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A57327	Confirmation revived, and, Doom's-day books opened in two sermons, the one preach'd at Coventry before the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon his first performance of confirmation in that city, June 23, 1662 : the other preach'd at Warwick before the Right Honourable the judges of Assize for that circuit upon the 2d of July next following / by John Riland.	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Doom's-day books opened.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1518; ESTC R26991	41,777	76

parties But that there is any such thing at all as a Resurrection of the body is deny'd by some upon these grounds whose Falshood and Weakness an Indifferent Eye may easily See through 1. That mans Happiness is attainable in This and therefore what Need is there of Another Life or of the Bodyes Rising in order thereunto thus Epicurus and the rest of that Herd There the Antecedent is false 2. If there be another Life and Happiness must be had there and there Only then it Concern's the Soul alone and so to what purpose should the body be Disturb'd which is so farre from Going Halfs with the Soul's Happiness that it Hinders It according to that Rule amongst them viz. That all Corporeity is an Enemy to Perfect felicity Thus Porphyrius and those of his way But here we say the Consequence is false and the Proof thereof from that Position of Porphyrie very infirm 3. That as all Spiritual things are of God so all Bodily things are from the Devil or such like Evil Principle and so cannot by a Resurrection be United to God that onely Good Principle Thus Manicheus and his Followers So that the Body is still Kept under and Held down on all hands all joyntly denying its Rising but upon Foundations you see full of Weakness Falshood or Blasphemy Again as Those Deny the Resurrection Others Affirm and Prove it 1. From the Rising again of Christ our Head 2. From the Natural tendency in Separted Souls toward a Re-union with the Body which must not be to no purpose 3. In that our Gain by Christ is greater than our Loss by Adam and therefore if In Adam all dye much more in CHRIST shall all Cor. 15. 22. be made alive By these and other Arguments of the Resurrection Some Affirm and Prove it We Affirm and Believe it yet if we would goe about to Prove it Arguments Come up as Thick as Grass-Spills in the Spring Demonstrations naturally Grow and Hang upon every Green Hedge yea Day unto Day utters Speech viz. of the Resurrection which clearly discovers it self in ●sal 19. 2. the Successive Dawnings thereof and most apparently Dwells upon the Eye-lids of Every Morning And as Day unto Day utters this Speech so Night unto Night shewes this Knowledge He that Lyes down has Slept out his Eyes and Senses who does not behold ●bid It Standing by his Bed-side when Ever he Arises So that although we doe Believe it yet as for that Credibile quia Impossibile i. e. 't is merely Credible because Impossible we need not Take Refuge in any such Unhallowed Sanctuary or Seek out so Shamefull a Covert for an Article of our Creed Concerning the Instantaneousness or Successiveness of This our Rising the Terminus A Quo and Ad Quem therein what is the Efficiency of GOD and wherein lyes the Instrumentality and Subserviency of ANGELS And because GOD say'd to Adam Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt Return No doubt He has had time enough for That Returning yet whether or no Gen. 3. 19. He then Say'd so to All the Sons of Adam and that Every Body as well as His must Suffer a Perfect Pulverization yea that very Body which was Buryed but a Day or an Hour before the General Resurrection whether or no according to the aforesaid Sentence That must be Return'd into Entire Earth and so Arise out of as Complete a Bed of Dust as if it had layn as long as Adam a mouldring These and many other Niceties I purposely pretermit We must needs dye that 's Certain but that we are as Water Spilt on the ground which cannot be Gather'd 2 Sam 4. 14 up again c. there Ioab's Wise Widow speaks like one of Iob's Foolish Women For when we shall be Pour'd out by the Hands of Death and have Layn Soaking in the Earth never so many Centuryes yet God will assuredly Recover again and Gather up every Drop of This Water in which regard perhaps it was that they call'd Death A gathering unto their people Gen. 49. 