

Sermon4.
Ofthe
NATIVITIE.
vide this
solemnitie
berweene them.
Six day
a
a peece,
to
Either; as the feverall moiries of
this
fielnej[e of time.
Thts day,
Verb"m caro
fac1t~m, Th~
Word made l!eih: That day,
Iohn '·'.'–
Him that kmw noSimu, Bee mad1 Smne,
(that
IS)
made Htm undertake
to
be handled as a
'Cor.p!
Sinner
to be
1111
der the Larv,
and to endure ;what the Law could lay upon Him. And fo
now, the thing fent is
ftr!!: andfidly fcnt, becau[emade:
and
fit!ly made,
becaufemade
once
and
twice over:
fully made
orers,
becaufe fully
tmttedto
us.
Vl4ade ofawom,m
as well as we:
:Made Mder
the
Law
asdeepeaswe:
Bothexmt~liere,andfubLege.
So of our n:tture
(of
awoman,)
that of our condition alfo
(under the Law:)
So, fully unitedtousinnattere,
and
condition
both•
And
[
0
wee are come to the
fidl meafr<re ofHisfmding.
And; that we are come totlie
full
ydhall plainly fee,bytheoverjlowing,bythatwhich we receive frorri this (ttfnej{e;which
VcrCc
r:
isthelatter part ofthe ve&, and is our
fulnejfe,
~ven
the
fnl!'effe
of
all
that we
c~n
delire.
...
For ifwe come now to aske, For whom,
!S
all thrs adoe,
ThtsSend:ng,
Thts
makmg,
over
and~ver
againe
~It
is
form.
So is the conclufion,
111
nos;
that
we
might from
thisfulnejfe,
receive
the•(ufl
ofour wiih. Forin thefc two behinde, .'
Redemption,arid
•
Adoption;
to be
rtdeemed,
and to be
adopted,
are
thi:-fidl
ofall, we can wtih our fdves.
The tranfcendent Divifion,of
Good
and
Evil/,
is it,that comprehendeth
all.
And here ic
is. Our defire can extend it fdfe no further than to be rid of all
evil!;
and to atraine all that
good
is. By thefe two, (being
redeemed,
and being
adop_ttd)
we are made parukers ofthem
hoth:
To he mleemedfom render the
Law,
IS
to beqmt ot all
Evtfl. Torecetve the Adoption of
children,is
to be {l:ated in all
th~t
is
Goo~.For,al
Evifl
is,in being
smder the Law
,from whence
we are
redeemed;
and,all
Good,
m
berng mvefied,rn the
he~venly
Inheritance, whereunto we
are
adopted.
Thusfiood the cafe with us:
Aliens we wereftom
God,
Hi> Covenant,
and His
Eph.d~;
Kingdome: More than that,
Frifoners
we were, fafi layed up
under the Law.
From this latter
we are
Fmd:
ofthe former we are
feazed :
And what would we
more~
Only,this you fuall obferve,that in the
Idiom
ofthe
Scripttires
it is ufuall; two points
be.:
ing fet down,when they are refumed againe, to begin with thclater,(lnd fo end with the
for~
mer.So is it here,At rhe
fi.rfi,made ofawoman,madwnder the Law.At
the refuming,he begins:
with the
later,made under the Law,That he might redmm them, that were tmder the Law.
And
then comes to the
formcr,made ofawoman,
made the Son of
man,that we by adoption might he
made the
s~ns
of
Go o. But,this we are to marke,it is He that is at all
theco§1
and
paine:and
we,that have thebenift by it. Atthe
redeeming
it
is,Vt !!le:
At the
receiving
it is,n
Nos.
Briefly ofeither:And firfi,ofour
Redmning.Redeeminr;(
as the word giv.erh it) is a fecond
6
buying, or buying backc of
a
thing,
beforealiened
or
fold.
Ever, aformer
J.ile
is prefuppofed
Th" Hell
before it. And fuch athing there had gone before.A kinde of
alienation
had forrricrly beene,
;·ghr ""
whereby we had
made away
our felve,,' for,afale I cannot call ir,it was for fuch a tril!e:)Our
.t~~:::'thac
Nature aliened
i11
Adam,
for the
forbidden frtlit;
a matter ofno moment. Our
Perfons
like-,.,,.
un–
wife; daily we
ciut
[d
ves
alien
them, for fome
triflingpleafrtre,
or
profit
;
matters
dot
much
~~~.~~··
more worth• And;when we have thus paffed our fclves away,by this
Selling ourfelves under
Rom.f.t~
jin!the La:vfeazeth on us,and under ir we
are'"""'"""'~';,,
(Chap.
Ill.
v.2
3.)
even
locktup_,
-
.astt were,
ma
Dungeon,ttedfaft wtth
thecordsofot~r
fins, (!'rov.V.v.22.) Thefentenco
paf-
fed onus,andwcwairing but forexecurion.What evil is there not,in this drate,and on
every
foule that is in
it~Well
then,the firfi
Vt,
the fi.rfi
end
is,
Toget
us
rid
from underrhis efiate.
He did it: Not by way ofentreaty,'fiepinandbeg our pardon: That would not ferve;·
Sold
we
wer~,
and
bought
we muft be, A
price
mufi belaid downc for us. To get us from
un..
derthe Law,
tnyas not :).matter of
Intercefion,
tofue for it,
and
have it; No, Hemufi
PHr–
cha(ert,
and
pay
for it. It was a matter of
Redemption•
•
~And,
in
Redemptio"
or a
P11rcha[e,
we looketothe
Price.
For ifit beat any eafierate',
it
15
bomuch the better, But with a high
price,
He
Pttrchafedus;
it cofiHim
deareto
bring it
a out.
Non atero,nec drgentiJ;
Neither ofthem would ferve. At an higher rate it was, even
Pret"(ofan$uine.
His preciousbloud was the
price
we frood Him in.Which He payed;when '
Pet.
r
_,g;
HegaveHtSiifearan(omeformany;
'9·
It ftood thus betweene
Him
and
lu,
in this point of
Redemption.
Here ate cerraine
Mlt.>o.•~
f»Ale(Aflm Hndertb: Law,
to fuffer, robe executed: VV'har fay you
to
them~
Why,
I
will
D
3
become