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A10027	A sermon of spirituall life and death Preached before the king, at White-Hal, Nouember, 1616 by the late faithfull minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston, Dr. In Diuinity, chapplaine in ordinar[y] to his maiesty, Mr. of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher at Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.	1630 (1630)	STC 20278; ESTC S114308	21,702	38

in more The Scripture is plaine in this case 2 Cor. 5. 17. Whosoeuer is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away all things are become new Gal. 5. 24. Whosoeuer is in Christ hath crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof So that if there be any liuing lusts in a man I say if there bee one lust that is perfectly liuing it is an argument that the whole body of death is in vs. And if it be so we are yet in the state of death and are not translated into the glorious libertie of the Sonnes of God And so I haue shewed you That euerie man by nature is dead in trespasses and sinnes and how you may know it and that if wee continue in that condition and are not partakers of the first resurrection we shall neuer be partakers of the second resurrection Now we come to the next which wee will dispatch very briefly namely That there is a life contrary to this death And that you may vnderstand what it is you must know that euery man by nature is in a dead sleepe and therefore hee sees not this death nor feeles it nor regards it for it hath this property of death that as a dead man feeles not that hee is dead so he that wants this spirituall life is not sensible of it For the soule in the worse condition it is the lesse it feeles it It is not so with the body and therefore the first thing that is to bee done to bring a man out of this miserable condition of death is to waken him to open his eyes to see that he is a child of wrath and to see what extreame need hee stands in of Iesus Christ and to seeke and long after him as a condemned man longs after his pardon as Hee that was pursued by the Auenger of blood in the old Law ran to the Citie of refuge for shelter I say after that manner we must first be wakened This you shall see Ephes. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light that waking therefore is the first worke and Rom. 7. 9 it is an excellent expression of the Apostle saith he I was once aliue without the Law but when the Law came sinne reuiued and I dyed the meaning of it is Before when I was ignorant of the Law I thought my selfe a liuing man in as good estate as the best but when the Law came that is when I was enlightened to see the true meaning of the Law that I see my selfe and sinne in a right glasse then sinne was aliue and I dyed that is I found my selfe no better then a dead man So that is the first worke that God doth to a man that he means to saue to waken him out of this dead sleepe to lay him vpon his conscience that is to set it vpon him and to pursue him as the auenger of blood we spake of before when that is done once then a man will flye to the Citie of refuge that is to Christ as Ioab did flye to the Hornes of the Altar and cry earnestly for pardon of his sinnes euen as Sampson did for water or else I dye And when a man comes thus to Christ thus humbled then Christ accepts him and then he breathes this breath of life into him as God breathed the breath of life into Adam and so he is made a liuing man according to that Ioh. 5. 25. The houre shall come and now is that the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and those that heare it shall liue For when a man toucheth Christ by faith as the woman touched the hemme of his garment there goes a certaine virtue out from him that heales his soule as that virtue healed the bloody issue This then is a thing much to be marked that euen as you see when Iron comes neere the Load-stone there goes a virtue from the Load-stone that drawes the Iron to it so though Christ be in Heauen and we vpon earth there goes a certaine attractiue virtue from him that drawes vs to him and not onely so but it changeth vs it quickens and reformeth vs by this infusion of a new life by this transmission of a certaine power and virtue that comes from him You will say This is some-what obscure What kind of virtue is this What kind of infusion What kind of transmission My beloued it is true it is the great mysterie of life and regeneration but that we may explaine to you what vertue this is that comes out from Christ what kind of infusion and transmission it is we will explaine it as farre as it is expressible and it is done after this manner Euen as you see an Artificer when he goes about any worke of Art there goes a certaine influence from the skill that is stated in his mind that passes vpon the worke as he molds it and fashions it and sets a stampe vpon it according to the Idea that is seated within Or as when the will moues the members to and fro there goes a commanding acting power that acts the members that stirs them according to the disposition of the will Or as we see in the worke of Nature when as Bees make their Combes or Birds their Nests there goes out a certaine instinct from God the Author of Nature that impels and instigates the Creatures to doe according to their kind Such a kind I say such a kind it is of vertue and power which the Scripture cals the vertue of his resurrection that comes from Christ the Spirit of Christ that molds and fashions the heart of a man that commands powerfully in him and guides and directs him to doe agreeable to his will And this is it my beloued which the Apostle speakes of Ephes. 1. 19. he prayes there that their eyes might be opened to see the exceeding greatnesse of his power that is it is not an emptie forme of godlinesse but an effectuall preualent power that puts not vpon vs onely a washy colour of a good profession but dyes the heart in graine with grace and holinesse that is it doth not onely alter the superficies but changes the whole frame of the heart and turnes the rudder of the life and guides the course to a quite contrarie point of compasse And thus it differs from the forme of godlinesse we spake of before as the life differs from the picture the substance from the shadow as that which hath sinewes and efficaciousnesse differs from that which is weake and powerlesse This vertue and power comes from Christ to the soule when God meanes to make any one a liuing man it not onely makes proffers and offers not onely breeds good desires and purposes in the heart that when they come to the birth have no strength to bring forth

