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A77221	Comfort from the cradle, as well as from the crosse of Christ. Being meditations upon Isaiah 9.6. / The substance whereof was delivered in two sermons. Preacht at VVinchester upon the feast of the Nativitie last past. By Tho. Bradley Dr in Divinitie, lately one of His Majesties chaplaines, and Rector of Castleford and Ackworth neere Pontefract in Yorke-shire.	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4130; Thomason E637_1; ESTC R19661	52,275	95

thing among hand which may make amends for it some thing which you doe not read every day some thing which it is very necessary for your Sexe to know especially in the second Sermon something which I doubt not will afford you much comfort and good satisfaction and that in some necessary but clouded truths such as it is what ever it be yours it is most peculiarly and to your hand and view I present it Read it over Deare Lady and in it my love to your Soule my due respects to you my tender care of you and all that may speake me most faithfully really and affectionately yours desiring of Almighty God that you may receive as much comfort satisfaction and assurance out of it as he that pen'd it hath grounded on it and daily receiveth from it who is and ever will be Yours in all things according to the Covenant which once I made you THOMAS BRADLEY From OXFORD Jan. the first 1650. COMFORT FROM THE CRADLE AS WELL AS from the Crosse of CHRIST Being MEDITATIONS upon ESAIAH 9.6 For unto us a Child is borne Vnto us a Sonne is given AMong all the Prophets that arose in the Church from Moses to Malachie there was none that had more cleare visions of the Messiah than this the Penman of our Text the Prophet Isayah who spake and writ of him more like an Evangelist than a Prophet as if he were to deliver not a Prophesie of things to come but rather * Is borne is given sayes this Text whereas he was not actually borne till 700 yeares after a hystory of things already done and long since accomplished hence it is that he is usually called The Evangelicall Prophet And it is no idle conjecture that in reference to this he had his name not by chance but by speciall providence assigned him Isayah which if you will read in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeschaiah imports as much as salus Domini The salvation of the Lord or as some read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jeschaiahu Conservet Dominus or det Dominus salutem Let the Lord save les the Lord give salvation namely according to his good word unto this Prophet according to the manifold visions concerning the Messiah revealed unto him and the cleare prophesies of him contained in this booke It is observable that out of this Prophet there are no lesse then * Musculus in Isayam sixtie testimonies alleaged by our Lord and his Apostles in the New Testament which is more then they have done out of any other of the Prophets besides one onely excepted namely the Prophet David out of whose booke of Psalmes there are alleaged sixtie foure and out of both so frequently for the same reason because they writ more clearly more fully more distinctly of the Messiah then any of the rest of their brethren the Prophets had done Amongst them all there is not found a more famous prophesie concerning him then this wee have under hand in the words which I have read unto you where you have him presented to you in the very cradle For Vnto us a Child is borne Vnto us a Sonne is given For the better understanding of these words you must consider well the occasion of them and to what purpose the Prophet brings them in at this time and that was to comfort the King in a case of distresse as you may gather out of * The history there refers to the prophesie here 2 Chron. 28. and this was the case Ahaz King of Iudah was at this time brought very low being sore opprest by the Kings of Israel and Syria with one of which hee had lately fought a great battaile wherein hee had the worse of it so farre the worse that hee lost 120000 men upon the place 2 Chron 28 besides 200000 more of all sorts taken prisoners and carried away captives so great a blow as that he was afraid it might not onely weaken his Kingdome in his hands but even shake the foundation of the Monarchie for ever In this case hee comes to the Prophet for councell and for comfort and the Prophet gives him both and the grounds of both hee fetcheth from the child in my text he bids the King be of good comfort and that the losse of that day should not so much trouble him nor the feare of the ill consequence which hee did misdoubt might fall thereupon in as much as there was a child borne in whom he should be relieved in all this A mighty Prince that should do valiently that should raise amongst them a greater and more glorious Kingdome then that was when it was at the highest that should fight against the enemies of it a more terrible battaile then that which hee had fought and win upon them a more glorious victory then he had lost though not with sword and speare Isay 1.25 but with sword and fire with a two-edged sword proceeding out of his mouth Isay 4.4 and with the spirit of burning the spirit of grace power conquering by the Gospell all this in the fift verse Every battaile of the warriour is with confused noyse and garments rolled in blood but this shall be with burning and fewell of fire And then in the sixt verse hee tells you who it is that shall execute all this that is the Child in the Text whom he describes by nine glorious attributes in all and every of them making him out a mighty Prince indeed The government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called Wonderfull Counsellour the Mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end Hee shall sit upon the Throne of David and upon his Kingdome to order it and to establish it with judgement and justice from henceforth even for ever * The Prophet under the type of Hezekiah preacheth to the King the Messiah The Prophet all this while and in all this under the type of Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaz a hopefull Prince and as yet but a child with singular art preaching Christ unto him and prophesying of the glory and greatnesse of his Kingdome the spirituall Kingdome of the Church for the protection and preservation of which he should doe wonderfully To him the Prophet leads the King now in the day of his distresse as to a ground and pillar of hope comforts him in the advancement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ even against the losse of his owne Be of good cheare For unto us a Child is borne unto us a Sonne is given This was the method and the meanes by which the Prophets before the comming of Christ were wont to comfort the people of God in the time of their trouble by leading them unto Christ by pointing them to the Messiah in whom was laid up all their hope and comfort this was a standing comfort in the Church which never failed them a reserve

