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A07189 A sermon preached before his Maiestie at Oatelands, on the 28. of Iuly 1622. By Edmund Mason, his Maiesties chaplaine, and vicar of Nevvarke in Nottinghamshire Mason, Edmund, d. 1634. 1622 (1622) STC 17594; ESTC S112389 16,615 48

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not digest it not conuert it into her substance of corruption and putrefaction which begins the third Day and especially in a wounded body She had snatch'd Christs body greedily vpon the Crosse But when shee came to endew it put it ouer and conuert it into her substance of corruption at her due time the third Day it would not doe shee could not chuse but restore him and with him all that by faith in him had any part of the Diuine Nature Could that holy one haue seene much lesse feele any corruption the Diuine nature that dwelt in him bodily had not beene there But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sayes Saint Peter Act. 2.24 Act. 2.24 It was not possible that such a Person should be holden of the paines of death Of Death Hee might be and was for a while true flesh requir'd it true God will'd it But of the paines and penalties of Death the corruption and putrefaction of the third Day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it was impossible that Diuinitie should be held by a'm So long it was possible but no longer and as so long and no longer was necessary to shew Diuinity was there so so long and no sooner was necessary to shew Humanity was there too A pawse did well for that The first or second day had beene too hasty Hee would not else haue appear'd Man and something that might die His death would haue beene suspected a swound a fit of an Apoplexie perhaps but fayn'd and so all faith vaine and hope comfortlesse Till the third Day therfore he stayes because so long to stay as it was necessary to shew his mortall nature so it was sufficient to shew it For in lesse then that time by many howres no man seemes dead and is aliue but either shewes some tokens of life or dies out right So that in a word To stay so long as the third Day was necessary to shew his Humanity which should not rise any sooner and it did shew it To stay no longer then the third Day was necessary to shew his Diuinity which might stay no longer and it did shew it It was the third Day onely that could giue faith assurance her head and first fruits was such a Person and rose in both the Natures of God and man Nor is it assurance only but Comfort too saies the schoole for in that this Diuine Humane Nature stay'd thus in the graue two whole nights and one whole day it is our consolation saith Thomas Thom. Aqu. q. 53. ar 2. con that Christ by his owne bodily death which in him was all light through the righteousnesse and innocence of his flesh has fully destroyd our two deaths both of soule and body which in vs are all darkenesse through sinne Hos 13.14 Ero mors tua O mors O death I will be thy death was fulfill'd in these two nights Death is now dead and has no more power ouer vs then it had ouer Him but in our death now wee are conformable and subiect to him onely Our head stay'd a while in death but was not detain'd by death as long as He thought it conuenient for our beliefe of His Humane Nature so long He stay'd when He thought it conuenient for our beliefe of His Diuine Nature He rose againe He both stay'd rose at his owne will hauing slaine death with the Diuine Nature for seazing vniustly vpon the innocent Humane Nature To shew that iust so the members partaking with that Head conformable in nature though not equall in vertue and power no more then my toe is to my head yet iust so they die and iust so they are detain'd in death In death they are detain'd but not by death at all or any power of hers but onely by the will of Christ their head so long as he pleases they shall rest in hope and no longer Before he was our head in time which was at the third Day Eph. 1.20.22 Eph. 1.20 22. Death was a darkenesse and a deepe prison and that to them that died in the hope of his first comming But since hee is risen the third Day and hath taken away the darkenes of our two nights the darkenesse of death is taken away Phil. 1.22 Mori mihi lucrum to die is gaine to be in her prison is to bee in liberty to be detain'd in death is to bee in light and life But to whom To those onely that communicate with that Head that rose the third Day because hee was God and could haue risen sooner and yet rose no sooner then the third Day because he was man and would shew that man has now power as to destroy so to dispose of death and as in himselfe so in all his members And thus far the light of schoole subtilty leads vs to the vertue of this Hemme in respect of the Person wherein Christ rose It prooues his Diuine Nature his Humane Nature his power ouer death our liberty in death at his dispose onely and not at deaths at all and so before wee are aware The necessity of the third Day in respect of the persons to whom and for whom Christ rose wee are gotten into the third respect To our selues and those persons to whom and for whom hee rose But wee are but entred only to shew it more fully the light of reformed wisedome remaines now which as in this point it neither opposes nor departs from either primitiue subtilty or schoole subtilty so it is a third witnesse to establish the vertue of this third Day all together will make vp the wise mans triple twisted cord that cannot easily bee broken Our first reason of the third Day for I must make haste as in all points else is that the Scriptures might bee fulfill'd and the word of God be cleare in our eyes and hearts nor is it ours first but S. Pauls first 1. Cor. 15.4 1. Cor. 15.4 And that hee rose againe the third Day according to the Scriptures And when S. Paul names Scriptures as when our Sauiour names a'm hee meanes either the prophesies of the third Day or the types and figures of the third Day or both together and both together I beleeue he meanes for both there were of it and according to both and to fulfill both Christ rose againe the third Day The prophesie we find This prophesie is commended by S. Paul Eph. 2.5.6 which with the whole passage I was forced to cut of for Breuity verba Pauli Conuiuificauit Conresuscitauit Tertul. loc sup Osee 6.2 After two daies he will reuiue vs in the third Day he will raise vs vp and we shall liue in his sight It is not him only but vs and for vs sure and not for himselfe only both the Prophet bespoke it and Christ did it And as it is spoken of the long expected Messias so Tertul. vrges it so strongly against the Iewes as if Christ had risen only the third Day to fulfill this prophesie
