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A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the wonderful…A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the vvonderfull…
A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the wonderful conception, birth, and life of Christ, who in the fullness of time became man to satisfy divine justice, and to make reconciliation between God and man. Preached to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, by that godly and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Richard Sibbes. D.D.A miracle of miracles or Christ in our nature Wherein is contained the vvonderfull conception, birth, and life of Christ, who in the fulnesse of time became man to satisfie divine iustice, and to make reconciliation betweene God and man. Preached to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, by that godly and faithfull minister of Iesus Christ, Richard Sibbes. D.D.
London: printed by Edward for John Rothwell, 1638London: printed by Edward for Iohn Rothwell, 1638
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First Christ must be without all sin of necessity;1 for else when he took our nature, stubble, and fire had joined together. God is a consuming fire, and therefore the nature must be purified, and sanctified by the holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin.
First Christ must be without all sinne of necessity;1 for else when hee tooke our nature, stubble, and fire had joyned together. God is a consuming fire, and therefore the nature must be purified, and sanctified by the holy Ghost in the wombe of the Virgin.
- 1Why Christ must be without sin.
And then again in the conception, there must be a foundation of all obedience active and passive,1 and of all that was afterwards excellent in Christ. If there had been any blemish in the foundation, which was his conception; if he had not been pure, there had been defect in all that issued from him, his active obedience and passive obedience, for every thing savours of the principle from whence it cometh. And therefore it was Gods great work in this strange conception that sin might be stopped in the root and beginning, nature might be sanctified in the foundation of it. And so that he might pursue sin from the beginning to the end, both in his life by living without sin, and also in his death by making satisfaction for sin.
And then againe in the conception, there must be a foundation of all obedience active and passive,1 and of all that was afterwards excellent in Christ. If there had beene any blemish in the foundation, which was his conception; if he had not beene pure, there had beene defect in all that issued from him, his active obedience and passive obedience, for every thing savours of the principle from whence it commeth. And therefore it was Gods great worke in this strange conception that sinne might be stop't in the roote and beginning, nature might be sanctified in the foundation of it. And so that he might persue sin from the beginnning to the end, both in his life by living without sinne, and also in his death by making satisfaction for sinne.