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A73391	Five sermons, preached upon several texts by that learned and worthy divine, Thomas Wetherel, B.D. sometimes fellow of Gonevile and Caius Colledge in Cambridge, and parson of Newton in Suffolke.	Wetherel, Thomas, 1586-1630.	1635 (1635)	STC 25292.3; ESTC S125573	76,283	292

live also because he is risen they shall rise together with him And are they risen together with him Then is here a lesson of humility for every Christian If thou findest life in thy selfe that thou art not benummed nor the spirit of drowsinesse is upon thee but that as a living member of Christs body thou art laden with fruit and doest those workes which become one that is alive see here the root upon which thou growest the fountaine from whence all this goodnesse of thine proceedeth even Christ by vertue of whose resurrection from the grave thou which before wert dead art now alive thou which before hadst sinned mortally art now raised eternally Sacrifice not therefore with proud Pelagius to thine owne net nor burne incense to thine owne yarne as if by them thy portion were fat and thy meat plenteous thinke not these good workes of thine to come from thine owne strength thine owne free will rightly used by thee but goe a little higher than thy selfe and know thy will to bee but a lower spheare quae non nisi mota movet which cannot of it selfe doe anything but in him who by his resurrection hath quickened and raised thee up into the estate of grace Dost thou beleeve that thou art risen with Christ Thou must so beleeve if thou beleevest the Scriptures I demand then Who separated thee And what hast thou that thou hast not received And if thou hast received it why boastest thou as if thou hadst not received it 1. Cor. 4. 7. Boast not then thy selfe either against thy fellow-branches for that thou art better than they or against the root as if thou grewest of thy selfe but know that the root beareth thee Rom. 11. 18. and therefore confesse both in humility and verity thy selfe to be an unprofitable servant and say with David Not unto mee O Lord not unto me Psal 115. 1. not unto me for my rising not unto me for the fruits of my rising but to thy Name bee the praise And thus much of our rising in causa as it proceedeth from Christs Resurrection which was the first thing The second is our rising in it selfe what it is for upon Christ his rising we are also risen and what then is our rising Surely our rising hath great similitude and likenesse with Christs rising Now in Christs rising we may especially observe three things 1. Corporis expulvere resuscitationem the bringing up of his body from the dust of death 2. Vnionem animae corpori resuscitato the uniting of the soule with the body risen 3. Vnitorum inseparabilem colligationem the impossibility of ever having his soule and body thus united to be served So must there be in our spirituall resurrection this rising with Christ these three things 1. The raysing of the soule from sinne which is the very dust and death therof 2. The uniting of it to God who is anima animae the very life and soule of the soule in whom it liveth moveth and hath it being not in nature only but also in grace 3. The knitting of these two God and the soule together in the perfect bands of love which may not be upon every little jarre broken but remaine inviolably for ever firme and sure 1. Wee must rise out of the grave of sinne sinne it is as death Saint Gregory elegantly sheweth us the Greg in Psal 142. estate of the dead sinner in sepulchro conscientia tumulatum c. he is buried in the sepulcher of his conscience is bound with the napkins of concupiscence is cast out from the sight of God is covered with hardnesse of heart is shut in with the stone of iniquity a miserable death As then God said to Elias in the Cave What dost thou here Elias Come out and stand in the Munt before the Lord 1. King 19. 9. So let mee sound this speech in the eare of the sinner covered over with the moulds of sinne What makest thou there thou sinner Come out of this Sepulcher of sinne if thou wilt appeare before the Lord in the land of the living To this the Scripture calleth when it biddeth us awake and stand up from the dead Ephes 5. 14. To mortifie our members which are upon the earth Col. 3. 5. To crucifie the old man that the body of sinne in us may be destroyed Rom. 6. 6. This is done by repentance sorrow for sinne breaking off sin leaving sinne which is the first degree of our rising the first step to life 2. Having risen from sinne we must also unite our selves unto God for hee is our life Deut. 30. 20. Therefore must we cleave to him if we meane to live else are we as a body without a soule a filthy carkasse It was to no purpose that the dry bones came together bone to his bone that the sinewes and flesh grew upon them that they were covered with skinne unlesse 〈◊〉 winds had breathed upon them also and they had lived for what difference betweene a dry bone and a senselesse body And to as smal end are we roused from the grave of sinne unlesse there be a spirit within that quickeneth for what excellency hath a carkasse unburied above that which is buried a man not righteous above him that is a sinner Life then is yet further required to our rising which because wee are members of a body is not to be had but in the body get faith therefore which ingrafteth into the mysticall body of Christ being ingrafted we shall bee partakers of the Spirit which diffusing it selfe through every member knitteth us to God to whom to be joyned is life Of this speaketh our Saviour Ioh. ●5 3. Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot beare fruit except it abide in the Vine no more can you except ye abide in mee 3. Being united unto God and living this new life of raysed persons we must continue in this life even as Christ having risen from death now dyeth no more this is the true conformity to his resurrection whereas those that live to dye againe were rather risen in shew than truth moved artificially by some Engine to make them stirre than naturally by a vitall power of their owne and of this continuance excellently sings the Prophet Psal 92. 12. The righteous shall flourish like a Palme tree and spread abroad like a Cedar in Lebanon such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God they shall still bring forth fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking To conclude then this point Let all of us who professe our selves Christians and triumph in our Saviours resurrection let all of us I say rise with him as well he that hath beene dead but an houre or two hee that hath fallen lately as he that like Lazarus hath beene in the grave foure dayes and through his continuance in sinne beginneth to stinke in the nostrils of the Lord. Let not the young

