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A13187	Disce vivere Learne to live : a briefe treatise of learning to liue, vvherein is shewed, that the life of Christ is the most perfect patterne of direction to the life of a Christian : in which also, the well disposed may behold their orderlie passage, from the state of grace, to the state of glorie.	Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629.	1604 (1604)	STC 23484; ESTC S1737	203,338	618

branches cast it into the fire and so there is somewhat more then a cutting downe Daniel said vnto Nabuchodonozor which Iohn the Baptist in effect said to euery one who were fruitlesse This tree is thy selfe but for the good trée which our Sauiour saith bringeth forth good fruit it shal be like the gréen Oliue planted by the house of God Blessed is the man saith Ieremie that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree that spreadeth out her rootes by the riuer and shall not feele when the heat commeth but her leafe shal be greene and shall not care for the yeere of drought neither shall cease from yeelding fruit And thus as the negligent are resembled vnto barrenheath or trees twise dead and plucked vp by the rootes as vaine professors are compared vnto trées which bare leaues or at least fruit goodlie and pleasant to the eye in shew like Apples of Gomorrah which are gone as soone as you touch them so are the religious and deuoted to the worship of God most fitly likened to good fruitfull trées grafted vpon the true stocke Christ Iesus himselfe planted in that vineyard whose kéeper is the Lord of hosts and lookes for at their hands better then wild grapes 6 In the eleuenth of the Acts and sixe and twentieth were the Disciples first called by this name Christians a name of great sanctitie from annoynting a ceremonie vsed amongst the ancient people of God vpon none but those whom they accounted holy and had an holy calling as their Kings their Priests their Prophets and therefore should Christians be as Iohn the Baptist whose name was holy whose teaching was holy whose life was holy all agréeing in one He was a burning light not only burning saith Saint Bernard as zealous in seruencie but a light also as conspicuous in charity But whence saith Isidor haue we this title euen from Christ are we called christians surely a great prerogatiue he hath graced vs with his own name ciensed vs with his owne blood The Apostle saith wee are bought or redeemed with a price if it be so then are wee his who hath paid our ransome consequently are bound to doe his will willingly who hath bought out our freedome Wee are not debters saith he to the flesh as if he should haue said we are debters and owe dutifull seruice to another Lord and to liue after his will Sarah saw but Ismael playing with Isaacke and shee said vnto Abraham put away the bandwoman with her sonne it is not safe for the soule to be dallying with the flesh cast out the bond woman and her ofspring or desires the playing of Ismael with Isaack the holy ghost by the Apostles called a persecution One saith This body of ours will not let vs to be right Philosophers but sure it is this corrupt nature of ours vnlesse we did represse the affections thereof it would not permit vs to be right Christians There is a serpent within vs saith Macarius that will entire with an argument a iucundo the forbidden trée is most faire forbidden pleasures forbidden wayes are most delightfull Had we saith Saint Bernard stoode by when Adam was betwéene the perswasion of his wife and the precept of his God when the one said Adam eate and the other Adam Thou shalt not eate would we not haue cried out and said O Adam take héede what thou doest the woman is deceiued The counsel we would giue to Adam let vs apply to our selues and neuer harken to the counsel of the flesh séeing the condition of Christians is to walke not after the flesh but after the spirit The Apostle calleth the desires of the flesh deceiueable because they deceiue and whereas other sinnes are mentioned by one name this of the flesh is mentioned by many as adulterie fornication vncleanenes wantonnes all these shew how vile it is It is said flie from sinne as from a serpent but of all sinnes she fornication saith the holy Ghost for this serpent stingeth to death Hee that will eate so often as he is tempted by hunger hee that strikes so often as he is tempted by ●…re hee that will commit the sinne of fornication so often as he is tempted by ill motions what hath he I say not of a Christian man but of a man except the name 7 But is it credible that Christian profession should in anie age put on m●…sking attire and play her part vpon the stage or that those who bare the name of Christians should endeuour like cunning ●…uglers to cast a must before the sight of the simple worke dissimulation in so fine a web cast such glosse vpon all as if all were holy like hote Meteors in the aire which shoot shew like starres but are in deede nothing lesse for these deceiue men they may God they cannot nay they may one day find they deceiued themselues if they spend an houre or two now and then in godly exercises though all the wéeke after they liue in contention and eniue they thinke themselues good Christians In the Comedie of Menander there is a Hercules but not true Hercules in the course of the world there is a Herod that pretends worship but intends the life of an innocent babe there is an Ahab that proclaimes a fast thereby to compasse Naboathes vineyard but all is not gold that glisters He is not a Iew which is outwardly a Iew neyther is that circumcision which is outward in the shew but hee is a Iew which is one within and the circumcision is of the heart not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God One man discerneth another by his habit God by his hart The Arke saith Origen was it pitched without onely no but within and without The kings daughter saith the Psalmist was glorious was this glorie outward no she was glorious within The coat of Christ was without seame the conuersation of Christians should be plaine and honest without dissimulation least their calling suffer indignitie amongst men Let vaine boasters talke of profession so long as they will and make religion as they doe a mere talke vnlesse they shew deuotion to God humble and charitable behauiour towards men are they right Christians no verily When one ill affected was now about to be saluing his sore fingers a certaine Phisitien perceiuing by his countenance his liuer was corrupt my friend quoth he séeke to salue that is amisse within 8 At the end of the day shall it be said call those discoursers no call the labourers giue them the pennie S. Iames saith shew me thy faith by thy works I am a mortall man and cannot search the hart Hast thou faith let me sée it by thy actions of life Is it a liuely faith Why where life is there motion is We are not sayeth Cyprian Philosophers in words but in works

