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A86131	A sermon prepared to be preached at the funerall of Walter Norbane, esq; by W. Haywood Dr. in divinity: one of the chaplains in ordinary to his late Majesty of glorious memory.	Haywood, William, 1599 or 1600-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1239; Thomason E1027_16; ESTC R208879	23,782	34

old Man that we may be planted into the New And what is there more in Christianity to be done Yet though this be the nearest and most genuine Exposition of the Apostle so to understand him as speaking of mortification and rising to a new life the other way of applying this Text to men naturally dying or pressed with great tribulations may not be excluded as altogether improper For even to that purpose also Saint Paul in other places applyeth this very Metaphor of dying and rising with Christ as 2 Cor. 1.8 We are troubled on every side but not distressed Persecuted but not forsaken alwayes bearing about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be manifest c. And though resembling Christs Death and Rising by true Repentance and a holy Life be the most excellent and most profitable way of imitating him as without which outward suffering availe little and therefore that sense needs most exhortation Yet we cannot deny such a conformity to Christs Death by our sufferings to be a neerer way and more fully resembling the likenesse of his plantation As our rising from corruption to glory draweth neerer the likenesse of Christs Resurrection than our rising to newnesse of life onely So our planting into Christs Death by a fellowship of his sufferings and by being brought down to the grave with him is a neerer and fuller resemblance of his passion than the Death of true repentance and mortification to sin only if no other affliction be added But how much more full if both be joyned together As in this our deceased brother to my knowledge they were an afflicted Body and a penitent soule a self-deniyn life and a patient and lamb like death a flesh crucified with the affections and lust and a spirit raised and revived with hope of immortality a soule aspiring to heaven while his body sunk to the earth What nearer what fuller what truer or more immediate planting into the death and Resurrection of Christ And he that is so farre incorporated what Text can fit him better For if we have thus been planted into the likenesse of our Saviours Death We shall be also into the likenesse of his Resurrection We proced to a division of our Text. Two plantations in this Scripture appeare joyned in connexion and inferred one upon the other The one a sad and heavy plantation the other a joyfull and comforting the one in weeping and mourning the other in triumph and rerejoycing the one may be called our Winner plantation the other our Summer If not rather the one our seed time the other our harvest out Winter planation or seed-time For if ye have been planted together into the likenesse of Chirsts Death And our Summer plantation or harvest Ye shall be also into the likenesse of his Resurrection The former of these containes our conflict the later our Crown Not more bitternesse and pains in the one than comfort and sweetnesse in the other We begin with the former which is our Winter plantation or sowing in tears For if we have been planted into the likenesse of Christ's Death Where the first word that meets us is the Conjunction Si implying a Condition Si complantati fuerimus If we have been planted Giving us to know that these two plantations are so connected one to the other as our labour and our reward our warfare and our victory that without having our part in the former there is no hope of attaining the latter unlesse we first communicate in the Winter plantation of our Lords Death at the summer plantation of his Resurrection there will be no arriving Except we first suffer with him no hope of reigning It is the Apostles way of arguing for some length together whereby he perswades Timothy to endure hardnesse as a good souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 If a man strive for Masteries yet he is not crowned except he strive lawfully The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits Remember that Christ first died before he rose againe and it is a faithfull saying If we be dead with him we believe we shall also live with him So the two plantations are inseparable and rightly we may conclude if any man misse his part in the later it is for lack of the former if any attaine not to the Resurrection of Christ it is because he failed in the suffering which may be the reason perhaps why the Apostle thus puts it upon an If as a thing to be doubted of If we have been planted into his Death For so hard appeares the condition and so rate the number of them that are truely so planted that it may well be doubted and doubted of the best of us all Insomuch that the Apostle speaks here in the first person as if he doubted of himself for company If we have been planted fully and throughly into the likenesse of Christs Death And it is but what ye find in the third to the Phillipians All things I account but dung that I may be found in him with the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death If by any meanes I might attaine to the Resurrection of the dead Not as if I had allready attained or were allready perfect But I follow after if I may apprehend Phillip 3 12. If I may apprehend So that he doubts of his own sufferings likewise and whether this first plantation be compleat with himself Ye see therefore that he useth the preterperfectense also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If we have been planted Have been that we desire to be that we intend to be every one will be ready to say and no If no doubt upon that All the feare is whether or no we have allready enough of this plantation Which makes him say in another place I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh Coloss 1.24 As if somewhat in this kind were still wanting on his part and therefore well may he utter it with Si si Dubitantis If we have been allready planted sufficiently into the likenesse of his Death Doubted it may be the rather because of the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here added Si complantati faith the latine if we have been planted together which is diversly expounded together with Christ or together with one another Together with Christ If we have been obedient as he was to the Death not shrinking from our pattern so much as in a wish but resolved with him who when he saw the cup coming prayed not my will O Father but thine be done And then together with out brethren If we have not deserted out companions in suffering As St. Paul complaines of Demas that he had forsaken him and embraced this present world 3 Tim. 4.10 And at my first answer to wit before Nero No man stood with me but all forsook me Si complantati may teach us that suffering together in a good