33. This I verily believe however some may think otherwise that all those scattered parcels of the same body that lye sleeping in several Parishes perhaps in several parts of the World As for example Suppose a Souldier has Lost a Leg in Asia an Arme in Europe a Finger is Burnt in the Fire a Toe is Cut off and thrown into the Water Quid mirum toto si spargitur Orbe M●rtial Ep. why may nor the dead dust be a kind of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 free of the whole World as well as a Living body This I say that all those limbs and parts of the Dispersion aforesaid shall not only return Bone to its own Bone c. but every the least Grain of dust to that very Place it had in the body before its dissolution This I humbly conceive may most set forth the Wisdome and Power of God in that day which being styled a day of Restitution the way of Particular restoring which now we speak of methinks conduceth most to the fulness and exactness thereof For as the Loadstone can out of a common Heap of Dust Extract all the little Fylings of Steel or the like Much more is God Almighty able by His Magnetick skill out of the common Rubbish to Single forth the Minutest Fylings as it were of these our Mortal bodyes and Restore them all again to their proper places An Army I have heard of whose Souldiers had every one such peculiar Marks and Characters upon their Polyb. Shields that by help thereof their Commander could at any time easily recover them out of the greatest Disorder and Confusion The Lord knows them that are His and not so only but All that is Theirs notwithstanding 2 Tim. ●1 9. we are put to the greatest Rout and Disorder by Death yet such are Those privie Marks of God's wisdome upon us that in the Resurrection He will compleatly Ralley again all these Ruines of Mankinde Then though the Worms destroy this body yet in Job 19. 26. Eccles 12. 3. my Flesh and with these my Eyes shall I see God Though the Arms those sorry House-keepers have not kept themselves nor their House neither but the Fingers are stray'd from that Hand into which they were Engrafted and the Hands dropp'd from those Arms by which they were supported Though the Strong Men have bowed themselves so as to be trod upon by Base Vermin and the legs are run one from another yea though the Grinders themselves should be Grinded to pieces and They that formerly Look'd out at the Windows are now Leap'd out through those Windows and those Two great Luminaries which GOD had set up to give Light to this Lesser World have not only Consum'd themselves but their Sockets Yet in That Day of the Restitution of all things when the Great KING shall disperse and send abroad his Writs to Call that Last and General Convention of

Bottles of Heaven are never Empty Scriptures and Prayers Sermons and Sacraments an holy Discipline and decent Ceremonies Every lock of Christ is full of Can. 5. 1. dew-drops had we but the Hand of Faith and due devotion to Squeez and wring them When Solomon had made him Gardens and Orchards Eccles 2. 5. at the very next Verse saith he I made me Pools of Water c. In like manner our Saviour Christ in the 5th of Canticles when he had styl'd the Church An inclosed Garden and an Orchard of Pomegranats at the 12 and 13 Verses presently at the 15 Verse He calls himself A Fountain of Gardens A well of Living Waters to intimate unto us how that the One cannot be without the Other and that his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pindar the Excellency and absolute necessity of VVater holds good not only in Earthly but Heavenly plantations But some kind of Biting there is by a Mad beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that presently causes the Bitten party to be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he dares not come nigh any water And if any amongst us are yet affraid to come near the Publick Ordinances our Sermons and Prayers those wholsome stre●ms of Gods Church Alas poor souls they have been Bitten and Breathed upon it's doubt by some Venom-mouth'd creature or other hence it is they are affraid where no fear is but where the only fear is there alone they are confident What saith the Prophet Ho every one that Isa 55. 1. thirsts Come ye to the waters Blessed be God that we may come and having hitherto Escaped those Bitings Blessed be God that we dare come What with a wholsom Catechism to Water the Roots beneath and cherish the Foundations what with whole showres of Sermons still dropping upon the Branches above we have had our share in these waters and been like that Vineyard of which God sayes I will water it ●a 27. 