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A04511	A sermo[n] made by Iohn Chrisostome patriarche of Constantinople, of pacience, of ye end of ye world, and of ye last iudgeme[n]t. Whereunto is added an other homelie made by John Brentius of the vertue of Christes resurrectio[n] tra[n]slated into Englishe by Thomas Sa[m]pson; De patientia et de consumatione huius sæculi, de secundo adventu. English	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Brenz, Johannes, 1499-1570. Homelye of the resurrection of Christe. aut; Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.; Castellion, Sébastien, 1515-1563.	1550 (1550)	STC 14638; ESTC S103723	22,075	82

with Christ which do yet notwithstandynge lyue in this mortal body and nedes we must dye We sayde afore that nowe we are occupied in the most highe matier of our saluacion Wherfore we muste bring forth not mans dreames but the wytnessynges of God Let vs heare therfore Christes owne sermon of this matter Iohn iii. As Moses saith he lyfted vp the serpente in the wyldernes euen so must the sonne of man be lyfte vp that who soeuer beleueth in him perishe not but haue euerlastynge lyfe And Paul Roma x Yf thou knowledge with thy mouth that Iesus is the lord and dost beleue in thy herte that God raysed hym vp frō death ● shalte be saued For notwithstādinge that after the resurrectiō of Christ we are yet mortall mē in earthe and subiecte to all aduersyties yet by faythe I saye by faith in Christ we ar so made partakers of his resurrection We shall rise agaī that first vnto vs truely doth belong the ryght of rysynge from death vnto euerlastyng blessednes in the last daye For fayth doeth fasten vs and as I myght so saye doth incorporate vs to Christe Sens therfore that Christe in whō we are incorporate is risen it cā not be that we shoulde not ryse with him For as touchynge it that as yet we do die and our bodies do rotte in the earthe yea or be brent with fire shoulde thys be any let to our resurrection Forsothe God whiche when as yet there was nothyng could make thys so greate a woorke of thys worlde coulde he not also fynde againe the body which was made before yea though it wer turned into dust in the earth or the sea cal it agayne vnto life God doth cal those thynges which are not that they maye bee Iohn xii can he not thē call againe those thynges which seme to haue perysshed Hathe he not set furth vnto vs in euery lytle grayne the ymage of our resurrectiō Except the wheat corne saieth Christ fal into the ground and dye it bringeth forthe no fruit And Paule sayeth Thou foole ● Cor. xv the whiche thou sowest is not quickened excepte it dye And what sowest thou Thou sowest not the body that shal be but bare corne as of wheate or some other but god gyueth it a body at his pleasure to euery seade his own body Which of vs can see ī a cornell of a Peare so greate a boughe of a tre as groweth out of it beyng layed in the ground Who cā see in a grain of corne so great a stalke an eare as the reapers do reape Man doth not se but God seith which also worketh these And shuld he rayse vp a dead grayne or seade not a man For not onlye that he can but that he wil also raise vs from the deade he hath not only testified by the resurrection of Christe his Sonne but also by manye other argumentes promyses miracles which wer long now to repete The resurrectiō of the dead truly is by scriptures so certaine sure that is also cōmēly rehersed in the common confession of our fayth Wherfore there is nothīg more surely to be holden then that throughe Christe the righte and glorye of the Resurrection from the deade vnto euerlastynge blessednesse belongeth euen vnto vs. Furthermore when we beleue that we through Christe shall ryse agayne this faith canne not be ydle in vs but euen nowe whiles yet we are in this mortal body it doth thinke vpō the resurrectiō For as in the yong plantes it doeth furthwith appere what the fruites wylbe and in the wittes of chyldren it is anone shewed furth what thinge is to be loked for of them euen so in the godly the resurrection that is to cōme doeth begynne to bringe forthe his frute whiles that we do yet lyue in the earth Moses was appoynted of god to be the deliuerer and law gyuer to Israel But he dyd not onelye then execute this offyce when he brought the people oute of Egypte but the appoyntment of this office that he shulde take in hande beganne euen then also to worke in Moses when as yet he being a child if we wyl beleue Iosephus he threwe downe the crowne roiall of the kyng of Egipt trode it vnder his feete When as he slewe the Egipcian that dyd wrong to the Israelite when he laboured to agree the Israelites whiche stroue together and when he did deliuer the daughters of the priest of Madian from the wrong of the shepeherdes These trulye were the begīninges of his office that he shoulde haue Dauid was chosē kinge of Israell But this election was not idle in Dauid vntill that time that after the death of Saule he was openly called to be kinge of the people But Dauid euen then began to take vpō