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A96328	The Christians hope triumphing in these glorious truths; [brace] 1. That Christ the ground of hope, is God, and not meer man, against the Arians, and other unbelieving Christians. 2. That Christ is the true Messiah, against the unbelieving Jews. 3. That there is another life besides this, against the grosse atheist. 4. That the soul of man is immortall, and doth not sleep till the day of resurrection, against the errour of some seeming semi-atheists. 5. How the hope of heaven should be attained, whilst we are on earth, against the carnall worldlings. 6. How this hope may be discerned where it is, and attained where it is not, for the comfort of every poor Christian. All which truths are briefly pointed out and cleared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster on Wednesday, May 28. being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. / By Jeremiah Whitaker. Published by order of the House of Peers.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1710; Thomason E286_4; ESTC R200074	52,593	59

ver 20. 1 Pet. 2.2 Job 23.12 that you desire the word as new borne babes the brests and long for it as much as for your appointed food this is a strong argument your hope is grounded upon the Word of God when the word doth nourist it this word weakneth the hope of Hypocrites discovereth the rottennes of their vain confidence but t is otherwise with the Saints though their soules have many doubts when they consult with humane reason yet when they come to the law Isa 57.19 and to the testimony the Lord createth the fruit of the lips to be peace and when their light is cleerest their hope is strongest Vse 3 Let this Doctrine make your soules in love with this hope which will be an arke to preserve you when others are drowned a City of refuge to secure you when others fall into the hand of that avenger of blood that doth pursue them If any aske how shall we attaine this frame of spirit to set our hopes on God I answer and so conclude Vse 4 Take these directions First strive to apprehend and meditate upon the great blessing of Jesus Christ let the thoughts of eternity dwell upon your hearts things not apprehended can never be desired nor really expected Secondly That you may apprehend these riches of Christs glory beleeve the excellencies revealed in the Gospel the object of hope is things invisible and faith must be the ground of such things hoped for Heb. 11.1 and the onely evidence we can have for those things that are not seen if any prophane person resolve I will not beleeve that there is a Heaven or a Hell nor the powers of the world to come till I see them Consider poore soule when these truths are the object of thy sight they cannot be the object of thy hope for hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth Rom. 8 24. why doth he yet hope for beleeve therefore the excellencies of Jesus Christ otherwise thou wilt never be at the paines to cleare thy interest in them and if Heaven be not first made the object of thy hope it can never be made the object of thy sight expectation must precede fruition Thirdly Love the excellencies of the Lord Jesus Christ many things may be beleeved as true Fides est ●●alarum rerum bonarum quare bona creduntur mala boc fide bonà non malâ c. Lombard l. 3. dist 27. Psal 43 4. Cant. 8.6 and yet not loved as good faith may be good when the object of it is evil for we are bound to beleeve every truth which God revealeth the evil of sin as truly as the goodnesse of grace but nothing is the object of hope but what the soule is really perswaded is truly good where love is weake the mind is carelesse and hope cannot be strong and that which is not earnestly desired is never greedily expected but when the desires of our soule are earnestly carryed out after Christ when we set up Christ in our hearts as the gladnes of our joy then we begin to long after him then love and hope prove strong as death and hope deferred maketh the heart sick but this is the great priviledge of this hope though in all other things you may meet with disappointments yet God will fulfill the desires of them that feare him and the expectation of poore soules in Christ shall never goe away ashamed Prov. 13.12 and when this hope is granted it will be a tree of life Fourthly In the use of all meanes that God hath appointed beg importunately the spirit of grace which God hath promised freely t is beyond the ability of mans will above the strength of ordinances above the reach of any created power to worke this hope t is easy to presume but to beleeve and hope in God that raiseth up the dead is an act of transcendent difficultie for a poore soule under the sense of sinne and Gods wrath and sight of Hell to roll it selfe upon the rich mercy of Christ to have all this guilt so great to be pardoned and all the lusts that are strong to be subdued this is onely the gift of God and therefore pray that the eyes of your understanding may be opened and that your hearts and consciences may experimentally feele that exceeding working of his power Ephes 1.19 1 Pet. 1.21 which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead that your faith and hope may be in God and that your soules may be so in love with Heaven and your perswasions thereof so well grounded that you may be above the love of this life and above the feare of death and that all the dayes of your appointed time Job 14.14 you may be waiting till your change come FINIS

