        item: #1 of 7
          id: A27499
      author: Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.
       title: The still-borne nativitie, or, A copy of an incarnation sermon that should have been delivered at St. Margarets-Westminster, on Saturday, December the five and twenty, 1647, in the afternoone, by N.B., but prevented by the committee for plunder'd ministers, who sent and seized the preacher, carried him from the vestry of the said church, and committed him to the fleet, for his undertaking to preach without the license of Parliament ...
        date: 1648
       words: 14279
      flesch: 71
     summary: For if we consider Sathans power ( who now Lords it over seduced and enthralled mankind : And by a wofull CATACHRESIS is become the God of this World ) his power and strength ( I say ) not to be overcome no not by the contention of an Arch angel without a Mittimus to God [ The Lord rebuke thee . ] Or secondly sinnes most intimate adhearence to the sonnes of Adam ; whose vitious habits in us that they might appear ( as it were more then accidentall to us , have ( by the best speaker Gods word ) the denomination of our very parts and substance given to them . Being called the body of Sinnes , and of death : our Members , yea & our very Flesh too : whose crucifying vicinity and tormenting closenesse , made a miserable Apostle make a more miserable ' EPIPHONEMA crying out [ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ] who shal deliver me , Or thirdly the more then necessary Fluxe of sinfull acts and transgressions from those vitious habits and corruptions , whose violent torrent like a breach of the Sea or the Cataracts of Nilus ( though caused by nature cannot by the Lawes of nature , or rules of Physick , though with the poore Woman in the Gospel wee spend our whole time and substance upon the Physitians ) be stopped , no nor ( with reverence be it spoken ) by Christ himselfe , without the Fountaine be dryed up by a vertue proceeding from him . Or lastly the strong Sequence of Gods law following sinne inevitably with Death , malediction and curse ▪ Charging upon transgressours invincibly . Had he been Man only , and not God , as the Arrians , and Socinians say , we might have reason to have been {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lovers of Mankind , to love our Neighbour &c. but I doubt we should have been {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Haters of God neverthelesse .
    keywords: body; christ; flesh; god; good; grace; hath; incarnation; lord; love; man; men; nature; non; sinne; soule; text; thee; things; thy; world
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: A28531
      author: Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.
       title: The second apologie to Balthazar Tylcken treating of the eternall predestination and election of God, and of the incarnation, or becoming man and person, of Christ, and concerning the Virgin Mary / written in the yeare 1621, finished the 3. of July by Jacob Behme, also called Teutonicus Philosophus ; Englished by John Sparrow.
        date: 1661
       words: 28198
      flesch: 73
     summary: 19. DEare Sirs and Brethren , I tell you in good will and faithfulnesse , as I have obtained Grace in the Spirit of Christ , * that a Divine Spirit dwelleth in no contemning and scorning derision or disgrace : but goe out from that , and tread the Contention in the Minde , underfoote , account it as Dung. 20. And seek the Life of God in Christ with earnestnesse , when you get that , you need no other Master to teach you , the Spirit of God will well teach you , lead you and drive you , yea he will teach WITHIN you : For it is written , † They shall all be taught of God : and Christ saith ; * The Holy Spirit shall receive of Mine , and make it knowne to you within you . 21. All outward Teaching , doth not lay fast hold in Man , unlesse Man cast his desirous will thereinto , how will it then take hold in the scorner , who bringeth an Envious opposition against the Spirit of Christ . Now it lyeth not in that we hunt after it in own selfe-reason , and willing to take it ; but it lyeth in this ; that we cast our selves againe into the Bosome ; viz : into the Becoming Man or Incarnation of Christ ; viz : into our New Mothers Body or Womb ; viz : into a New Becoming Man or Incarnation : that we with our Will be in the Obedience of Christs Will , that we become Nothing ; viz : nakedly and barely a glimps or Seed of a Will , that Christ became our Will , and his Becoming Man or Incarnation be our Becoming Man or Incarnation , his New-Birth out of God and Man , our Birth out of God and Man ; his slaying of the Anger of God in the Center of the Soul ; our slaying , his Resurrection our Resurrection ; his Eternall Divine Life , our Eternall Divine Life ; then it is really so ; that * whosoever cometh to me , viz : into my Becoming Man or Incarnation , that is , into me , him I will not thrust away .
    keywords: anger; christ; darknesse; doe; eternall; evill; fire; god; gods; good; hath; life; light; love; man; note; principle; self; soul; spirit; thou; viz; world
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: A41434
      author: Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.
       title: The two great mysteries of Christian religion the ineffable Trinity, [the] vvonderful incarnation, explicated to the satisfaction of mans own naturall reason, and according to the grounds of philosophy / by G. G. G.
        date: 1653
       words: 59582
      flesch: 38
     summary: Man as he totally proceeds from God , so is he totally directed to God , but before such time as the word was made flesh , it should seem only the better part of man , the soul and the understanding , were capable of Gods word ; Alas what becomes of the sensible part ? shall the body and the flesh be excluded ? if it lookes for a portion in glory , needs it must have some earnest in grace ; body and soul ▪ they are both creatures alike , they are both parts of man alike . Do we not here see how all the three Persons did concur as in one nature , so in the same outward act of Creation ? From the creation of the World , where it is said ▪ Dii creavit , let us come to the creation of Man , for whom the world was created : and therefore being a work of so great moment , God seems to deliberate , and to enter into consultation : Certainly when we enter into counsel , it argues a diversity of persons , or at least it must imply a greater caution , that neither in words or acts there might be any mistake ; the rather , because it is the first time that ever God spake of himself , wherein frail man is usually more cautionate and wary then in any other discourse : and therefore this may much more be supposed in the most wise God ; let us then hear God with the greatest reverence , Faciamus hominem ad imaginem nostram , Let us make man according to our own image , the plural number , which argues Persons , is here twice implied , both in the act faciamus , let us make , and in the type or sampler , ad imaginem nostram , according to our own image .
