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A96328	The Christians hope triumphing in these glorious truths; [brace] 1. That Christ the ground of hope, is God, and not meer man, against the Arians, and other unbelieving Christians. 2. That Christ is the true Messiah, against the unbelieving Jews. 3. That there is another life besides this, against the grosse atheist. 4. That the soul of man is immortall, and doth not sleep till the day of resurrection, against the errour of some seeming semi-atheists. 5. How the hope of heaven should be attained, whilst we are on earth, against the carnall worldlings. 6. How this hope may be discerned where it is, and attained where it is not, for the comfort of every poor Christian. All which truths are briefly pointed out and cleared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster on Wednesday, May 28. being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. / By Jeremiah Whitaker. Published by order of the House of Peers.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1710; Thomason E286_4; ESTC R200074	52,593	59

that the soul is distinct from the body I passe over the arguments that learned men bring from the light of nature to confute this errour Consider what the God of truth hath revealed and you shall finde that the Scripture telleth us cleerly that though the soul be united to the body yet it is distinct from the body First in its rise Gen. 2.7 we have had the fathers of our flesh and have been obedient to them how much more to the father of spirits and live though God frame our bodies cause our bones to grow in our Mothers wombe take us out of our Mothers bellyt yet he useth our naturall parents as instruments of our body but it is Gods great prerogative to be the immediate father of the spirit Isa 57 16. Secondly It is distinct in its naturall operation is First the soule groweth most when the body groweth least there are distinct periods of time beyond which it is impossible to adde either a cubit or a haires breadth to ones stature but the soule is ever growing forward to its perfection Job 32.7 and multitudes of years though full of weaknes yet they utter wisdome Secondly The soule is often strongest when the body is weakest 2 Cor. Anima regit corpus repugnat passionibus quae complexionem sequntur Aquin. Contra Gent. l. 2. dying Christians have manifested the highest excellency under bodily infirmities when there hath been the least of the life of nature there hath been most transcendent glorious expressions of the life of grace and for this cause they fainted not finding by experience that when their outward man decayed their inward man was renewed day by day Thirdly The soule is not the temper of the body because it rules the temper and distempers of body Arg. 3 Thirdly They are distinct in supernaturall consolations when all joy of the body hath been darkned the supernaturall joyes of the soule have been enlarged when the bodies of Martyrs have been on the rack under torturings how have their soules been filled with inward triumphings embracing the burning flames like beds of reses and have endured all the dreadfull things that men could inflict to the admiration of their enemies and the conviction of many of their beholders as Justin Martyr and others Arg. 4 Fourthly They are distinct in their unnaturall pollutions there are spirituall wickednesses and malignities as well as bodily and we are bid to cleanse our selves from all fi lt hinesse of flesh and spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 1 Pet. 2.11 and to abstaite fromall fleshly lusts which warte against the soule Arg. 5 Fifthly They are distinct in regard of the opposite duties required of man in demeaning himselfe to his body and to his soule Matth. 6.25 Christ hath commanded us to take no thought for the body but did he ever command us to take no thought for the soule are not his commands quite contrary viz. above all things looke to thy self Dent. 4.9 2 Pet. 1.10 Phil. 2.12 and keep thy soule diligently and give all diligence to make your calling and election sure and work out your salvation with feare and trembling now if God require those acts to be performed to the soule which are absolutely forbidden to the body then the soule must needs be distinct from the body Sixthly They are distinct at the time of dissolution when they part one from the other when the Servants of God have commended their bodies to the ground how have their soules rejoyced to goe out of this Tabernacle as Hilario● and Polycarp Stephen when his body was stoned seeth Heaven opened and cryed Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7.56 and 59. if the soule therefore be distinct from the body in the rise in the working in its consolation● in its duties in its pollutions and in the state after death than to confound the soule with the body is as great an errour as to confound life with death and light with darknes But especially consider that all those arguments that prove the soule to exist separate from the body doe answerably confute that Errour that the soule is but the temper of the body therefore consider