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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11247	Resurgendum. A notable sermon concerning the resurrection, preached not long since at the court, by L. S.	L. S., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 21508; ESTC S120772	19,781	36

which was amōgst the falling Angels in heauen is now found among the sonnes of men in the earth The voluptuous man is like him who hath the dropsie the more he drinketh the more he desireth he would lye deeper and longer with the swine in the mire The couetous man as the graue neuer saith there is inough Gods good giftes are without vse buried in him His arke and his chest may be filled but his heart in the chest of his body can neuer be satisfied Honour profite pleasure no earthly thing can content the heart of man It is onely this Lord this Sauiour this Christ which draweth mens hearts to heauen and there fully satisfieth them The Israelites in the wildernesse did eate Manna and dranke of the water out of the rocke but hungred and thirsted and died in the end But they which are fed with the true bread that came downe from heauen and drinke of the water of life they shall neuer be more a thirst but shall haue eternall life Christ Iesus is the euerflowing ouerflowing well Blessed are they that hunger thirst for him for they shall be satisfied in him he is the pearle for which we must sell all and buy him He is our head and with the serpent we must be wise to suffer losse in our bodies in our goods in our fame in our liberties in our liues so that we keepe our head safe Aeneas when Troy was won hauing a grant as all the citizens had to carie away some one chiefe thing which he made best account of chose and tooke away Patrios Poenates the gods of his countrey preferring them before his father his goods or any other thing which might be of price with him Which action of his may teach vs in our desires and affections to make choise of Christ and lift vp our hearts to him He requireth in the Gospell to be preferred before those things which otherwise be of most value with vs. He that doth not forsake father and mother is not worthie of me He would not suffer one whom he called to take his leaue of his friends at home nor permit another to bury his father a worke of humanitie and pietie Hieronimus ad Heliodorum hath a worthie iudgement agreeable to this licet à collo paruulus pendeat infans licet vbera quibus te nutrierat ostendat mater licet in limine iaceat pater vt te à Christo retardent abijciatur infans contemne matrem calcandus est pater solum est pietatis genus in his fuisse crudelem If thy young child hang about thy necke if thy mother shew her breasts wherewith she nursed thee if thy father lye in the doore to stay thee frō following of Christ cast from thee thy child contemne thy mother tread vpon thy father ad Christi vexillum vola flie to the banner of Christ to be his souldier and seruant it is pietie to be cruell in this case Glaucus carieth the bell among all fooles for changing his golden armour for brasen harnesse The Israelites lothed Manna and wished the onions and garlicke the grosse diet of Egypt The Gergesens were more grieued for the losse of their swine then glad of the presence of Christ nay they desire him to depart out of their coasts And all the sonnes of the earth these Terrigenae fratres may with the Athenians giue for their badge the grashopper which is bred liueth dieth in the same groūd so their whole desire both in life and death is in earth and as the grashopper hath wings but flyeth not sometimes she hoppeth vpward a litle but presently falleth to the earth againe so they haue some light and short motions to goodnesse but they returne to their old affections of the world their portion is only in this life for they loue vanitie more then truth drosse then gold earth then heauen the world then him that made and redeemed the world riches that rusteth before treasure that lasteth trash and pelfe not true wealth which maketh happie anie earthly vncertaintie before this Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ the onely author of all felicitie Those foules that feede grossely neuer flie high and they which feed their hearts with things below can not haue their affections in heauen The Sunne draweth out of the sea the clearest water leauing the grosse and dregs behind which some thinke is the cause of the saltnesse of the sea so the sonne of God draweth vp the harts of them that are pure but leaueth below the earthly minded If Christ be deare vnto vs if the day starre be risen in our hearts if we find in our soules that Christ is a Lord a Iesus a Sauiour if the power of these offices take place in our consciences it cannot be but our harts shal be with him Gods spirit worketh this confession in vs that with feeling we may say the Lord is Iesus as Paule writeth 1. Cor. 12.3 To speake the wordes without sence thereof is to no vse The parrot vttereth wordes but knoweth no meaning but the godly do find with ioy that Christ is the way by truth to life the ladder by which they ascend to heauen the good shepheard by whom they are safe the henne vnder whose wings they rest quietly In him is their health wealth ioy rest felicitie he is their treasure and therefore their hearts are with him whereby it commeth to passe that they long for and desire his comming The first comming of Christ was long wished and most desired The holy fathers who with the eye of faith a farre off saw that day reioyced as Christ speaketh of Abraham and when he was come there was great gladnesse thereof The Angell telleth the shepheards that he brought tidings of great ioy to all people The same night that he was borne there was great light in token of comfort but at his death there was darknesse vpon the day in signe of sorow The Sunne put on his mourning garment and was ashamed to looke vpon that cruelty which the sonnes of men were not afrayd to commit If that first comming of Christ was so ioyful which was but meane and simple alone and solitarie when he came to stand at the barre to be iudged when he gaue vs but the earnest of our saluation thrise more comfortable shall his second comming be which shal be in glorie attended vpon with ten thousand of Saints and Angels when he shall sit him downe to iudge the wicked giue full possession of his kingdome to the elect Then shall the sheepe be gathered into the fold neuer to be in daunger of wandering or of the wolfe then shall the corne be inned into the barne neuer to be shaken with the winde or weather againe then shall there be a Saboth after which no work-day shal follow then shall be an euerlasting Iubilie when all bondage shall cease and the chosen shall enter to their inheritance which neuer shall be taken from them The hope of this

