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A73391	Five sermons, preached upon several texts by that learned and worthy divine, Thomas Wetherel, B.D. sometimes fellow of Gonevile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, and parson of Newton in Suffolke.	Wetherel, Thomas, 1586-1630.	1635 (1635)	STC 25292.3; ESTC S125573	76,283	292

live also because he is risen they shall rise together with him And are they risen together with him Then is here a lesson of humility for every Christian If thou findest life in thy selfe that thou art not benummed nor the spirit of drowsinesse is upon thee but that as a living member of Christs body thou art laden with fruit and doest those workes which become one that is alive see here the root upon which thou growest the fountaine from whence all this goodnesse of thine proceedeth even Christ by vertue of whose resurrection from the grave thou which before wert dead art now alive thou which before hadst sinned mortally art now raised eternally Sacrifice not therefore with proud Pelagius to thine owne net nor burne incense to thine owne yarne as if by them thy portion were fat and thy meat plenteous thinke not these good workes of thine to come from thine owne strength thine owne free will rightly used by thee but goe a little higher than thy selfe and know thy will to bee but a lower spheare quae non nisi mota movet which cannot of it selfe doe anything but in him who by his resurrection hath quickened and raised thee up into the estate of grace Dost thou beleeve that thou art risen with Christ Thou must so beleeve if thou beleevest the Scriptures I demand then Who separated thee And what hast thou that thou hast not received And if thou hast received it why boastest thou as if thou hadst not received it 1. Cor. 4. 7. Boast not then thy selfe either against thy fellow-branches for that thou art better than they or against the root as if thou grewest of thy selfe but know that the root beareth thee Rom. 11. 18. and therefore confesse both in humility and verity thy selfe to be an unprofitable servant and say with David Not unto mee O Lord not unto me Psal 115. 1. not unto me for my rising not unto me for the fruits of my rising but to thy Name bee the praise And thus much of our rising in causa as it proceedeth from Christs Resurrection which was the first thing The second is our rising in it selfe what it is for upon Christ his rising we are also risen and what then is our rising Surely our rising hath great similitude and likenesse with Christs rising Now in Christs rising we may especially observe three things 1. Corporis expulvere resuscitationem the bringing up of his body from the dust of death 2. Vnionem animae corpori resuscitato the uniting of the soule with the body risen 3. Vnitorum inseparabilem colligationem the impossibility of ever having his soule and body thus united to be served So must there be in our spirituall resurrection this rising with Christ these three things 1. The raysing of the soule from sinne which is the very dust and death therof 2. The uniting of it to God who is anima animae the very life and soule of the soule in whom it liveth moveth and hath it being not in nature only but also in grace 3. The knitting of these two God and the soule together in the perfect bands of love which may not be upon every little jarre broken but remaine inviolably for ever firme and sure 1. Wee must rise out of the grave of sinne sinne it is as death Saint Gregory elegantly sheweth us the Greg in Psal 142. estate of the dead sinner in sepulchro conscientia tumulatum c. he is buried in the sepulcher of his conscience is bound with the napkins of concupiscence is cast out from the sight of God is covered with hardnesse of heart is shut in with the stone of iniquity a miserable death As then God said to Elias in the Cave What dost thou here Elias Come out and stand in the Munt before the Lord 1. King 19. 9. So let mee sound this speech in the eare of the sinner covered over with the moulds of sinne What makest thou there thou sinner Come out of this Sepulcher of sinne if thou wilt appeare before the Lord in the land of the living To this the Scripture calleth when it biddeth us awake and stand up from the dead Ephes 5. 14. To mortifie our members which are upon the earth Col. 3. 5. To crucifie the old man that the body of sinne in us may be destroyed Rom. 6. 6. This is done by repentance sorrow for sinne breaking off sin leaving sinne which is the first degree of our rising the first step to life 2. Having risen from sinne we must also unite our selves unto God for hee is our life Deut. 30. 20. Therefore must we cleave to him if we meane to live else are we as a body without a soule a filthy carkasse It was to no purpose that the dry bones came together bone to his bone that the sinewes and flesh grew upon them that they were covered with skinne unlesse 〈◊〉 winds had breathed upon them also and they had lived for what difference betweene a dry bone and a senselesse body And to as smal end are we roused from the grave of sinne unlesse there be a spirit within that quickeneth for what excellency hath a carkasse unburied above that which is buried a man not righteous above him that is a sinner Life then is yet further required to our rising which because wee are members of a body is not to be had but in the body get faith therefore which ingrafteth into the mysticall body of Christ being ingrafted we shall bee partakers of the Spirit which diffusing it selfe through every member knitteth us to God to whom to be joyned is life Of this speaketh our Saviour Ioh. ●5 3. Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot beare fruit except it abide in the Vine no more can you except ye abide in mee 3. Being united unto God and living this new life of raysed persons we must continue in this life even as Christ having risen from death now dyeth no more this is the true conformity to his resurrection whereas those that live to dye againe were rather risen in shew than truth moved artificially by some Engine to make them stirre than naturally by a vitall power of their owne and of this continuance excellently sings the Prophet Psal 92. 12. The righteous shall flourish like a Palme tree and spread abroad like a Cedar in Lebanon such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God they shall still bring forth fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking To conclude then this point Let all of us who professe our selves Christians and triumph in our Saviours resurrection let all of us I say rise with him as well he that hath beene dead but an houre or two hee that hath fallen lately as he that like Lazarus hath beene in the grave foure dayes and through his continuance in sinne beginneth to stinke in the nostrils of the Lord. Let not the young