cause is as acceptable as praying together They do not well therefore who withdraw from times of Common humiliation such as the Memorial of our Lords Passion and his fasting in the Wildernesse times ordained to make this Complantati as universal and as full as may be that Christians may be planted together into the similitude of their Saviours Death Two observations more by the way here offer themselves One upon Plantati another upon Mortem Upon Plantati that it is not any slight Conformity or Community with the Death of Christ will serve turn Though it be but in similitudinem yet it is more than assimilati It is not if we resemble it if we imitate or draw near it But Si complantati if we have been planted into it which argueth a nearer Conjunction more firm and inseparable For that which is planted or grafted so the word signifieth groweth into one nature with that whereto it is joyned It partakes of one life one spirit with the Root and never decayes so long as it hath Communion therewith We are not waxed or soder'd or pinn'd to the Body of Christ to be shaken off with foul weather melted with the flames of persecution or unty'd by Satans cunning but we are planted there to abide there to grow and thrive and encrease To thrive and encrease for planting inferrs fruitfulnesse Christs death is no barren soyl his Body no unfruitfull Tree It yielded an encrease with him to life everlasting and must yield an encrease with us An encrease and no small one For Christs Body is a Vine of all plants the most fruitfull I am the Vine ye are the branches and my Father the Husbandman Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit If it bear none be takes it away c. John 15.6 Nor will it suffice that for a while we bring forth fruit unlesse we continue so Branches that are grafted Slips that are planted if they live are never at a stay but alwayes encreasing to imitate our daily and incessant growth in Grace Therefore is the Gospel of the Kingdom likened to a grain of Mustard seed to Leaven spreading through a whole Lump the Corn rising and growing first the blade then the ear and then the full Corn in the ear and never at a stand till it be quite ripe If young Imps newly grafted do not thrive and encrease it is a signe they are not well joyned they have not communion with the Root Communion with the Root may be another reason why the Apostle chooseth this Metaphor of Planting The fruit be it more or less receives all its vigour from the Root while it derives from thence it flourisheth and multiplyeth when it ceaseth to draw from thence it withers to intimate therefore the power of all well-doing of all the fruit we bear is derived from the Merits of Christ and his Passion not from any natural vigour of ours therefore we hear of planting into his Death Into his Death leads us to another observation concerning Mortem That into any other resemblance of Christ it will not suffice us to have been planted if we shrink from this it will not serve turn that we have been planted into his life or his lesser sufferings As his causeless envy his undeserved infamy persecution stripes and wounds if we reach not to a Communion with his Death First by Mortification that the flesh be curcified with the affections and lusts and we can say no longer I but Christ lives in me and the life that I now live is no more to my self but to him that dyed for me and rose again And then by constancy in Obedience that we be faithfull to the death that neither famine nor nakednesse peril or sword be able to separate us from his love This is in samilitudinem mort is into the likenesse of his Death without which all communion with his life will do no good Farther yet It may be doubted why Saint Paul adds In Similitudinem not into Christs Death but into the likenesse of his Death It is as some think to comfort those who by a mortified life striving after their Pattern reach it but imperfectly That though they attain not a full Communion or Identity with their Copy they may not be disheartened while they reach a similitude For a similitude may be enough for us Christ dyed bodily It may suffice that we die spiritually Christ died to make satisfaction We to make good our belief of his satisfaction Christ died for sin we not for but to sin Christ for the sinnes of the whole world we for no sinnes but our own Nor for our own neither by way of expiation for we cannot satisfie Justice but by way of cessation that we commit them no more Christ was crucified on the Cross literally God send our affections and lusts to be crucified mystically So perfectly mortified was he as to know no sin we if we can get so far as not to serve sin it will be well In Christ both nature and mortality was destroyed but not sin for he knew no sin In us not Nature nor Mortality till the time of our dissolution but sin only Christs death and rising again was by his own power I have power to lay down my life and power to take it up again John 10.18 so cannot ours be Our spiritual dying and rising is all by his ayd and assstance and vertue of our planting into him and without him we can do nothing so ye see a wide disparity 'twixt his manner of dying and ours And therefore well may it be in similitudinem not planted into his death but into the likeness of his death But in what points then holds the similitudes of being planted into that likeness ye will ask sith in these it holds not Nay first enquire what be the right wayes of thus planting for there appear more than one As there are two sorts of Crosses belonging to a Christian one of Mortification another of Martyrdome or Tribulation so two kinds of planting into Christs death The one voluntary by beating down our bodies by crucifying the flesh with the affections and lusts and the other involuntary by persecutions molestations and troubles for a good conscience which all that will live godly in Christ Jesus must expect their share of St. Cyprian calls these two several kinds of Martyrdome the one belonging to times of Warre the other to times of Peace In times of Warre saith he Ponenda est anima we must jeopard our lives for a good conscience and imitate Christs Death that way In times of Peace Frangenda carnis desideria the wanton desires of the flesh to be broken and crucified The one of these ye have in St. Pauls Castigo corpus I beat down my body and bring it into subjection 1 Cor. 9.27 There 's the Crosse of mortification and the other in facti sumus spectaculum we are made a Spectacle to the World to Angels