him lyke a kynge when as in the kepynge of his shepe he slewe a Beare and a Lyon and when with a bolde stomacke he set vpō Goliathe and slewe him So the faith of the resurrection shal not onely practise his power in raysynge oure bodyes vnto euerlastynge lyfe in the last day but yf the true fayth be in vs euen in this lyfe also doth it shew forth the strēgth that it hath And first it holdeth vs vp in al the aduersities of this lyfe yea euen in the myddes of death For if we shal ryse agayn into euerlastynge lyfe the which thing we know by faith that we shall do what disaduauntage I praye you what euill happe can aduersities yea or deathe it self bringe vnto vs I praye the if a man shoulde put of frome the a fylthy garmente to put on vpon the and clothe the with a Kingly aparel woldest thou cal the takinge of the fylthy apparel from the disaduantage or euel lucke or rather shouldest not thou call it great profit To suffer aduersity ī this world at length to dye surlye they be nothing els then a putting away of anold filthy garment that thou maiest take vnto the a most gorgius garment We do know saith Paul that if our earthly manciō of thys dwelling wer destroyed ii Cor. v. we haue a building of god an habitacion not made with handes but eternall in heauen For therfore sigh we desiringe to be clothed with our mansyon which is frō heauē Wherefore whē by fayth we do thinke vpō our resurrectiō frō deth thorow Christ it can not be but that we shal get the vyctory not only ouer al the afflictiōs of this world but also of death hel Moreouer the same faith of the resurrectiō doth begin or exercise in vs the newe lyfe A newe lyfe worthye the Resurrection that forsakinge all vngodlynes and vnrightuousnes we may folowe all kyndes of heauenlye vertues For verylye excepte the newnes of lyfe dothe folow the faythe of the resurreccion it is a playne argument that the fayth is deade And what is there that should be a lyue in a manne when as hys faythe lyueth not whiche is

After that he hathe offered hys lyfe for synne he shall se long lastynge seede and the wyll of the Lorde shal be ruled in his hande For because that his soule hath labored he shall see and be satisficed And that the Prophete in thys place doeth preache of Christe thou shalte playnely perceyue by the .viii. chapter of the Actes of the Apostles But what neade any more Whersoeuer the prophetes do preach of the euer lastynge kyngdome of Christe there also do they preache of the resurrectio of Christ For Christ coulde not haue obtayned an euerlastyng kyngdom excepte he had rysen from death into the glo glory of his father Now Christ also himselfe did oftē and much before his deathe prophecye of his resurrection from death Destroye sayth he this temple and in three dayes wyll I rayse it vp agayne And againe as Ionas was in the belly of the Whale three dayes and thre nightes so shal the sonne of manne be in the herte of the earth three dayes three nightes And agayne The Sonne of man must suffre many thinges be reproued of the elders chiefe priestes scribes and be slayne and the thyrde day ryse agayne Agayne It is written I shall smyte the shepeherd and the shepe of the Rocke shal be that I am rysen I wyll go into Galile before you But what do I The thinges whiche Christe before his death preached of his resurrection be muche more knowen by the histories of the gospels then that the same nede in this place with many wordes to be repeted But these are prophecyes of the resurrection before that it was done But after that it was done there was no matter or occasion let passe in which Christ did not playnly witnesse that he was in deede rysen from the deade These we shall nowe passe ouer for bicause that in our entreating of the Historie of the gospell they are handeled at large sauing that we wyll adde thys herunto that the Apostles were chiefelye ordeyned for this purpose that they shoulde wytnesse the resurrection of Christ Wherfore saieth Peter of these men whiche haue companyed wyth vs all the tyme that the Lorde Iesu hadde his conuersation amonge vs Actes ● begynning at the baptisme of Iohn vnto that same daye that he was taken vp from vs must one be ordeyned to bee a wytnes wyth vs of hys resurrection And agayne Actum x. Hym God raysed vp the thirde day and shewed him openly not vnto all the people but vnto vs wytnesses chosen before of God for the same entent whiche dyd eate drinke with hym after that he rose frō death Briefly as the prophecies of the prophetes concernyng the resurrection of Christe are the moste true sothe sayinges of the holy ghoste so is there nothynge more certayne then that Christe veryly is risen from the dead euen in dede Wherof we shall speake more herafter Nowe let vs see what he hathe gotten by his Resurrection Christ truly is not risen from death in such sort as that dead man whiche by the touchynge of the carkais of the prophet Eliseus reuyued 4. Reg xiii to dye agayn Luke vii Iohn xi nether yet as the son of the wydowe neither as Lazarus the had lien .iiii. Actes ix dayes in his graue