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A11247	Resurgendum. A notable sermon concerning the resurrection, preached not long since at the court, by L. S.	L. S., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 21508; ESTC S120772	19,781	36

as Iob. 17.13 The graue shall be my house I shall make my bed in the darke I shall say to corruption thou art my father and to the wormes you are my sister and mother There is an old riddle what should be both the mother and the daughter the answer is of the I se but it may as well be said of the bodies of men which are made of the dust and shall thither returne againe The consideration that our bodies are vile should take away that too much curiositie to attire and pamper the bodie which commonly is in them that thinke too wel of them selues deeming their bodies to be too good to be fed but with dainties or cloathed but with costly apparell The winde may not blowe vpon them nor the sunne shine vpon them Our beginning is base of the earth our abode here is full of vncertaine prosperitie or sundrie miseries our end is most vile We must die like the beastes as Dauid saith Psal 49.12 This is the state of our bodies before they be chaunged and made like to the glorious bodie of Christ Some sight of this glorie Peter saw when Christ was transfigured Mat. 17.2 His face did shine as the sunne and his clothes were white as the light Of this Daniell speaketh in the twelfe chapter third verse They that be wise shall shine as the brightnesse of the firmament and they that turne many to righteousnesse shall shine as the starres for euer and euer 1. Cor. 15.43 the Apostle saith they rise in incorruption in glorie in power a spirituall bodie He that looked vpon Ierusalem as it is described in the Scriptures shall see the houses gates walles strong and faire yet made of timber stone and ordinarie matter But the new Ierusalem in the Reuelation is most glorious the walles of Iaspir the foundations of precious stones the gates of pearles the pauement of pure gold For our capacitie the spirit of God doth thus set foorth the difference betwixt things in this life and things in that better life And the like difference there is in our bodies Now they are but shadowes but then they shall be as the sunne now they are simplemen then they shall be as the Angels of God now they are as cloudes some higher some lower some brighter some darker as mens places differ in the world but all hanging vncertainly in the aire then shall they be as the starres in the heauens now they are as gold in the mine mingled with the earth then they shall be purified seuen times in the fire now our bodies are vile then made like the glorious bodie of Christ Then all teares shall be wiped away all infirmitie shall cease all deformitie shal haue an end There shal be health without sicknesse strength without weaknesse pleasure without paine youth without olde age Rest shall not be needfull for there shall be no labour there shall be felicitie with certaintie and life without the reach and gunshot of death now our bodies are vile then like the glorious bodie of Christ Let vs not therefore be dismayed in the sundrie daungers nor let not our hearts faile and fall in the most grieuous sicknesse of the bodie which can but last for a time neither can it bring destruction It may ouerthrowe the bodie into the graue and there death shal haue dominion for a season but at the last our bodies shall be taken out of the power of death and made like to Christs glorious bodie This account the Martyrs of God haue made Quid si tyrannus sit interfector corporis mei cum Deus sit susceptor animae erit restitutor corporis mei Quid si membra laceret inimicus cum capillos annumeret Deus What if the tyrant kill my bodie seeing that God will receiue my soule and will also restore my bodie What if the enemie teare in peeces my members seeing God hath numbred the haires of my head The bloodie hand of cruell tyrants may wast and rend a sunder the bodies of Gods people but they shall be gathered together againe by the will and power of God which two causes working together will performe a harder matter then this For if God were willing and not able or of power but not willing then some doubt might be made of this change But he is both willing and able to make this chaunge of our vile bodies to make them like to the glorious bodie of Christ That God is willing both authority of Scriptures and reason agreeing thereunto doth warrant vnto vs. Esa 26.19 Thy dead men shall liue euen with my bodie shall they arise awake and sing ye that sleepe in the dust for thy deaw is as the deaw of herbes and the earth shall cast out her dead Ezech. 37.14 I wil open your graues and bring you foorth of your sepulchers Ioh. 5.28 The houre shall come when all they that are in the graues shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and shall come foorth 1. Thess 4.14 If we beleeue that Iesus is dead and risen euen so they that beleeue in Iesus will God bring with him 1. Corinth 15. There is a iust treatise of this matter and manie reasons alledged why the dead should rise againe Many mischieuous inconueniences and inconuenient mischiefes doe followe the denying or doubting hereof as that Christ is not risen that Paule had preached an vntruth that the people had beleeued an vntruth that the Apostles had bene false witnesses Againe that their sinnes were not taken away that the dead are vtterly perished that to hope in Christ is most miserable For fiducia Christianorum est resurrectio mortuorum the trust of Christians is the resurrection of the dead as Tertullian saith Besides Christ is primitiae resurgentium the first frutes of them that rise againe and by his resurrection hath sanctified all the elect thereunto Whatsoeuer Adam hath lost Christ hath restored but Adam lost life and by his sinne brought in death which Christ hath vanquished in his death Farther the beginners in religion when their death approched made hast to be baptized not that their bodies might be washed cleane for the graue but rather cleansed against the happie day of the resurrection as Epiphanius in Corinthianos expoundeth that point Lastly the godly endure persecution to no purpose if there be no rising againe The name and nature of death doth proue the resurrection For it is a sleepe and so named many times in the Scriptures as 1. Thessal 4.13 Brethren I would not haue you ignorant concerning them that sleepe that you sorrow not as they which haue no hope August epist 120. cap. 32. Quinque virgines fatuae quinque sapientes dormierunt id est moriebantur mors enim in Scripturis dicitur somnus propter resurrectionem velut euigilationem The fiue foolish virgins and the fiue wise slept that is died for death in the Scriptures is called sleepe and in respect of the resurrection as it were an awaking againe Death

