The blessed'st birth that euer was: or, The blessed birth of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ Preached at the Fleet, the 25. of Decem: A. Dom. 1627. By Henry Greenvvood preacher of the word of God.
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The blessed'st birth that euer was: or, The blessed birth of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ Preached at the Fleet, the 25. of Decem: A. Dom. 1627. By Henry Greenvvood preacher of the word of God.
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Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.
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London :: By E. Purslow for H. B[ell] and M. B[ell] and are to be so'd [sic] by Iohn Grismond at the signe of the Gun in Ivie-Lane,
1634.
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Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"The blessed'st birth that euer was: or, The blessed birth of our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ Preached at the Fleet, the 25. of Decem: A. Dom. 1627. By Henry Greenvvood preacher of the word of God." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68116.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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This day.
The Angel did not say, This night, though it was in the night, for the shepherds were féeding their flockes by night, but this day: and the reason was, quia laetam rem nunciabat, be∣cause he deliuered ioyfull newes.
Hee saith this day,
Non pro qualitate temporis.
Sed pro qualitate rei.
Not for the qualitie of the time, but for the qualitie of the thing.
So wee finde in the holy Scrip∣tures, when heauy reports are men∣tioned, the night is named: but when ioyfull tidings are told, the day: as Ambrose well noteth vpon the 22. of Luke.
Peters deniall was in the night: But his confession was in the day.
The friendly comming to Abra∣ham of the Angels was in the day at noone: but their fearefull comming to Sodome was at night, in the eue∣ning.
The foure Lepers going in their
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famine to the tents Aramiticall (the Aramites being gone, fearing Isra∣els pursuit) finding meat, drink, and gold, and goodly refreshing, called it a good day, though indéed it was night: This day (said they) is a day of good tidings.
That foole in the Gospel threatned with death, had the night, not the day, accompanying his sorrowes: Thou foole, this night shall thy soule be taken from thee, &c.
So here, an Angel bringing swéet and ioyfull newes (the day natural∣ly being cheerefull, and the night fearefull) vseth the word Day, not Night: To you is borne this day, &c. As it is in the Corinths also: Eccenunc dies salutis: Behold now the day of saluation.
Worthily called a day, because then the true light was come into the world, and turned the night of all feare into the day of all ioy and sal∣uation.