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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01455	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Iune. 1605 Vpon the 20. of the Reuelation the 12. vers. treating of these seuerall heads. 1. Of the resurrection of the flesh. 2. Of the iudgement of the quicke and dead. 3. Of the communion of saints, 4. Of euerlasting life. By Samuell Gardnier [sic], Doct. of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1605 (1605)	STC 11581; ESTC S118176	31,501	68

A SERMON PREACHED at Paules Crosse the 9. of Iune 1605. Vpon the 20. of the Reuelation the 12. vers treating of these seuerall heads 1. Of the Resurrection of the Flesh 2. Of the Iudgement of the quicke and dead 3. Of the Communion of Saints 4. Of Euerlasting life By Samuell Gardnier Doct. of Diuinitie LONDON Printed for Edward VVhite and are to be solde at the little North-doore of Saint Paules Church at the Signe of the Gun 1605. TO THE RIGHT HONOrable and vertuous Lady Jane Lady Barkley wife to Henry Lord Barkley IN the full affiance I haue in the Lordes mercie which made this poore Sermon welcome to so many eares being preached that hee will direct it to the common comfort being now presented to their eyes printed the importunitie of many of my good friends had successe with me I consecrate it most Honorable Lady vnto you in token of duetie towards you for your great Loue by which I am enabled to labour in this sort and indeede to liue Gods blessing be vpon it and vpon you Your Honors Chaplaine SAMVEL GARDNIER Reuelat. 20. Vers 12 ¶ And J sawe the dead both great and small stand before God and the Bookes were opened and an other Booke was opened which is the Booke of Life and the dead were iudged of those thinges which were written in the Bookes according to their workes HEere is cluster and multiplicitie of Christian Catechisme as including and concluding these foure Articles of the catholique faith 1. The resurrection of the flesh touched in the standing of the dead before God 2. The iudgement of the quicke and the dead noted in the opening of the Bookes out of which they haue the sentence of iudgement reade them 3. The Communion of Saints 4. Euerlasting life not obscurely insinuated by the other booke entitled The Booke of life heere spoken of This sentence is an absolute descriptiō of the iudgement wherin we haue these circumstāces 1. The persons standing in the iudgement to bee tryed All. 1 Greate 2. Small of what note marke soeuer they be 2. The manner of trial proceeding with them by the billes of enditement found out against thē in the opening the bookes 3. The doome definitiue of double nature 1. Absolution 2. Condemnation according to the propertie and condition of their workes The precedencie is an introduction to this which telleth vs the person of the iudge in the immediate verse before which is Christ the Sonne of God the Sonne of man John 5.22 to whome all the iudgement is committed by the father being the predestinate man by whome he will iudge the world in righteousnes Act. 17.31 whose maiestie is there depicted vnto vs in his orient colours answerable in effect to that which Augustine saith videbitur terribilis qui visus est contemptibilis demonstrabit potentiam qui demonstrauit patientiam He shall be seene terrible that hath bene seene contemptible and he shall manifest his power as hee hath shewed his patience And thus I pretermit the purport of the premises with this sentence of monition giuen you out of Augustin August in Psal 66. Deut se corrigendos dent se dirigendos ei qui videt iudicandos Let them yeeld to be corrected let them yeeld to be directed to him that one day shall see them all detected That which is first in nature is heere handled first in order the learning of the resurrectiō the fore runner of the iudgement the consequents thereof taught in the verie entrie in these wordes I sawe the dead both great and small stand before God The resurrection is the hand that holdeth vp religiō by the head the life and soule of it the first stone that we are to lay in our spiritual building or rather the foundation that beareth vp the building the anker of our hope the certaintie of our saluation called by Tertullian Ianua regni caelestis The doore whereat wee enter into the Kingdome of heauen the Godly therby going to the ioyes the wicked to the tormēts prepared for them the referēce of our faith by the same Godly Father Fiducia Christianorum est resurrectio mortuorum Our Christian expectation is the corporall resurrection which is grounded on the Doctrine of Saint Paul who bringeth in bundles of reasons for it by order of iust consequence thus If there were no resurrection 1. Then were our preaching vaine 1. Cor. 1● 1. 2. Your faith of none effect 3. VVee should be found false witnesses 4. The dead were quite vndone 5. VVe were yet in our sinnes 6. Of all men Christians were most miserable As if he shold haue said take away the resurrection and take away altogeather our preaching your beleeuing burne the Bible throw downe pulpits lay our churches euen with their foundations play the Epicures belli-gods and liue as ye list For the Bookes are found lyars the Prophets Apostles haue fed vs with fables they are as Fountains dryed vp But our foundations are in the holy hilles and not in the valleies of humane reasons we know what wee beleeue and wee lay stedfast holde of the resurrection of faith towards Christ Psal 3.21 VVho shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able euen to subdue all thinges vnto himselfe But yet there is more oppugnation and insurrection against this sweete Article of the resurrection then against any parcell of Diuinitie beside the deuill and his blacke guard bending and banding themselues against this withall the might and mallice that they can 1. By Gentils 2. By Iewes without and within the Liberties of the Church Without by the Peripatecians and almost al the broode of Brainsicke Philosophers and schoole of Epicures among whome heere what Seneca Seneca ad Martiam one of the best of that bunch saith Mors omnium solutio est et finis extra quam mala nostra non exeant Death is the Period and determination of al things beyond which they cannot goe And he standeth to reason it and maintaine it in this wise Quo modo potest miser esse qui nullus est How can he be a wretched man that is no man But there are in the Church that speake proudlye and peruersly against this excellent Diuinity eyther marring it altogether or which is little better making it in their owne moulds casting cloudes fume vpō the cleare light of the Scriptures making a spiritual resurrection cōsisting in our renuāce regeneration Such were the Sadduces among the Iewes put to a non plus Mat. 22.33 and silence by our Sauiour Such were Hymeneus and Philetus while the Apostles liued taught among them taxed by saint Paul in his letter to Timothee 2. Tim. 2 1● Such were the Athenians verie troublesome to the same Apostle no sooner he touched this text of the resurrection how be it they heard him willingly the forepart of the