    keywords: actions; angels; attributes; birth; christ; church; coming; condition; creation; creatures; death; deity; difference; doth; earth; end; faith; far; flesh; god; gods; good; grace; hath; heavens; infinite; john; justice; knowledge; law; light; love; man; manner; mans; men; mercy; moses; mysteries; nature; persons; power; reason; religion; respect; rest; saint; scripture; second; self; sin; spirit; state; things; time; trinity; truth; understanding; use; way; work; world
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: A59791
      author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
       title: An apology for writing against Socinians, in defence of the doctrines of the Holy Trinity and incarnation in answer to a late earnest and compassionate suit for forbearance to the learned writers of some controversies at present / by William Sherlock ...
        date: 1693
       words: 10493
      flesch: 53
     summary: But the whole Mystery of this Latitude and Simplicity of Faith which he pleads for , is that plausible Project ( which has been so much talked of of late : ) to confine our selves to Scripture Terms and Phrases ; to use none but Scripture Words in our Creeds and Prayers , without any Explication in what sense those words are to be understood : As he tells us , Certainly we may Worship God right well , yea , most acceptably , in words of his own Stamp and Coinage . It alters the way of our Salvation , as much as Faith in the Blood and Sacrifice of the Son of God , to expiate our Sins , differs from believing a great and excellent Prophet , and obeying his Laws .
    keywords: church; dispute; faith; god; hereticks; man; men; scripture; socinians; trinity; words
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: A62619
      author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
       title: Sermons concerning the divinity and incarnation of our blessed Saviour preached in the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry by John, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
        date: 1695
       words: 50796
      flesch: 50
     summary: , he made no ostentation of his Divinity : For this I take to be the true meaning of that Phrase , both because it is so used by Plutarch , and because it makes the sense much more easie and current , thus , who being in the form of God , did not assume an equality with God , that is , he did not appear in the Glory of his Divinity , which was hid under a Veil of human flesh and infirmity ; But he emptied himself , and took upon him the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of men , and being found in fashion as a man , or in the habit of a man , he became obedient to the death , &c. So that if his being made in the likeness and fashion of a man does signify that he was really Man by his Incarnation , then surely his being in the form of God when he took upon him the fashion and likeness of man and the form of a Servant or Slave , must in all reason signify that he was really God before he became Man : The Word was made flesh : What a step is here made in order to the reconciling of Men to God ? From Heaven to Earth ; from the top of Glory and Majesty to the lowest gulf of meanness and misery : The Evangelist seems here to use the word flesh , which signifies the meanest and vilest part of Humanity , to express to us how low the Son of God was contented to stoop for the Redemption of Man.
    keywords: apostle; beginning; christ; death; divine; flesh; god; good; hath; heaven; john; life; lord; man; mankind; men; nature; reason; sacrifice; saviour; scripture; sin; sins; son; sufferings; things; way; word
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: A64650
      author: Ussher, James, 1581-1656.
       title: Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the son of God unfolded by James Archbishop of Armagh.
        date: 1643
       words: 16072
      flesch: 81
     summary: For this being his proper office , to be b Mediatour between God and Men , he must partake with both : and being before all eternity consubstantiall with his Father , he must at the appoynted time become likewise consubstantiall with his children . For as r there is one God , so is there one Mediatour between God and men , the man Christ Iesus , who gave himselfe a ransom for all ; and in discharge of this his office of Mediation , as the only fit Umpire to take up this controversie , was to lay his hand as well upon GOD , the party so highly offended , as upon Man , the party so basely offending .
    keywords: christ; father; flesh; glory; god; hath; heb; himselfe; iohn; life; lord; man; nature; son; spirit; things
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: A66436
      author: Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
       title: A vindication of the sermons of His Grace John Archbishop of Canterbury concerning the divinity and incarnation of our B. Saviour : and of the Lord Bishop of Worcester's sermon on the mysteries of the Christian faith, from the exceptions of a late book, entituled, Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity : to which is annexed, a letter from the Lord Bishop of Sarum to the author of the said vindication, on the same subject.
        date: 1695
       words: 47458
      flesch: 64
     summary: But here our Author interposes , and because he confesses he has met with these two names in the Church History ; and when he did , to be sure finds no passable Character of them ; therefore he will not have Ebion a Person , nor Cerinthus a Unitarian ; and for the proof of the latter , offers no Testimony ( the way for proving matter of Fact ) but an Argument of his own ; For , saith he , if Cerinthus held the Unity of God , and denied the Divinity and Pre-existence of our Saviour ( as his Grace and the Moderns suppose ) neither it should seem , would the Unitarians have reckoned him a Heretick , nor have rejected the Books which they supposed to be his ; namely , the Gospel , Epistles , and Revelation , now attributed to St. John. Was there never a time when the Church of God professed the same Tenets which our Church defends , without any of those great Rewards to bribe them ; and when on all sides they were beset with the Aws and Fears of a Furious and Embitter'd Adversary ?
    keywords: answer; author; beginning; christ; church; doctrine; god; gospel; grace; great; heaven; john; lord; man; nature; saith; saviour; sense; son; things; time; way; word
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