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heaven_n	bow_v	jesus_n	knee_n	2,266	5	9.3927	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35344	A sermon preached to the honourable Society of Lincolns-Inne by R. Cudsworth ...	Cudworth, Ralph, 1617-1688.	1664 (1664)	Wing C7470; ESTC R38833	29,413	70

Vulgar minds and make more palpable impressions on them and be alwaies of more present and ready use then any Philosophical Reasons and Demonstrations And the Scripture is herein very harmonious and agreeable to itself both in the Old and New Testament for as in the one it makes the original of Death's entrance into the world to be the Sin and Disobedience of the First Adam who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the earth earthy so in the other it attributes the recovery of Life and Immortality to the meritorious Obedience of the Second Adam that was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord from heaven heavenly who by his Death vanquished destroyed Death For as Sampson who was a Type of our Saviour when he was besieged by the Philistines in the City Gaza Judges 16. rose up at midnight and pulled up the Gates of the City and the Posts and laying them upon his shoulders carried them up to the top of the Hill in like manner Christ our Lord when he was environ'd and encompass'd by Death after he had been awhile detain'd under the custody thereof he ascended victoriously out of the Power of the Grave and carried the Gates of Hell and Death upon his Shoulders along with him triumphantly into Heaven he slighted and dismantled that mighty Garrison whose Walls were stronger then Brass and Gates harder then Adamant that it should no longer be a Prison with doors and barrs to shut up those that believe in him but an open and free passage and a broad High-way to Life and Immortality He is the Resurrection and the Life John 11. 25. and he that believeth in him though he were dead yet shall he live For he that liveth and was dead and is alive for evermore even he hath the Keys of Hell and of Death Revelat. 1. 18. But that which I chiefly aim at at this time concerning Jesus his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven is this That by and after it he was made Lord and Christ King and Saviour and Sovereign of his Church Not but that Christ's Humanity was alwaies hypostatically united to the Divinity but because the Oeconomical Kingdome of Christ as Mediatour according to the Scripture-calculation seems not to commence till after his state of Humiliation was over and so begins its Epocha from Christ's Resurrection or his Exaltation to sit at God's right hand in heaven Acts 2. 36. Let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ. Acts 5. 31. Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a Tree him hath God exalted on his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour c. Philip. 2. 9. Who humbled himself and became obedient to the death of the Cross Wherefore hath God highly exalted him and given him a Name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow c. and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father And that Article of our Creed concerning Christ's sitting at God's right hand in Heaven signifies thus much unto us That Christ after his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven hath all Power given him both in Heaven and in Earth all things being made subject to him excepting him onely that hath put all things under him He being for the Comfort of his Church and Members here upon Earth according to his Humanity made God's Vicegerent and seated in his Father's Throne and having a Mediatorious Kingdome bestowed upon him that shall continue till he hath put down all Authority and Power and hath subdued all his Enemies under his feet and then hath delivered up this Oeconomical Kingdome to God the Father that God may be all in all And this is an unspeakable Consolation that Christian Religion affords to us and a most gracious Condescension of the All-wise God That forasmuch as we that dwell in these houses of Clay are so far removed from the pure and abstracted Deity and so infinitely disproportioned unto it that there should be such a contrivance as this set on foot That we should have one of our own Flesh and Bloud that was in all things tempted like unto us and had experience of all our difficulties and calamities who demonstrated his infinite love to us in laying down his Life for us and therefore we cannot doubt but hath a most tender Sympathy and fellow-feeling with us in all our infirmities I say that we should have such a one exalted to God's right hand and invested with all Authority and Power both in Heaven and in Earth that he might administer all things for the good of his Church and Members and supply them in all their wants and necessities Which consideration must needs be farre more comfortable chearing and reviving to every true Christian then it was to the Sons of Jacob when they went down to Egypt to buy Corn and provision for their necessities to think that Joseph their Brother was made Ruler over all the Land And yet notwithstanding this is wholly eluded and evacuated by those high-flown Spiritualists of these latter times that slight and reject the Letter of the New Testament as a mean and carnal thing and will acknowledge no other Death and Resurrection of Christ no other Ascension and Sitting at God's right hand nay no other Day of Judgement nor Resurrection of the Body but what is Mystical and Allegorical Whereby they do not onely impudently slurre the Gospel according to the History and the Letter in making it no better then a Romantical Legend or a mere Aesopick Fable that contains a good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Moral under it but also plainly defeat the Counsel of God against themselves and mankinde by antiquating Christianity and bringing in instead thereof old Paganism again disguised under a few canting Phrases of Scripture-language For though Moses had a Veil over his face though there were many obscure Umbrages and Allegories in the Law the Children of Israel being then not able to bear the brightness of that Evangelical Truth that shined under them yet now under the Gospel we do all with open face behold as in a Glass the glory of the Lord nakedly represented to us being changed into the same image from glory to glory But to let pass these and still to improve our former Meditation further Let us in the next place consider that Christ who received all this Power after his Resurrection and Ascension did not receive it in vain and to no purpose either taking no notice of our humane transactions here below as having removed his Pavilion too farre into those Regions of Light and Glory from us or else remaining notwithstanding an idle Spectator and no way concerning or interesting himself in the Issues of our humane affairs Which will be so much the more improbable if we consider what the Scripture and experience tell us that the