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A23678	A practical improvement of the articles of Christ's descent into hell and rising again from the dead in a sermon, preach'd in the parish church of Bridgewater, on Easter-Day, Anno Domini, 1697 / by William Allen.	Allen, William, fl. 1681-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing A1078; ESTC R16583	15,368	32

return'd to put the Organs again in tune The first Adam brought in Sin and Death into the World the second Life and Immortality An Argument which the Apostle pursues in 1 Cor. 15.47 The first Man is of the Earth Earthy the second Man is the Lord from Heaven Our Bodies must to Dust or Earth because they were made of Dust They must moulder because they are Mortal Our Natures as derivative from a Sinner are decreed to death and dissolution and must sink into the same Principle of which they are compounded but the second Man is the Lord from Heaven the Lord of Life and Immortality He doth not bring Death but Life to Body and Soul And therefore in v. 45. the Apostle stiles him a quickning Spirit keeping his Body tenantable tho' he went out of it and not only so but he was Lord of his own Body and none other had Power and Dominion over it None nor any thing could assault his Body laid up as in a Repository for his returning It seems by what we read in the History of the Gospel he put a Life-guard of Angels upon it or about it while he went into a far Country which frighted both the Souldiers and Devout Women that came to his Sepulchre to look after him Luke 24.4 The Socinians here banter and batter this Bulwark of our Faith by asserting that Christ had no power of his Body that when dead and in the Grave was out of his Care or Concern That 't was God kept his Body incorruptible and rais'd it such It was God the Father that took care of the Body and Soul of God the Son We yield this but he was such a Son of God as dwelt in Flesh not after the manner of the first Adam's Progeny His Body was of a finer make and purer mould conceiv'd of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin and so had the Seeds of Immortality in it and was not to corrupt tho' the Inmate was for a while to remove God the Father did indeed raise Christ from the dead as we read Gal. 1.1 But it 's also written that Christ also did raise himself Joh. 2.21 Destroy this Temple and I will raise it again Where he speaks of the Temple of his Body Which he might very properly call a Temple because the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily And in Scripture we are inform'd That when he was risen from the dead his Disciples remembred that he had said this unto them and they believ'd the Scripture and the word that Jesus had said That Christ took care of his own Body and rais'd himself For 't is written Joh. 5.21 As the Father raiseth up the dead and quickneth them even so the Son quickneth whom he will He then which quickneth the dead Bodies of others when he raiseth them he also quickned his own Body when he raised that Thirdly and lastly His body was not to see Corruption because he was as the Christian High-Priest to enter into the Holy of Holiest as the first-fruits of the Dead So our Apologist St. Peter v. 29 c. of this Chapter Men and Brethren let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his Sepulchre is with us unto this day therefore being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an Oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne He seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ that his Soul was not left in Hell neither his flesh did see Corruption This Spiritual High-Priest must enter into the Holy of Holiest with all his Pontificalibus his Body and Soul Clean and Clear Pure and Perfect Radiant and Glorious the true Regalia that adorn'd the Investiture of this High-Priest He was also to rise as the first fruits the Cause and Pledge of all others Resurrection Afterwards they that are Christ's even Holy and Pious Men shall be raised up but not immediately for their Bodies must remain in the Grave and their Souls in Hades 'till he calls them They must see Corruption and pay the debt of a corrupt Nature and undergo the Pennance of the Grave and Hades Not that they feel pain in the one or the other but they willingly resign to the Divine Decree and for a while rest in hope of a glorious Redemption For the bonds of Death were unloosed by the Captain of our Salvation but they were such bonds as did not fetter they were willingly put on and easily put off The Christian High-Priest was to be a Freeman not a Prisoner he was not to enter with Shackles but rather with the Armature of a glorious Victor Eph. 6.13 c. With the whole Armour of God with the Brest-plate of Righteousness with the Shield of Faith with the Helmet of Salvation with the Sword of the Spirit by which he stood in the day of trial and withstood the fiery Darts of the Wicked and cut in sunder the bonds of Death To allude to the Apostle's Phrase From these Considerations we may conclude his Body could not see Corruption 1. Because in three days according to Promise and Prediction he was to assume his Body 2. Because he was the second Adam and so he was not under the guilt or the penalty of the first 3. Because he as the High-Priest was to enter Body and Soul pure as the Aether into the Everlasting Kingdom the Regions of Light and Glory The Doctrinal part of this Sermon speaks Comfort to us all words of great Consolation that should enliven us and fill us with joy in believing For First The same Lord Jesus that raised and reassumed his own Body shall raise ours and make them like his Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 It is the Faith of all Orthodox Divines that had the first Adam stood we had stood in him in his integrity in a perfect and holy Nature and in the favour of God And that after the expiration of a determinate time our Bodies and Souls had been translated as Enoch's and Elias's without seeing Death into a state of Immortality But what we lost by the first Man's prevarication will be beyond our deserts restored by the second Adam And as in Adam all died so in Christ shall all be made alive All are to live but some to the Resurrection of the Just whose Bodies shall be made like Christ's glorious Body The second Adam say you who is he Why the seed of the Woman that should bruise the Serpent's head Gen. 3. That Seed in whom all the Nations of the Earth are blessed The second Adam in whom and by whom a new Covenant of Grace is made for blessings in this World and far greater in another that now we might have life and that more abundantly the life of Grace and hereafter the life of Glory This is the Christ whose Body did not see Corruption nor his Soul remain among the