3. every moment For in the 68 Psal v. 9. what is there spoken of the Lords own Inheritance may be said of us Thou O God didst send a plentifull Rain Thou didst confirm thine Inheritance when it was weary so that besides this Plentiful Rain there must follow a Confirming which brings us to the second General He shall be like a tree 'T is said of that half-light and half-dark man in the Gospel that in the first Peep-a-day and dawning of his Eye-sight he lookt up and beheld men as Trees ●ar 8. 23. And blessed were the Eyes of a Blindish generation whose eyes are yet but half-shut and half-way open if our beginnings to see might be hansel'd with such steady Objects that with him we could behold men as Trees not for their Stiffeness and unyeilding sturdiness too much of that but perfectly Fixed as to the Concerns of Publique peace firmly settled in the sense of duty and obedience to Superiours Rooted and Grounded in all charity and love unfeigned one towards another This were a Good Tree indeed but though every Reverst tree is like a man yet every Perverse man is not like this Tree for the more 's the pity such Trees as this have not of late grown so kindly upon our English ground in which whole Forests of Natives have only had this sad resemblance of a Tree that the Heels and Arms have Triumph'd above while the poor Head lay grovelling below The business whereupon we now are is that after all these Movings and Removings we may at last become well-grounded and Confirmed Christians For our furtherance wherein that the Good Lord might not be wanting by any means to Perfect that which concerns us and our Salvation and as we hope he has begun a good work in us so to Establish the same unto the Comming of the Lord Jesus Behold here this holy Apostolical Rite of Confirmation after a long and sad Interruption most justly due to our sins now at last Restor'd into its Ancient Channel through which it had run down from the first and best times till of late by an unbroken succession for many generations For as Aquinas sayes Epistola quae a Notario scribitur a Domino Signatur A Clerk may Write but the Master himself must Seal the Letter VVe are the Lord's Epistle however at first Written by the office of Presbytery yet 't is the Bishops own hand that renders us Complete and Authentick Christians which is no otherwise then what S. Cyprian long before had said speaking of being confirmed A praepositis Ecclesiae S. Cyprian Ep. 73. Dom. signacula consummantur It is one of the admired Excellencies of Christs Government that Those that dwell in the Wilderness Psal 7● 9. shall bow before him Though the Wilderness to some may seem a Paradise yet the most I suppose will say that for this 20 Years long we have dwelt in a Wilderness where we have not lived as Men by but as Wild-beasts upon one another For such to come and bow before him and be obedient to that Government he has set over us This would be the Lords doing and Marvailous in our Eyes And however when Gods Eye is good the Eyes of some will be Evill Yet I tell you of a truth Many good Souls and O that my Soul were where they are many good Souls I say have desired to see one of these daies and have not seen them which I speak the rather that none should despise the day of small things For the Solemnity whereof though I have not met with any that write exactly of it yet you may take a guess of it by this description viz. That it is an Ancient rite of the Church whereby Baptized Persons of good Life sound Faith and competent Knowledge when come to Years of discretion are brought unto the Bishop before whom or others deputed by him after some satisfactory Discoveries of their knowledge life and belief they make a Solemn and credible profession of their Faith acknowledge and renew their Baptismal Vow take upon themselves through Gods help the performance of the same and so by prayer and Imposition of hands Spiritual strength is implored and the said persons so admitted unto a Fuller Capacity of the Lords Supper and whatever priviledges belong to full-grown Christians For as * that Learned man affirms Sub his tantum auspiciis ad mensam Domini Dr. Hammond aspiramus This alone gives us a right Conduct and the most safe admission to the Lord's Table In speaking whereof I promised to say somewhat of these three things its Antiquity its Sacred Solemnity and its great Usefulness and Expediency which must be done very briefly First its Antiquity for that we may say of it as Saint Paul of Timothy Let none despise thy youth we meet with it often in the Acts of the Apostles Confirming the Souls of the Disciples c. Philip ●ct 14. 22. c ●ct 8. 15 17. Baptizes and the Apostles came after and Confirm'd And in that