A SERMON OF SPIRITVALL LIFE AND DEATH Preached before the King at White-Hal Nouember 1626 By the late faithfull Minister of Iesus Christ Iohn Preston Dr. in Diuinity Chapplaine in ordinar to his Maiesty Mr. of Emmanuel Colleage in Cambridge and sometimes Preacher at Lincolnes Inne Iohn 6. 53. Verily verily I say vnto you Except ye eat the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood ye have no use in you Printed at London by T. C. for Michael Sparke dwelling at the signe of the Blue Bible in Greene Arbor 1630. ILLVSTRISSIMIS VENE RABILISSIMIS ET PIISSIMIS VIRIS NATHANIELIRICH MILITI RICHARDO KNIGHTLIE ET IOHANNI PIM ARMIGERIS GVLIELMVS PRYNNVS Hancposthumam aulicam concionem Clarissimi IOANNIS PRESTONI SS Theologiae Doctoris Regis Capellani Collegij Immanuelis Magistri et Hospitij Lincolniensis nuper Concionatoris nunc primum typis mandatam Annotationibusque nonnullis marginalibus illustratam Amoris et Beneuolentiae suae minutulum pignus D. D. D. Gellius Noctium Attic. lib. 17. cap. 14. Beneficium dando accepit qui dignis dedit A SERMON OF SPIRITVALL LIFE AND DEATH 1 IOHN 5. 12. He that hath the Sonne hath Life and he that hath not the Sonne hath not Life THe Apostles scope here is to shew vs what great priviledges wee haue by Iesus Christ amongst which this is one of the chiefest That he that hath the Sonne hath life that is he hath a life of grace for the present and shal haue a life of glory for euer hereafter which he sets downe by the opposite He that hath not the Sonne hath not life So that the point lyes euidently before vs That whosoeuer hath not a spirituall life for the present hee is not in Christ and whosoeuer hath it is in Christ and shall liue for euer whence these two points are to be obserued 1. That euery man by nature is a dead man that is dead in trespasses and sinnes 2. That yet there is a life to bee had which is contrary to this death First I say Euery man by nature is a dead man for life you see here is from the Son now there is no man borne a member of the new Adam but euery man is borne a member of the old therefore in that sense is borne a dead man though otherwise indued with a naturall life for if the roote be dead as the old Adam is all the branches that rise from the root must be dead also Againe spirituall life is nothing else but a coniunction of the soule with the Spirit of God euen as the naturall life is a coniunction of the body with the soule now as the soule leaues the body so the holy Ghost withdraws him selfe from the soule when it is disioynted distempered and made vnfit for vse For euen as a man dwels in a house while it is habitable hee playes on a musicall instrument while it is fit and in tune he vseth a vessell while it is whole and sound but when the house growes ruinous and inhabitable he departs from it when the instrument is vnstrung he layes it aside when the vessell is broken or boared thorow hee casts it away And as the soule departs from the body when it is growne ruinous when it is made inhabitable through mortall diseases it layes it aside as an ouerworne garment after the same manner the holy Spirit withdrawes him selfe from the soule of a man when it is broken ruinatëd and distempered through the mortall disease of sinne and of naturall corruption and this is the case of euery naturall man whatsoeuer till he be reuiued by the infusion of a new life And yet it is the common opinion of naturall men that if they liue in the Church and be baptized and pray and heare the word and imbrace the true religion and practise the outward duties of it that they are out of doubt in the state of this spirituall life And therefore I thinke it would bee an houre well spent to discouer dead men to themselues to perswade them that except they be made new creatures d Except they bee borne againe they are in a state of death and cannot be saued in that state and condition For you see he that hath not life hath not the Son and he that hath not the Sonne shall dye the wrath of God abides on him for euer Iohn 3. the last verse Now it is said Ephes. 4. 18. That men are strangers from this life through the ignorance that is in them and the hardnesse of their hearts Marke it they are strangers from this life partly through ignorance because they are Ignorant of this worke of life and regeneration they thinke there is a greater latitude in religion than there is within which compasse if they come they are safe that is though they bee not so strict and so zealous though they goe not so fast to heauen as others yet they shall do as well as the best In a word they are ignorant what belongs to this life saith the Apostle and therefore they are strangers to it Partly againe they are strangers to it because of the hardnesse of their hearts that is either because they are so distracted and possessed with worldly businesse that they cannot attend it or they are so besotted and surfeited with pleasures and delights that they are not sensible of the things that belong to this life and therefore they are strangers to it that is they are not able to iudge of it whether they haue this life of grace or not You will say vnto me how shall we know it You shall know it from those properties of life and death that are taken from the naturall life and death 1. A man may know whether he remaine in the state of nature whether he be a dead man or no by considering whether hee haue any change wrought in him For as it was said of Christ He was dead and is aliue so it is true of euery man that is in Christ Hee was dead and is aliue Now there are many changes in a man age makes a change place and company makes a change education custome and experience makes a change but when a man is translated from death to life it is another kind of change As if another soule dwelt in the same body that a man can say Ego non sum ego That when his old lusts his acquaintance his old temptations shall come hee is able to answer them and to say hee is not the same man though they knocke at the same doore yet there is another inhabitant come into the house and they finde not him they looke for Euen as you see when a graft is put into a Crab-tree stocke it changes all the sappe and the fruit and the leaues and all are of another fashion so it is when the life of grace is put into the heart of a naturall man it changes the inward man