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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

unspeakable union with the manhood and communication of properties having rising truly attributed unto it Christ then rose but secundum humanam naturam in his Humanity and his Humanity properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the body which being to stand up from the dead was met by that glorious soule which for a time had departed from it Christ he was not as once his Disciples swallowed up with feare mistooke him and other since blasphemously have said in earnest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a spirit a shadow a man of Ayre but he had a reall substantiall humane body like unto ours which as hee walked with all his life time and carried up with him to the Crosse at his death and left it after death to be buried by his loving Disciples so brought hee the same againe from the depth of the grave not changed in kinde but the very same behold me for it is I even I myselfe Luke 24. 39. Christ demonstrated his body to bee the same by certaine degrees one proofe being more strong than another 1. In that it had veram corporis effigiem a bodies shape and proportion therefore hee bid deth his Apostles behold and see him but so spectra spirits as they call them appeare in humane forme 2. In that it was solidum a fast solid body not thinne and subtill therefore he biddeth his Disciples handle him but this though it prove a body yet not the same 3. Therefore to take away al doubt and to shew indeed it was the same he calleth for Thomas who now might see his hands and touch his side his hands bored with the nayles his side pierced with the Souldiers Speare and then as faithlesse as he was before he became faithfull with the assurance of faith and cryed My Lord and my God Here then wee have to consider of these three things 1. The verity of Christs humane nature that the same body which hee brought from the wombe of the Virgin at his first being upon the earth the same hee brought againe from the womb of the earth when hee opened it the second time to tread upon it a maine pillar of our comfort that Christ tooke our flesh for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if he tooke not our flesh wee are not saved by him 2. Here is the truth of his Resurrection the eleven incredulous Apostles the two Travellers to Emaus Mary Magdalen five hundred brethren at once a thicke cloud of witnesses all these saw all these testifie and we know their testimony is true that the same body which was hanged upon the tree the same did God raise up the third day having loosed the sorrowes of death 3. Here wee see with what bodies we shal arise at the day of Iudgement with these we have about us as Christ rose with his So Iob speaketh Iob 19. 26. Though after my skinne wormes destroy my body yet shall J see God in my flesh whom I my selfe shall see and mine eyes shall behold and none other for me And this is the thing raised But what great matter will the Atheist say is this that Christ rose againe Have not others risen which have beene longer dead than he It is true they have but marke the vertue Raising and you shall finde novum super terram a thing never heard of upon earth before they were raised Christ raised himselfe Lazarus must have the lowd call of Christ Joh. 11. 43. or else had hee slept his long sleepe Elizeus with the touch of his bones set a man upon his feet who was cast dead into his Sepulcher 2 King 13. 21. yet long and long may Elizeus lye in the grave himselfe waiting to bee raised by another because hee cannot raise himselfe Hence came Saint Bernards distinction Aliorum resurrectiones vel suscitationes potius they had externall force raysing them Christ alone internall as hee saith of himselfe I have power to lay downe my life and I have power to take it againe Joh. 16. 18. But what then meant Peter to say God raised up Iesus Acts 2. 32. and Paul Christ was raised from death by the glory of the Father Rom 6. 3. The answer is plaine that Christ may be considered two wayes 1. Ratione unitae Deitatis as he was God as well as man and so wee may say his body resumed the soule which before it lost and the soule came againe to the body which before it left the Divinity of Christ which never left the Humanity but was united unto it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 working this wonderfull conjunction 2. Ratione natura create he may bee considered in his passible humane nature which was raysed and this had not that great power in it selfe but was raised by the God-head both of the Father himself for opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa in these outward actions the persons of the Trinity concurre joyntly so that when God the Father raiseth the Sonne rayseth also and therefore might truly say of the Temple of his body In three dayes I will raise it up againe Ioh. 2. 19. and herein did Christ plainly shew himselfe to be God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mightily saith the Apostle Rom. 1. 4. for super as evadere ad auras hic labor hoe opus est It passeth the bounds of all humane strength to unwind it selfe out of the snares of death Let then the accursed Arrian call into question the God-head of our Saviour let him imagine this rising to proceed from the assistance of the Deity present with him not from the verity thereof in him but let us following the rule and light of Scripture acknowledge the bright beames of his Divinity amidst the most dusky clouds of his Humanity confessing him to be God one with the Father and co-equall as upon other grounds so among the rest upon this That once he was dead but is now alive once he was buried but the third day risen This is the second thing the power whereby Christ was raysed The third is his state being risen and this was a state of immortality hee had privilege from future death hee dyed indeed but it was but once Being raysed from the dead hee dyeth no more death hath no more power over him Rom 6. 9 Others being raised must passe the second time the streights of death the anxiety whereof being once acquainted with it must surely bee great horror to thinke that once againe they must goe through them but Christ having once made spoile of that All-ruling Tyrant hath so over-mastered him that he durst never since set upon him Therefore is it the Motto of the Sonne of man I am alive and I live for evermore Rev. 1. 18. Others rising was in this imperfect that being actually freed from death and ransomed from his captivity yet are they subject every houre to become his thralls and to be catched in his ginnes but Christs rising was perfect in that hee was freed non a morte solum sed a