the second Position Posit 2 The Scripture expressely teacheth us that the soule is not onely distinct from the body Sour● immmortall and doth not sleep till the day of the resurrection but that the soule liveth when separate from the body and that it is but a fancy of inconsiderate spirits to dreame that the soule sleepeth till the day of resurrection for the cl●ering of this truth consider three arguments Arg. 1 First Consider the soules of the Saints and you shall finde that their soules doe not sleep with their bodies but that the Scripture speaketh expreslely that in the day of their death First they are gathered to their fathers so it is said of Abraham Gen. 25.8 now if Abraham was gathered to his fathers this must be in his soule for in his body there was no such gathering his progenitors being 〈◊〉 in V● of the Chalde●s but Abrahams body was interred in the cave of Machpelah before Mamre Gen. 25.9 in the land of Cannan Secondly Luk. 23.43 Christ promised the poor penitent thiefe on the crosse this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise there are some to avoid this Scripture would divide the words thus I say unto thee this day and make a stop there referring the word this day to the person promising and not to the blessing promised to which I answer that first to alter comma's stops against all received copies is a high presumption which if tolerated how will the sense of Scripture be wrested by wanton wits to their own perdition Secondly 1 Pet. 3.16 Luk. 23.41 the Context sufficiently confu●eth this glosse Christ answereth the desire of the poor penitent thiefe his request is Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdome but Christ immediately that day entred into his kindome now in Christs answer none can imagine the words to be a denyall and if there be a granting his petition then to interpret the words that some thousand yeares after viz. at the day of the resurrection the thiefe should be remembred is to abuse the faith of this poor penitent to straiten Christs bounty and to wrest the words against their naturall sense that say expressely this day Christ hodiè must answer to the penitents quando and if in Paradise then surely not in the grave nor in any part of the Earth as that Paradise in the day of the Creation full of trees and herbs for Christ entred into the Heavenly Paradise 2 Cor. 12.2.4 and when Paul was wrapt up into Paradise he telleth us it was the third Heaven Thirdly You have read how Lazarus after his death was carryed into Abrahams bosome and that place Luk. 1● 22 Non quietis l●cum sed aeternitatis sinum Aug. Calvin not a place of quiet tranquillity but the bosome

of devils and not from the rage of men Psal 97.2 roll your soules upon him and he will carry you in his bosome and though clouds and darknes be round about him yet you shall see that righteousnes and judgement are the habitation of his throne Isa 33.17 your eyes shall see the king in his beauty that he is a defender above all destroyers you shall be upon a Rock higher then waves we meet here with great difficulties and those cause great feares and great feares had need of great hope and these are never great enough but in the great God Augastin Ho●● 44. De ipsis amar●●udinibus mur●●urans dich Ecce pereunt omnia Christianis temporthus quid streqis non boc promisit Deus qu ed ista non peribunt Aeterna pro●●sit aelernus c. Christ alone can make us above our selves above men above changes above the inconstancy of this present evil world why doth the soule which hopeth in Christ complain that the world changeth did ever God promise that it should not change hath not God tould us expressely that the Heavens wax old as a garment and as a vesture shall he change them and they shall be changed he that is eternall hath promised things eternall and if thou beleeve of mortall thou shalt be made immortall and in the hopes of immortality mayest triumph over whatsoever is mortall saying as he did World why dost thou fume what wouldst thou do if thou shouldst continue if so proud when thou hast no abiding whom wouldst thou not deceive if thou wert sweet if thou hast deceived so many whilst thou art bitter Quid. strepis numde quid immu●de strepia quid faceres si maneres Quem non deciperes dalcis si amarus c. I come to the third part the extent of this hope viz. that the hope of a Christian is not confined to this life if we had only hope in this life c. Hence ariseth the third Doctrine viz. That they that would set their hopes on Christ must be perswaded there is another life after this life and in this life it is their duty to assure the hopes of a better You reade in the Scripture not only of this world but of the world to come Christ telleth us of sins that shall not be forgiven neither in this life nor in the life to come Matth. 