earnestly beleeue when you are baptiz'd Hee then regenerates when you pray together He is then in the mid'st when you receiue the Communion it is then his body and bloud when you heare the word He then speakes when you confesse your sinnes you then confesse to him when you are absolu'd by the Keyes Hee then absolues you when you releeue He then receiues when you forgiue your enemies Hee then forgiues when you entertaine defend or aduance the Prophets you then euen then entertaine defend and aduance euen Christ himselfe And this is some vertue more that our times are certaine and at his appointed times let the meanes be dead and all reason and probability buryed and seal'd vp from vs yet we are sure of Him Hee is there then and He keepes his time duely But yet this is not all He has done for our times we are not yet come to times full redemption To conclude all as I began and to keep time too Touch the Person of Christ Iesus we must with that Faith onely that beleeues only and adores the mystery of grace so are we iustified in Him made members of Him Touch the Garment of his works we must with that Faith only that does not only beleeue but works thorow and resembles his loue so are wee sanctified in him and couered with His righteousnes Touch the Hem of His garment the circumstances of His workes we must with that Faith only that does not onely beleeue and worke in grosse but is the measure and proportion fashioning our conuersation to His in heauen our time place meanes manners to His onely so are wee glorified in Him with the glorious liberty of the sonnes of God Now to shew in some sort this measure and proportion betwixt Christ vs S. Paul tels vs 1. Cor. 15.23 1. Cor. 15.23 There Ordo Resurgentium An Order of Risers erected by Christ himselfe and himselfe is the president of that order First Christ and then they that are Christs in order and this I dare say is Gratus sermo an acceptable saying For all men desire to be of this order It is neither scandall to greatones nor imputation to meaner in Kings Courts to say wee courteirs would all verygladly rise and bee install'd in this order of risers But if you would doe so you know there is a credit and a Creed to be remembred To get into this order you must follow your Prince president And to keepe order with him you must keepe his times duly his very dayes and those are but three dayes now no more for I haue yet another mystery to tell you Abbreuiatum faciet Deus opus super terram Thom. Presat in decal So the olde ones read that place of Esay cited by S. Paul Rom. 9.28 which wee read thus Ashort worke will the Lord make vpon earth and this short worke say they is the worke of our redemption from eternall euill Phil. 2.7 with restauration into eternall good Wherein as God the sonne our Lord abbreuiated the equality with God into the fashion of man and that man the meanest of men a poore Minister and seruant to redeeme the diuision between God and man and make the Highest God and the lowest man at one againe so the same Lord seruant has wrought out and perfected this redemption and vnion amongst men by abbreuiation onely and making short worke in all Generations persons place words time all the measures by which either the kind cōdition content knowledge or the actions of men are differenc'd and diuided they are all now abbreuiated and made shorter we are redeem'd now from distinctions of kindred and all generations are abbreuiated into the Newbirth in the lauer of regeneration wherein wee are all now of one kind and blood we are redeemed now from distinction of condition for all persons are abbreuiated into the Person and body of Christ wherein wee are all members of one Person of one suffering and honour we are redeem'd now from all distinctions of contents for all places are abbreuiated into the Church and Communion of Saints wherein meum is tuum and tuum is meum Our desire the same because our possession and content is one and the same we are redeem'd now from distinction of knowledge diuision of vnderstanding for all wordes are abbreuiated into these three faith hope and charity These are all our study and the study of all alike for the measure of all knowledge Lastly we are redeem'd now from the distinction of indeuours and diuision of will and choice in doing for all time the measure of all actions is abbreuiated in these three daies of Christ the Preparation the Sabhath the Resurrection And as wee haue no kinred to deriue to but the Newbirth no condition of honour but in the Person of Christ no content in place but in the Communion of Saints no words to study but faith hope and charity So we haue no time to obserue for the measure of all our a●tions but only these three dayes and we haue no actions at all to will chuse or doe but what are measured and fitted to these three Dayes the Preparation the Sabbath the Resurrestion These are the measure samplar and patterne to our dayes or else of Christs order we cannot be The dayes of our life must be our day of Preparation our Good Friday as was Christs and as it was His and no otherwise In it wee must labour against sinne and Sathan as Christ did we must suffer from sin Sathan as Christ did we must die in conquest of sin Sathan as Christ did And now how like the order But be not dismaied for after this will succeed our Iewish and Typicall Sabbath the day of our rest in the graue as Christ did in the hands of Christ onely and not of deeath at all no more then he did And then will yet follow the spirituall and heauenly Sabbath the Lords day and the day of Lords the day of resurrection vnto life and full enstallment in this order This the order Both habited armed and tim'd like your President you must be and then as in other orders it is a fellowship as well as an order August in 29 Psal Hoc sperate mea membra quod in capite praecessit sayes Saint Augustine and t' is the Word Motto of your order What the Head enioyes let the member expect what is gone before in the Head according to his vertue let the member expect in his measure and condition As let our first day bee troublesome as Christs was yet it shall be short and the shortest of the three as Christs was Let our second day of death be longer by many houres as Christs was yet it shall bee as long in rest as Christs was Let our third day bee long before it come yet it will come and come earely as Christs did and when it does come it shall neuer know euening as Christs did And that 's a