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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04596	Christs vvatch-vvord Being the parable of the virgins, expounded and applyed to these times of security. Or an exhortation of our Saviours to us, that we may watch and prepare our selues for the unknowne times of death and judgement.	Johnston, Thomas, Chaplain to the Bishop of Dromore.	1630 (1630)	STC 14715; ESTC S107830	129,458	212

herein hath two helpes Now because the possibility of it hath caused many to erre the Scripture hath given us two helpes to underprop our weaknesse First that we beholde the resurrection of Christ to be a glasse 1 Pet 1 21. wherein we may see and behold our owne who passing through this mortall life purchased immortalitie that he might be a pledge of the like unto us that wee who in suffering miseries beare about in our bodies the dying of the Lord Iesus 2 Cor 4 11. may also have his life manifest in our mortall bodies When Ioseph was committed to prison Gen 39 22. the keeper of the prison committed to his hands all the prisoners that were in holde Mors ipsa in sua regione captiva expavit subito talem mortuum quem debitorem suum putabat creditorem atque exactorem esse cognovit Euseb Emiss Hom. 7. de Pascha and whatsoever he pleased he did with them So Iesus Christ being buried made death it selfe a prisoner and in stead of a debter death found him a commander and one that called him to account of all that was committed to his charge Christ is our head and his death and rising was in our behalfe and he is the beginning of our resurrection so as the body cannot be drowned so long as the head is above water neither can our bodies be lost seeing Christ hath risen from corruption so that the Scripture concludeth that although our bodies remaine as yet in the dust Ephes 2 5.6 Coloss 3 1. notwithstanding we are risen with Christ. This is the victory of faith when we beleeve that as Christ was raised up even so shall we that are his body and he that considereth that all our sinnes imputed to Christ could not holde him within the power of death shall see our resurrection more easie seeing our sinnes are not imputed unto our selves But with this experience the Scripture would have us to consider the power of God Matth 22 29. and Saint Paul when he speaketh of the changing of our vile body saith Philip 3 21. it shall be by the mighty power whereby he is able to subdue all things to himselfe Indeede if our resurrection were in the power of any except God himselfe we had reason to doubt it because wee could see no likelihood of it Luke 1.34 37. The Virgin Mary wondered how she should conceive not knowing a man the Angel answered that with God nothing is impossible When the Lord promised that Abraham should have a sonne Rom 4.19 20 21. hee neither feared the deadnesse of himselfe nor the barrennesse and age of his wife but was strengthened in the faith and gave glory to God being fully assured that he who had promised was able to performe it and the reason which made Abraham so ready to offer up his sonne and yet to beleeve the promised blessing to be performed in him was saith the Apostle because he considered that God was able to raise him up from the dead Heb 11 19. from whence both in his conception and birth he received him also after a sort So whilest the Lord saith that hee will raise up thy body in the last day doubt not of it Euseb Emiss Hom. 2 de Symbolo for though it be a great worke yet qui magna credere jussit Omnipotens est hee that bids thee beleeve great things is Almighty and the Lord that created thee it is even he that hath taken in hand to raise thee up againe So then we see the resurrection possible to him to whom nothing is impossible now if we consider the experience of former times and Gods daily workes Gods workes like the resurrection wee shall finde it easie to him that doth it He translated Henoch and Eliah to heaven a hard and rarer worke than raising the dead he caused Aarons Rodde Numb 17 8. which was dry and withered in an instant to bud raised the daughter of Iairus from death the widowes sonne of Naim and Lazarus that had lyen foure dayes in the grave Auson Eclogariū Accipe quod mirere magis tenuissima tantis principia nostros non admittentia visus c. Iob 10 10 1 Cor 15 36. and by his servants did the like Eliah raised up the Shunamites childe and Peter raised Dorcas from the dead What power then hath hee who gave so much to others We see the Lord daily make men of such beginnings as men would not beleeve if they saw it not with their eyes even saith Iob of a little seed which is as water powred on the ground And whilest the Apostle Paul considereth the growing of the corne he calleth him a foole who denieth the resurrection And the like we see in trees and hearbs for what is it that we see daily in the world but examples and imitation of the resurrection The trees lose their greene leaves they leave giving of fruite Quid enim quotidie nisi resurrectionem nostram in elementis suis mundus imitatur Nam per momenta temporum cernimus arbusta viriditatem foliorum amittere a fructib cessare et eccesubito quasi ex arescenti ligno velut quadam resurrectione veniente videmus folia crumpere fructus grādescere totam arborem redevivo decore vestiri Et sequitur Confideremus parvum cuiuslibet arboris semen quod in terram iacitur ut arbor ex illo producatur comprehendamus si possumusub in 〈…〉 cortex ubi viriditas foliorum ubi ubertas fructuum 〈◊〉 in famine 〈…〉 batur cum in terram iaceretur Greg Mor. in Iob 19 25 and beholde on a sodaine as it were by a new resurrection comming we see leaves come forth the fruite grow bigge and the whole tree cloathed againe with a fresh and lively comelinesse If wee consider the little seede of any tree how the tree commeth out of it and let us comprehend if we can how in so little a seed the huge tree did lurke which came out of it where is the stocke where the barke where the greene leaves where is the great plenty of fruites Was there any such thing seene in the seed when it was cast into the ground We see likewise diverse sorts of living creatures breede of corrupt and rotten earth the light is buried in darkenesse and the next morning sheweth it selfe againe yea in our sleeping and awaking there is shewed unto us a shadow of the Resurrection and the relation of the Heathen historians make good to us how the young Phaenix riseth out of the ashes of the olde Now to all these examples which we daily see this may be added and * Greg Mor. lib. 6 id omnibus constare debet longè difficilius esse creare quae non fuerant quàm ea reparare quae fuerant it is manifest to all men that it is a farre harder thing to create these things which were not than to make up again the