biddeth all the Angells worship him Heb. 1.6 now worship is onely proper to God we are bound to love Christ above all to sweare by him and not by any creature now if all the titles all the attributes of God all the peculiar workes and incommunicable priviledges of the Father be communicated to the Sonne we may be confident that Jesus Christ is not onely the Sonne of man but the Sonne of God yea God himselfe blessed for ever more The second Errour we are to be established against is that of the Jewes who having slain the Lord of Glory and the Prince of life are still expecting the Messiah denying Jesus the Sonne of Mary to be that promised seed t is good not only to know their errour but to be established against it and to know him who we do beleeve that he is the Messiah able to save to the utmost to this end consider these Arguments Arg. 1 The first Argument is from the time that Jesus Christ came in the flesh it was according to all the prophecies when the Scepter was departed from Judah when the expectation of the Jewes was raised Gen. 49.10 in looking for the redemption and consolation in Israel in those mournfull dayes wherein Rachel was weeping for her children it was after that Elijah was come and as a messenger went before his face it was after the determination of the 70. weeks viz. the 490. years determined upon the people till the Messiah should be slaine all this proveth that he came in that moment and juncture of time wherein he was promised by the Prophets Arg. 2 Secondly Consider the place of Christs birth Bethlehem of Judah Mic. 5.1 compared with Mat. 26.6 the place whither he was driven after his birth to Egypt the place where he dwelt after his returne from Egypt at Nazareth Math. 2.22 the Jewes rejected him upon this ground because he lived in Galilee they said shall Christ come out of Galilee Joh. 7.41 and were so confident that they bad Nicodemus search and looke Joh. 7.52 for out of Galilee ariseth no Prophet whereas the expresse prophecies run that by the way of the Sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the Gentiles the people that walked in darknes have seen a great light Isa 9.1 compared with Matth. 4.14 Arg. 3 Thirdly Consider the manner of his conversing the Jewes expected a Messiah that should be a glorious champion who by fire and sword should subdue Nations and Kingdomes but you may observe that this and all other arguments whereby the Jewes are mis-led to deny him are as a firme foundation for this truth and our confidence aske a Jew why doe you not beleeve Jesus to be the Messiah is it because he came not as a man of warre how should he then be the Prince of peace of whom it was foretold he shall not cry nor lift up his voice nor cause it to be heard in the streets Isa 42.2 Zech. 9.9 God pointeth the Church there to the Messiah Behold thy king cometh unto thee meek and lowly having Salvation riding upon an asse and the foal of an asse compared with Math. 21.8 doe you therefore reject him because he was not honoured of men Isa 53.3 therefore the rather acknowledge him to be the Messiah who is despised and rejected of men for thus saith the Lord of him whom man despiseth unto him whom the Nation abhorreth Isa 49.7 Arg. 4 Fourthly Consider the things he suffered The Jewes argue Can he be the Messiah that was condemned by the High Priest deserted by his owne Disciples had his garments divided 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had his body crucified and upon this mistake the Jewes blaspheme the name of the Lord Jesus in their Synagogues under the name of one that is * Patibulo affixue interijte Quid istud ad causam vid. Arnob. l. 1. hanged and this also was the stumbling block of the heathen but all these are Arguments to convince us that he is the Messiah Ought not Christ first to suffer these things and then to enter into his glory was not he the stone which the builders refused did not God foretell us of him I will smite the shepherd and the flock shall be scattered and that the Jewes should smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon his cheek Mic. 5.1 doth not the Messiah say I gave my back to the smiters and I hid not my selfe from shame and spitting have ye not read that they pierced my hands and feet Isa 5. and upon my vesture they cast lots Psal 22.19 t is written that it pleased the Lord to bruise him and put him to grief when thou shalt make his soule an offering for sin he shall see his seed and shall prolong his dayes and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand he shall see the travell of his soule and shall be satifyed 5 Arg. Fifthly Consider his Resurrection for he was declared mightily to be the Sonne of God by the resurrection from the dead Math. 26.42 Rom. 1.4 the Jewes when he hung on the crosse said let him come downe from the crosse and we will beleeve him t is Jeroms observation * Fran dulenta promissio quid est plue de cruce ad bue viventem descendere an de sepulchro mortuum resurgare Hieron in Math 26. this promise of theirs was fraudulent for whether was it more to come downe from the crosse when he was alive or to rise from the grave when he was dead yet he arose and they beleeved him not and when he was in the Sepulchre they said This deceiver said he would rise but we will make the Sepulchre sure but it were impossible for him to be held of death Sixthly Consider even the confessions of his adversaries Pilat who condemned him could not but acknowledge he found nothing worthy of death in him b Non possum dignè admirari pro rei magnitudine quod redemptis pre tio falsit testib●● ad seditionem populo concitato rullam aliam invenerint causā intersectionts ejus nisequod Rex Iudaeorum esset Illi sorsanilludentes hoc fecerint sed Pilaius etiam nolentibue responder Quod scripsi scripsi Hieron ibid. It was admirable when all false witnesse were hired and the people stirred up with indignation and yet the Judge that is drawne to condemne him could not be drawne to give any other reason of his condemnation then that he was the king of the Jewes and his passion was accompanied with that terrour darknes covered the Earth the vaile was torne asunder and the Rocks rent the Graves opened and the sunne so darkned that one of the heathen cryed out Either the God of nature now suffereth or the fabrick of the world will presently be dissolved and the Centurion and those that were with him watching Jesus saw the Earthquake and those things that were done and feared greatly saying Truly this was the Sonne of God 't is

