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A20562	A sermon preached at S. Maries Church in Oxford, the 12. of Iuly. 1612 Being the Act Sunday. By Thomas Anyan, Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge.	Anyan, Thomas, 1580 or 81-1632.	1612 (1612)	STC 697; ESTC S115375	16,576	32

raised from the dead dyeth no more death hath no more power ouer him so the iustified man being planted by Faith in Christ doth as necessarily from R. Hooker that time forward alwayes liue as Christ by whom he hath life liues alwayes For if Christ which is the foundation of our spirituall life may leaue that mansion which once he possest and flit away what shall become of his promise I am with you to the worlds end And if the seed of God which containes Christ may be first conceiued and then abortiue-like cast out how doth S. Peter terme it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the immortall 1 Pet. 1. 23. seede how doth S. Iohn affirme that it abides 1 Io. 3. 9. If the spirit which is giuen to cherish and preserue the seede of life in tender plants may be giuen and taken away how is it by S. Paul termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 1. 14. the earnest penny of our redemption how doth it continue with vs for euer If therefore the man who is once iust by Faith shall liue by Faith and liue for euer it followeth that he which is once planted and inserted a liuing branch of that true Vine Christ shall neuer againe from his body be disserted Man I confesse is apt and ready to reuolt from God but God is not so ready to forsake man our mindes are changeable but Gods decree is immutable whom God hath iustified Christ assures them it is his Fathers pleasure to giue them a Kingdome Notwithstanding Col. 1. 2. 3. it shall be no otherwise giuen them then if they continue grounded and established in the Faith and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospell Christ therefore when he spake of his sheepe effectually called and truely gathered into his folde said I giue vnto them eternall life and they shall neuer Io. 10. 28. perish neyther shall any plucke them out of my hands In promising to saue them hee promised no doubt to preserue them in that without which there can be no saluation as also from that whereby it is irrecouerably lost For without his especiall grace which must restraine vs from the one and retaine vs in the other wee are no more able of our selues to stand then the carkasse of that noble captaine which when a Lacedaemonian had often set vp in vaine the carkasse Plut. still falling downe he afterward confest that it was not the body and legs of a man which made a man to stand but there was somewhat vnseene in the body which made all these excellent motions and varieties and therefore said Aliquid intus esse oportet His grace it is within which like the fierie Chariot of Elias must draw both vs and our thoughts to heauen For wee are by nature like warme water which vnlesse it be still heated will coole of it selfe or like vapors which rise no longer then the heat of the Sunne draweth them which Sunne of righteousnesse if hee substract his beames yea but a little wee are soone frozen in the dregs of our impietie God therefore vnwilling to see his trees wither for want of moysture his dearest children to pine away for want of the food of their soules hee hath planted euery tree which is in the Paradise of the Church by him who is the fountaine of Gardens the spring of Lebanon by riuers of Cant. 4. water By riuers of waters Obserue I beseech you once more the attributes of this tree hee is a tree not a bramble or thorne planted by regeneration not suffered in his naturall generation and planted by riuers not suffered to remaine in the quagmire and filth of his owne inuentions and planted not in any mountanous region or eminent place but in the humble valley not by the dangerous shoares of the swelling Ocean but secus decursus aquarum by the banke-side of riuers of water The bodies of men are the Temples of the holy Ghost their soule the sanctum sanctorum the Graces of God the riuers which runne through this Sanctuarie they are as it were the Lauer before the Temple to wash them whose fountaine is God himselfe who shall clense them from all their sinnes and then how can they be without water who are planted by those riuers which spring from the fountaine of life how can they be without light whose light is the Sunne of righteousnesse how can they be without plentie of all things in whom dwelleth he that is the fulnesse of all things though the tempest shake the winde blow the heate scorch yet shall they not wither because they are planted by the riuers of Gods spirituall graces By these riuers of waters was Noah planted when he was preserued from the deluge of waters by these riuers was Lot planted when hee was preserued from the flames of fire by these riuers was Moses planted when hee was preserued in the riuer from that great massacre of infants Aristotle and Pliny both report that tender vines and other fruitfull trees prosper not being planted Plin. l. 21. Arist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nigh the sea or any salt water this world is a sea swelling with the surges of pride blew and wan with the colour of enuy salt and fretting with the sharpe humour of malice if then wee desire to be tender Vines in Gods Vineyard trees of life in his Paradise wee must be planted farre off and remote from the salt sea of this world and be planted as trees by the water which spread out their rootes by the riuers and shall not feele when the heate commeth but her leafe shall be greene and shall not care for the yeere of drought neyther shall cease from yeelding fruit Ier. 17. 8. That which Stories haue auerred of the roote of Plin. l. 32. Ouid. in Meta. the Corall which so long as it is vnder the water is soft and flexible but so soone as it is taken out of the water is as hard as any stone may truely be verified of the roote of euery tree in the Eden of Gods Church which so long as it is planted by the riuers of water which flow from the Sanctuarie of God is milde and gentle the fruit mellow and pleasant to the taste but when it is taken vp and separate from these riuers of water it is hardened as hard as Adamant and the fruit thereof is sowre and distastfull Iacob was like vnto this tree here in my text who was planted by the riuers of water and therefore Balaam Num. 24. 5. cryeth out Numb 24. How goodly are thy tents O Iacob and thy habitations O Israel as the valleys are they stretched forth as Gardens by the riuer side as Aloe trees which the Lord hath planted and the Cedars besides the riuers of waters These riuers of waters are as a well of comfort for forlorne Hagar and all other pilgrimes to refresh their wearied and fainting soules for although the iust and godly doe many

