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A59568 A sermon preached before the King & Queen at White-hall on Christmas-Day, 1691 by ... John, Lord Archbishop of York ... Sharp, John, 1645-1714. 1692 (1692) Wing S2996; ESTC R15087 14,546 31

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A SERMON Preach'd before the King Queen AT WHITE-HALL ON CHRISTMAS-DAY 1691. By the most Reverend Father in GOD JOHN Lord Archbishop of YORK Primate of England and Metropolitan Published by Their Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1692. A SERMON Preach'd before the KING and QUEEN Heb. ix 26. Now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself THis Text doth naturally suggest Five things to be insisted on most of them proper for our Meditations on this Day which therefore I shall make the Heads of my following Discourse I. In general the Appearance of our Lord. Now hath he appeared II. The Time of that Appearance In the end of the World III. The End and Design for which he appeared To put away Sin IV. The Means by which he accomplished that End By the Sacrifice of himself V. The Difference of His Sacrifice from the Jewish ones His was but once performed Theirs were every day repeated If his Sacrifice had been like theirs then as you have it in the former part of the verse must be often have suffered since the Foundation of the World But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away Sin by the Sacrifice of himself This is the just Resolution of the Text into its several particulars of each of which I shall discourse as briefly and practically as I can I. I begin with the first The Appearance of our Lord in general Now hath he appeared Let us here consider first Who it was that appeared And then How he did appear The Person appearing we will consider both as to his Nature and as to his Office He that appeared as to his Nature was God and Man both these Natures were united in him and made one Person He was God with us So the Angel stiles him in the first of S. Matthew He was the Word that was with God and was God and by whom all things were made He was I say that Word made Flesh and dwelling among us So S. John stiles him in the first of his Gospel Lastly He was God manifest in the Flesh so S. Paul stiles him in the first Epistle to Timothy This was the Person that the Text saith Now appeared that is the Son of God in Humane Nature God of the substance of his Father begotten before all Worlds and Man of the substance of his Mother born in the World Perfect God and perfect Man and yet but one Person For as the Reasonable Soul and the Body make one Man so here God and Man make one Christ. As our Creed expresses it And this leads me to his Office This Divine Person God-Man that the Text here saith appeared was by his Office the Christ the Messias that is that great Minister of God that Anointed King and Priest and Prophet which from the beginning of the World he promised to send down upon Earth for the salvation of Mankind Who was believed in by the Patriarchs Typified by the Law Foretold by all the Prophets Shadowed out in all the Oeconomy of the Jewish Nation expected by all the Israelites And wished for by the best of the Heathen World This Person invested with this Office at last appeared and in what manner you all know from his Story in the Gospel He was by the Holy Spirit of God conceived in the Womb of a Virgin as was foretold of him by the Prophets of which an Angel of the highest order in Heaven first brought the happy Tidings to the Virgin her self This Virgin by as strange a Providence when the time of her delivery drew near was brought from her own City and Habitation in Galilee to Bethlehem a City of Judah where she brought forth this Illustrious Babe And thereby fulfilled another Prophecy concerning him namely That he should be born in Bethlehem which also the Scribes at that time acknowledged The circumstances indeed of his Birth were far from any outward Pomp and Magnificence The Virgin his Mother was poor and a stranger and so ill befriended that in that Confluence of People with which the City was then crowded she was able to procure no better a lodging than the Stable of an Inn ● so that a Manger was the place that first received the Lord of Glory This Slur this Affront God then thought fit to put upon all that external Splendour and Grandeur which usually doth so much dazle the Eyes of mortal Men. But God failed not to make abundant amends for the meanness of this Birth by giving sundry other demonstrable Evidences of the Dignity of the Person that was then born For the Magi from the East Princes shall I call them or Philosophers being conducted by a new Star came and pay'd their Homage and brou●ht their Offerings to this King of the World in a Manger And the Shepherds that were watching their Flocks in the Fields by night were surprized with the Glory of the Lord shining round about them and an Angel that thus spoke to them Fear not for behold I bring you Tidings of great Ioy which shall be to all People for unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ye shall find the Babe wrapped in swadling Cloths lying in a Manger And suddenly there was with the Angel a Multitude of the Heavenly Host praising God and saying Glory to God in the Highest on Earth Peace Good Will towards Men. After this manner was the Appearance of our Saviour and much after the same manner was his following Life It was a life of much Poverty and Meanness as to outward cirumstances but it was a life in every Period of it fraught with Wonders Whether we consider the admirable Goodness and Charmingness of his Temper or the exemplary Vertue and Piety that did shine out in all his Conversation Or the Divinity of his Sermons and Doctrines Or his prodigious inimitable Miracles Or the Attestations which were given to him from Heaven Or the usage he received from Men Or the Events which followed upon all these things in the World But it is his first Appearance in the Flesh that we are this day met together to commemorate And never had Mankind so Noble an Argument given them to exercise their Thoughts and Meditations upon If we consider the Quality of the Person appearing that he was no other than the Eternal Son of God How ought we to be wrapt with Wonder and Astonishment at the Infiniteness of the Divine Condescension How ought we to be affected with Love and thankfulness at such a never-to-be-parallell'd instance of God's kindness to us that he should so love us as to send his only-begotten Son into the World that we might live through him If we consider that this Son of God resolving to appear in the World of all other ways chose to