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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85648	The Great work of redemption deliver'd in five sermons at St. Paul's, and at the Spittle, Aprill, 1641 ...		1660 (1660)	Wing G1787A; ESTC R42330	65,630	217

Scripture tells you you shall rise and where 's the power that 's in the Scriptures Also there 's Moses leprous hand and presently healed there 's Aarons rod dry yet presently budded and blossomed Sarah being barren shortly after bears a child Jonah three dayes and three nights in the whales belly yet riseth again Eze. 37. There were dry bones and yet bones creep unto bones sinews creep unto those bones and knit them together and flesh comes and knits those sinews and then God puts life and then they become men But we are to deal with the man that is meerly natural and stands altogether upon his own reason and therefore thus If he will take the pains to go into Arabia there he may hear of the Phoenix that consumes it self in the fire and another riseth out of those ashes But that 's too far Come neerer hand to the Bombyx the Silk-worm he dyes and out of his dust comes a Fly These are yet remote will you have them domestical in our own Land we shall finde the like In some places the Bees the Flyes the Wasps are produced out of the Hides of Beasts of divers kinds But except I see a natural reason I will not believe it Perhaps you will say with Thomas I will not believe unlesse I see it and feel it Well seeing these will not serve thy turn what shall I do unto thee Even as Solomon sent the Sluggard to the Ant to labour so must I thee Saint Paul he sends a Naturalist or natural Fool to learn of a little seed of Corn the resurrection from the dead Thou fool when thou sowest the seed lives not before it dyes and yet you may see it live you may see it dye after it is turned to dust it lives again And by this he foolifies all the generation of Philosophers and Infidels and as we say Jannes and Jambres which withstood Moses by false miracles were conquered by one true miracle of Lice So all these are confounded in this one seed and even here is the finger of God and as much in this as ever it was in that to the confusion of those that withstand it Now beloved that you have heard all these points opened there remains the fourth and that 's the Moral point About which I had studied not a little but foreseeing I should trespasse upon your patience I have contracted my self into some few Instructions concerning the Moral part and the first is this That the Resurrection of Christ requires of every Christian a conformity of holinesse of life and the Apostle will make it good for thus he saith Rom. 6. That as Christ rose again so should we walk in newness of life So that newnesse of life is a conformity to the Resurrection of Christ I speak of this newnesse of life the rather because it is a resurrection in it self So Saint John Apoc. 20. Those that are partakers of the first resurrection saith he shall never fall into the second death By the first Resurrection newnesse of life we are made partakers of the second resurrection and from hence may arise divers instructions The first shall be this That all Christian vertues they take their rising from the doctrine of the resurrection unto eternal life that comprehends all vertues that can be imagined Coloss 1. Saint Paul gives a direction that we should live soberly justly holily in this present world Here 's a Triplicative vertue which contains all others we must live soberly this requires temperance and sobriety c. justly that extends to all relation we have to Superiours or Governours and the other is holinesse which brings upon us all the obligations that we have concerning God and his worship in this present world What follows looking for the hope of the mighty God and of our Lord Jesus Christ Beloved how should this ravish the hearts of men to live soberly justly and holily in this present world When as the true Christian regenerate may say with the holy Apostle that he hath an expectation an hope a looking for the appearance the blessed appearance the glorious appearance of God a mighty God and of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Here you see that our salvation depends upon these triplicite vertues Again Saint Paul 1 Cor. 13. saith thus there are the three Faith Hope and Charity What have these to do with the resurrection Certainly the doctrine of the resurrection is made sure by these Therefore for Faith first be it known unto you I speak of a living faith not of a dead faith void of repentance and newnesse of life This is a dead faith which he calls a Devillish faith but I speak of that faith which Saint Paul affirms to work by love Of this faith our Saviour Christ saith He that believeth in me though he dye yet shall be live Here is living of dying This is a resurrection and he that believes this doth believe he shall rise The next to Faith is Charity of this St. John speaks We know we are translated from death to life because we love the brethren Therefore love the brethren because we shall be preserved from death to life Now come to open it and that in the Old Testament where it is said The people of God were tormented racked suffered all manner of persecution because they looked for a better resurrection that is the resurrection of the body to be better then all the torments and afflictions the world could lay upon them Surely beloved we can look for no better resurrection then these holy men did that suffered for the resurrection but we may better look for it then they they looked upon it with dim eyes and they believed but we have open eyes we may see it by most evident demonstrations they never saw Christ raised from the dead reigning in Majesty in Eternity and Glory this doctrine are we made sensible of Now therefore saith the Apostle If we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him So much for our Hope The second point is this That our first resurrection requires that our worship and service unto God in holinesse be as well performed in body as in soul Thus the Apostle 1 Cor. 1.6 Glorifie God in your bodies and souls you are bought with a price Glorifie God with your bodies and yet behold greater then these Let every man say unto himself I am created by God both body and soul Ergo I will glorifie him in both But since I have trespassed against my God and thereby lost both body and soul Therefore thirdly there comes a Redeemer unto me and he suffers for me agonies and pangs both in body and soul therefore by this suffering he hath freed me from everlasting death and torments both of body and soul This is not all but besides this the price spoken of here which is the price of redemption is also a price purchasing of glory in the Heavens for my body and soul and therefore let