day holdeth vp the heads of Gods children in the middest of infinite miseries of this life and sweeteneth the bitter tast of sundry afflictions in this world and breedeth a sound ioy in the hearts of them that haue eyes to see so farre August Psal 147. Quare non gaudes cum venerit iudicare te qui venerit iudicari propter te Why art thou not ioyfull of his comming to iudge thee who came to be iudged for thee The carelesse carnall man hath no sence or sight of this day but as the oxe is fatted in the pasture and the bird singeth sweetely and feedeth without feare and sodainly the one is carried to the slaughter the other taken in the snare So the worldlings are drowned in securitie and seldome thinke of much lesse wish for the comming of this Sauiour Some fewe who are stong with sinne and force the wrath of God against them do tremble and feare at the remembrance of this day and wish it might either not be at all or else be deferred and some foolishly perswade themselues that it is farre and say as the euill seruant doth in the Gospell my maister will deferre his comming But the godly crie Lord Iesus come quickly nowe they are wardes then shall they come to their owne now they are in the skirmish then shall they be in the victorie now they are in the tempestuous sea then shall they be in the quiet hauen now in the heate of the day then shall they be in the rest of the euening now in place they are absent from Christ though in affection they be present with him then shall they follow him whither soeuer he goeth nowe their life is hidde with Christ but when Christ shall appeare they also shall appeare with him in glorie In the eight chapter to the Romanes and nineteenth verse Paule saith that all the creatures of God haue a feruent desire for the reuealing of the sonnes of God much more should the sonnes of God them selues desire that day In the fourteenth of the Reuelation the word of God is likened to the sound of many waters to the thunder to harping with harpes because in the hearers it hath diuerse effectes as this particular point which now I haue in hand For when the comming of Christ to iudgement is spoken of to carnall men it is an idle sound as if Neptune were mouing the sea to other it is terrible and fearfull as if Iupiter threwe his thunderbolt amongst them these be wounded but want the medicine But to the elect it is sweete musicke as if Apollo played vpon his harpe I will iudge none but the word which I speake will touch euery one our owne consciences will accuse vs as carelesse and fearfull of Christs comming or excuse vs as ioyfull therof Let euery one make choise of his companie and sit him downe with his owne fellowes either with the carelesse who neuer thinke of it their case is dangerous vnlesse God reuiue them or among the fearfull of whom there is no hope vnlesse God heale and cure them or with the faithfull who are in blessed state because their redemption draweth neare This is the chaunge in the soules of the godly which must go before that other of the body as Augustine saith Anima debet prius resurgere per gratiam quam corpus resurgat ad gloriā the soule must rise againe in newnesse of life by the grace of God before the bodie shall rise to glorie Of the which change of the bodie I will now intreate in the same order as I first pointed it out Our bodies they are vile base full of infirmities and therefore in the Scriptures compared to weake meane things to grasse to the flower of the field Esa 40. to dust and ashes Gen. 18.27 to houses of clay Iob. 4.19 to earthly houses of this tabernacle 2. Cor. 5.1 Our bodies when they are young are weake twigges when they are olde are doting trees in the best age as vessels of glasse yea more brittle as Augustine saith for by carefull looking vnto glasses are kept a long time after their death who made them and vsed them Euerie creature liueth of his owne but man for the maintenance of his vile bodie hath a licence to begge and craueth the helpe of euerie creature The Sunne lendeth him light the ayre breath the water drinke the beastes birds and fishes and foules feed him with their flesh and cloath him with their haire wooll and skin The rich man in the Gospell who was cloathed in purple whence had he it but of the sheepes fleece for the matter and of the shell fish for the colour His fine linnen which nowe beareth all the viewe for bands like windmill sailes which may not vnfitly be so termed because mens heads are caried about with euerie wind and blast of vanitie whence and what is it but the barke and as it were the skin of the line and flaxe The silke wherein euen meane persons do ruffle is but the excrements of the wormes The golde and pearles wherewith this bodie is attyred are the guts and bowels of the earth yea some do borrow the haire of the dead We came naked into this world and should so continue if we had not help of the creatures who lend vs their feathers to couer vs as in the end naked we must returne to the earth They that be come of noble houses borne of honorable parents descended of the kings stocke and blood royal yet haue their bodies vile as Paul here meaneth as subiect to diseases as needing all helps for health as vnable to endure labour heate cold to abide hunger thirst as vnable to want sleepe rest as other men Therefore if they that be great haue their bodies vile much more we that be wormes and no men Alexander was perswaded by flatterers that he was the sonne of Iupiter a god and no man but by want of sleepe when he was wearie and by smart of body when he was wounded confessed that he was mortall as others be The same Alexander with a proud minde sayling vp Nilus intending to find the spring thereof which yet neuer could be knowen was perswaded by an old man to returne who gaue him a pearle of this propertie that being layd in ballance with anie mettall it was to heauy but couering it with dust a feather was heauier then it By which was meant that Alexander him selfe who in his life time was too strong mightie for all the world being dead was as weake as other men So that sicknesse and death are incident to the greatest of all whereby is plaine how vile and base our bodies are This cutteth downe the pride of all the world where euerie man kisseth his owne handes and thinketh too well of him selfe for his birth strength youth beautie We must remember that we were made of the slime of the earth and must returne to the dust euen the best and highest of vs all must confesse