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A11247	Resurgendum. A notable sermon concerning the resurrection, preached not long since at the court, by L. S.	L. S., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 21508; ESTC S120772	19,781	36

perish there are least like to be restored But looke howe easie it is for the husbandman by his seruants to gather the wheate into his barne so easie it is for God by his Angels to bring all people before him The potter can make a new vessell of the same lumpe of clay if the first fashion dislike him much more is God able out of their dust to raise againe our dead bodies As the Captaine by the sound of his trumpet doth awake his souldiers so the trumpe shall blowe and the dead shall rise for all shall heare that great voyce whereof Chrysostome thus speaketh Verè vox magna est quae petras scindit monumenta frangit vniuersos mortuos resurgere facit ad iudicium ire compellit It is surely a great or strong voyce that cleaueth the rockes that breaketh tombs that raiseth the dead and that draweth men to iudgement Shall napkins be brought from Paules bodie to the sicke and diseases depart from them shall the shadow of Peter helpe the weake and sicke shall Elizeus thinke by sending his staffe to reuiue the Sunamites sonne shal the sayd Elizeus bones giue life to a dead corps cast into his graue And shall not the mightie power of God change these vile bodies and make them like the glorious body of Christ Aarons rod had leaues bloomes and almonds Moyses staffe was made a liuing serpent Sara her dead wōbe was mother to a sonne These saith Epiphanius lib. 1. haeres 9. are some tokens of the resurrection The graue may be the mother of the sonnes of the resurrection hauing this great power of God to strengthen it The Behemoth is a huge beast vpō the land his bones are like staues of brasse and his litle bones are like staues of iron the trees and reedes are too low to couer him the riuer Iordan seemeth not enough for him to drinke The Leuiathan is a monstrous fish in the sea out of his mouth go sparkes and lampes of fire his heart is as strong as the stone and as hard as the neather milstone he esteemeth brasse as straw and iron as rotten wood Iob. 40. If there be such power in the creatures farre more in the creator Christ commandeth the windes and the sea and they obey him he chargeth a legion of vncleane spirites and they departe at his word he wrastleth with death and taketh a fall and is caried prisoner into the graue which is the strongest hold and castle of death but he bursteth his bandes and breaketh open the gates and taketh away the power of death and will in the end vtterly vanquish it Christ raised the rulers daughter in the house and the widowes sonne carried out to be buried and Lazarus which had lyen fower dayes in the graue For with him it is all one to restore to life them that haue bene lately or long dead For as the beame of the eye discerneth in like space things that be neare and things farre off so doth the power of God in this case August Epist 49. vseth this comparison The garments of the Israelites waxed not old neither were their shoes worne in 40. yeares This was done by the prouidence of God for that people neither shall the bodies of men by death and corruption be so wasted but the Lord by his power shall renew them God can of the stones raise vp children vnto Abraham farre more easie is it to raise our bodies againe out of their owne dust It is possible with God that a cammell or a cable be drawen through the eye of a needle therefore death can not shut vp the graue so close but God will and can draw out thence these our vile bodies and make them like the glorious bodie of Christ If one Angell in one night can bring downe to death 185000. of the greatest men in Senacheribs armie shall not infinite thousands of Angels call from death all the world hauing this vanquishing power working with them To winde vp all it was harder for God to make woman of the ribbe of man to make man of the slime of the earth to make the earth the heauen and all in them both and betweene them both of nothing then to raise vp man out of his owne dust which if our eyes cannot see nor our vnderstanding conceiue nor our reason reach vnto yet our faith will apprehend it being founded vpon the wil of God declared in his word and grounded vpon his power shewed in his workes The want of these two foundations was the cause of this error in the Sadducees for so Christ reproueth them Do ye not erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God The wise Athenians mocked at Paul when they heard him preach the resurrection and Festus sayd he had ouer studied him selfe and by too much learning was become mad when he disputed before him of the same matter But the godly are not faithlesse but beleeue as Iob confesseth I knowe that my redeemer liueth c. and Martha saith of her brother I knowe he shall rise at the last day For they build their beleefe vpon these two pillers the will and power of God not calling flesh and reason to counsell For as Augustine ad Volusianum saith Si ratio quaeritur non erit mirabile si exemplum poscitur non erit singulare Demus aliquid posse Deum quod fateamur nos non posse inuestigare tota ratio facti in talibus est potentia facientis If reason be sought it will not be strange if an example be asked it will not be singular Let vs graunt that God can do some thing the reason whereof we cannot find out In such things the whole reason of the deed is the power of the doer The foresight of this chaunge should make vs warie to keepe cleane our bodies seeing they must be chaunged and made like to Christs glorious bodie The husbandman hath great care of that corne which is for his seede our bodies are the seed of the resurrection The huswife will keepe sweete and faire those vessels which are for the table our bodies are vessels or should be vessels of sanctification The Church and temple of God should be kept cleane and comely our bodies are the temples of the holy Ghost therefore should be heedfully looked vnto This is litle thought of of the oppressour who is become a Lyons denne full of pray and rauine or of the drunkard who maketh him selfe a swill-tub or of the proud man who maketh his bodie a painted puppet or of the luxurious man who is a cage of vncleane birds or rather a stable or a stye We dishonour God as much by abusing our bodies as Iehu did the temple of Baal who made it an house of the vilest vse God neuer tooke pleasure with his Temple of Ierusalem after it was defiled by the Babylonians but burnt it downe with fire and he hath in store a more fearfull fire if we abuse our bodies Therefore let vs be carefull to vse well these crackt and brittle vessels for that they must be in better case now vile but shall be changed and made like the glorious bodie of Christ and shall be vnited to the soules and receiue that blessed inheritāce which God the Father of old hath prepared God the Sonne of late hath purchased God the holy Ghost doth dayly seale in the hearts of Gods children To which three persons one true and euerliuing God be all honor glorie and praise both now and for euer Amen FINIS

