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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67406	The resurrection asserted in a sermon preached to the University of Oxford on Easter-day, 1679 / by John Wallis ...	Wallis, John, 1616-1703.	1679 (1679)	Wing W602; ESTC R18038	24,852	41

Sanctified to their use according to that Rom. 11. If the First-fruits be Holy the Lump is also Holy For which cause it was that they were not to Eat any of the Harvest Bread or Parched Corn or Green Ears till the First-fruits had been first offered And with a like Allusion He is elsewhere called The First-born from the Dead and The First begotten from the Dead For as the First-fruits in lieu of all the Crop so the First-born in lieu of all the Brethren was Consec●ated unto God Implying his Title to all the rest But when he is called the First-fruits of them that Slept it is not so to be understood as if he were the first that Slept as if he had been simply 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the First-fruits from the Dead of them that slept As he is elsewhere called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the First-born from the Dead For I take the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text to have an Aspect both ways 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From the Dead he is Risen the First-fruits from the Dead of them that slept That is The first that should Rise againe of them that slept or as Act. 26. The First that should Rise from the Dead Yet not Absolutely so neither as if he were absolutely the First that was Raised For we read of one raised by Eliah another by Elisha And Christ himself raised Lazarus and some others But these were so Raised as to Dy again Their Corruptible had not putt on Incorruption nor their Mortal Immortality He was the First that was Raised to Life Immortal If it be said That Enoch who was Translated that he did not see Death And Eliah who 's Body was taken up into Heaven in a fiery Chariot Did before the Resurrection of Christ injoy what is Equivalent to the Resurrection of the Body According to what is here after implyed We shall not all Dy but we shall all be Changed The Trumpet shall sound the Dead shall be Raised and we shall be Changed Yet without disputing how far forth they injoyed a Glorified Body even that though Antecedent in time to the Resurrection of Christ was in nature Consequent to it and an Effect of it For though in a Physical Causality the Effect is never in time before the Cause Yet in a Moral Causality it may be As when a Debt is Acquitted a Captive Released an Inheritance Purchased and accordingly Injoyed upon prospect of a Price or Ransome to be payd by the Surety somewhile after And in this sense may Christ be said to be the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World Rev. 13. If at lest those words from the Foundation of the World relate there to that of the Lamb slain and not rather to that former clause written in the book of Life Who 's names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world That is who 's names were not written from the foundation of the World in the Lamb's book of Life According as the s●me is again repeated Rev. 17. Who 's names were not written in the book of Life from the foundation of the World without mention of the Lamb slain But whatever be the construction of those words sure it is that the Efficacy of Christs Death and Resurrection did as well look backward to the Beginning of the World as forward to the End of it And we are expressely told Heb. 11. That it was by Faith that Enoch was translated that he should not see Death Even by the same Faith which he there describes to be the Substance of things hoped for and the Evidence of things not seen By which the Elders obtained a good report and of which he had said a little before The just shalt live by faith and by which We beleeve to the Salvation of our Souls 'T was by Faith therefore in Christ who Died and Rose again that Enoch was Translated so as not to see Death as well as We from Death are Raised so a Life Immortal And Christ at lest virtually the First-fruits of both Now the notion of First-fruits implies two things a Possession of so much and a Title to the rest If the First-fruits be Holy the Lump also Holy If God hath right to the one he hath to the other also It is in the nature of an Earnest-penny a similitude oft used by our Apostle to the same purpose which is both part of Payment and an Ingagement to pay the rest And what in one place he calls the First fruits of the Spirit Our selves also who have the First-fruits of the Spirit wait for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our Body the same he calls elsewhere the Earnest of the Spirit Who hath Sealed us and given us the Earnest of his Spirit in our hearts And again Ye were Sealed with the holy Spirit of promise which is the Earnest of our Inheritan●e untill the Redemption of the purchased Possession The First-fruits of the Spirit which they had then received was not onely a part of the Purch●se but was an Earnest penny to bind the Bargain for what was af●erward to co●e And such is the Resurrection of Christ as to Our Resurrection Not as a thing wnich being once accomplished was to rest so But as that which was to draw more after it We have hope saith the Apostle which entereth within the vail whether our Fore runner is entred For Vs as it were to take Livery of Seisin in Our stead And I go saith Christ to prepare a place For you that where I am you may be also And that other Phrase The First-born from the dead implies that there were more to follow That he may be the First-born amongst many Brethren And when St. Paul called Ipenetus the First-fruits of Achaia unto Christ he intimates a larger Harvest And the like of Stephanas elsewhere The word First being an Ordinal is spoken with respect to others that are to follow In what respect Christ is Singular he is not called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the First-begotten as here the First begotten from the Dead But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Onely-begotten of the Father And that in this place he is called the First-fruits from the dead with respect to a larger Crop is evident from the words next following where the same is further amplified For since by M●n came Death by Man also came the Resurrection of the Dead For as in Adam all Dy so in Christ shall all be made Alive But every man in his own order Christ the First-fruits afterwards they that are Christ's at his coming Like as that sentence on Adam In the day that thou Eatest thereof thou shalt surely Dy was intended with respect to those that are His by