neither as Dorcas in Ioppa were called agayne to lyfe For these verelye were raysed from deth but īto this corporal life to die agayne But Christ rysen frō death as Paule sayeth dieth no more Actes xiii death hath no more power ouer him And agayne He raised hym vp from deth now no more to returne to corruption And that I maye comprehende all in one worde Christe by his resurrection entered into his glorye For he sayth in Luke Luk. xxiiii Oughte not Christ to haue suffered these thīges and to enter into his glorye Here therfore we must trye out what the glory of Christ is The glorie of Christe First truely the glory of Christe is that he is the Sonne of God In to this glory therfore he entered by his resurrectiō that is he proued by his resurrection that he was in deede the Sonne of god Roma i. He is declared saith Paul to be the sonne of god with power after the spirit that sanctifieth sence the time that Iesus Christ our Lorde rose agayne frome death And this glory is greater then that it can worthyly be expressed with wordes Wherfore we shall touche the other partes of his glory and maiestye Secondlye the glorye of Christe is that he is of the same blessednes maiesty and almightie power with God his father Wherfore into this glorye also he entred in by his resurrection Sit saieth the father on my right hande vntill I make thyne enemyes thy forestole Furthermore the glorye of Christe is that all thynges are subiecte vnto him that he is Lorde of heauen and earth and Iudge of the lyuynge and of the deade This maiestye Christe receyued by his resurrection Philip ii God hath exalted him sayth Paule on hye and gyuen him a name which is aboue all names that in the name of Iesus euery one shuld bowe bothe of thinges in heauen and thynges in earthe and thynges vnder the earthe And agayne Christ therfore dyed and rose agayne reuiued Rom xiiii that he myght be Lorde ouer dead and quicke Actes xvii And agayne He hath appoynted a daye in the which he wil iudge the worlde by that man by whō he hath appoynted and hath offered faith vnto all men after that he had raysed hym from death But who canne eyther by thynkyng conceiue ether els by wordes I saye not expresse but no more but somwhat touche al the partes of that glorye maiestie whiche Christ by his resurrectiō did receyue Wherfore lettynge passe this parte of the sermon cōmendyng it rather vnto faith then shewyng it vnto mans reason we shall come to thys that we put forthe in the thred place and whiche is most of all to be considered of vs and with greate studye to be searched for that is to saye what profyte what healthe or happynes the resurrection of Christ hath brought vnto vs mē Our pro●ite by Christes ●eath And for bycause that nowe we are come to speake of the chiefe poynte of relygion yea and of the matier of our whole saluacyon we wyll not brynge forth mans dreames but wyl gather places of the holy scripture by whyche we shal shewe that the resurrection of Christ is our very and euerlastyng saluacyon And fyrste of the profyt of the resurrection of Christ there is nothyng in the scriptures more shorte cleare then that Paule writethe to the Romaynes Rom iiii saying He was delyuered for our sinnes and was raysed agayne for oure iustificacion For as the death of Christe hathe pourged oure synnes and hath brought to passe that oure synnes are forgyuen vs of God for Christes sake so the Resurrection of Christe hath brought vnto vs ryghteousnes

and hath brought to passe that as manye as beleue in Christ may be estemed before God euen righteous for Christes sake They truly are called blessed whose iniquitie is forgyuen and whose synnes are couered but oure synnes are not couered but with true and perfecte righteousnes And we forasmuche as partaineth vnto our nature are so far from perfecte rightwisnes as the heuen is frō the earth For albeit that manye haue a cyuile honesty and righteousnes yet do they want in thēselues the true perfect righteousnes Therfore Christe rose agayne from death to this ende that as by his death he hath obtayned that God the father forgyueth vs our synnes and is become fauourable vnto vs so by his resurrectiō he shuld obtaine that God shuld impute vnto vs all the righteousnes of Christ that he shoulde not otherwyse iudge of vs then as if we by our workes had perfectly fulfylled all righteousnesse Whiche spared not sayth he his own sonne Rom. viii but gaue him for vs all howe can it be that with him he shuld not giue vs al thinges also For vnto Christe belongeth true and perfecte ryghtwisnes Seynge therfore that Christ is gyuen vnto death for vs and is gyuen vnto vs by hys Resurrection it is playne also that by his resurrection his rightwisnes is so gyuē vnto vs that we may glory of it as of our owne and we may set it not so muche against the accusynges of our synnes as against the gates of hell Peter sayeth that baptisme saueth vs i. Peter iii not the puttynge away of the fylthe of the fleshe but the promyse or couenaunte of a good conscyence towardes God by the resurrection of Iesus Christ For