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Peace and holiness in three sermons upon several occasions / by Ignatius Fuller.
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Fuller, Ignatius, 1624 or 5-1711.
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that is in them because of the hardness of their hearts who being past feeling have given themselves to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness 2. The other is of them who indulge their Lust with little or no conflict but have contracted a perfect habit of one or more vices in reference to which they have extinguished all sense of Conscience though in other instances not all out so wicked 3. A third is of such who for the most part do the things that are evil and are overcome of the flesh but not without strivings of Appetite and Reason alive at once to the Law and Sin the conviction of the one and the power and love of the other both these strugling together within the bowels of the Soul checking and comptrolling one another This is the man St. Paul describes by a Metaschematismus under his own person in that famous Paragraph to the Romans of which I will give a succinct but evident demonstration Rom. 7. 1 In this man sin wrought all manner of concupiscence v. 8. 1 The regenerat man has crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. 24. 2 Sin revived in him deceiv'd him slew him v. 9 10 11. 2 He is dead to sin the body of sin is destroy'd he serves not sin sin reigns not nor does he obey it Rom. 6. 2 12 14. 3. He was carnal v. 14. 3 Is not in the flesh Rom. 8. 8 9. 4 Sold under sin v. 14. 4 Is free from sin Rom. 6. 18 22. 5 The good he would he did not but the evil which he would not that he did v. 19. 5 Walks not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 1 4. 6. Was taken captive to the Law of sin v. 23. 6. Is freed from the Law of sin Rom. 8. 2. 7 Detain'd by the body of death from which the poor wretch desir'd to be deliver'd v. 24. 7 Is freed from the law of death Rom. 8. 2. Where you have seven Characters of each as contrary to one another as light to darkness to know better and to do worse is so far from alleviating the evil that 't is the greatest aggravation of it 'T is the most bruitish unreasonable 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and wretched condition for a man that knows what is best to be led by incontinency and effeminacy from it And therefore saith the Philosopher that we ought not only to think right and to be affected accordingly But to conform our works to our right opinions He that sins and accuses himself is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth but begin to learn Symplic 67. and hath not yet come to the knowledg of the truth 2. Another is of them who deceive themselves whilst they expect some other 's inherent Righteousness to be made over so compleatly to them as if they themselves had been really and perfectly righteous and this upon the sole Condition or qualification of meer Faith scrupulously prescinded from all Obedience Now this Hony-comb of Antinomianism is but a branch of old Gnosticism antidoted by St. John Little Children let 1. 3. 7. no man deceive you He that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth And all the promises Christ makes to the Asian Churches are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To him that overcomes And thus am I arriv'd at the other Atchievement of this vivifying Spirit our deliverance from Death the fruit and consequence of Sin The ruin of Death follows that of Sin sicut Varasequitur Vibiam Sin is the sting of death 't is its Scepter the ensign of its soveraignty deprived of that it loseth its antient nature ceaseth to be King of Terrors and differs not from a gentle sleep an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or an easie transitus to a blessed immortality 'T is but the dissolution of an old ruinous and cadaverous Building to raise a fair and fresh a stately and magnificent Structure in the place thereof For we know that if our earthly house 2 Cor. 3. of this Tabernacle were dissolv'd we have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens i. e. a celestial glorious and a spiritual Body St. Paul doth lively describe the difference between these mortal and those immortal Bodies with which we shall be cloathed in the Resurrection 'T is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption 't is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory 't is sown in weakness it is raised in power 't is sown an animal body 't is raised a spiritual body Where the Apostle compares man in respect of hie body to a fruitful grain of Wheat which is sown in the earth and somewhile after spring up in a more excellent and very different form And that which thou sowest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non gignendum corpus seris is not the body that shall be but bare and naked grain Whence is that body that is to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body And all this relishes well to him that knows that the most contrary modifications of matter imaginable do constitute no specifical change according to the last and best Philosophy Nor can he be offended who holds the principle of individuation is the form only and that the matter and suppositum is individuated from it So then our Apostle institutes a fourfold collation of these our bodies with those we shall have hereafter 1. It is sown in Corruption but shall rise in Incorruption i. e. The body which we bring into this World with us is subject and obnoxious to corruption and change here we dwell in houses of Clay Job 4. 19. whose foundation is in the dust and may truly say to corruption Thou art my 17. 14. father and to the Worm thou art my mother and my sister There we shall die no more but be as the Angels the sons of God being the Children of the Resurrection Luk. 20. 36. 2. 'T is sown in dishonour shall be raised in glory when we come into the World we bring bodies some of whose parts and members seem to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uncomely and less honourable besides the rugae and maculae the wrinkles spots and blemishes which age sickness and other casualities do imprint upon us But then in the destitution of these deformities our bodies shal be more resplendent than the Sun and brighter than the golden light of Aurora The glories of Mount Tabor were but shades and darkness compar'd to that refulgent light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so far exceeding the brightness of the Sun septuplùm saith St. Ephrem wherewith Acts. 26. 13. now our Lord is cloathed and yet shall he change our Vile bodies until he hath made them like his Glorious body 3.
