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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73391	Five sermons, preached upon several texts by that learned and worthy divine, Thomas Wetherel, B.D. sometimes fellow of Gonevile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, and parson of Newton in Suffolke.	Wetherel, Thomas, 1586-1630.	1635 (1635)	STC 25292.3; ESTC S125573	76,283	292

willeth us when we are reviled not to revile again when we suffer not to threaten because Christ himselfe also did so 1 Pet. 2. 23. In the latter we are to imitate him by similitude translating that unto our spirituall life which he did as Mediator thus his dying teacheth us not to die the death of the body but of sinne to crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof and his rising againe teacheth us not to come out of the graves when we are buried alas it passeth the strength of all humanity but to arise from sinne the death of the soule Behold then apish man who art ready to follow every fashion a patterne worthy the looking upon an example worthy the following even thy Saviour rising Oh be thou a Saint and rise with him Dye he might but could not be overcome of death and therefore loosed the sorrowes of it So howsoever thou hast sinned yet bee not over-ruled by sinne suffer it not to reigne in thy mortall body Voluntarily went hee once into the darke bowels of the earth and there remained three dayes necessarily through the corruption of thy nature and voluntarily also through the depravation of thy will hast thou fallen into the depths of sinne and there hast laid three daies the day of thy conception for thou wert shapen in wickednesse the day of thy birth for thou wert polluted in thine owne blood the day of thy life hitherto for thou hast beene a stranger from the womb from the wombe hast thou erred as therefore thy death of sinne hath beene like unto Christs being in the grave so let thy rising from sinne bee comformed to the similitude of his Resurrection now the third day breake forth into the light throw away thy grave-clothes the workes of darkenesse and put on the apparell of a man the armour of light It was that they say which made Alexanders souldiers so willing to attempt desperate matters that what he would have them doe himselfe first beganne and therefore was wont to say Eamus faciamus what you see mee doe doe you the same likewise Wee have here the same encouragement which they had Christ our head is risen before us to lead the way and shew us how wee should rise Et nos ideo surgamus de tumulo terrae saith Saint Ambrose having so good a President for our direction let us also rise 2. Christ is the cause of our rising by way of efficacy for by vertue of his Resurrection hath hee derived grace and strength to us all Mr. Calvins note is good upon this place That wee are not here invited onely by the example of Christ risen to follow newnesse of life sed eius fieri virtute docemur ut regeneremur in iustitiam this Text teacheth us that our regeneration is from the vertue of his Resurrection To small purpose had it beene for Christ to have gone before us in that which we could not doe unlesse he had enabled us also that we might doe it To teach a cripple how to goe or a dumbe man how to speake is a fruitlesse thing but to strengthen the feet and ankle-bones of the one to untye the strings of the others tongue this is the way to make them goe and speake So fareth it with us all my beloved wee were like that man possessed with Divels who abode among the graves sinne had so wounded us that we were cut off from the land of the living being dead in trespasses Ephe. 2. 1. what could it then have benefited us if one whose life was within him should walke and stirre that Christ who was quickened by the Spirit could come out of the grave surely nothing unlesse he that raised up Christ from the dead had also quickened our benummed soules then and not otherwise could wee arise it was therefore requisite that to his example set before us Christ should adde the communication of vertue to us that we might rise with him And this is that which the Apostle Paul speaketh Ephesians 2. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God hath quickned us together with Christ giving him the Spirit of life whereby he was raised from the dead and withall to us the life of the Spirit that we might rise from sinne And this is that medicinalis convenientia of Saint Austins wherby the Example of Christs rising is made effectuall namely the applying of medicines to out infirmities purging out all humours whereby we might be stayed in our corruptions and strengthening the vitall faculties for the exercise of spirituall things for as Christ dyed to take away from sinne the guilt the punishment and dominion which it got over man so that man might be said to be dead to sinne because hee no longer lived therein so did he rise againe to furnish man with all gifts and graces necessary for his soules salvation and every faithfull man is partaker as of Mortification by vertue of Christs death so of Vivification by vertue of his Resurrection For fuller perceiving wherof we must know that Christ is as the head his Saints the members Christ the root his Saints the branches as therefore the motion of the members and governing them in their actions proceedeth from the head where is the motive faculty in greatest vigour so doe the members of Christ his mysticall body derive from him the influence of grace whereby they are enabled to performe their functions de plenitudine eius Ioh. 1. 16. from him we draw of him we receive Now Christ is the head of his Church as Mediator and by his workes of Mediation most of all diffuseth life and motion and that sweetly in an analogy to the worke so his death giveth a motion to corruption the corrupting of the old man and his Resurrection a motion to quickening the quickening of the new man these two like maine channels convey whole streames of graces from him into the Church neither doth the disproportion of soule and body hinder this conveyance at all Christ rising in his body onely the soule of man being the proper subject of grace for it is not the vertue of the body raised that maketh this diffusion but the Divine vertue raysing the body scattereth abroad his graces per actionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by this wonderfull act of God-man his resurrection and thus as Augustine Ser. 181. de temp observes Resurrectio simplex format resurrectionem duplicem Christs rising in his body causeth in his Saints a double resurrection the one of their bodies at the last day because his flesh is of the same masse with theirs the other of their soules continually because hee is the head of the whole man Behold then the vertue of Christs resurrection as Saint Paul calleth it Phil. 3. 10. the raysing vertue giving to him that was downe through infidelity saith to beleeve and stand up aright to him that was fettered in malice and could not stirre charity to walk in good workes because Christ lives therefore shall his