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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49458	A sermon preached before the Right Worshipfull Company of the Levant Merchants at St. Olav's Hart-Street, Thursday Decemb. 15, 1664 by John Luke ...	Luke, John, 1633 or 4-1702.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3472; ESTC R3028	16,798	48

them who raised the troubles and dissensions at Antioch touching Circumcision Act. 15. for reconciling and composing whereof the first Counsel assembled at Jerusalem That he and his complices stirred up the people against S. Paul Act. 21. when he was purifying himself in the Temple and opposed S. Act. 11. Peter for going to Cornelius the conversion of which Cornelius Chronology places within 4 or 5 years after the conversion of S. Paul and about 15 years before the writing of this Epistle to the Corinthians This that infamous heretick of whom Irenaeus a most ancient Author in his book against heresies written about the 178th year of Christ from the testimony of Polycarpus hath recorded 1.3 c. 3. that S. John the Apostle entering the Bath at Ephesus started back and made all hast out again saying he feared the Bath would fall down cùm intus esset Cerinthus inimicus veritatis for that Cerinthus the enemy of truth was within it And from the relation of the same Irenaeus 't is spread abroad to the knowledge of the world l. 3. c. 11. that the damnable blasphemies of this detestable Heretick against the Divinity of our Lord and Saviour and his miraculous birth of the blessed Virgin were the occasion of the same holy Evangelist his writing his sacred and precious Gospel in the very beginning whereof he is so plain and large in declaring and asserting those main Articles and immoveable foundations of our Christian Faith You have heard how old the Serpent hereto if we adde how easie the spreading his poison the plausible shews of reason that might be alledged for introducing the custome the proneness that hath discovered it self to be natural in all nations to superstitious rites and how very credible it is that these Corinthians might be perswaded to take up a fond vain custome in testimony of their belief of the Resurrection whom afterwards we see so easily drawn in to deny the Resurrection I had almost determined that to this anxious and difficult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we may here at length affix the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and re-establish and confirm this ancient exposition of the words which many new ones have shaken and removed but never could place one more free from exception in it's stead The objection you all bear in mind is with fear and caution to be urged as well as to be answered Who among us shall prescribe Ethicks for Apostolick prudentials I am in any wise to rebuke my Brother and not to suffer sin upon him the law of love requires it Lev. 19.17 yet if I cannot take off all let me first remove the heavyest burden this is not to do evil that good may come of it but to destroy a greater evil that the lesser also with good speed may haste to ruine Silence doth not alwaies give consent S. Paul could well discern the time to be silent and the time to speak which the wise man in his index of seasons hath by name distinguished Eccl. 3.7 we read S. Luke 16.8 The Lord commended the unjust Steward propter solertiam non propter fallaciam because he had done wisely not because he had done wrongfully In S. John 9.2 we find the question put Master who did sin this man or his Parents that he was born blind Originally we are all sinners can a man sin actually before he is born The Disciples ask this question upon supposal of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 animarum the praeexistence of Souls or transmigration of Souls from one body to another tenents then held by many of the Jews Now he that from this place shall gather our Saviours assent to the opinion of praeexistence of Souls shall do just as the followers of the heretick Marcion who in the age next succeeding this of the Apostles not only kept up this idle folly of baptizing the living for the dead but as S. Chrysostome assures us Homil. in did alledge this place of the Apostle to prove and maintain what they did Our Saviour gives his answer according to the purpose in hand that wonderfull work and mighty miracle he then intended and our Apostle quickens his question not that he liketh of their foolish usage but that from their own doings he might convince and shame them of their pernicious errour Noli novum authorem aut confirmatorem denotare saith Tertullian adv Marc. 5. don't think the Apostle joines himself an approver of their corrupt custome but he so much the more firmly proves the resurrection of the dead by how much they who were vainly baptized for the dead did do this in belief and hope of the resurrection of the dead Thus far salvo meliore judicio in attempt to shew some light to this dark sentence I have held you too long in the cold chilled your hearing with frigid narratives and remote uncertainties the difficulty of the subject shall plead my defence the facility of your benevolence shall grant my absolution After all that hath bin said after all that can be said give me leave to conclude this part of my discourse with a passage I find in the works of a learned and pious Divine of our own Mr. Bolton who in his discourse concerning Heaven speaking of the excellent knowledge the blessed shall there enjoy particularly of the mysteries of the sacred book of God among other difficult places of Scripture he giveth instance in this our Text as an obscurity to be cleared by the light of glory the meaning thereof to be known when we come to Heaven A. Gel. 12.7 And as the Judges of Areopagus adjourned a difficult case they knew not well what to say to for an hundred years so truly after all the exactest enquiries and most accurate discussions of this sacred doubt though no doubt to the Corinthians for whose uses more especially it was adapted I am much of opinion that for the clear and uncontroverted resolution of the true sense of this argument for the resurrection the world must now be content to wait till the resurrection day Three things I proposed to my self from the first view of this Text. The sense of the Words The force of the Argument The use of the Doctrine The Argument which hath already been touched and comes next more particularly to be declared you see plainly according to the best probable interpretation to be of that make which we call Argumentum ad hominem an argument accommodated to the temper and constitution of the persons against whose errours it is directed If the dead rise not at all what means that superstitious usage of baptizing for the dead why more solicitude for dead men then for dead beasts if both equally perish be alike involved in the darkness of oblivion and desperation of revival 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 why are they baptized for the dead why do they not lay the rotten carcass out of sight without any farther adoe