sprung in Adam shall be as happily grafted and transplanted in Christ that tree which was fruitlesse in his owne nature shall become fruitfull by grace that tree which would haue rotted for want of naturall moysture shall flourish againe and receiue iuyce into his veynes from the waters of life by which hee is planted Wee know that the whole tree of our nature roote and branches fruit and leafes were all blasted by the breath of Gods first malediction and the ground whereon we grew nay the ground of mans heart was curst to bring forth of it selfe nothing but bryars and thornes his wisedome was foolishnesse his strength weaknesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his best thoughts were defiled 1 Cor. 2. his vnderstanding was darkened nay it was darknesse in abstracto Ephes 5. So that with Glaucoma in the Poet Ne id quidem intelligit quod intelligit vel quod Plautus in milite glorioso non intelligit hee neyther vnderstands what hee vnderstands nor vnderstands not that hee vnderstands not O miseras animas quae pereunt et nesciunt se perire Austen de ciuitate Dei ideo pereunt quia nesciunt se nescire like the blinde woman in Seneca who because shee neuer saw any thing could not be perswaded that shee was blinde but that the house was darke This was the estate of man in his corrupted grouth but since his new plantation by grace since his roote in Adam hath beene taken vp and transplanted in Christ God hath promised that the ground shall be changed by the raine of righteousnesse and dewe of grace watering his roote and that at the comming of the Messias Es 55. 3. pro Virgultis assurget Abies for Thornes shall grow Firre-trees and for nettles that is as I construe it our stinging affections shall grow Mirrhe-trees sweating forth the soft and sweet oyle of grace and loue Vnfruitfull plants and vnsauory trees are suffered and let alone to grow in those places where first they sprang but sweet roses fruitfull vines and good trees are taken vp and transplanted Almightie God who in the Gospell is compared to a husbandman hath transplanted vs from the kingdome of Sathan to the kingdome of the Sonne of God from wilde Oliues to be fruitfull Vines in Christ Iesus And as the Prophet Eliah restored the childe of 1 King 17. the widdow from death to life so our blessed Sauiour recouered and reuiued mankinde like a tree dead in the root and rotten in all the branches thereof The Prophet entering into the chamber where the childe lay dead gat vpon the bed stretched his body all ouer the childes body put his mouth to its mouth his hands to its hands his feete to its feete so Christ Elias-like stretched himselfe vpon the Crosse as a greene tree vpon the dead tree of our nature and laid as it were his roote to our roote his branches to our branches his leafes to our leafes his fruit to our fruit and by this new plantation of vs into himselfe he hath infused his spirit into vs reuiued vs and made vs of dead trees trees of life partakers of his diuine nature members of his glorious body and heyres of his immortall glory For vs men and for our plantation the Sonne of God descended from the highest heauens and suffered his God-head to be clad with the corruptible roabes of humane frailtie and in our nature endured the wrath of God did merit by it eternall redemption infused into it his spirituall graces and aduanced it aboue the highest rankes of the Angels in heauen At the first man was set as a Rose in the Garden of Gods Paradise that hee might proue a sweet odor of life vnto life but when hee turned from a Rose to be a Thistle and began to pricke his Maker then was hee transplanted from a small Garden to a large mannor and with an happy exchange of estate was brought from his first freedome of nature of posse non peccare to a better libertie of Grace non posse peccare not to sinne at all for whosoeuer is borne of God and grafted into Christ sinneth not nor can hee sinne 1 Iohn 3. 9. For although the best of men through the infirmitie of their corrupted nature doe oftentimes commit those things which in the sight of the world are foule and worthily enormous yet because the inward man doth sooner or latter checke and comptrole them they are not properly said to commit them because they doe not wholy and fully assent vnto them That celestiall sap which euery branch doth receiue from his roote Christ doth so quicken and reuiue the regenerate man that although in outward appearance and in his owne conceit to he seeme to wither and be decayed yet the spirit of Adoption which ingendreth Faith doth so inhabite and possesse his soule that eyther totally or finally hee cannot perish but remaines toward GOD like the Philosophers demonstrator 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 firme and immoueable Parraeus in 7. ca. ad Rom. And although he hath ofttimes many stragling motions inordinate desires despairing cogitations maintaine diuers errours in Religion commit foule sinnes such as Noah Dauid Salomon and Peter did nay such sinnes as leaue no place for saluation without an actuall and especiall repentance yet from infidelitie extreame despaire obduration in sinne and the like God will preserue the righteous as the apple of his eye Hee may suffer him to fall but not to fall away he may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he may cadere not deficere Zanchius hee may peccare not peccatum facere hee may sin but not worke iniquitie labi potest prolabi non potest iustus enim si ceciderit non collidetur the righteous Psal 37. 23. man though he fall hee shall not be cast off the reason is giuen in the words following quia manum suppoint Dominus because the Lord supports him with his hand The wicked like the Rauen they goe out of the Arke and returne no more but the righteous though they fall and seeme to goe out of the Church yet they returne againe with an Oliue branch of true repentance in their mouthes the reprobate fall like old Ely who fell downe and broke his necke but the regenerate though they fall with the young man Eutychus Acts 20. from the third loft yet being taken vp are by Gods holy spirit reuiued againe This Spirit Rom. 8. is tearmed our life and hee that 1 Io. 5. 12. hath the Sonne saith S. Iohn hath life and he that hath not the Sonne hath not life Whence mee thinkes may be inferred that if hee which once is planted in Christ hath the Sonne may afterwards cease to haue the Sonne though it be but for a moment he ceaseth for that moment to haue life But the life of them who haue the Sonne of God is euerlasting and in the world to come 1 Iohn 5. 13. And as Christ being