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enemy_n	death_n	swallow_v	victory_n	1,217	5	9.2933	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00510	A sermon preached at Ashby De-la-zouch in the countie of Leicester at the funerall of the truely noble and vertuous lady Elizabeth Stanley one of the daughters and coheires of the Right Honourable Ferdinand late Earle of Derby, and late wife to Henrie Earle of Huntingdon the fifth earle of that familie. The 9. of February. Anno Dom. 1633. By I.F.	I. F., fl. 1633.; Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637, attributed name.	1635 (1635)	STC 10644; ESTC S116875	15,055	48

with him but a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a citie in the cloudes a Castle in the ayre hence was it that the doctrine of the Resurrection amongst the Epicureans Pithagoreans of Athens was receved but as a mater of mockery though the Iudgement seate were in the Arcopagus yet they sate downe in the seate of scorners not as Iudges of Paules Sermon But allowing that the Athenians had some reason to be ignorant as perhaps had they not so much reason they would not have had so litle faith It is not strange that in the first 300. years after Christ divers even in Christ should gainesay this hope of all the world being spoyled through the same vaine Philosophy Many of those ages having not seen any example of a Resurrection but only received it upon relation and reading began to scanne the possibility of such a restoration according to the principles of Nature reason It is well observed of Minutius non minoris est sceleris ignorare quamsaedere These men sinne as highly by denying Gods Power through their ignorance as if by their disobedience they had resisted it Malè Deum norunt qui illum putant non posse quod non putant I may pronounce them ignorant which conceive that God is able to do no more then they are able in reason to conceive But though they though all the world gainsay this hope of all the world yet this is the victory that overcometh all the world even our faith we will not draw all unto reason but leave something for faith Our contemplation of matters of this straine which are above the comprehension of reason and beyond the bounds of experience doth not arrive at knowledge but at wonder which is nothing els but Contemplation broken off or loosing it selfe It was aptly said by one of Platoes schoole the sense of man resembleth the Sunne which openeth and reveileth the Terrestiall Globe but obscureth and concealeth the Celestiall so doeth the sense discover naturall things but darken and shut up those which are beyond the verge of nature for all things proceeding in the Invention of knowledg is by similitude but those things are onely selfe like and have nothing in common with naturall things otherwise then in shadow and trope Give therefore unto faith that which unto faith belongeth for indeed it is more worthy to beleeve then to thinke or know considering that in knowledge the minde suffereth from the impression of inferior natures but in all beliefe the minde suffereth from a spirit which it holdeth superior more authorised thē it selfe Nolumus igitur intelligere ut credamus sed credereut inteligamus we wil not therfore seeke to under stand that we may beleeve but beleve that it may be given us to understand The mystery of the Resurrection was delivered not by Pihlosophers but by simple fishermen and here the most subtill of us must leave to be disputants and learne to be disciples And yet if any list to dispute let me aske as St. Paul did why should it seeme an impossible thing to raise up one that is dead It was well argued by the Iew Pesisa Si quod fuit est ergo quod fuit erit whether is it harder to restore a body mouldred into the dust from whence it was taken then to creat all things out of nothing Is it thought impossible in nature why nature her selfe is a mistrisse able enough to informe us of the contrarie Operibus Resurrectionem perscripsit antequam literis viribus praedicavit antequam vocibus se we not the vicissitudes of night and day the revolutions of winter and summer the riseing and setting of the Starres the wane and increases of the Moone the Quickening of the dead graine under the Clod to beare a lively resemblance of this Restoration The whole Creation which grones for the generall resurrection practiseth a yeerely a monthly yea a daily Resurrection in its severall parts And all this for Man And shall man onely not rise for whom all these things rise in their periods and seasons what should withhold him from being restored The powers of the grave are shaken and disabled Christ himselfe hath broken open the Gates thereof and loosed his Prisoners from the brinkes of the pit death it selfe hath by his last conflict received its deaths wound he had foiled it before by the ministry of his servants by Eliah recalling the Sarephtans son by Elisha recovering the Shunamits son So David foiled his enemies of Ammon by the valour of his servants Ioab and Abisha but himselfe was faine to appeare before Rabbah for the perfecting of the victory and conclusion of the warre so the Sonne of David appeared personally to give his Enemie the last stroke to swallow up death in an utter victory The victory is thus atcheived Death it selfe though he be the King of feare and have as many Provinces of his dominion as there be paines perills and snares of death yet hath no more dominion over us then what our sinne betrayeth us unto The arrowes of death are fledged with the feathers which grow upon our owne wings Now therefore if we conceive man to be without sinne death hath no more dominion over him Death then haveing seized upon our Saviour who was without staine or guilt it was found equall in the Iudgement of God that it should loose all power over us that were sinfull because it exercised a power which it had not over him that was innocent For in regard of the iniury offered unto him and patiently susteined by him God adjudged him all power over him that had the power of death giveing him liberty to restore unto liberty the Prisoners of the Grave And indeed he hath reason thus to restore them for according to that of Bernard Christus solus resurrexit sed non totus Christ alone is risen but all Christ is not risen till all that are of and in Christ be risen likewise Thus though other Graves be the houses of death this of Christ is unto us now the stone is removed from it the Gate of everlasting life Although death be the king of feare yet we see of his kingdome there is an end he raigned indeed under the law but now the Scepter of righteousnesse is transferred unto one of whose kingdome there is no end And observe the procession and Pompe of his Triumph over his vanquished foe Death saith the Prophet shall goe before his face pale and trembling as a Prisoner before his Triumphall chariot He saith no longer now as he did once O Death I will be thy Death It is not seasonable to threaten now death hath already felt his vanquishing armes he spareth not now therefore to reproch him with this glorious insultation O death where is thy Sting O grave where is thy victorie Since thou didst once loose thy sting upon mine innocency I have taken away the sinnes of the world so that now thou canst not fit thy selfe with