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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64371	A sermon concerning the cœlestial body of a Christian, after the resurrection preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall April 8, 1694, being Easter-day / by ... Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing T713; ESTC R20713	11,700	32

A SERMON CONCERNING The Coelestial Body of a Christian After the Resurrection Preached before the King and Queen AT WHITE-HALL April 8. 1694. Being EASTER-DAY By the Right Reverend Father in GOD THOMAS Lord Bishop of Lincoln Published by their Majesties Special Command LONDON London Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCXCIV A SERMON Preached before the KING and QUEEN 1 CORINTH XV. 53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality THIS is part of a very remarkable Discourse of St. Paul's and indeed all his are such In it he treats of the great Article by which our holy Religion stands or falls The Resurrection of Christ as likewise of that of Christian Men. For here he does not speak of the entire Argument but of the Resurrection to life Now after having prov'd by several convincing Reasons that Christ is risen and that those who are Christ's shall rise also in God's due time he proceeds to the discovery of a mysterious Truth not hitherto unfolded to the Corinthians This holy S●cret consisteth of two Branches The first is the wonderful change which shall of a sudden be made in the Bodies of those true Christians who shall be found alive at that time when Christ shall come to judge that world which with such insolence and ingratitude set him at nought The Apostle shews that there shall then be no other separation of the Souls of the Iust from their respective Bodies than what the Almighty power of God shall make by the transmutation of those Bodies from a gross to a heavenly frame The second is the like glorious alteration which shall be made at the last in the Bo●es of those who having slept in Christ shall be raised again at that day Behold saith he I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall be changed In a moment in the twinkling of an Eye at the last Trump for the Trumpet shall found some awakening Power shall go before the Heavenly King when he descendeth with his Host of Angels and the Dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality That which I have to say at present upon these words may be reduced to four Heads 1. The grounds of the Belief of a Christian concerning this change of a corruptible and mortal into an incorruptible and immortal Body 2. The many and great advantages which will accrue to those whose bodies shall be at last in this extraordinary manner transfigured 3. The means without which no man shall attain this Blessed End 4. An Exhortation to the conscientious use of the means by which we may with certainty arrive at this Change which will be so very much every way for the better that whensoever we shall leave these earthly Tabernacles in which we shall dwell but a few days and peradventure whilst those last incommodiously enough we may by the grace of God and the ministration of his holy Angels be received into everlasting habitations 1. I begin with the grounds upon which we believe that the Body shall be raised and made Caelestial in the Heavens and corrupt no more and dye no more That the Body is mortal is an Article in every mans Creed though many live as if they had not spent a thought about dying and upon the account which after death must be made by them That the Body shall rise was a Doctrine which the Primitive Christians spake of with such great assurance that as the Heathen in Minutius Felix observes a man that heard them would almost think they themselves were already risen And tho the conceit of Origen about a new Caelestial body instead of the glorified frame of the old one at least of the ideal rudiments of it had been by his Followers entertained yet they agreed with other Christians in the point of a heavenly Tabernacle Nevertheless all men in all Ages have not had a Faith equal with theirs but some especially in ours so over-run with Scepticism have doubted concerning the Resurrection and further Change of this Body such things entring with difficulty into our imaginations of which no Instance has been seen by us Notwithstanding which we have reason to believe this Change though none have come out of their Graves to shew us it And here I appeal to all sensible men whether That God who is the Author of Motion by which all Alterations in bodies are made who brought this goodly Frame of the World out of an heap of indigested Matter who formed the Body of Adam out of the Dust who has so framed Nature that a spring of Vegetables should succeed their death in Winter who quickens dying Seeds into beautiful Stems and Flowers and Fruit who caused even the dry rod of Aaron to bud and blossom and bring forth Almonds who has given skill and power to men by Fire and other natural Causes to open and refine the grossest bodies in whose Book saith David were all our members written which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them who is pleased frequently to raise the Sick to Health and Strength and Vigour after they had suffer'd a long and tedious languishment in which low Estate their Flesh and their Spirits were wasted and their Bones stood as it were staring upon them I appeal I say to all men of sound common sense whether that God who hath done these great things is not able to put together the parts of an humane body which he made contriv'd and formerly joyn'd and to advance the frame of it from grossness to purity To think he is not is next to no thinking at all and it is to reproach God's Power and Knowledge and Wisdom which is a perilous as well as an injudicious and irreverend practice How God will effect the change of this Body when he shall make it Coelestial I pretend not to explain No man I believe can minutely tell how a grain of Mustardseed grows up into a Tree or arborescent Plant. It is true we cannot properly call that part of this Doctrine which is revealed any longer a Mystery But there is something of it kept secret still God hath not been pleased fully to discover the methods of his working this wonderful effect It may suffice in this Doctrine of Grace as in those of time and place and rest and motion in Nature that we know enough for our present use though we know not all and that we are sure of the thing it self though we cannot comprehend the manner of it It is more than barely credible it is certain That God who can do all this will at last do it because he has said he will He who on earth caused the Faces of Moses and Saint Stephen to shine who translated Elias in the Chariot of a bright and glorious