RESVRGENDVM A NOTABLE SERMON CONCERNING THE RESVRrection preached not long since at the Court by L. S. We haue here no continuing Citie but we seeke one to come Hebr. chap. 13. verse 14. Resurget iustus vt iudicet peccator vt iudicetur impius vt sine iudicio puniatur IW LONDON Printed by Iohn VVolfe 1593. The Printer to the Reader I Send thee here gentle Reader a Sermon for stile eloquent for order methodicall and for substance of matter right heauenly heartily praying thee euen for thine ovvne soules health to vouchsafe the reading thereof Taken it vvas not from the Preachers mouth by any fond or nevv found Characterisme vvhich to the great preiudice of some vvorthie and learned men hath of late verie pitifully blemished some part of their labours this vvay vvith intollerable mutilations but set dovvne at their desire vvho might herein command by the Authors ovvne pen and indited as I verily persuade my self by special instinct of the holy Ghost And surely the doctrine of this Sermon is such as I make no doubt at all but it vvil be held to be most needfull and necessarie especially for these desperat times of ours vvherein amongst other most erronious sects vvhich rent in peeces the coate of Christ and the vnitie of his Church that one of the Saduces vvho say there is no resurrection is not perhaps of all other the least imbraced VVith this sort of hel-hounds this godly Sermon though not of purpose doth chiefly encounter and vvith inuincible argumēts beateth them dovvne flat to the ground assuring all flesh of that great and generall Resurrection vvhich euery true Christian is bound both in heart to beleeue and vvith his mouth to confesse hovvsoeuer the prophane Atheist in the greatnesse of his vaine and vvicked imaginations may othervvise fancie to himselfe not vvithout his ovvne remedilesse damnation vnlesse in time he do repent him of his sinne And vvould to God many such alarums as this might dayly be rong and sounded into our eares that if it vvere possible euery Christian might haue as deepe an impression and be no lesse affected vvith the continuall cogitation and remembrance of our resurrection at the last day then that godly father S. Ierome seemed to be vvho sayd Whether I eate or drinke whether I sleepe or wake or what thing else so euer I do me thinkes I heare a trumpet alwayes sounding thus in mine eares Arise you dead and come vnto iudgement And so gentle Reader I leaue thee to the grace of God A NOTABLE SERMON CONCERNING THE RESVRrection preached not long since at the Court by L. S. Philip. 3.20.21 20 But our conuersation is in heauen from vvhence also vve looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ 21 VVho shall change our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the vvorking vvhereby he is able euen to subdue all things vnto him selfe THose teachers of Gods truth whose works be not answerable to the word are fitly compared to Mercuries the images in the streetes which point the right way to other men but stand still and walke not thē selues or to the stage player who speaking of the earth pointed to heauen and meaning the heauen pointed to the earth manu commisit soloecismum Such haue the voyce of Iacob but the hands of Esau of such the Apostle with teares exhorteth the Philippians to beware in the 18. verse of the third chapter And that they may the better be knowen he setteth downe their properties and painteth them out in their colours as that they be enemies to the crosse of Christ their bellie is their God they glorie in their shame they are earthly minded But such as build with both hands the church of God that is by sound doctrine and holy life such as haue Vrim and Thummim brightnesse of knowledge and integritie of conuersation such as go armed before their brethren as Ruben and Gad and halfe Manasses did not to be touched with errour in faith or deformitie in life these be good guides to folow and sure loade starres to direct our course Amongst which Paule with a good conscience placeth him selfe and such as be like him setting downe in this place their conuersation to be heauenly And good cause why for that there is their Sauiour and that thence they long for him whose comming shall not be frutelesse to them for he shall chaunge their bodies from such base infirmitie as now they are in to such glorie as his body is clothed withall Which may not be thought incredible because his will and power which subdueth all things shall bring this to passe In the farther vnfolding of which words the Apostle putteth in my hands these two principall things to deliuer vnto you First the change that is in the soules of the godly in this life Secondly the change that shal be in their bodies after this life In the former there be these points to be handled That their conuersation is not earthly but in heauen The cause that draweth them thither the Lord Iesus Christ A longing and expectation of his comming In the change that shal be of the bodie we are to consider What our bodies are nowe They are vile What they shall be then Like the glorious bodie of Christ The causes which bring this to passe The will of God and his mightie power These be the ioynts and parts of this present Scripture whereof I will speake as the time shall permit me your Honorable patience heare me the Apostle direct me and God shall assist me with his grace Saint Augustine parteth all the people in the world into two companies the synagogue of Sathan and the Church of God into Babylon and Ierusalem into the sonnes of the earth and the Citizens of heauen In which now are all the godly hauing their conuersation in heauen that is behauing them selues as free Burgesses of Ierusalem which is aboue Manie Cities in the world haue lawes and customes differing one from another yet not so contrarie but one may enioy freedome of diuerse at once But heauen and earth haue so continuall and so vnreconcileable variance as no peace can be compounded betweene them For he that is free to the one must be disfranchized in the other he that is friend to the one must be foe to the other he that hath giuen his faith to the one must sweare against the other It is as possible for light to agree with darknes for life to be friends with death for the Arke of God and the idol Dagon to lodge quietly in one place as for a man to serue God and Mammon to be true to the Lord and the world to be free Denison beneath and aboue to haue an earthly and a heauenly conuersation Therefore Elias doth sharply reproue the people of Israell for halting betweene two opinions in following the Lord and going after Baall 3. Reg. 18.21 The Samaritans for feare of Lyons which deuoured them