hast neither part nor portion in this Saviour Oh then bethink your selves that God is a Preserver The Rabbines tell us of a City of Refuge God had appointed in the time of the old Law that there should be a City of Refuge and that the man-slayer should flee thither and there was a care had that at every turning of the way there stood an hand pointing out every particular passage to the City of Refuge and written at the end of the hand REFUGE as if it should have said Fly man-slayer for thy life thou hast the way before thee What truth is in it I know not yet it is an excellent representation of every one that are sinners we are in the case of man-slayers all of us and God hath appointed at every turning of the way a finger at every corner of the City there is a voice that calls upon us Refuge Refuge to save our selves while the enemy is at our back the Devil follows us with might and main at the committing of every sin that he may reach us before we get to the City God hath his voice and his finger to point us thither it must be our wisdome to go while the finger points and the voice calls We know not how long we shall hear the voice of God in our Churches let us bestir our selves as they that fly for their lives let us hear the voice of God and gird up our loins we see by every dayes example the uncertainty of life let us fly to him that is the refuge of sinners he that had his arms this day spread on the Crosse to save all will not refuse thee and that he may shew us his mercy who is the Preserver of men God of his mercy grant us for his Sons sake for his mercy sake Amen And thus this sweet Singer of our Israel this ravishing Nightingale or if you will this Dove did groan forth unto you the Passion of his Lord he like a dexterous Physician did clap a plaister of warm bloud to your souls and I hope it will prove like the bloud of Goats qualifying you that you will afford plyable hearts to God and obedient hearts to him and charitable hearts to your brethren seeing you have a share in this Preserver But there lies no comfort in the death of Christ if we hear not of his Resurrection What is it to hear of a Saviour dead if he be not risen What is it to have our Surety to be in prison but he is out Hence breaks the day both of his triumph and our comfort that this Sampson hath carryed away the gates of brasse this rod of Aaron hath devoured all the other rods this God though he overcame not at the first yet he overcomes at the last this Jonah is now cast on the shore and this happy tidings an Angel of our Church brought from another Angel and his Text was in the Gospel according to Saint Matthew chap. 28. verse 6. A Sermon Preached by Dr Thomas Morton Lord Bishop of Durham at the Spittle on Monday April 26. 1641. before Sir Wright Lord Major Right Honourable Worshipful and beloved in Jesus Christ hearken I beseech you with reverence to the Word of God as it is written in the holy Evangelist Saint Matthew Chap. 28.6 He is not here for he is risen THese are the words of the Angel of God unto two devout women that came to visit the Sepulchre of our Saviour declaring unto them the Resurrection of Christ from the dead a Fundamental point of Christianity and the argument of these three dayes Festivity is the Resurrection of our Saviour and this Feast hath obtained from Gregorie Nazianzen this acclamation Oh Feast of all Feasts Oh Festivity of all Festivities Oh Celebrity of all Celebrities And therefore beloved we are so much the more bound to the discharge of our duties for a solemn and deliberate commemoration of it and you to a diligent devout and reverent attention unto those four points and parts which are deduceable out of this Text He is not here for he is risen The parts are these The first is Logical the second Historical the third Analogical and the fourth Moral The Logical thus from the word and particle for He is not here for c. Secondly Historical in the words following he is risen a declaration of the Resurrection it self Analogical from the person he in the relation that Christ hath as Head unto all Christians that shall be raised again unto everlasting life as the members of Christ The Moral that dependeth upon the same words he is risen because it doth challenge of every Christian man a conformity of life in rising unto newnesse of life conformable to that Resurrection of Christ as the Apostle will tell us afterwards I begin with the Logical He is not here for c. His assertion is Negative He is not here the proof of it for he is risen This for is a causal term which if it be turned into an illative it stands thus He is risen therefore he is not here As if a man should say the stars they are not seen for the Sun is up Verte the Sun is up therefore the stars are not seen The conclusion therefore of the Angel should be this Christ cannot be in the grave and out of the grave not here and there not in two places at once and that is our present Theme This doctrine that I teach unto you it was the confession and profession of this our Protestant Church alwayes it was written in Rubrick in the bloud of the Martyrs in the days of Queen Mary both Bishops and others whensoever they were called to that murderous rack of Interrogation among the Papists asking them this question What say you to the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament They answered he is not there bedily they proved it for he is risen he is ascended into Heaven a reason as you see Angelical this being granted that the body of Christ is not in two places at once then is the foundation of all the Romish Masse utterly ruined dissolved into rubbish and dust for then farewell the bodily presence the feigned and forged Transubstantiation the grosse oral and bodily receiving of it the sacrilegious sacrificing of it and that which is the last and worst the idolatrous adoring of bread in stead of the person of the Son of God Christ himself Neverthelesse we may not imagine that the Doctors of that Church make no answer to this consequence of the Angel He is not here for he is risen Their answer is this that he spoke not these words Doctrinally but onely Morally secundum modulum according to the capacity of the women who might think peradventure that he was risen not out of the grave but in the grave a transparent falsity as will be proved now to the contrary As this holy Evangelist He is not here could he walk in the grave to Galilee for he is risen look