silent Fifthly The expression of death by the Holy ghost is a departure 2 Pet 1 14. putting off this tabernacle and it is a strange ●●ake to take the house for the inhabitant Sixthly I cannot rockon the world of absurdities which follow this great errour that it 〈◊〉 gap to the overthrow of all the thoughts of Eternity for if arguments from nature can prevaile to delude the soule so farre as to thinke the soule is abolished at death what arguments can prevaile with a carnall heart to perswade it that the body shall be raised after death the voice of nature cryed aloud amongst the heathen that the soules of man were immortall and that there was a different state of the soules of just men and unjust after death the Elizian fields full of happines for the one sort and the Tartarean darknes full of horrour for the other t is an ancient observation that almost all Philosophers all Hereticks confessed the soule to be immortall and though they did not much desire it Animae salutē credo tractatu carere omnes fere baeretici eam quoquo modo volunt tame● non negāt Tertul. de resur Carnis yet they were not able to deny it but the resurrection from the dead was by few of them discerned scarce by any of them acknowledged besides this errour is destructive to all religion our corrupt natures are full of the seeds of Atheisme we need all religion to eradicate them but nothing to foment them thoughts of Epicurisme sinke deep to count the fruition of carnall pleasures the greatest good how many thousand soules have miscarryed upon this rock who from hence have turned to be lovers of pleasures more then of God to preserve your soules from this infection 2 Tim. 3.4 Vid. Tertul. Lactan. c. Discede ab Ethnico haeretice quid alieno uteris clypeo si ab Apostolo ornatus es Tertul. de resur I have been thus large in proving this assertion I should proceed to confute the arguments brought to the contrary but the time preventeth me onely in briefe their argnments are either drawne from corrupt nature which are abundantly answered by the fathers in their disputes against the heathen and they wondred that hereticall Christians that enjoyed the light of Scripture should borrow any arguments from Galen and the rest of the heathen that sat in darknesse and in the valley of the shadow of death let Heathens turne to Christians to assert this truth but never let Christians so sarre ●●●●tatise to Heathens as to assert their ●orrours or else their objections and seeming arguments are taken from mistaken Scripture I have scarcely time to relate them much lesse to refute them Object Some object and say Did not God threaten Adam In the day thou easest thereof thou shalt die and if he died Gen. 2.17 then the whole man did die for the body is not the man without the soul and therefore reason that immortall Adam must be made mortall Sol. To this I answer 1. That the death which God did threaten was not only naturall but spirituall and eternall and spirituall and eternall death may be upon the soul when the body perisheth the Angels that fell from their first standing are under death yet their being is not abolished Rev. 20.10 14. and after the day of judgement the wicked shall be cast into hell the second death yet they shall never be reduced to a non entitie for the smoake of their torment ascondeth for over If any say Rev. 14.11 Why is the whole man said to die if the soul liveth when the body is destroyed Lanswer That whatsoever belongeth to any part of any whole Quicquid convenit parti qua pars convenit toti secundum illam partem may be truly asscribed to the whole according to that part Man seeth yet the whole body is not an eye for then where was the eare but the whole light of the body is the eye Christ was born put to death buried and this is said of whole Christ but this is only in reference to the humane nature for the God-head is immortall 2. pet 3.18 and therefore he was put to death in the flesh only Object But they say When men are dead the Scripture expresly saith that they cannot praise God Psal 6.5 and 88.9 Isa 38.8 9. Sol. I answer the dead qui tales so farre as they are dead cannot praise God Rev. 14.13 the body that lieth in the grave resteth from its labour yet this doth not exclude the realiy of the act but the manner of the performance and so saith Hezekiah they shall not praise thee as I do this day Isa 38.19 the father to the children shall make known Gods truth 1. Though they cannot do it for anothers conversion yet they can do it for their own consolation and these souls that are with the Lord they follow the Lamb where ever he goeth and have their hallelujahs continually in their mouth Rev. 5.9 and blessed be they that dwell in God presence Psal 84.4 they will be alwaies praising him Object God is said only to have immortalitie c. Sol. God alone is immortall à parte ante from all eternity he alone is independently unchangeably infinitly immortall impossible 't is for any creature or all the creatures to anihilate God 't is an easie thing with God to anihilate any of his creatures he alone is the authour and continuer of immortality But I dare not in this point presume to detain you any longer what ever flesh and bloud may suggest or carnall reason object let your souls everlastingly dwell upon this strong foundation beleeving that there is another life besides this life There are many other Uses of this Doctrin to perswade you not only to beleeve this truth stedfastly but to blesse God for it abundantly That your souls doe not die with your bodie herein triumph that death hath no power of absolute destroying but only of changing and that change to your souls if you be in Christ is unspeakably for the better Be you therefore intreated all the daies of your life and appointed time Job 14.14 to wait till your change come esteem this truth as one part of the oracles of God most comfortable and one of the greatest remedies against all future fears and present miseries that though death destroy your bodie yet your hope may be in the rock of eternity that you may say as the Apostle doth here If we had hopes only in Christ in this life we were of all most miserable As you have heard the extent of this hope The 4th part so consider the ground of this extent here exprest by the Apostle drawn from an absurdity that the best of men otherwise should be most miserables which is an absurdity so grosse which the light of nature cannot but abhorre and therefore Paul counts it needlesse to use any other arguments to refute hence