r6o 3 4 Ofthe N A T rvI T 1E. Sermon 17. And what was HisText~Fititu mem tu,hodie genui te.This Text He pr?acpedon: As it migh~ be,.atthe bringin~ forth of aSon. And that (as it.,fhould ~eeme by·the word, Hodte) tlus veryday. Th1sday,the Bmh; thi; day,theSermon.•And,if fo: by the fame equme, thefame Text may well be preached on·ag!llrie, whenfoeverrhat d•y comes about, by the circling of the yeare. ' , ' .' ~ y"~ ,.. Itufcth tobe the firll: quell:ion(I kept itlall:)Whopmch£(h,.? ~ · ~likehim we willheare him,elfe nor.) Sure,He,~owho!!~is isfPf~.e~;i;il/u; . Plee iris, that f.11rh, Pr.t.dtcabo. And Hee to whoinltlSla!O;'i"t~mNUttr, '' HR 1 s r. CH 11. Is r then preachetb. And CHRI>T isworrhrbehearing. Therewilllieno exceptionio thePreacher, rhar, I am fure of. And indeed, fo it was moll: meet,that He ihoul?· He drat, ~as tb~eLaw-giver; moll: meettoreade upon his owne law; H~, that thaSon, mo£\i.ilie~t t6~reach uf>olt Filiunmu;tu;He,thatwasborne,uponhisowneBirt.h. "'' . '• ,_ 1 <, • Vpon His ?\vneBirt.h. Andif upon ir, anyday ,rh.At 1 day el~eci'alljr;{;:;hereon He was borne. So 1sthe Text. ,Theday He preach't on, H~was~orae : ·JjlQday Hee was borne, Hepreach'ton. No time fokindly ro preach de Filio/1odie genito, as Hodi~. So lhall you have CH R r s T preach; of CHRI sTs Nativitie; and that, upon thevery day of his Nativitie; (which, according to the Chrill:ian accounr,is this day ofall the ..dayes_ofthe yeare. Tb 1 • And, firll: I mull tell you,this f.1meBodi~ (here) is f.1id Signanter, that CHR ".,. eh:"J!r,~:•tt• was begottentoday. For,Hewas hegottenbdides this: had mo.re Brgettjngs,rl1ar:wn-e. Twonattlrts He had, and fo, twoNativifieJ. One etern'aYl,'>J,s rti.~on'of God: the o– ther temporall, as theSon of man. And, as it f~lls our, this<rery place {here) I find vouched for both. Vouched for His begetting, a~ the Sonof ~on, by the ,Apofl/~ ( Heb.I :5 .) For to which ofthe Angels/aid Hf atany ~imr,[hottart l?iy Son,Thif day hM;~ I ~egotten thee ? Alleaging this placeto prove Hi,s D_ejt~e :.as one,whofenature was farreabove,farremoreexcellent,thantheAngtls. " ·. , " ' But,of the twaine, more properly we apply it tothis dayes birth : (His Birtb, as theSonof Man.) And for our fo applying it,wehave rhe warran.t, not of one,but of · all the Apoj!lesat once; and,even of the wholeChterch alfembled'in prayer (A{/sIV. z7. ) Where, to GodHimfelfethey fay,that the Prophecieof this Pfalmwas fulfilled, when Herod, the High Priefts,andthe rejl took cotmfe/1againjl His Holy ChildIef u;: And, that (we know) was at this Birth. So, applying it to this 6irth, fure we are, we ap– plyit aright. And iodeed,it cannot be otherwife. For,in the very next words,Goo bids Him; Aske, and Hee will give Him the Heathen, and the tettermof! parts oftheearth. This mull needs be faid to Him,as the Son of man ; and can no waies be laid to Him,as the SonofGoo. As the SonofGon,Heasked not ;He needed not aske; He had all: All phil.>.6. t~qeeo )ttrewith His father,as being in for11Je of Goo. Nothing was ;nothing could be given to Him : He was not a perfon capable of any gift : All was His owne. So, it wasfpoken, as to theSon if Mf1n,this day borne. And fo, to theSon of Man, rhis day homewe apply it. ' The1Jivifion; Of this Sermon, thefe be theparrs; Thematterof it atlarge, or ingenera!l: I. That it isaLaJVfirfi. Then, what manner of Larv, orhowgualified: r. ALmvto bepreached, as orher !awes u(e not to be. z. ALawdtqteadixit Det«,whcreother lawesare,de qeea dixit homo: Whichis rhe realon, \vhyit is to bep_reached. 3· And then (out ofthe very body ofthe word in theText) that it is not aLarv at large,but a j'n-~tot Stafllte Larv (for fo is Elchok) which, but by publiihing, non~can take norice of. A fecond reafon,why iris to bepreached. And this is the firfiparr; . , II. The fecond, is the very Text it felfe, orrhe bodie of the LdJV 1!i thefe words, Thim art my Sonne, this d,,y have I begotten thee. The points in it are flve : ' Of a S•nne. • OfmySonne (thatis)rheSonneofG o D. l Gen11i, theSonf)eofG o D begotten. f Hodi'l: the SonfJe of Goo, thi; day begotten. 1 And Di:<it genui (t~at rs)
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