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A27259	Psychomachia, or, The soules conflict with the sins of vain glory, coldnesse in professing Christ, envie, photinianism (of the last resurrection), ingratitude, unpreparednes to meet the Lord, revenge, forgetfulness of God : pourtrayed in eight severall sermons, six whereof were delivered at St. Maries, and Christ-Church in Oxford, and two at Sherburn in Glocestershire / Henry Beesley ...	Beesley, Henry, 1605-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1691; ESTC R13325	163,090	260

And he knew how dangerous it was to rivall with the Almighty in glory by accepting that horrible courtesie It was the flattery of others Acts 12.22 that made Herod guilty of blasphemie in that overstrained complement The voice of a God and not of a man and yet he is fain to recant it himself by dying the wormes by a mortal demonstration soon confute his divinity Verse 23. and without the help of a Surgeon present him an unfeigned skeleton before the eyes of his kind murtherers So that you see this outward basenesse and infirmity was necessary in our Apostle to raise the conceits of his beholders unto the true Authour of his miracles But though God magnify his power in the weakness of his creatures would you beleeve that he should practise this strange mystery on himself and that he should magnify his power by his own infirmity And yet behold the eternal Son of God effecting the wonder of our redemption in the form of a servant Phil. 2.7 and triumphing over Satan in the infirmities of our nature Rom. 8.3 assuming the likeness of our sinful flesh that he might condemn sin in the flesh and by tasting of death himself Heb. 8.9 1 Cor. 15.54 Eo de honestamento corporis maximé laetatur ut de Sertor Salust Gal. 6.17 swallowing up death in victory And might not Paul glory in his infirmities that were enabled by the sufferings of his Saviour To be like great personages even in miseries is a graceful adversity How proud is the souldier of that wound that resembleth him with his General almost thanking his misfortune for advancing him to so worthy a danger And can he lesse exult in his sufferings that bears in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus Besides it may seem too that God himself alloweth this honest ostentation in his servants when by the consent of Schoolmen all the Martyrs shall appear in the Church triumphant bearing the signes of their Christian wounds about them as if so many speaking testimonies of their godly courage that what here they endured in behalf of their Saviour may be there an addition to their glory And how eminently shall his body then glister with skarres that left here no place for a new wound that by a valiant emulation did not so much imitate as repeat our Saviours sufferings In stoning in whipping in watching Verse 25. in fasting in perils of his own nation in perils among the Gentiles in perils in the City in perils in the wilderness in being haled from one Magistrate to another from Lysias the chief Captain to Felix the Governour Acts 23.26 25.12 from Festus to Caesar in being falsely accused and pronounced innocent by his Judges nay to make up the resemblance he wanted not a blow from the High-Priest nor an Ecce homo behold the man so as he may be well applauded with that elogie of Salvian Salvian de Gub. lib. 3. Singularis Domini praeclarus imitator An excellent disciple of a singular Master that walking in the steps of his leader hath made him plainer as it were and more significant by his footing and may well bespeak your imitation as he did sometimes the Corinthians 1 Cor. 11.1 Application Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ By the example of his sufferings we are summoned to a warfare and who would refuse to follow his Captain in that way which he hath traced out by his own blood Our fighting is suffering and who is so weak but can do this nay weaknesse is our onely strength for when we are weak then are we strong Chap. 12.10 The mind is more able to endure the encounter when its domestick enemy the flesh is brought into subjection and by the discipline of a strict life is taught more readilie to obey her injunctions Aphor. Hippocr In bodily diseases when the sicknesse is in its vigour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the great Physitian a sparing diet is mainly requisite that the strength of nature may be wholly employed on the maladie and it is no less important in the conflicts of the soul which becomes more vigorous by abstinence as thereby uniting her forces Chrys●st and refining her self from the earthly contagion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Chrysost This is a resplendent victorie this is the triumph of the Church thus the devill is vanquished whilest we are afflicted and takes the foile by our miseries by our fasting he is made hungrie by our thirst he faints chased he is by our persecution and disarmed by our nakedness Thus is the Lord of Hosts pleased to fight his battel by our infirmities and from the victorie of our sufferings to erect a trophie to his glory Even so Lord evermore arm us with thy self against all assaults of sin and Satan that by the power of thy Cross and Passion we may advance thy glorie here against the kingdom of darknesse untill by the power of thy resurrection we shall be advanced to thy Kingdom of glorie For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glorie for ever AMEN SERM. II. JOH 12.42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confesse him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue NOthing is more incredible to the depraved nature of man then the mysteries of his salvation He could easily beleeve the father of lies in the plot of his captivity but can hardly beleeve the God of truth in the counsel of his deliverance To perswade so strange a conceipt the Almighty must take paines with his creatures and that word which onely spake mans creation must himself become man to preach his Redemption Luke 18.8 But shall the Sonne of man find faith on the earth behold the barbarousnesse of infidelity Joh. 1.11 He came unto his own and his own received him not and yet the main business of his doctrine was to exhort a beleefe and that doctrine canonized with miracles the infallible testimonies of a deity such miracles as were not so much the labour as the property and emanation of his person Zanch. de trib Elohim l. 3 c. 3 nor were wrought by the dispensation of a greater power but by his own vertue and auhority which was common to the fellowship of the Trinity in which he was not the instrument but the partner and differed from his Father not in power but in the order of working which the devils by a sharper Philosophy perceived to be above the contrivance of nature Vid. Iud. viv in 9. de Civ Dei cap 21. and as if by preaching the Gospel of our Saviour they would condemn the stupid Jewes usurp S. Peters very confession Thou art Christ the Son of the living God Matth. 16.16 But this degenerating stock of Abraham children of his flesh Not his faith in a Sceptick madness will neither credit their ears in the words

