrysost venit non compulsu patris sed consensu sui non ex necessitate mandantis sed ex voluntate venientis When the fulnesse of time was then Christ was sent and came not by compulsion of the father but by consent of himselfe not out of the necessitie of him that commanded but out of the willingnesse of him that was comming Which Saint Augustine vpon saint Iohn makes manifest August saying the father sent his sonne vnto vs where wee may not thinke he sent any thing lesse then himself for in that he sent his sonne he sent himselfe and so goeth further with the same maner of speach Why should we wrangle seeing the father in sending his sonne came himselfe The Sunne sendeth forth his beams yet separateth not his beames from him the Moone sendeth foorth her light yet separateth not her light from her the fire sendeth forth his heate yet separateth not his heate from him In euerie one of these there is a sending foorth but no separation much lesse in the sonne of God which is ioyned to the father in their indiuisible nature one God in glorie equall in maiestie coeternall neither confounded in persons nor diuided in substance but one God of the substance of the father begotten before the worlds man of the substance of his mother borne in the world one not by conuersion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God one altogither not by confusion of substance but by vnitie of person And so he came equall to his father as touching his Godhead inferiour to the father as touching his manhood He came Appio● makes the comming of Christ three sold Venit ad homines venit in homines venit hominibus Christ commeth vnto men into men and to men vnto men in the flesh Iohn 1.14 and so hee came vnto his owne directly Iohn 1.14 Into men by the spirit Iohn 14.18 and so he commeth to his chosen continually Iohn 14 1● to men in iudgement and so hee will come finally to all Acts. Acts. 7.31 A day there is which the Lord hath set wherein he wil iudge the world by that man Christ Iesus of whom he hath giuen vs assurance in that he hath raysed him vp from the dead made his enemies his footstoole S. Bernard maketh the comming of Christ as the numbers of Delphos fiue-sold Venit Christus saith he vel spiritu formante vel verbo informante vel cruce reformante vel sacramento conformante vel carne deformante Christ came by his forming spirit by his informing worde by his reforming crosse by his conforming sacraments by the deforming flesh He came Venit ad sua for ad suos as the Apostle saith in his sixt Chapter afterward Omne quod dat mihi pater for omnes quos dat mihipater All that my father hath giuen me for all those my father hath giuen me vsing one gender for another the Neuter for the masculine instructing vs thereby as Athenagoras makes glosse that neither Masculine nor Feminine male nor female man nor woman are happie without his comming alluding to that of the holy Ghost that without are withered branches without are dogges infidels pagans without hope without faith without loue without truth without grace without the spirit of God without the blessing of God all those that are without the compasse of Christs progresse or circuit of his visitation therefore he came vnto his owne that they might receiue allcomfort by his comming He came vnto his owne There be amongst our new-found now-fond Gospellers a sort I had almost said a sect that chalenge to themselues a great preheminence in this respect and take vpon them of themselues that they are these his owne to whom hee came forgetting the tence and sense of this purescripture For they themselues wil seeme so pure that all their Christian brethren must stand apart from them and rather then they will loose the propertie of this prerogatiue of being his owne they will be tear med brethren in Christ and brethren of Christ nay Christs nowne brethren they are so holy or so hollow in their puritie but surely I thinke they are traduced in their title as ill as seduced in their opinions by those that call them Puritanes vnlesse they take their names as Diogenes named his man Manes a manendo because he ran away from him or as we say lucus a lucendo quia minime lucet or Mons a mouendo because it stands still so they by the contrarie are tearmed Puritani a puritate quia minime puri which in his proper place anon shall be declared though they denie the Sunne to shine while as it dazeleth their eyes Where as the Prophet notes all people forth of all Nations and all kinreds of the world for Christ to make his owne of God gaue him heauen for his inheritance and the earth for his possession Psal 2. All are his but not all his owne we are all his by nature but not all his by grace we are all his by creation but not all his by election Omnium hominum dominus quibus quid dat sed Israliet arum Deus quibus praecipue prodest God is the Lord ouer all to whom he giueth any of his blessings but he is Israels especiall God to whom he giueth himselfe which he preferreth before all other people they were those which in the begining he called by his owne name I am the God of Israel Esay 43. If you will be my people I will be your God The great blessings he graced them withall declare they were his owne their wealth honour soueraigntie aboue all other shew they were his owne witnesse Moyses Deut. 15.28 Thou shalt lend to other Nations but of none shalt thou borrow Thou shalt seeme strong dreadfull terrible and glorious vnto others but none shall ouercome thee Esay 2. c. The Law God gau● them the couenant he made with them shew they were his owne Acts. 2. witnesse Esay a. God dwelt with them gaue the law to Sion and the word of the Lord to Ierusalem Witnesse Saint Peter Acts. 2. To them pertained the adoption the glorie the Testament the constitution of the law the Couenant the worshipping and the promises The descent of Christ shewed they were his owne witnesse Saint Paul