12.32 And Christ is said to be farre exalted above all principalities and powers Ephes 1 2● not only in this world but in that which is to come and that world is so farre above this world that the thoughts of eternity are called the powers of the world to come Heb. 6.5 and to over-power all the things of this world We reade of Judgement to come Pauls Sermon before the great Governout was of this subject and it made him to tremble Act. 24.25.1 Cor. 4.3 Rin. 2.5 and that judgement is sarre above the judgement of mans day We reade of wrath to come and all the wrath that is present is nothing to the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous judgement of God the Sadduces who were none of the best of men but a generation of vipers Mat. 3.7.1 Thes 1.10 yet were forewarned to flee from the wrath to come and the great triumph of the Apostle was that God had delivered them from wrath to come We reade of another life to come and that is the great priviledge of godlinesse that it hath not only the promises of this life 1 Tim. 4.8 but of that which is to come and the great work of grace upon the heart is to take us off from looking after things temporall and to make us look after things eternall 2 Cor. 4.16 It was the Apostles life they looked not on things that are seen but on things that are not seen Men are never Christians in good earnest till they be perswaded fully of the things of eternity and that poor seduced soul that resolveth never to be perswaded hath no ground to think that ever it shall be converted Luk. 16.18 Dives begg'd that one might go from the dead to tell his brethren on the earth lest they also should come into the same place of torment intimating the cause of his own sin and eternall misery intimating that he was not perswaded of this place of torment in his life and therefore came down to this place of torment at his death God hath made the vision herein so plain that every one that runneth may reade it and he that hardneth his heart against Moses and the Prophets is left inexcusable ver 31. and is irrecoverable and would not be perswaded though one should arise from the dead The Use of this point is First If there be an other life besides this life then let us be humbled for all that world of unbelief that is in our nature that our perswasions about the things of eternity are so weake when Gods expressions are so strong and clear that we can beleeve the things of sense and will not beleeve the things of faith that we entertain the reports of men and reject the reports of God 1 Joh. 5.9 Surely if we receive the witnesse of men is not the witnesse of God greater this unbelief was the first sin and is the last sin the cause of our first apostasie and ground of our continued malignity when Christ intendeth to convert a soul unto himself this is the great sin whereof the Spirit of Christ convinceth the soul and the Spirit never proveth a comforter but where he is a convincer and the first work in conversion is laid in an act of conviction and that conviction discovereth the great sin of unbelief Joh. 16.9 and where Christ doth not convince them of it he wil condemn them for it how often are we bidden to take heed of this spirit of unbelief Heb. 3.12 in departing from the living God nor can any man be an heir of life who lieth under the power of unbelief for will any man deny himself crosse his own appetite take up Christs crosse to assure to himself a propriety to those things wherein he beleeveth there is no reality the soul must first beleeve the excellency of the things in themselves before it make it its great design to get an interest in them if the things of eternity were fully beleeved what manner of persons would men be in all holinesse of conversation 2 Pet. 3.11 and did you really look on such things it would make you diligent to be found of him without spot and blamelesse In the next place Vse 2 Let this entreat you to abhorre all those opinions that may any waies weaken this perswasion hate to be under the power of them and when the power of them is broken resist the remainders that Satan may get no advantage against you especially fortifie your selves with strong arguments against these two opinions which carry away a

downfall is greatest and there is no down-fall like that of great Babel How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer sonne of the morning Hell from beneath is moved for thee Isa 14.11 12. to meet thee at thy coming thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy viols the worme is spread under thee and the worms cover thee Vse 1 I have not time to shew the sad condition of them that are without hope that walk by sight and not by faith that as the Prodigall will have their portion in their own hands Luk. 6.14 and in this life have their consolation what will these poor souls doe when all their water in the bottle is spent and their lives draw near to death and their daies to the destroyers there are others also whose condition is yet more dreadfull that not only neglect this hope in themselves 2 Pet. 3 4. but deride it in others that walk after their own lust saying where is the promise of his coming who are a generation of men that need rather to be lamented then to be confuted they shame the counsell of the poor because he makes the Lord his hope Psal 14.6 Vse 2 Only let me intreat you to enquire strictly whether Christ hath wrought this hope in you the times wherein we live are gloomy daies we