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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61500	Three sermons preached by the Reverend and learned Dr. Richard Stuart ... to which is added, a fourth sermon, preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Harsnett ...; Sermons. Selections	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5527; ESTC R20152	74,369	194

sight it seems a goodly Error and being cloathed in so glorious a title it may be thought impiety to question it for is it not Treason to oppose a Majesty Romani ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant saith he in Tacitus where the Romans make a desolation they call it a Peace And upon just inquiry we shall find our selves no lesse abused by this appellation To be every where this they call the Majesty of Christ's Human Nature when indeed 't is no whit better then its destruction For to devest an Essence of its propper attributes is to dissolve it and so he th●t leaves a man no Place l●aves him no Body Tell me Is silver of no value except it be changed into Gold Is the Manhood of Christ despiseable except it be made Infinite and so transformed into a Deity He that will needs add Re●son to a Beast instead of a Panegyr●que frames a Metamorphosis for while he thinks to commend he does quite change his nature so he that ascribes Vbiquity to a perfect man is more injurious then bountifull because h● subverts his essence and while he hopes to do him honour hee makes himselfe no lesse then guilty of his overthrow Seems not our Saviour glorious enough except he become All God To please these men must he needs lose his Manhood Tanti non est ut place at vobis perire Nor do we so strictly confine Christ to Heaven as if the Earth might not in some sort pertake of his Humanity He did and he doth lie here but yet in a different manner If you respect a corporeall position my Text is most infallible the Grave is a place where the Lord did lie But if you admit of other Exceptions Christ's Manhood hath an universall presence 't is every where as well by a Virtuall co-operation with his Deity as by an Hipostaticall union His Humane nature makes one person with his Godhead as therefore this is truly every where because it is infinite so may That be said to be because 't is no where severed from that nature which is in it selfe infinite Againe Christ works every where for All power was given to him in the ●8 v●rse of this chapter 'T was given saith the Text and therefore to his Manhood Yet is this one Government exercised by both his natures and he rules every where as God by his essentiall presence as Man by the co-operation with that which is essentially present Hence are his actions mixt and the Scepter of his Regency no less pleasing then powerfull ●here is Pitty and strength together that we might in every place as well Love him in his Manhood as Feare him in his Divinity But if you respect his corporall presence it is not here Christ is so like us that he cannot so be with us And in this regard I know not whether his presence be more full of Glory or such absence of Consolation For what is the God of Heaven so very a Man what confined to some one place flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone take courage then thou wounded Soule approach with boldnesse for this thy Brother is become thy Iudge and he sits to heare thee who hath born thy griefs and pittied thy infirmities It is expedient for thee that He is not here he is gon to prepare a place for thee Cease to seek thy Saviour carnally begin to imitate him and thinke it not enough to Die except thou Rise againe We are buried with Christ in baptisme saith S. Paul Rom. 6.4 See! the Font 's a Sepulchre and we are no sooner Borne then Buried but we must now Rise to newness of life 't is enough that we did lie there our future time must be a Resurrection Thus have I led you into Ioseph's Garden where instead of common delights you have seene a Conquest our Enemie the Grave made empty and thereby forced to confesse an overthrow The Resurrection hath now seised upon it and like a mighty Conqueror shews his Vassall in signe of Triumph The Victory must needs lose much honour when an unskilfull Tongue supplies an Angels place What 's therefore wanting in Speech I 'le strive to supply in prayer Belive and so See the place And thou O God of Comfort do unto thy people as thou didst unto these women returning to the Sepulchre Fill their hearts with great joy To God c. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A FUNERALL SERMON The Text 1. CORINTH: 15.29 If the Dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the Dead ONe good meanes to arm● us against the feare of Death is daily to think that we must needs die For Necessity is the Mistress of Patience and by often meditations teacheth us to account those things Easie which we once held insufferable In illis quae morbo finiuntur magnum ex ipsa Necessitate solatium est as Pliny writes to a friend of his where our Losse comes by sick●ess the same Necessity doth both wound and releive us when neither strength can resist the stroke of death nor Art avoid it 't were madness to be too solicitous in preventing it folly to fear● it Yet were our hopes built only upon this foundation we should be like other men Confidently miserable Seneca might then contend with S. Paule and a Philosopher perhaps grow more resolute then a Christian But our consolation is far more surely founded besids these Sands it hath a Rock too besides the certainty of death the infallibility of a Resurrection Thou errest Stoick Natural Quaest. lib. 6 cap. 1. Non majus est mortalitatis solatium quam ipsa mortalitas yes majus solatium immortalitas 't is indeed a strong encouragment against mortality to think that we must needs die but yet t is a far greater that we should live again that may cause us to neglect the stroak of Death but this to imbrace it So comfortable and therefore fit for this occasion is this Article of our Beliefe That we must rise againe For what discuorse yeilds more content in a painfull seeds-time then to talke of an Harvest what more cumfort at a Funerall then to treat of the Resurrection By the vertue of this faith we triumph though sure to be overcome this fils our hearts with gladness and our tongues with that victorious noise O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory Thus these happy Captives deride their Conqueror for his bonds are their inlargement and their only way to obtaine a Crown is by thi● great Captivitie Did this Text then but intimate a Resurrection only S. Austin's Judgment would approve my choice Curatio Funeris vivorum solatium 't is in his 1 de Civ. Dei cap. 12. The dead are to have the last part in their own Funerals for they are then only b●st performed when the living are most comforted yet that I may not be thought singular this Scripture is more apposite Here is comfort for the Living and honour for the Dead too