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A42901 A sermon of the nativity of our Lord preached before the Queen Dowager in her chappel at Somerset-house on Christmas Day, 1686 / by Thomas Godden. Godden, Thomas, 1624-1688. 1686 (1686) Wing G921; ESTC R28640 15,433 36

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Charitatem Learn of me to love your Neighbours for my sake since I who am true God of true God have made my self man for yours Discite denique verum bonorum omnium hujus saeculi contemptum Lastly Learn of me a true and real contempt of all the Goods of this World since I who am the wisdom of God have despised and rejected them as false and counterfeit to teach you by my example the true way to Heaven These are the Lessons which this divine Word preaches to our Eyes from the Pulpit of his Cribb And if the Scholars of Pythagoras had so great a veneration for their Master that whatever he said they believ'd it because he said it quia ipse dixit Now that a greater than Pythagoras is here now that God himself is become both our Master and Pattern in his own Person shall we not much rather do what we see him do quia ipse fecit because he has done it and not only so but quia ipse factus est because himself was pleased to be made man that we might see him with our Eyes and learn from his Example the true way to Bliss And when shall we do it if we do it not now Holy David astonish'd as we may say to see the general depravation of Mankind in his time how their hearts were bent upon nothing but the Love of the things of this world as their only happiness calls upon them to bethink themselves of their Error in these words Filii hominum usquequo gravi corde Ut quid diligitis vanitatem quaeritis mendacium O ye sons of men how long will you let your hearts lye groveling upon the Earth Why will you set your affections upon vanity and seek after a lye meaning the transitory and deceitful goods of this world And St. Austin to extenuate as it were in some measure their fault subjoins Saltem usque ad adventum Filii Dei error vester duraverit that possibly this error of theirs might continue till the coming of the Son of God into the world But then considering the depraved lives of too many Christians he changes the Prophets usquequo and crys out himself Quid ultra graves corde estis O ye sons of men why are your hearts still possessed with this Error now that the Son of God is come in the Flesh to teach you the true way of Life Quando habituri finem fallaciarum si praesente Veritate non habetis O when will you make an End of suffering your selves to be cheated with the Fallacious Maximes and Fashions of the world if you do it not now that Truth it self has taken a Body and presents it self visible to your very Eyes to teach you by its own Example what you are to chuse and what to avoid Is it possible dear Christians that we can think that to be Good and desirable which He who is Truth it self has rejected and contemned or that to be vile and contemptible which He has made choice of and embraced If our Judgment and Conduct be not conform to his one of the two must follow Either that he was deceived or we are mistaken And no doubt but the mistake will be found to be on our side if we think to go to Heaven by any other way than that by which He went himself If He who was Innocent chose not only to walk upon Thorns in this World but wore them for a Crown upon his Head must we who are the Criminals expect to have the way strew'd with Flowers and our Temples crown'd with Garlands of Roses Let me tell you dear Christians that 't is as much an Article of our Faith to believe the way to Heaven as to believe Heaven it self And if He who has told us there is such a Place prepared for us as Heaven if we take the Right way to it has told us also that that way is no other than what himself calls The strait way viz. the mortifying of our sensual appetites renouncing the Pomps and Vanities of the World crucifying the Flesh with its inordinate desires bringing the body into subjection to the spirit by Praying Fasting and other Penitential Works giving what is above necessity and true Christian decency in Alms to the Poor denying our own Wills patiently bearing the Afflictions and Crosses which God sends meekly forgiving those that offend us and the like Christian Duties either we believe this to be the only way to Heaven or we do not If we do not why do we believe there is such a Thing as Heaven at all since He who has told us the one has told us the other also When he said of himself Ego sum via veritas vita I am the Way the Truth and the Life he placed Truth in the middle between the Way and the End as Equally engag'd for both But then again if we do believe the strait way and which himself made choice of to be the only way to Heaven why do we chuse to walk in the Broad and beaten Road of the world as if that would bring us thither Is it by pleasing the Senses pampering the Body mispending the time which God has given us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling in indulging to our own ease the best part of the day and throwing away the rest in vain and too often Criminal Conversations and Pastimes and the Riches He has bestowed upon us to secure our own Salvation by relieving his poor and necessitous Brethren in purchasing to our selves all that may conduce to the gratifying of our Fancies and the satisfying of our sensual appetites Is it I say by doing these things that we can think at last to arrive at Heaven O no we are convinc'd of the contrary both by the Doctrine and Practice of God himself made Man for our sakes And when shall we put an End to this fatal Cheat if we do it now Let us then no longer suffer our selves to be deluded with the vain and transitory things of this world But transeamus usque ad Bethlehem passing over let us with the devout Shepherds go to Bethlehem and see this Word which is made Flesh for our sakes which our Lord hath shown unto us Let us in a word see and do according to the Pattern which is shown us in the Manger purifying our hearts from all sinful affections and transcribing those Vertues of which this fair Original has given us so lively an Example into the Copy of our own lives So shall we be prepared worthily to receive him here under the Sacramental Veils in which he lies wrapped upon the Altar no less truly than he did in his Swadling-clothes in the Manger and be found worthy when he shall come the second time into the world with great Power and Majesty to behold him face to face in his Glory which God of his Infinite Mercy grant us all to whom in Unity and Trinity be all Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS Psa 138. 11. Stabulum visum est esse Coelum in Terra Epiphan Orat. de Deipera Exod. 2. Isai 9. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Verbum quod semper erat videamus quomodo pro nobis factum sit Quod enim videre non poteramus dum erat verbum videamus factum quia Caro est Sum. 22. q. 82. a. 1 o. Psal 1. Psal 36. 31. 1 Tim. 1. 9. St. Aug. in Psal 1. De Sermon Dom. c. 21. St. Aug. In Psal 59. Froenum quo pulchrè agitur St. Chrisost Hom. 2. in 1 Tim. 1. In morali Psal 2. 9. Psal 44. 8. Num. 24. 17 Affirmationes de Deo sunt incompactae St. Dionys St. Tho. 1. p. q. 43. Serm. 3. Pentecost Hom. 61. ad Pop. Antioch Ego autèm non ita sed carnibus meis alo meipsum vobis appono vos omnes generosos esse volens c. Volui Frater vester fieri Vobis vicissim ipsam Carnem Sanguinem per quae Cognatus vester factus sum trado St. Greg. Hom. 8. in Evang. Conc. Agath An. 506. Conc. Turon 3. An. 813. St. Cyril Alex. l. 4. in Jo. c. 17. Rom. 1. 23. Serm. 147. S. Aug. l. 83. Quaest Q. 25 Serm 1. de Nat. Dom. Phil. 2. 3. Psal 4. 3. St. Aug. in Psal 4. Matth. 7. 14. Joh. 14. 6.