the last day the spring of a resurrection And good reason we should so if he as the a 1 Cor. 15.20 V.P. Mart. in 2. Reg. 4 Num 32. Gerhardi loc com first fruits is gone before us that we as the residue stay till the harvest that he in all things may have the preheminence as in time and order so in vertue and dignity His body that was all pure and immaculate had nothing at all to hinder the rising but ours that was born in sinne and hath drunk iniquity like water must be content to lye in the grave to extract its impurity there waiting all the dayes of its appointed time untill our change come b Job cha 14. ver 14. And come it will one day with the coming of our Saviour who will recompence the delay of his coming with the fulnesse of his bounty changing this same body of vilenesse into a body full of glory even after the likenesse of his glorious body which is the patterne or ensample whereunto he will work Ejus corpori glorioso his glorious body Fourth part The pattern THen a body he hath in heaven and did not leave it behind him when he went into glory It was but a dreaming phancie of a Non ergo in aliam naturam mutatum est sed mansit divina gloria plenum spargens lucis radios cui sanctorum corpora erunt conformia Theod. dialog 2. Seleuciani ex Ps 19.4 2 Cor. 5.16 some that he had bequeathed it unto the Sun because of that of the Psalmist in Sole posuit tabernaculum as the vulgar reads it He hath set his tabernacle in the Sun Or that he had swallowed it up by his divinity because of that of the Apostle We know Christ no more after the flesh As if the flesh did misbecome him in his glorious estate and were therefore in their rigid construction to be excluded from entring heaven which is a treason beyond that of Iudas b V Gerh. loc com even to rob Christ of himself by robbing him of that nature which he made himself But it is as easie for our faith to restore Resurrectio Domini non finis carnis sed commutatio fuit nec virtutis augmento consumpta substantia est Qualitas transiit non natura defecit meritò dicitur Caro Christi in eo statu quo fuerit nota nesciri quia nihil in ea passibile nihil remansit in ea infirmum ut et ipsa sit per essentiam non sit ipsa per gloriam Leo de res Ser. 1. what their impiety would violate and more catholick to to avouch that the Body of our Lord is not ended but refined with glory nor hath changed the propriety but the mortality into the state and wonder of incorruption By meanes whereof it now appeareth in no lesse Excellency then before in humility and is no more a dishonour but a glory to our Saviour serving him as a Trophy of that conquest which he wonne in his flesh nay as a Triumph of that conquest of that conquest which he wonne in weakness Secura estore ca●o sanguis usurpastis coelū regnum Dei in Christo Tert. de resur carnis in weak flesh prevailing over the power of darkness And as thus it serves to his glory so as much unto our benefit to confirm in us the hope of a like advancement that having as Tertullian stiles it depositum carnis a pledge of our flesh in heaven we may expect our owne to come after a Ita dubitandum non est de consortio gloriae sicut dubitandum non est de communione naturae L●o ce resur Ser. 2. Anima Christi à principio suae conceptionis fuit gloriosa per fruitionem divinitatis perfectam Est a. dispensative factum ut ab ab animae gloriâ non redundaret in corpus c. Aquin. 3. q. 54. art 3. v. Geth loc com Et Melch. Cani loc theol lib. 12. cap. 13. not doubting of a fellowship in glory as we doubt not of a communion in nature A communion still reall in substance as before time in misery while he conversed here on earth For though his soul was originally glorious by the fruition of the deity yet for the work of our redemption he restrained that glory from flowing out into his body For who had bin accessary to his passion if his divinity had brightly shined through his flesh as one time it did on the Mount But having once accomplished that mysterie by his death then straight way his soul at his resurrection diffused her glory into the body although the body appeared not glorious unto the eyes of his disciples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad astruendam carnis veritatem fidemque resurectionis Jo. Damasc lib. 4. cap. 1. Quòd manducavit potestatis fuit non egestatis Aug. de temp Serm. 147. as being unable to endure so bright a lustre But yet then was his body discharged of all mortall affections For in that he took food it was not out of humane necessity but divine dispensation and done with like miracle as he fasted in the wilderness Neither was it for the refreshment of an hungry body but for the proof of a true body or if you will not to nourish his own flesh Cibo non indigebat corpus immortalitate donatum sed cum viventium in hac vitâ proprium sit edere necssario Dominus carnis resurrect per cibum potum demanstravit dubitantibus de ejus veritate Theod dial 2. Sic voluit dubitantibus exhibere cicatrices vulnerum ut sanant vulnus incredulitatis Aug Ser de temp 147. Non ex impotentia curandi cicatrices servarit sed ut in perpetuum victoriae suae circumferret triumphum Uener Beda Mysterio redemptionis peracta statim Anima in resurrectione gloriam in corpus derivavit ita factum est corpus gloriosum Aquin. 3. q. 53. art 3. but the faith of his disciples And to like purpose were his wounds ad sananda vulnera as St. Austin applies them to cure the wounds of their unbeleif neither were they any tokens of his weakness but rather ensignes of his glory in witness and remembrance of his noble victory But being once ascended into heaven He no longer concealed his glory but suffered it to stream forth into his body in all glorious abundance honouring it with all the graces that the deified na ure can receive and the divine nature bestow Graces surpassing the conceipt of man and how much more the expression yet what he hath discovered that was caught up into the third Heaven we may safely report 1 Cor. 12.2 being the gifts of Christs glorious body wherein ours shall be fashioned like unto it which is the project and intent of this work Fifth Part. The Project IT was the priviledge of Man at the Creation to be made after Gods image but a Communicatur homini