necessitate et possibilitate moriendi not alone from the actuality of death from which many others but from the power of ever being againe a prisoner to him And thus it is a comfort to the afflicated soule rent asunder and torne grievously with the pangs and girds of sinne a comfort I say it is to know that his Redeemer liveth that hee wanteth not a friend in the Court of heaven to behold the face of the great God of glory and earnestly to solicite him suit daily before him It is the Apostles conclusion Heb. 7. 2● He is able perfectly to save them that come to God through him seeing that hee ever liveth to make intercession for them Many men we see doe floarish and lift up their horns on high while they have their Patrons in great mens houses who may be ready at every turne to see meanes of their preferment marry this a little cutteth their combe that they have not ● lease of their patrons life a thousand wayes there are o● bringing him to his end and then their hornes may shrinke as farre as they spread before but wee who rely upon Christ risen from the dead for our salvation are quit of this feare so that wee cast our hope the Anchor of our soule both firme and stedfast because Iesus is entered into heaven Sacerdes in aeternum never againe to see death an High Priest for ever Thus hath Christ led captivity captive and quit himselfe of death not so much for himselfe though herein he shewed the greatnesse of his power as for us whose chiefest good was to be procured therby as Iustification Resurre●it propter iustificationem nostram Rom 4 3. he by rising ratified the payment formerly made for our sinnes and Sanctification the thing which in the second place this Text giveth us to consider Consurrexist is cum ille You are risen with him A threefold Resurrection we read of in Scripture which doth depend upon Christs rising The one of those holy Saints of Iury which came out of the graves after his Resurrection and went into Ierusalem Matth. 27. 53. and thus it was peculiar to those few men the second of all the Saints in the world rising out of the death of sinne to the life of righteousnesse and this is especiall to that kind of men which are regenerate The third if not generall of all both Saints and wicked which some affirm● out of those words Christu● primitiae dormientium Cor. 1● 20. Christ as man is the fir●● fruits of the lumpe of them that sleepe yet shall not be accomplished in the Saints till the en● of the world the day of judgement So that when we hear● that we are risen with Chri●● we must not bee like Hymenae● and Philetus to dreame tha● there is no more resurrection to come but that all is past already 2 Tim. 2. 17. but wee must learne to distinguish betweene the first and second resurrection the one to come at the end of all things the other to be every day by us practised for blessed is hee that hath his part in the first Resurrection Rev. 20. 6. The one is a morte simpliciter ad vitam sim liciter from death to life the other a morte quadam ad vitam quandam as Austine speaketh from the death of infidelity to he life of faith from the death of error to the life of truth from the death of iniquity to ●he life of righteousnesse so that this is a metaphoricall kind of rising from the dead and of this latter it is that the Apostle here speaketh of you are risen with Christ. Of which rising of ours wee may speake two wayes either in causa as it is referred to Christ the Author of it or in se as it may be considered in it selfe with the parts and members thereof the first included in these words with Christ the second in the other words you are risen For the first Christ is the cause of our rising two wayes exemplariter and efficienter both by way of patterne and example as wee have our rising from sinne mystically figured in his rising from the grave as also by way of power and communication as by his rising wee receive grace and strength to rise In the one he is to u●● as the Copy to the child that writeth which giveth him n● ability to write but onely sheweth him in what sort he should frame and make his letters In the other he is like the expert Scrivener who guideth the childs hand and maketh him write according to the Copy Christ his rising propoundeth unto us both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that we must rise and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how we should rise but this is like the Law a yoake that we could not beare therefore also hee giveth us vertue which maketh us rise and helpeth us up againe if we once be downe 1. Christ is the cause of our rising by way of example in his Resurrection shewing us two things for our imitation 1. what must bee the end and scope of our whole conversation namely that wee may attaine the glory of the life to come and of this Gregory speaketh in his Morals There are saith he two wayes of all men in the body one before death the other after the resurrection in the former all men walked wholly ignorant of the latter till Christ came in the flesh and by entering one himselfe pointed unto us the other by dying he led the life we enjoy by rising againe opened the way which we are to seeke teaching us by his example that this life is not to be loved for it selfe but to be tolerated for a better 2. By what meanes wee must attaine this end that is by holinesse of life and pious carriage and this patterne Saint Augustine telleth us of Resurrectione Domini configuratur vita quae hic geritur Christs rising fashions the whole course of the life wee live here and therefore said the Apostle we are ingrafted into the similitude of Christs resurrection that like as he was raised from death by the glory of the Father so we also should walk● in newnesse of life Rom. 6. 4. Thus is Christ as a Beacon se● upon the top of an hill his actions are our instructions he having given us an ensample that we should follow his steppes Now his actions they were of two sorts some morales which respected the fulfilling of the Law such as were his humanity meeknesse innocency obedience to parents magistrates and the like Others mediatoriae such as respected his office of Mediatorship as yeelding himselfe to death rising againe from the dead in both these is he a patterne unto us though not after the same manner In the former wee are to imitate him in the same kinde doing what he did though wee cannot doe it in the same degree therefore he the great Master calleth to all his Schollers to learne of him that he is humble and lowly Matth. 11. 29. And Saint Peter