as for vs whether we consider our synnes or the ryghtwysnes of oure fleshe we haue an euil cōscyence and we do knowe that we are gyltye of euerlastyng damnacyon For oure synnes verelye because they do dyrectlye fyghte agaynst the wyl and law of God For our ryghtwysnesse also bycause our rightwisnes is bothe imperfect vnpure But a good conscyence sayethe Peter is wroughte in vs by the resurrection of Christe Howe bycause God knytteth himselfe vnto vs by a couenaunt and stricketh vp a bargayne in maner wyth hys hand with vs by the resurrectiō of hys Sonne that he wyll for Christe his sonnes sake knowe and iudge vs perfectlye righteous and make vs saued If the conscyence do know these thynges by faith what can be better then it what more quiet euen in the myddes of death yea in the horryble iudgmēt of God what more secure Herto belongeth it that Peter also in an other place sayth ● Peter i Blessed be God which accordyng to his abundant mercy begat vs agayne vnto a lyuelye hope By what it foloweth by that that Iesus Christe rose agayne from deathe But what is that lyuely hope into the whiche the resurrectiō of Christ hath begotten vs agayne Forsothe this it is that God hath giuen vnto vs by the resurrection of Christe the true whole and perfecte ryghtwisnes whiche Christ the sonne of God hath that by it we shuld obtayne an immortall vndefyled and an enheritaunce that perisheth not euen in heuen What could therfore happen vnto vs more profitable yea or els more necessarye then the resurrection of Christ i. Cor. xv And true it is that Paul saith If Christ be not rysen you are yet in your sinnes But now he is rysen agayne We are not onely therfore delyuered frō our synnes as many of vs as byleue in him but also the same ryghtwysnes whiche he hathe is imputed also vnto vs perfecte and on euery side sufficiently performed Furthermore the resurrection of Christe hath brought vnto vs not only oure victory ouer afflyctions and death but also oure owne resurrection frō deth into lyfe and euerlastynge blessednesse Christ sayth Paule is risen from the dead and become the fyrst fruites of theim that slepe For by a mā came death and by a man came the resurrection of the deade For as by Adam al do die euen so by Christe shall all be made alyue For to the ende that we maye rightly vnderstand the benefite of Christe we must not consyder and beholde Christ by his outwarde body only that is to say by one parte of hys or one member only but by his whole and perfecte spiritual body For so doth Paule teache the Christe is to be considered of vs whē he 〈◊〉 to the Ephesias sayīge He hath made hī aboue all thinges the heade of the congregacyon whiche is his body Ephes ● Therfore as the whole bodye of man is made of the heade and manye members so whole Christe is made forasmuche as nowe serueth for our purpose of his own person as the heade and of all them that beleue in him as of diuerse membres But nowe whē as it is playne that Christe the heade is risen frō the dead how coulde it be that he shoulde not drawe also with him selfe al his membres from death vnto lyfe and resurrection Shuld the head ryse and leaue behynde hym the hande or the fote yea or so much as the lytle fynger Christ thou wylt say dyd ryse alone bicause no man ascended into heauen but he whiche descended Verye wel he rose alone but this must be added that he also dyd ryse whole Whole Christ is the head with his members Whither so euer therfore the heade is come euen thither also are the mēbres comen And who are the true mēbers of Christe but they that beleue ī him Do you not know sayth Paule that youre bodyes are the membres of Christ And agayne We are members of the same body of hys flesshe and of his bones It is therfore manyfest that as manye as beleue in Christe are risen togither wyth Christe Ephes li. Whereof Paule saieth When we were dead by synnes he quickned vs togyther wyth Christe by grace are ye saued raised vs vp together with him and made vs to syt together with him amonge them of heauen in Christe Iesu And agayn Colos ii Ye are buried with him throughe baptisme in whome ye are rysen agayne throughe faythe that is wroughte by the operacyon of God whiche raysed hym frome deathe And ye when ye were dead through sinne and through the vncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickened with him and hath forgiuen vs all our trespaces For as Christe hath drawne al them that beleue in him togither with him selfe into his deth and burial We are buried saith Paule together wyth hym by baptisme for to dye Rom. v● euē so verely hath he drawen with himselfe them into his resurrectiō so that as many as are deade buryed together with Christ they haue also rysen agayne with Christe Whether we lyue sayeth he or Rom. xiiij we dye we are the Lordes For Christe therfore died and rose agayne that he myght be Lorde ouer the deade and quicke But thou wylte saye howe haue we rysen againe