and who are Ministring Spirits to those that are Heirs of Salvation do at the moment of their separation from their Bodies await the good Soul's coming forth and immediately guard it through the Region of the Air the Principality of Daemons into those Blessed Abodes where good Souls await the redemption of the Body by a Resurrection and Re-union Thus we read of Lazarus's Soul being carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom Luke 16.22 I need urge no more on this Head with reference to the Followers of Jesus in the Regeneration for their assurance of following him in Life in Death and after Death than the great and triumphant Challenge and Conclusion of the Apostle Rom. 8.34 39. Wherefore let us comfort one another with these words Christ is Risen or rather with these of the Apostle apposite to my Sermon 1 Thes 4.15 16 17 18. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which believe in Jesus will God bring with him For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of God and the Dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words You shall as your Redeemer's Soul go into Paradise but that is not your Eternal Rest It is a Mansion but not the Everlasting Kingdom that is yet to come and Christ will come to carry all and every of you both Body and Soul into the Kingdom prepared for you Wherefore comfort one another with these words Thirdly The incorruptibility of his Body it was not to see Corruption Tho' the Jews or Souldiers gave him his death-wounds yet they did not fester nor his Body see Corruption The immaculate Lamb was without spot he was pierced but he was not putrified he was butcher'd but not blemish'd his Body was cast into the Grave but it did not see Corruption Worms were neither his Brothers or Sisters his Body was of a purer make and had none of that taint that could attract such Vermin But tho' this may look plausibly yet it is not powerful without proof I shall therefore besides my Text represent to you some Considerations why Christ's Body was not to see Corruption First Because he was in three days to re-assume it according to Promise and his own Prediction He that laid it down had power and time prescribed by himself to take it up and that he limited according to the Laws of Nature I mean of material Nature because after such a Season of Stagnation and Incirculation of Animal Spirits according to the Laws of motion the Body would Corrupt A piece of Philosophy we read a Woman's Capacity reach'd to as in the instance of Lazarus's Body being in the Grave Martha the Sister of him that was dead said unto him Lord by this time he stinketh for he hath been dead four days Joh. 11.33 The time of our Saviour's Body's being in the Grave was therefore prefix'd And as a Bone of him was not to be broken according to the Text So neither was his Body to see Corruption This he often intimated to his Disciples tho' they were dull of hearing or understood not his Sayings They would not believe that he must die that he must be Crucified and the third day rise again though he had very seriously and solemnly Preach'd this Doctrine to them and that too as an Evidence of his being the Messias deliver'd in the Scriptures But as he upbraids them after his Resurrection They were slow of heart to believe what the Prophets had said of him and what he had said unto them Luke 21.25 Which is proof to us that his Body was not to see Corruption For why should he chide them for their distrust and their unbelief but that it was a thing they ought to have believ'd that the Body of the Messias was not to see Corruption His Body in this sense was not to be a Mortal Body as ours to return to Dust That was the melancholly Sentence past on the Posterity of Adam but not to reach him that is the second Adam who was tho' the Son of Adam as says St. Luke yet not according to an ordinary Generation His Mother knew not Joseph nor was he Conceiv'd after the manner of Men and whatever the Virgin Mary was he was not born in Original Sin But of this more under the subsequent Consideration He that laid down his Earthly Tabernacle had power to raise it up again and he would stay no longer in the Region of Spirits when he saw it was time for him to return to his Body from the beginning prepared for him which he was in every sense to keep immaculate He had said destroy this Temple and in three days I will raise it up again and he spake says the Text of the Temple his Body John 2.21 All the whole stress of his Undertaking lay upon this of his raising his Body No body would have believ'd him had he not rais'd his Body This was the main Point that kept such a stir in Jerusalem that rais'd the Scribes and Pharisees all in an uproar that the Body they Crucified was risen again They took all the pains and made use of all the craft imaginable to suppress the Report They persecute the Disciples at a grievous rate for their preaching and publishing the truth of his Resurrection They own that he had said so that he would raise his Body again We remember what that Deceiver said while he was yet alive after three days will I rise again Matth. 27.63 And they would fain make him a Liar and his Disciples too and to that end they tamper with the Souldiers They gave large money unto the Souldiers saying say ye his Disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept Matth. 28.12 13. But he that was the Truth was the Life the Life to his own Body he came back with his Spirit and quickned it again And according to Promise and Prediction made good his word of both and rose the third day But we go on to Consider Secondly His Body was not to see Corruption because he was the second Adam and was not under the guilt of the first He was the Lord from Heaven and the Lord of Glory and his Body was to be a glorious Body His Body was never stain'd by Sin or Sickness and his Death-wounds only open'd a passage for his Spirit but the Cabinet tho' broken or bruised was not disjoynted the Temple was destroy'd without dislocation of any part or fracture of any joynt and the whole compages remain'd sound and safe 'till the good Soul