had a Priest sent vnto them to teach them the true seruice of God yet withall they retained their old superstition and affection to their natiue Idolles and so became Mungrelles in religion neither faithfull worshippers of the true God nor kinde followers of their false gods 4. Reg. 17.33 Naman the Syrian after he was cleansed of his leprosie made a vowe to offer incense or sacrifice to none but vnto the Lord yet he will needes go with his Maister into the house of Rimmon whereby he may keepe the kings fauour keepe his authoritie continue his honour enioy his wealth and this is to seeke to reconcile heauen and earth together 4. Reg. 5.18 Nicodemus his case was much like who would gladly be a Disciple of Christ yet commeth to him by night that he might not loose his credit of the world Ioh. 3.2 Matth. 19.10 There came a young man to Christ verie desirous to knowe what conuersation to vse in earth that he might obtaine eternall life in heauen Our Sauiour letteth him see the way to obedience of the commandements Thou shalt not steale thou shalt not kill c. Saith the young man If this be all I am in good case all these haue I obserued from my youth Christ meaning to sift him and to shake him out of the ragges of hypocrisie willeth him to sell all and to giue to the poore c. When he heard this the case was altered and he went away sorie that he could not hold his possessions and Christ together This young man is nowe become old and a grandfather of many children in these dayes who will be thought to be Egles in affection to soare aloft and yet are snailes with their houses vpon their backes and creepe vpon the earth These haue squinting eyes with the one looking at the heauens with the other beholding the earth these be outlawes who are faithfull to no common wealth indifferent men in factions who fauour no side these be such cakes as the Prophet Oseas speaketh of baked vp vpon the one side and raw vpon the other neither hote nor cold and therefore to be spued out of the mouth of God In deede they are earthly minded but in shewe heauenly affected their tongues and countenaunce their wordes and lookes are holy but their hearts and hands their affections and actions are worldly The marke and brand of the flesh can not more fitly be set vpon any then vpon many who carrie a zeale of holy profession Let many aske their owne hearts whether I say truth and they shall receiue answer I lye not They must confesse that they are trees full of leaues but voyd of frute dunghilles couered with snowe white without and foule within The case of the foxe is more worth then his carkasse and the profession of these men somthing to be esteemed but the body of their behauiour is vile nothing worth They are painted graues in truth they be citizens of the world though in shew they pretend this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this heauenly conuersation But the true seruants of God although in infirmitie without perfection yet in sinceritie without dissimulation in minde and affection are heauenly and haue their conuersation as citizens of Ierusalem which is aboue they acknowledge them selues to be pilgrims and strangers hauing here no abiding citie but looke for one whose maker and builder is God They are in the world but not of the world they vse the world as though they vsed it not they do esteeme their houses as Innes to rest in not as mansions to dwell in for euer they know that all the manifold graces of God in the mind in the bodie without the bodie are taken of their Maister and they but stewards thereof They vse all worldly commodities as staues in their hands which they will set downe at the last step of their iourney or as oares to rowe with which readily they will leaue when they come to the hauen where they would be Their vnderstanding is lightened with Gods truth their affections are strengthened by his will their actions are reformed by his word They looke not backe with delight to their old sinnes as Lots wife to Sodome nor returne with their hearts to Egypt againe with the murmuring Israelites neither wish they to tarrie on this side Iordane without the land of promise as Ruben and Gad and halfe Manasses did but as Daniel opened his windowes toward Ierusalem so they lift vp their eyes to heauen and send thither their sighes and grones in aduersitie testifying that all their refuge is there and lift vp their voyces with praise whē matters go well with them confessing that all good gifts come from aboue As the Egle casteth her bil and renueth her youth and as the snake strippeth of her skin and becometh smooth so they leaue the rotten ragges of Adams corruption and put on the innocencie of Christ which is the wedding garment wherewith vnlesse we be clothed we shall be shut out from the marriage feast If God threaten they tremble if he shew foorth his louing countenance they are cheered at the heart if he teach they giue diligent attendance if he correct they humble them selues They labor in worldly causes but not with worldly affections they giue obedience to lawfull rulers not as to men but as to the lieutenants of God they walke vpon the earth with the feete of their bodies but in their desires which are the feet or rather the wings of the mind they are conuersant in heauen The workes of darknesse are wearisome vnto them because they are children of the light the frutes of the flesh are lothsome to them because God hath renued thē by his spirit the freedom of Gods adoption is most sweet vnto them hauing escaped the slauerie of Satan Whatsoeuer is purely good they desire it with their whole hart what is meerely euill they hate it with perfect hatred things indifferent which are good or euill as they are vsed or abused in them they are carefull to make profit and heedfull not to offend in all things they first seeke the glorie of God and next their owne saluation This is the narrow way that leadeth to life this is the delight of Gods Saints in earth this is to haue a heauenly conuersation which may not be thought a matter of deuice or imagination as if no such were to be found like Platoes common wealth or Zenophons king some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a heauenly conuersation I sayd at the first that none haue it in perfection but euerie one lesse or more must haue it without dissimulation For none are perfect in this life the brightest fire hath some smoke the cleerest water some mudde The face of Venus had a mole the most heauenly affection hath some infection of the earth Noah the seede of the second world and the relique of the first was yet ouertaken with wine Lot was a righteous man yet foully defiled with incest Dauid a