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A27499	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	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 ...	1648		.xml	application/xml	14279	532	71	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 .	cache/A27499.xml	txt/A27499.txt