the lyfe of the Iuste manne For the Iuste saieth he lyueth by faythe Wherefore in this aboue all thinges muste we most chiefly labour that we do shew forth our true faith of the resurrection by good woorkes and beinge yet in the earthe we maye lyue an heuenly lyfe For true rightuousnes is broughte and gyuen vnto vs by the resurrection of Christ in such sort that god doth iudge vs for Christes sake Iust and holy in dede Howe then could this stand together that we despysinge and defilynge that rightuousnes of Christe shoulde lyue in vnrightuousnes The resurrection of Christe hathe called vs backe from deathe to lyfe and euerlastynge blessednes What nowe is more vile yea what is more pernicious then forsaking life to make himselfe bonde againe to deathe and euerlastyng mischyefe He whosoeuer it bee that foloweth synne dothe gyue himselfe to deathe and euerlastinge destruction For the rewarde saythe he of synne is deathe Rom. vi In the policy of Moses it was moste straitly commaunded that no manne contynuinge the daies of the feast of the passe ouer should eat leauened bread He that eateth saythe he leauened Exod x. ii breade his lyfe shall peryshe out of the congregacion of Israell aswell of straungers as of dwellers in the lande This law precheth vnto vs that after that Christ who is oure passe ouer is risen from deathe it is lawfull for no man to haue felowshippe either with vncleane and vngodly menne eyther elles to leade an vncleane lyfe or a lyfe leauened with sinnes i. Cor. v. Purge ye saith Paule the olde leauen that ye maye be new doughe as ye are vnleauened for Christe our pascale lambe is offered vp for vs. Therfore let vs kepe holye daye not with old leauē neither with the leuē of maliousnes wickednes but with the swete breade of purenes and trueth For they that do stil go forwarde in their wickednes and Iniquitie those men horrible it is to say do for asmuch as in them lyeth crucify Christ againe and do deny that he is rysen from deathe For the resurreccion of Christe is denied not only with mouthe of the aduersaries of oure relygion but also of the vngodlye by their dedes and workes whiche do lyue amongest vs are called christians For wher as Christ by his deathe toke awaye synne and by his resurrection brought againe rightuousnes nowe from hence forthe to synne and to despyse ryghteousnes what els is it thē to cal Christ againe vnto death and euen to fyght againste hys resurrection And beholde here the cursed wickednes of those menne whyche do yet folow the lustes of synne Christe truely by his resurrectiō brought to passe that we shoulde be chosen to be the children of God the enheritours of all the heauenly goods But oure synnes do cause that we become the chyldren of the deuell and the enherytours of euerlasting fyre What is therfore more horrible what more cursed then to rage in such a lybertie of synne that thou doest not only vtterlye cast awaye the chosing wherwith God choseth the but also thou gyuest ouer thy selfe into the houshold of the deuill that thou mayst with hys Angels peryshe euerlastinglye For after that Christe is risen frō deathe and we be engrafted into his death we are no longer oure owne men but his whiche by hys deathe and resurrection hath delyuered vs from deathe into lyfe Therfore we muste obey Christe and not synne We are buryed saythe paule with him by baptysme for to die Roma vi that lykewyse as Chryst was raised from deathe by the glory of the father euen so we also shoulde walke in a new lyf And againe For as towchinge that he died he died concernynge sinne on s and as touching that he lyueth he lyueth vnto God Lykewyse Imagin ye also that ye are deade concernynge synne but are alyue vnto god thorow Christ Iesu our Lord. ii Cor. v. And againe If one be deade for al then all were deade and he died for vs all that they whiche lyue should not henseforthe lyue vnto them selues but vnto hym whiche died for them and rose agayne And in an other place Colos iii. Yf ye be then risen agayne with Christe seke those thynges whiche are aboue where Christ sitteth on the right hand of god Set youre affection on thynges that are aboue and not on thinges whiche are on the earthe And what are those thinges on earthe whiche are to be auoyded and thynges that are aboue to be sought for Mortify saith he your earthly mēbres fornication vncleanes vnnatural lust euel cōcupiscence couetousnes wrath fersenes 〈◊〉 cursed speaking 〈◊〉 thy speakīg put on tēder mercy kindnes humblenes of minde meknes softnes what so euer other godlye vertue ther is For if we do these thinges we shal not only cōfesse in wordes comon sayinges that Christ in his owne parsō is risen againe but also we shal testify that he also is risen againe in vs the he liueth in vs yea that al the righte of Christes resurrection doth belong vnto vs so that we may not onli ouer cum afflictiōs death in this worlde but that we may also get euerlasting blessednes in the worlde to comme by the resurrection of Iesu Christ oure Lord which is together with the father the holy gost god to be praised for euer euer So be it ¶ Imprinted at London in S. Iohns strete by Nicolas Hyll for Iohn Shefelde dwelling in Pauls church yarde