man lye still and thinke another day will come and then it will be time enough for him to rise but as Christ rose early in the morning so let him rise in the prime morning of his youth if he find the grave now open and his soule to be in him let him take heed lest the grave shut her mouth againe upon him lest his soule being taken againe out of that drowsie mansion he have no more such oportunity to rise Againe let not the old man lye still and not arise because hee feareth hee hath laid too long and there is no hope for him to recover life for sweet and comfortable is that saying of Saint Austine V● radius oculi nostri c. As our eye doth not sooner see things that are near it thē the things that are further off but with a like swiftnesse doth behold them both so the vertue of Christs rising commeth not first to them who are new dead in sinne and scarcely to those that are of long continuance in it sed ei tam facile est ut quaeque recentia diuturno tempori dilapsa cadavera suscitare it can as easily raise those which have longest as those which have had smallest time therein Let us then all both old and young rouse up our selves for the Master is up and shall it not shame the servants to be behinde Christ is risen and draweth us also with the cords of love oh let us runne after him in the sweet savour of his oyntments and ascend after him in our hearts to heaven whither hee hath already ascended which is the third thing propounded in the Text the fruit of our rising with Christ Seeke the things that are above Where two things offer themselves to be considered the Object things above the Act seeke which Act is proportioned to the Object and is divers according to the diversity of it Now things above may bee taken two wayes 1. For Christ the truth opposed to Iewish ceremonies and this interpretation is made good by comparing this verse with the latter part of the second chapter where the Apostle reasoneth in this manner They which wrongly conceive o● Christ live still to the Ordinances of the world and burthen themselves with traditions touch not tast not handle not but such as beleeving a right in his resurrection are freed from these beggerly rudiments looke after things o● ●n higher nature Christ himselfe who is the body and substance of all those shadowes and is now to be apprehended ●n himselfe without the inter●osition of those former observances and then seeking is taken for right understanding and conceiving of the state of Religion as if the Apostle had said You that are Christians must know that the Ceremoniall Law is abolished which good in distinction of meats ●ayes apparell things though at first appointed by God yet ●ut for a season and therefore ●ave perished in their use and ●ow are become commandements and doctrines of men You must know that the true worshippers must worship the father in spirit and in truth ●omming to him by Christ who above in heaven at his right hand beleeving in his death ●nd resurrection letting goe the sacrifices of the Law a● Mosaicall injunctions which though they had a shew of wisdome in them yet were ordained to endure but till the tru● came We see how the Apostle opposeth Christ to the earthly ceremonies and diss●●deth Christians who were 〈◊〉 lay hold on him from any further dealing with them and that for two reasons 1. Because he was come whom the prefigured and therefore the● were to cease in him 2. F●● that hee was now againe ascended into heaven and therefore looked for the heart and the affections not bodily observances Now these earthly ceremonies are not such onely were legall belonging to Moses Law but even those which draw the heart from heaven unto the earth placing Religion in outward shewes and wi●● worship such as the Christian within the Papacy hath beene miserably pestered with Saint Austine in his time complained Epist 119. c. 19. of these servile burthens which though they could not be proved to bee directly against the faith yet made the Church of the Christians in worse case than the Church of the Iewes the one being in bondage to a ●egall yoke the other to mens presumptions such as are the ●et number of Paternosters Creeds and Ave-maries to be ●aily said over the adoring of Christ in the Rood Windows c. their Pilgrimages Whip●ing themselves and a world more such as these which make indeed a great shew of Devotion in the eyes of men and ●old the beguiled senses in admiration yet are not of any value but for the satisfying of the flesh mans carnall desires who for the sinne of his soule would give any thing rather than his soule or doe any thing rather than the workes of the soule Well are we who have shaked off this bondage and are free to come to Christ as himselfe hath appointed with hearty repentance earnest faith willing affections so to seeke the things that are above 2. By things above may be meant heavenly things the happinesse which aboundeth in heaven and which we are by God ordained unto and then seeking signifieth two things 1. A desire of this happinesse 2. The using of the meanes to attaine this happinesse 1. They which are risen desire things above not with a lazy wish oh that some would give mee to drinke of the waters of life but with ardor and fervency such as was in David Psal 42. 1. Like as the Hart panteth after the water brookes so longeth my soule after thee O God my soule is athirst for God yea even for the living God oh when shall I come and appeare in the presence of God 2. They use the meanes of attaining it no way so straight that they will not walke in if it lead to heaven no labour so hard which they will not endure if it end in happinesse fire water swords stones they will passe through them all to this wealthy place Thus doe the Saints Ascensiones disponere in corde thinke of nothing but ascending upward they digge not downe to hell to fetch from thence wicked plots and devices they spend not themselves upon the earth to get riches honours and preferments but sursum corda all their delight is above these transitory things their soules are heaven-walking spirits ravished with the joy they know to be there and therefore attend ever to partake of it Christ who is their head ascending hath invited them that are his members as Saint Austine speaketh to a region of Angels to the friendship of the Father and the holy Ghost to an everlasting supper to communion with him to himselfe this maketh them to confesse with the Patriarkes Heb. 11. 13. that they are strangers pilgrims upon the earth looking still towards heaven as if they sought a Countrey hic generatio quaerentium quae sunt supra thus