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A04618	The mysterie of Christes natiuitie A sermon preached in the parish church of All-Saints in Dorchester, within the countie of Dorset, the 25. day of December 1613. being Christmas Daye. By William Iones, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods Word.	Jones, William, b. 1581 or 2.	1614 (1614)	STC 14739.2; ESTC S107860	16,531	38

from Sun to Sun but of the naturall day that containes the space of foure and twentie houres Thus in the time of darknesse was hee borne that came to dissolue the power of darknesse shining in darknesse when the darknesse could not comprehend him Nox is so called a nocendo because if men then walke without light they may easily hurt themselues and now as a Physition in the best opportunitie came the great helper in the time of hurting to shew that hee was strōger then the deuil Christ vāquished the deuil in his own time the Prince of the night in the night Farther touching the houre if we may beleue Cardanus that great Physition Astronomer it was about tenne of the clock and fifteene minutes For he in his Comment vpon Ptolemies quadripartite treating Christs Natiuitie makes the eleuenth degree of Virgo to ascend in prima domo which could not bee but at that time The Fathers write that hee was borne at midnight as Hierom and Bernard which of these opinions is truest I will not decide Mysteries there are in both of them If Cardan say true then it fitly fell out that the Sonne of a Virgin was borne when the heauenly figure Virgo did ascend If the Fathers say true then opportunately came he in medio noctis that was to be the medium betweene God and man The greatest obscuritie is at midnight and then therefore was produced the greatest light hee that was the brightnes of his fathers glorie Thus then in the sixth age of the World in the two and fortieth yeere of Augustus Caesars Reigne in the moneth of December in the fiue and twentieth and shortest day on Sunday betweene ten and twelue at night was our blessed Sauiour blessedly born Which season Saint Paul cals the fulnesse of time as because each part thereof as ye see is full of mysteries so by reason of other occasions that I am now to acquaint you with And first this then Whatsoeuer God eyther promised or the Patriarckes and Prophets eyther in their speeches foreshewed in their actions prefigured or affections desired that all at this time is fully fulfilled Now accomplished are Gods promises made to Eue that her seed should bruise the Serpents head Gen. 3. to Abraham that in his seed all Nations of the earth should bee blest Gen. 22. to Dauid that of the fruit of his loynes hee would set one on his seat that should rule as a King for euer Psal 132. Now fulfilled are the Predictions of the Patriarcks and Prophets of Iacob when he said Gen. 49. the Scepter shall not be taken from the Tribe of Iuda and a Captaine from his thigh till he come that is to be sent and hee shall be the expectation of Nations Of Moses when he said Deut. 18. A Prophet shall the Lord our God raise vp vnto yee among your brethren him shall yee heare Of Balam when he said Numb 24. a starre shall rise from Iacob and a staffe from Israel that shall strike the Moabites Of Esay when he said that a Virgin should beare a sonne and call his name Emanuel Es 7. Of Michea when he said Mich 5. And thou Bethleem Ephrata art but a little one in respect of thousands in Iuda and yet there shall come forth of thee one that shall bee the ruler of Israel and his comming forth is from the beginning and from the days of Eternitie Of Daniel when he said Dan. 9. that after certaine weekes of yeares expired the holy of holyes should be annointed Now fulfilled are the Figures of the Patriarcks and Prophets Actions Now Abraham came a stranger into Aegypt When Christ came as a Pilgrime where comming amongst his owne his owne receiued him not Now Moses was put into a Basket Ioseph throwne into the pit Hieremy into the Dungeon Daniel into the Lyons Denne when Christ was sent into this wretched World a place of perplexities Now the stone was cut from the Mountaine without hands when Christ was borne of his mortall Mother neuer being begotten by mortall father Now Aarons rod did bud and beare Almonds when a spotlesse Virgin did produce a Child Now a woman did compasse a man when hee was contained in a womans womb that doth himself cōprehend heauen earth Now a Riuer flowed to water Paradise when Christ was borne with his bloud to wash away the sinnes of the world Now the Mountaines did distil sweetnes when Heauen did let God to descend on earth Now Salomon made himselfe a Throne of Iuorie when Christ made himselfe a bodie of flesh in the Virgins wombe Now the Doue came from Noahs Arke when the sonne of God came from the bosome of his Father Now the bush burned and was not consumed when a Virgine brought forth a Son and was not corrupted mercy and truth met together when Christs Diuinitie and Humanitie met in one person to work our redemption Now the Sunne was couered with a Cloud when God clothed himselfe with our flesh Againe now fulfilled are the desires of the Patriarches and Prophets Abraham tooke great joy of this Day and now he saw it Ioh. 8. Expectabo salutare tuum saith Iacob Gen 49. I will wait for thy saluation O Lord and now behold his expectation satisfied Dauid cried out Psal 48. ostende nobis domine misericor diam tuam and now he might say as in Psal 47. suscepimus Deus misericor diam tuam in medio templi Begge no longer Moses to say to God as it is Deu. 18. mitte obsecro quem missurus es for now is he come amongst vs. Crie not longer out Esay as it is Es 64. Vtinam disrumperes coelos descenderes O that thou wouldest cleaue the Heauens and come downe for this day came hee out of a Virgins wombe The summe of this is this Now are Gods promises the Patriarches and Prophets predictions actions and affections fulfilled And therefore most excellently is it termed the fulnesse of time Againe now was the fulnesse of Gods Communication when he came to giue vs himselfe in his sonnes flesh wherein as it is Col 2. dwelt the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Now was the fulnesse of mans Redemption when a Sauiour was borne to begin the gracious work therof in preseruing vs by his merits from sin death hell and the Deuill Now was the fulnesse of graces promotion We taking them out of his fulnes as Ioh. saith And who can denie this to be the fulnesse of time To this let me addo that the world was now ful of miracles Now the Angels sang in heauen and comforted shepheards on earth Now a strange starre guided the wisemen to Christ Now a wel-spring in Rome did runne with Oyle Now three Sunnes appeared shining first seuerally and then joyntly Now Augustus his aeternum palatium that was prophesied neuer to fall before a Virgin did beare a child was ruinated to the ground Now Augustus asking