reason even with admiration and astonishment to take notice of his singular philanthropie the freenes and the greatnesse of his grace shewed to the lost sonnes of Adam in that when he saw them and the Apostate Angels both equally lost and undone lying in a forlorne estate and condition under his wrath and judgement of eternall death he was pleased passing by the Angels and leaving them fast bound in chaines of darknesse reserved to the iudgement of the great day to cast upon the sons of Adam a pittifull and a gracious eye Judae and to finde out a meanes to recover and to restore them againe by this his sonne Say no more What is man that thou art thus mindfull of him or the son of man that thou thus visitest him Psal 8. Thou hast made him lower then the Angells for in this respect the Lord hath made him higher then the Angels For he took not upon him the nature of Angels but he took upon him the seed of Abraham And therefore secondly is he said to be given Nobis to us To us exclusively excluding the Angels falne which stood in as great need of his redemption as man did Againe Nobis to us inclusivè including all those that receive benefit by Christ and so this Nobis to us may be understood first Personally of Isay and all such faithfull servants of Gods as Isay was Secondly Nationallly To us that is to us Jews the seed of Abraham the people of the Covenant to whom belong the promises and in particular this of the Messiah descending of us Thirdly Vniversally to us that is to all nations of the world parum est saith the Lord Isa 49.6 It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the Tribes of Iacob to restore the preserved of Israel I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles that thou maist be my salvation unto the ends of the earth So that the Jew cannot say to the Gentile he was given for us and not for you nor the Gentile to the Jew he was given for us and not for you nor the Greeke to the Barbarian he was given for us not for you nor the Barbarian to the Greek hee was given to us and not to you Nor these that were under the Law to those that were before the Law hee was given to us and not to you nor these that live under the Gospell to those that lived under the Law hee is given to us and not to you for he is given to them all to the Gentile as well as to the Jew the Greek as well as to the Barbarian to those that were under the Law aswell as to those that are under the Gospell to those that were before both aswell as to either of them both and therefore let all these take comfort in him let them all challenge their interest in him and every of them with hope confidence say as in the Text Unto us this son is given I am not willing here though it falls just in my way to engage in that great question which hath so much troubled the world touching the Latitude and extent of this gift we are speaking of to whom or to how many it may appertaine or was intended I know there are errours on both hands while some extend it not onely to all the sonnes of Adam Origen c. I had once a dispute with a Knight in Lincolne shiere one S. W. Hickman a zealous Origenist in this point but even to the Divells too and apostate Angells unto all which they say he was given and by whom in the end they shall all bee restored saved Others on the other hand limit it to a certaine definite number of men fore thought on long before the world was for that purpose and then by an unchangeable immoveable and irresistable decree set forth and designd to salvation by Jesus Christ in time to be given to them and they to him by the father and this number so inconsiderable in comparison of the rest that perish that by their computation and account scarsly the ten thousandth man of the sons of Adam shall be saved But who are we that we should thus limit the holy one of Israel and why should our eye be evill if his be good Indeed this doctrine if true to those few they speak of how few so ever they be must needs be pretious it magnifies beyond measure the riches of that gra●e to them wards which hath made such a difference where it found none it binds them for ever to love much to whom so much is given and forgiven but what a sad yea what a desperate condition doth it cast the whole world of the rest of the sonnes of Adam into Nay what an imputation doth it lay upon the Lord God in the highest of his attributes the attribute of his grace and goodnesse unto his creature as if hee did make the world wel nigh for no other intent but that thereby he might have an occasion to win honour unto himselfe in one of his attributes the attribute of his justice in destroying it But surely when I consider the nature of our heavenly Father as he hath beene pleased to make himselfe out unto his creature both in his word and workes when I cōsider the value the inestimable value of the price that was laid down for our redemptiō even the pretious blood of the sonne of God a price sufficient to have ransom'd a thousand worlds when I consider that by giving his sonne to dye for us the Lord had found out a way whereby he had made the salvation of all men possible without prejudice or impeachment of his truth or justice when I read the glorious prophesies of the Prophets of old and especially of the Evangelicall Prophet of the abūdāce of grace purchased unto the Church by the Messiah the glory of his kingdome when I read of the paralel between the 2 Adams how in every reddition of it the second hath the preeminence When I consider the vastnes of the Emperean heavens the habitation of the Saints the place appointed for the just to dwell in Revel A space that no man can measure for multitudes that no man can number I am easily persuaded to beleeve that the Lord by Jesus Christ hath opened a greater and a wider dore into the kingdome of heaven then these men are perswaded of that it doth neither stand with the nature of his grace and goodnesse and love to his creature nor with the honour of Christ his Mediatorship nor suit with the price of that blood that was paid for our ransome nor with the glory of the prophesies of old or the promises since of the abundance of grace and glory of Christs kingdome nor the latitude of the covenant made unto the Church that the remnant of Adams sons that returne should be so small or the berries upon the Olive