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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47367	A sermon preach'd before the king the first Sunday of Advent, 1666 by Henry Killigrew ...	Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.	1666 (1666)	Wing K446; ESTC R32441	14,736	38

allow to no man no not to the Messiah But who is this that we abhor who is this our Aversion who is this that defrauds our Expectations that grows daily greater and makes out his Pretences in spight of our Opposition That Christ was to be the Son of David to descend of the Seed and Linage of the ancient Kings of Judah that God out of the old Stock or Root of Jesse which now through length of time seem'd decay'd and doted seare and dead would cause to grow up a branch of Righteousness to execute Judgment and Justice in the Land was a truth asserted from all antiquitie And not only Esay and Jeremy who in expresse terms speak it but as Saint Peter says all the Prophets bare witnesse to it And the later Doctors in our Saviours daies universally allow'd the Tradition as is seen by the answer of the Pharisees to the question our Lord asked them concerning himself What say you of Christ whose Son is he And they said the Son of David But then that Christ was this Son of David this Branch so long foretold and expected though his Extraction and Genealogy his words and works his life and death did quadrat and close with all the Accounts Predictions and Tipical Representations of the Messiah in the Law and the several Lines drawn from the mouths of so many Prophets of different ages exactly concenter'd in his Person yet none but the dispassionate and disinterressed would confesse and acknowledge the Multitude here and the People again elsewhere or some more particularly inspir'd as the two blind Men mention●d Matt. 9. 27. poor Bartimeus and the like who comparing the Miracles wrought by Christ with the Prophecies that went of him confidently made out this truth Jesus thou Son of David have mercy on us And here we cannot enough admire the bounty of God to his faithfull Servants that do his will and seek him with their whole heart whom he does not only blesse and prosper while they are alive but makes their Names and Memories illustrious by a renown'd Posterity long after they are dead As he did not suffer Davids Soul to see corruption even in the grave where all things perish so neither did he suffer his Glory to see corruption after so many ages when commonly all things are lost in oblivion but reviv'd it by causing Christ to Spring from his Loines Christ indeed had an other higher and nobler Generation an Eternal such as no man can declare as the Prophet Esay sayes Who can declare his Generation This his Prime Generation was not from the Will of Man but from the Power of the Spirit he took Flesh of the Virgin but not by Propagation but by Adumbration and the Will of God And therefore in respect of any humane Parentage on the Fathers side he was liken'd to Melchisedec who is introduc'd in Scripture without Parent without descent without Genealogy for so it became him that was to be the Preacher of Purity to the World that his very Generation should be also Pure Yet I say so much was God pleased with the Heroical Vertue of David so much was he a Man after his own heart that he ordained that that great Person the Second Person in the Trinity should be reckon'd to him as his Issue that he that was indeed his Lord as our Saviour also alledges as a strange Event should notwithstanding become his Son he will'd that the Son of his own Spirit should be esteemed the Son of his servant So true is that which God spake to Eli of old and so exemplary a doctrine to all posterity Honorantes me honorabo those that honour me I will honour Ye see what is done to him whom God honoureth the very Saviour of the World counts it a piece of Nobility and Gentry as I may so speak to derive his Pedigree from David The second Particular I observed was The purpose of Christs coming to shew himself the King of Israel Thrice a year for three years together as the custome was for all Israel Christ had gon up to Jerusalem the chief City of the Jewes and yet did never make any Overture never shewed any Semblance as if he had been King of the Jewes before this last time of his entry Nay hitherto he used all means to conceal his Title and Pretence rather than to declare it When they would have made him a King he conveighed himself invisibly out of the presse and did a Miracle to avoid an Advancement How comes he therefore now voluntarily to assume what before he so sollicitously refused How comes he to do a Miracle that he might appear a King when he formerly did a Miracle not to appear one Affects to have a Mounture whereon to ride charms the owners Spirit that should surrender it hearing the Lord had need of it inspires the Multitude to proclaim what he forbad his Disciples to whisper takes the whole state of it upon him affirms it to Pilate when he asks him concerning it Affirms it I say though in a Ceremonious way of affirmation usual among the Jewes Art thou the King of the Jewes Thou saist it says he Which was as much as if he had answered I am indeed that which thou sayst Only he makes here the Question it self go for the Answer and the Demander asking the truth in honour to him he makes the affirming of it as it were also to proceed from his mouth As in the case of a negative Answer the more Civill among us choose rather to returne an Excuse for their dissenting than a flat No or Denial to the thing that was inquir'd I say it was very strange that Christ should thus voluntarily assume that Dignity which he had so obstinately refused but it was much stranger yet that he should assume it at the season he did at the Eve to his Passion when he began to see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Crosse standing at the door in expectance of him Is this a time says the Prophet to his servant Gehazi to take money and to buy Vineyards when the Lords anger was upon the land and the enemy daily expected So was this a time to lay claime to a Kingdom when a mans Hour of Death approacht To put on the Royall Ensignes when he was to suffer as a Criminal as if he would present himself to the Executioner after the manner the Sacrifices of old were brought to the Priests with Garlands and gilded Horns as Salvian says Ornatur ad poenam coronatur ad supplicium he was invested in royal Robes to be Crucified he was made a King to suffer Death This Hour in the Worlds judgment so Incongruous to accept a Crown was yet the Season that he made choice of and he refused all Advancement till he was upon the point to be lifted-up on the Crosse. But as God says in the Prophet My thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your waies my waies So we may say of Christs Times and