'T is sown in weakness shall be raised Phil. 3. in power Here labours diseases or years soon make the keepers of the house to tremble the strong men bow down themselves and the grinders to cease There shall they be firm and robust shall renew their strength like the Eagle and like the youthful Cherubs their agility shall be great and indefatigable 4. 'T is sown an animal Body shall be rais'd a spiritual Body Here our bodies as of other Animals need meats and drinks and consist of members and organs necessary to receive concoct and digest them but there they shall be spiritual there will need no Stomach no Liver no Intestines Meats for the belly and the belly for the meat but God will destroy both it and them Hierocles speaking of the Apotheosis of good men tells us they enjoy besides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 besides Truth and Vertue in the Soul a great measure of purity in its spiritual Vehicle St. Paul is positive That the Bodies of Saints at the Resurrection shall be physically and really not morally only spiritual and celestial for flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God We shall have bodies as tenuious and imperceptible as are the bodies of Angels not so crass and gross as Air but purer than the liquid Aether and have for a Vest to use Macarius his phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the glory of the divine light So 't is no wonder that Saints of old and since have groan'd within themselves waiting for the adoption viz. the Redemption of the body A great and memorable instance whereof worthy to be written in Cedar or engraven in Brass is this venerable Matron whose Obsequies we now celebrate whom now we consecrate to Eternity I have discoursed to you the heighths and perfections of Christianity you have seen it in the Rule and if you had now such a Speculum or mirrour as would reflect her life you would see it in the Example St. Hierom thought if all the members of his body were turn'd into Tongues and all his Arteries became vocal yet he could say nothing sanctae venerabilis Paulae virtutibus dignum worthy the Vertues of holy and venerable Paula The like may I say with much Epitaph more reason of holy and venerable Anna. Not only because I am so much inferiour for plenty of words and Rhetorical schemes of speech to that eloquent Father but also because my Argument is much more illustrious refulgent and sublime for if I should institute a parallel between them you would find equal Devotions surmounted by Prudences unequal I much applaud that Father who would praise nihil nisi quod proprium nothing but what was her own and which sprang from the pure fountain of her holy mind So shall I passing by the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things not in our power Such are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epict. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philosopher tells you the Body possessions Honours Principalities and whatsoever are not our own works And that too for the very reason his excellent Commentator assigns We are not arbitrarious Lords of any of these things And therefore I shall pass by her Extraction Education Presence and that comely Meen with which she struck all persons at once with Love and Reverence I say I shall pass these by they being Habentibus non grandia though coâ—teâ—â—entibuâ— mirabilia St. Hierom. not greatly to be esteemed by them that have them though 't is greatness to contemn them and speak of her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 more divinely more sublimely She was then of the same Country with Gorgonia her exact parallel and that was the Hierusalem above a City 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not seen with bodily eyes but with those of the mind where we have our conversation whither we are making haste where Christ is a Citizen and all that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Church of the first born are fellow Citizens So you see 't is true of her what the Poet saith of Aeneas Contingit sanguine coelum She was Heaven-born 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. Orat 11. and her Nobility was The conservation of the divine impressions on her Soul and an imitation of God the Architype and first Pattern of all goodness She had an early institution in Piety and as it befel Gorgonia who received the Seeds of Piety from thence from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whence she receiv'd her Life and Culture So our Gorgonia deriv'd the spiritual Ornaments of her mind from the same Instruments who had propagated her body And no wonder if that Cedar whose branches were enveloped in the Clouds had taken long and deep rooting She was truly and becomingly religious the right knowledge of God and Christ did bear her enlightned mind so Eaven that it was as far remov'd from Superstition as from Irreligion Hers was no self-chosen Holiness ceremonial Righteousness opinionative Zeal she mistook not the Tree of Knowledge for the Tree of Life She was not taken with high-flown Enthusiafm and Seraphicism nor was she patient of Epicurizing Philosophy nor tempted with Antinomian liberty She did not frame to her self a Phantastical Religion made up entirely of a Faith divided from Obedience imagining all to be done for her all to be imputed to her Nor did she place her Religion in endless scrupulosities about things indifferent and though her carriage was always passive and obedient yet never esteemed little things worthy of great contentions She was no Opinionist nor yet jealoused any notions which she thought not inconsistent with Faith in Christ and the observation of the Commandements of God She like Gorgonia reconcil'd the sublimity of Coelibate with the security of Marriage and being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chaste 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and humble blending the excellencies of Coelibate and Marriage together giving proof to the World that neither of these States so simply unite us to God or divide us from him neither of them solely to be declined nor solely to be pursued but that a vertuous mind may rule and moderate both Conjugate and Virginity Well as that so this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gorgonia having been ministerial a little to the World and to Nature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 consecrated her self wholly unto God Our Anna like that Prophetess the daughter of Phanuel having liv'd an example to Wives some few years with an Husband a Widow about twenty nine years in all which time she departed not from the Temple that is deserted not Church Communion nor God's publick Service but served him with fastings and prayers night and day ever since her Widow-hood devoting one day in the Week to fasting and prayer in her desolate estate trimming dressing and adorning of her mind for the Bridegroom of her Soul She was a severe exacter of indispensible Duties of Christianity her Religion was solid and substantial she attended the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the weightier things