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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59569	A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-Hall on Easter-Day, March 27, 1692 by the Most Reverend Father of God, John, Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan.	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing S2997; ESTC R10735	12,701	34

after that I may know Christ not only by a notional belief of his Doctrines or Profession of his Religion but by a spiritual experimental Knowledge of him such a Knowledge as transforms me into his Spirit and Temper And that I may know the power of his Resurrection i. e. that I may experience in my self all the good effects that his Resurrection has a power to work in me that I may feel the Vertue and Efficacy of it in my daily dying to Sin and rising again to a new holy and heavenly Life This is that Righteousness I long for and in comparison of which I account all things in the World but as loss and as dung Thus have I given you a full Account of the Text and of all the Apostles Discourse that it depends upon I now come to treat more particularly of it with reference to the solemnity of this Day We all here present do profess to believe the Article of our Saviour's Resurrection and our business at this time is to celebrate the memory of it But we must not rest here We are not to look upon our Lord's Resurrection meerly as a thing to be believed or professed or commemorated or as a matter of Fact that only concerned himself But there is a great deal in it which doth nearly concern us The Apostle tells us there is a great Power in it even a Power of raising us from Sin to a Holy and Vertuous Life It is so ordered as to be capable of being and it ought to be a Principle of new Life in us as it was the beginning of a new Life in our Saviour Now this Vertue this Power this Efficacy of it as it is that which with the Apostle we ought all most earnestly to endeavour the experiencing in our selves so it is that which will be fittest for us at this time to apply our Meditations to My Work therefore at this time shall be to give some Account of the Power of Christ's Resurrection in order to the making Men good which the Apostle here speaks of to shew how or in what respects it doth influence upon the Lives of Christians Now if we look into the Holy Scriptures we shall find that there is a four-fold Power attributed to it or that it hath an influence upon our Lives in these four respects That is to say I. As it lays an Obligation upon Christians to Holiness and Virtue II. As it is the Principal Evidence of the Truth of our Religion the Design of which is to make Men Holy and Virtuous III. As it is the great Support of our future Hopes or our Hopes of another Life which indeed is the main Encouragement we have to apply our selves seriously to the business of Holiness and Virtue IV. And Fourthly As to it we do principally owe all that supernatural Grace and Strength by which we are inabled to live Holily and Virtuously Of these four Points I shall Discourse very briefly I. And First of all Our Saviour's Resurrection hath an influence upon our Practice as it lays an Obligation upon Christians to lead Holy and Virtuous Lives As it is in it self an incirement to Piety and heavenly Mindedness This is indeed the lowest instance of its power but yet we ought not to pass it by because the Writers of the New Testament do frequently insist on it For thus they argue If Christ was crucified for our sins then ought we to crucifie them in our members And if Christ rose again the third day then are we ingaged in conformity to him to rise again to newness of life to lead a spiritual divine heavenly life such a life as he now lives with God And this in the ancient times was taught every Christian in and by his Baptism Whenever a person was baptized he was not only to profess his faith in Christ's Death and Resurrection but he was also to look upon himself as obliged in correspondence therewith to mortifie his former carnal affections and to enter upon a new state of life And the very Form of Baptism did livelily represent this Obligation to them For what did their being plunged under water signifie but their Undertaking in Imitation of Christ's Death and Burial to forsake all their former evil courses As their ascending out of the water did their Engagement to lead a holy spiritual life This our Apostle doth more than once declare to us Thus Rom. vi 4. We are buried saith he with Christ by Baptism unto death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the Glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life Thus again in the 10th and 11h verses of that Chapter In that Christ died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God likewise reckon ye your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Iesus Christ our Lord. That is to say After the example of Christ's Death and Resurrection account ye your selves obliged to die to sin and to live to Righteousness Lastly To name no more Texts the same use doth the Apostle make of Christ's Resurrection in Coloss iii. 1 2. If ye then saith he be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God i. e. You by entring into the Christian Covenant are incorporated into Christ He is your Head you are his Members and therefore since he no longer leads a life of this World it will by no means become you to live like Worldlings or Epicures but being risen with him as the Members ought to do with the Head to mind those things that are above where he is to set your affections as he goes on on the things above and not on the things of the Earth For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God These things plainly shew that the Apostles delivered the Doctrine of Christ's Resurrection as a Practical Doctrine as a point which if Christians believed as they should do it would ingage them to mortifie their lusts to die to the World to place their affections on spiritual things to have their conversations in Heaven where Christ our Head our Life now sits at the right hand of God II. Great will the influence and Power of Christ's Resurrection upon our lives appear to be when we consider that it is indeed the principal Evidence that we have for the Truth of our Religion the very design of which is to make us Vertuous and Holy If any thing in the World can make a man good it must be a hearty belief of the Gospel And if any thing in the World can make a man heartily to believe the Gospel it must be the Resurrection of our Saviour from the dead All that Power therefore that the Gospel of Christ hath to make men good all that force and efficacy that its Arguments its Promises its Precepts its Encouragements its Threatnings have upon the Understandings