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A09056	The first fruites of the Gentiles In three sermons preached in the cathedrall church at Sarum. By Bartholomevv Parsons Batchelor in Divinitie, and vicar of Collingborne-Kingstone, in the county of Wiltes.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1618 (1618)	STC 19347; ESTC S114080	47,600	70

Luke 19.41 but are content that their legions of sinnes which possesse them as so many deuills for Quot crimina tot Doemonia saith Bernard how many sinnes so many deuills should say vnto Christ when hee commeth to cast them out as the Deuills that hee came to dispossesse art thou come hither to torment vs before the time g Matt. 8.29 and who when they should heare Gods voice to Day h Psal 95.7.8 putit of till to Morrow as i Exo. 8.10 Pharaoh did praying for him k August in confession Quamdiu cras cras quare non modò quare non haec horâ finis turpitudinis meae saith Saint Austin How long to morrow to morrow why not now why in this very houre is there not an end of my filthines Now this first circumstance of Christs birth is amplified eyther by the place or the time the place In Bethlehem of Iudea it maketh no matter whether wee reade here Bethlehem of Iudea or of Iudah Iudea beeing put not for the whole Countrie of the Iewes but for the Tribe of Iudah as else-where Ioseph hearing that Archelau● raigned in Iudea would not goe thither but turned aside into the parts of Galilie a Mat. 2.22 Now this addition serueth here for a distinction betweene it and another Bethlehem in the Tribe of Zabulon b Iud. 19.15 duae Bethlehem sunt saith the ordinary glosse there are two Bethlehems one which is in the Land of Zabulon another which is in the Land of Iudah which was first called Ephrata And for this Bethlehem the place of Christs birth Saint Austin hath well obserued that c August de concord Euangel Matthew and Luke doe agree concerning the Citty of Bethlehem but how and for what cause Ioseph and Mary came thither Luke declareth Matthew omitteth When our Sauiour then was conceiued in the wombe of his mother at Nazareth and by all likelyhood should in her purpose haue beene borne there both Ioseph and Mary are compelled by the decree of Augustus Caesar to goe to Bethlehem the Citty of Dauid to be taxed there because they were of the house of Dauid d Luke 2.4.5.6 God so making a way for the accomplishment of that Prophecie which fore-told the place of his birth Oh come hither then and behold the works of the Lord yea the mightie hand of our God who as in the great worke of the Creation hee made the light out of darkenesse so in the wonderfull workes of his prouidence and preseruation can out of the euill actions of men and deuills bring forth good and turne those things which they doe for the satisfying of their sinfull wills to the executing of his holy and righteous will Deus suas voluntates vtique bonas implet per malorum voluntates vtique non bonas saith Austin e August in Enchirid cap. 101. God can fulfill his wills beeing good by the wills of wicked men that are not good Thus when Iosephs brethren thought euill against him in selling him for a slaue into Egypt God meant and turned it to good to saue much people aliue thereby f Gen. 50.20 As then the expert Phisitian can so temper and compose the poyson of Serpents that it shall bee a preseruatiue against poyson so the great Phisition of our Soules did so master and ouerrule the poysonfull action of the traytor Iudas who betrayed his Master and through couetousnesse made merchandise of him that his shipes became a plaster to heale vs a Isa 53 5. and the selling of him made him ours as Rabanus saith sweetely Exulta Christianae b Rabanus apud Ludolphum de u●ta Chri. part 2. part 52. And reioyce O Christian for by the merchandize of thine enemies thou hast gotten the victory that which Iudas solde and the Iewe bought thou hast gotten for Christ is ours not the Iewes which bought him But because the things which befell our Sauiour in the dayes of his flesh came not to passe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Luke 10.31 By chaunce but were done either for the fulfilling of some promise or prophesy or for the expressing of some mistery let vs a little examine why Bethlehem is the place of his byrth Not to heape vp al that might be said heerein it was in respect first either of former prediction secondly present condition thirdly or future signification first of former prediction hee that came in the fullnesse of time would be borne at Bethlehem for the fullfilling of former both prophecies and promises for so it was fore-prophecied that out of Bethlehem Iudah should he come forth that was to be ruler in Israell d Micah 5.2 And heere by the way the very place of his byrth doth serue like a Iohn Baptist e Ioh. 1.29 to point out to demonstrate him to be the Lambe of God the verie God the very Christ f Ioh. 4 29. so that as the things which Iohns desciples that he sent vnto Christ saw and heard the works that he did did testifie of him so the place where hee was borne sheweth that this is hee that should come and none other is to bee looked for g Matt. 11.3.4.5.6 And so it was fore-promised to Dauid yea bound with the indissoluble bond of an Oath that God would not shrinke from that of the fruite of his wombe hee would set vpon his Throane h Psal 132.11 yea such a seede which should endure for euer and whose Throne should bee as the Sunne before God a Psal 89 36. which must necessarily bee vnderstood of that blessed seede of the Woman which should bruise the Serpents head b Gen. 3.15 of that branch that should grow out of the roote of Iesse c Isa 11.1.2 at whose conception the Angell promised to the Virgin that God should giue vnto him the Throane of his father Dauid c. d Luk. 1.32.33 And then where should this seede promised to Dauid be more fitly borne then in that Towne which was especially denominated of him the Citty of Dauid and where hee himselfe was borne where should the roote of Iesse first sprout out but in Bethlehem the towne of Iesse the Bethlehemite e 1. Sam. 16.1 Now that I may referre all things to edification and instruction I cannot but cry out with our blessed Sauiour f Matt. 13.6 Happy are our eyes that see or may see heere is this particular the truth of that generall laid downe by the Apostle That all the promises of God made in Christ are in him yea and in him Amen g 2. Cor. 1.20 hath he said and shall hee not doe it hath he spoken and shall hee not make it good h Num. 23.19 It is one of his properties wherby he proclaimed himselfe to Moses and would bee knowne to the whole World to be aboundant in truth i Exo. 34.6 that is such an one as keepeth couenant and mercy with his seruants