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death_n	law_n	sin_n	sting_n	14,375	5	12.1860	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64371	A sermon concerning the cœlestial body of a Christian, after the resurrection preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall April 8, 1694, being Easter-day / by ... Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing T713; ESTC R20713	11,700	32

of God That ye present your Bodies a living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto him which is your reasonable Service Seeing That all these things shall be dissolved what manner of Persons ought we to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness looking for and hastning unto the coming of the day of GOD wherein the Heavens being on Fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with servant heat Nevertheless we according to his Promise look for new Heavens and a new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness Wherefore Seeing ye look for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in Peace without Spot and Blameless As sure as Christ is risen these dry Bones shall live as well as those did which the Prophet spake of in a Political Sense meaning by them the House of Israel which God promised to Restore It should therefore be our Care not to put this vile Body into far worse Condition but to consult the good of it seeing the more Heavenly its Frame be made the Felicity of the Soul in it will be the greater Men of light and desultory Humours affect Alterations without considering the Events of them Wise Men chuse them also when they foresee plainly they will turn to their exceeding Benefit And here they have a plain prospect of a most considerable advantage of changing Corruption for Incorruption and Mortality for Immortality If any are extreamly concern'd at Deformities of the Body as so many marks of Shame tho' nothing which is not of our own doing can be a just reproach to us why have they not the innocent Ambition of desiring a Celestial Body which will be without wrinckle or blemish And the way to procure so decent a a Body is to rectifie the distractions of our Reason and the monstrous choice of our ungovern'd Wills and to subdue all dishonourable Passions and Vices and to keep our selves unspotted from the World If divers are very Covetous of Life in this Body as burthensome as it is and wish their Years were not so many as they are and that they would still be many more even then when the Wheel is almost broken at the Cistern and the Blood can scarce creep on in its Circle why are they averse to Christian Piety which will provide for them an Immortal Body You will permit me to use the Exhortation of the great Apostle Awake thou that Sleepest and rise from the Dead and Christ shall give thee Life Say not as the Epicures mentioned in this Chapter Let us Eat and Drink for to morrow we die But rather let us be Sober and Vigilant that when ever we die the first Death we may overcome the Second Seeing Christ is risen and we shall rise and be changed by his Power say not upon any difficulties about Christian Religion Why stand we in Ieopardy every hour Why do we die daily Why do we Fight with Beasts or Men as Savage as they Why do we not rather consult the ease of Flesh and Blood but rather as St. Paul in the Conclusion of this Discourse Let us be stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord for asmuch as we know that our Labour shall not be in vain in the Lord. Finally Let us glorifie him with our Bodies and with our Souls that he may glorifie both Then may we upon good and comfortable grounds joyn with the same Apostle in these words of Spiritual Triumph O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory The Sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law But thanks be to God who giveth us the Victory through our Lord Iesus Christ to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be Glory and Dominion for ever Amen FINIS 1 S. Iohn 5. 29. Acts 24. 15. 51 52. 53. M. Fel p. 10. putes co jam revixisse † v. Gennad Massil de Eccl. dogmat c. 6. p. 5. c. 7. p. 6. Psal 13● 1● S. Mat. 13. 43. St. Luke 20. 35 36. 2 Cor. 5. 1. 1 Cor. 15. 44. 49. S. Mat. 17. S. Mark 9. 2 3. S. Luk. 9. 29. Artic. 4 Heb. 4. 14. Philip. 3. 21. 1 Cor. 15. 50. 1 Cor. 15. 40. v. 41. v. 42. v. 43. v. 44. Wisd. 9. 15. Corpus hoc Animi pondus ac poenaest quod equidem non aliter adspicio quam vinculum liberta●i meae circumdatum Hebr. 1. 10 11 12. 2. Pet. 3. 3 7 12 13 6. Vers. 12 13 14. Wisd. 9. 15. Wisd. 1. 4. Psal. 77. v. 7. v. 8. v. 9. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thess. 4. 16 17. Hosea 13. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 4. 1 Cor. 15. 54. Isai. 25. 8. 2 Cor. 5. 2 3 4. Ver. 10. Wisd. 1. 15 Ch. 6. 18 19. 2 Cor. 5. 15. Gal. 6. 8. ● Cor. 5. ●0 Rom. 12. 1. 2 Pet. 3. 11 12 13. Ezek. 37. 3 11 14. Eph. 5. 14. Ver. 32. Ver. 30 31 32. Ver. 58. Ver. 55 56 57.