may be suddenly we must be shortly call'd out to a fietie triall let not then our evidences be to seek when they should be used this lease is expiring and if there be no possibility to renew it 2 Pet. 1.10 it is time to provide elsewhere for some certainty it is our duty to make our calling and election sure and blessed be God that there is a possibility for the main to be assured when all other things are endangered You are bound to give a reason of the hope that is in you 1 Pet. 3.15 with meeknesse and with fear and if you owe this duty unto others you owe it much more unto your own souls if you dare not seriously commune with your own hearts in the day of peace what shall you doe in the day of trouble and in the swellings of Jordan If any ask may this hope be discerned I answer though this hope in some be reall and radicall where it is not visible yet it is possible to be discerned where it is and needfull to be attained where it is not Vse Exam. For the discovery of it where it is it is very helpfull to consider 1. The Causes that breed it 2. The graces that doe accompany it and 3. The effects that follow it I may not presume to handle the two former give me leave to insist upon the latter Consider the effects of hope in a four-fold demeanour of the soul towards hope it self towards God the authour and object of it towards the world or the Word of God the ground of hope Signe 1 First The carriage of the soul towards hope it self The effect of hope in the carriage of the soul towards hope Psal 17.14 appears in these or such particulars 1. That the soul that hath this hope in heaven would by no means confine this hope to earth but praies with the Psalmist Deliver me from the wicked from the men of this world that have their portion in this life When Christ discovered the sad condition of the Pharisees he said Woe unto them verily I say unto you you have your reward why might they say Mat. 6.2 if we have it we are the surer of it and a little in hand is better then much in expectation But what ever you imagine this is certain there can be no greater misery then to have your reward in this life where you have but a short being and to have no reward in another where you are to have your everlasting being therefore Christ denounceth their condition to be woefull Luk. 6.24 that in this life have received their consolation 2. The Saints would not exchange their hopes of heaven for the possession of all the good things on earth it was a bold speech of Paul to King Agrippa I would to God that not only thou Act. 26.29 but that all that hear me were not almost but altogether such as I am Why Paul what is thy condition that thou desirest not to be like to King Agrippa but the King to be like to thee and not almost but altogether surely Pauls happinesse was not in hand but in hope consisting in this I know whom I have believed 2 Tim. 1.12 nay such high thoughts have the Saints of this hope that take the poorest soul that hath many doubts and fears and temptations and desertions that never attained any certainty of hope ask that soul wilt thou part with a possibility of heaven why dost thou wait any longer that soul for all the world would not part with a possibility of heaven in reversion to obtain the whole earth in present possession whereas the carnall heart and groundlesly confident will easily part with his seeming certainty of heaven Heb. 12.16 for the least probability of earth and is as profane Esau who sold his birth-right for a mosse of pottage but the Saints prize unspeakably more a meer possibility then a carnall heart doth all his seeming certainty Thirdly The soule so prizeth this hope that it is never content without it full of doubts unwilling to be deceived unable to be held in suspense inquisitive into his owne condition giving all diligente to attaine the full assurance of hope to the end Heb. 6.11 this is the griefe that poor Saints mourne under the great weight that they cannot beare crying out as the Church saith I seek him whom my soule loveth Cant. 3. ● 17 I seek him but I finde him not but still enquiring Oh tell me where thou lodgest thou whom my soule loveth and I charge you Cant. 5.8 Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem it you meet him whom my soule loves tell him that I am sick of love Fourthly The Saints so prize this hope that when it is attained they count this hope their cheife contentment The joy of the Saints consists in holding fast the confidence and rejoycing of their hope sure unto the end Heb. 3.6 well may the Psalmist say My lines are fallen in a good place Psal 16.5 the Lord is the portion of my cup. When the seventy Disciples returned with joy telling Christ that the devils are subject unto us through thy name Luk 10.17 ver 20. Christ answers In this rejoyce not that the spirits are subject unto you what not joy in this to heale all diseases to cast out Devils if this be not a cause of joy what is or what can be Christ answers rejoyce in this rather that your names are written in the book of life this hope made Paul say Phil. 4.11 I have learned in every estate therewith to be content and hath made