other of most especial regard and worthy of the best obseruation it seêmeth the Apostle so accounted of the resurrection for what is there more necessarie for our christian meditation then héere to call to minde that it was hee who did redéeme Israel that as he rose powerfullie in himselfe so also did hee in those that beléeue on him that hee rose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according vnto the Scriptures that hee rose by way of equitie for first hee humbled himselfe then God exalted him giuing him a name aboue all names That hee rose by way of power for being without sinne death could not holde him for it was vnpossible he should be holden of death 5 He whom Iohn not long before had séene as a sacrifice offered vpon the Crosse when hee was as the Prophet speaketh without for me to looke vpon now hee séeth him after another manner then amongst théenes nowe walking amongst the seauen candlestickes then cloathed in purple by way of derision nowe cloathed as the Sunne then called a King by those that reproached him now called the King of Kings by them that honor him Wherefore as we haue séene him in his humility so with Iohn also let vs sée him in his glory As we haue séene him fighting for vs in his passion so let vs also beholde him tryumphing for vs in his resurrection for all was for vs. In the passion and resurrection of Christ our Sauiour consisteth the summe of all our happines he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification vnlesse he had dyed we had not been deliuered from sinne and consequently from death vnlesse hee had rose from the dead wee had not receiued comfort of rysing againe from the dead his passion remoued away that which was euill his resurrection brought vnto vs that which was good As in these two wee haue a double benefit so haue wee a double example in his passion an example of suffering in his resurrection of hope when wee haue suffered Which doth shew in vs two liues the one in the flesh laborious which we must endure the other when wee are deliuered from the flesh which wee must hope 6 Now we must not onely acknowledge with the mouth or beleeue in the heart this sacred truth of the resurrection but we must also be raysed vp to newnes of life for thus much dooth the holy Ghost require of vs in beléeuing the resurrection Wee are sayeth the Apostle buried with him by Baptisme vnto his death that like as Christ was raysed from the dead by the glory of the Father so we also should walk in newnes of life And this is the similitude which wee doe carie of his resurrection This is to set our affection on heauenly things or thinges that are abaue where Christ fitteth at the right hand of God and this is the third thing that we should apply our selues vnto in beléeuing the resurrection from the dead that is first to rise with him from the death of sinne and consequently to be raysed by him vnto a hope of the resurrection vnto eternall life 7 It is wonderfull to consider with how many strange enemies Christ had to do at once with the world the Prince of the world with death and sinne the cause of death Who would haue thought that one shéepe should haue béene able to haue withstoode so manie Wolues but yet heare the triumphant voyce of the conquerour Death where is thy sting Hell where is thy victorie the sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the Lawe The Apostle like a valiant champion goes forth and offers challenge and combate to all these or anie of them Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen If Sathan say that will I because they haue followed the wayes of ungodlines If the world say I will lay to their charge the manie vanities they receiued of me if the Lawe say I will indite them because of transgression if death say I will arrest them by reason of sinns S. Paul answereth them all with a short reply Iesus Christus mortuus est imo resurrexit Iesus Christ is dead yea he is risen from the dead as if hee would say that same rising of Christ from the dead hath be●…t you all of all your force and nowe all your Pleas are frustrate Nay howe is the poore Captiue comforted when the Iudge himselfe shall say Who shall detaine this man I haue pa●… his ransome 8 What a ioyous thing is it nowe to be strengthened in the faith of the Resurrection First in regard of the calamities of this life for what shall dismay vs séeing the members hope to be ioyned with their head Secondly though this life be transitory and troublesome yet Daniel shall be deliuered out of the Lyons den The Doue shall returne to the Arke with a braunch of Oliue when once the flood and waters are fallen Ieremie shal come out of the pit whereinto hee is cast of his enemies Our noble Dauid hauing gotten the victorie is gone triumphantly to raigne in Ierusalem we all his people and armie tracing and trayning after him wee were detayned and held as captiues of cruel enemies but by Christ the enemies are vanquished and wee deliuered how are we deliuered but by the sonne of God was it not his suffering onely that was as hath beene said the remouing of euill Him selfe saith what profit is there in my blood if I goedowne to corruption as if he would tell vs there were something adioyned héereunto to make his suffering glorious beneficial vnto others and this was his resurrection 9 Euery effect naturally doth shew his cause The resurrection was the effect of his deitie and therefore gaue euident Testimonie he was God Againe his resurrection confirmeth our faith for so doth S. Paul reason against the Pseudo-Apostoli if the dead rise not then is not Christ risen if Christ be not risen then where is our beléeuing but Christ is risen therefore there is a resurrection The head doth not rise without the body The head is risen the body therefore shall rise So the resurrection of Christ is the cause of our resurrection and he rising we all rise The Lord is King sayth the Prophet Let the earth reioyce end the ●…es be glad therof The first fruites being sanctified all the other fruits are hallowed vnto the Lord Thomas bring hi●…er thy hand and féele the print of the nailes Blessed are those that haue not seene and yet doe beléeue That which befell Christes body saith S. Austen the third day shall befall our bodies in the last day 10 Foure sortes were there which behelde heard the whole manner of our Sauiours passion and resurrection The first were a kind of men which onely were present as spectators hearing and séeing what was done without further obseruation and these were many of the common people which following their owne