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A96328	The Christians hope triumphing in these glorious truths; [brace] 1. That Christ the ground of hope, is God, and not meer man, against the Arians, and other unbelieving Christians. 2. That Christ is the true Messiah, against the unbelieving Jews. 3. That there is another life besides this, against the grosse atheist. 4. That the soul of man is immortall, and doth not sleep till the day of resurrection, against the errour of some seeming semi-atheists. 5. How the hope of heaven should be attained, whilst we are on earth, against the carnall worldlings. 6. How this hope may be discerned where it is, and attained where it is not, for the comfort of every poor Christian. All which truths are briefly pointed out and cleared, in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords in the Abby-Church at Westminster on Wednesday, May 28. being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. / By Jeremiah Whitaker. Published by order of the House of Peers.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1710; Thomason E286_4; ESTC R200074	52,593	59

righteousnes Jer. 23.6 If then the titles of the Father be given to Christ t is no diminution of the Fathers glory to acknowledge Christ God equall with the Father Secondly consider the attributes of Christ and you shall finde the incommunicable accributes of God which cannot be given to any meere creature given to Christ First he is eternall I was set up from everlasting from the beginning before ever the Earth was before he prepared the world Prov. 8.22 Surely none can be eternall but God Psal 50.1 from everlasting to everlasting thou art God but the Lord Jesus Christ he is eternall Out of Bethlchem Ephrata shall come out to me he that is to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting Mic. 5.2 Compared with Matth. 2.6 and therefore when Christ had finished the worke of our Redemption he prayed that the Father would glorify him with himselfe with the glory which he had with him before the beginning of the world Joh. 17.5 Secondly he is not onely eternall but immutable the fame yesterday to day and for ever Heb. 13.8 Thirdly he is omnipresent and surely he that filleth the Heavens and the Earth must needs be God but Christ was in Heaven while he was on Earth The Sonne of man which is in Heaven Joh. 3.13 he is with his people in all ages in all places to the end of the world Math. 28.10 I am with you to the end of the world he a Gal. 2.10 liveth in them b 2 Cor. 13.3 speaketh in them c 2 Cor. 6.16 walketh in them d Ephes 3.17 dwelleth in them e Ephes 1.23 filleth them all in all therefore surely he must needs be God Fourthly he is omnipotent the Lord God omnipotent so called Rev. 19.6 Rev. 11.17 and Christ speaking of himselfe saith I am the Alpha and Omega c. which is and which was Rev. 1.8 and which is to come the Almighty Fifthly he is omniscient he is the wisedome of God in him are all treasures of wisedome and knowledge Col. 2.3 he knoweth all things Joh. last 20. Seatcheth all things Jer. 17.10 compated with Joh. 2. last he needed not that any man should testifie of man for he knew what was in man he foretelleth all the changes which shall come upon the sonnes of men Isa 45.11 compared with Joh. 13.19 I have told you before it come to passe that when it cometh to passe ye may beleeve that I am he you can name no other essentiall Attribute of God but it is given unto Christ Thirdly looke on the workes of Christ and these prove him to be God it was his argument to the Jawes when they asked him How long wilt thou make us to doubts tell us plainly if thou be the Christ Joh. 10.24.25 he answered The works that I have done in my fathers name they testifie of me and beleeve me for the very works sake Joh. 14.11 Consider amongst the workes of God First the workes of creation surely he that laid the foundation of the earth and stretched out the heaven like a curtaine must needs be God for the gods that have not made the Heaven and the Earth Jer. 10.11 even they shall perish from the Earth and frō under Heaven It is God that made the Earth by his owne power and stablished the World by his owne wisdome now all things were created by him that are in Heaven and Earth visible and invisible c. Col. 1.16 and not onely by him but for him and without him was nothing made of all that was made Joh. 1.3 and surely power to create being infinite is so proper to the Creatour that it is incommunicable to any creature for no finite creature can be capable of an infinite power Secondly Consider his workes of sustaining all things all this glorious world would be turned into a Chaos were it not that Christ sustaineth all things by the word of his power Heb. 1.3 and he was not onely before all things Col. 1.17 Joh. 5.17 but by him all things consist my Father saith Christ worketh hitherto and I worke Thirdly Consider the workes of miracles in the dayes of his flesh Psal 86.10 thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone the seas and winds obeyed him the spirits came out of the possessed and though the Apostles did great miracles yet it was not in their owne name as themselves confessed Act. 3.12 4.10 and by this Argument Christ satisfied Johns Disciples Go tell what things ye heare and see the blinde receive their sight the lame walke the lepers are cleansed and the deaf heart and the dead are raised c. and stopped the mouth of the Jewes If I had not done amongst them those workes that no man had done they had not had sinnne Joh. 15.24 Fourthly Consider the workes of Christ as Mediatour he that reneweth the heart of man Job 14.4 and bringeth a cleane thing out of an uncleane and darkenes out of light he that can circumcise the heart and purifie to himselfe a peculiar people must needs be God he that pardoneth iniquity sinne and transgression must needs be God for who can forgive sinnes but God Mark 2.5 7. he that was the Sonne of man had power on Earth to forgive sinnes and therefore must needs be God Math 9.6 and the lamb of God that taketh a way the sinnes of the world he that is the captaine of our Salvation that redeemeth his people from death and Hell and hath destroyed him that had power over death must needs be more then meer man for no man can redeem his brother from death but onely Christ who hath the keys of hell and death Rev. 1.18 The fourth Argument is taken from the great prerogatives and preheminences proper to God God is a jealous God and will not give his glory to any creature Isa 42.8 48.11 but all glory that belongeth unto God the Father the Father hath commanded us to give it unto the Sonne that all men might honour the Sonne as they honour the Father he that honoureth not the Sonne honoureth not the Father Joh. 5.23 We are baptized into the name of the Father and so are we into the name of the Sonne and not into the name of any creature we are bound to pray to God the Father Psal 50.15 Joel 2.32 and so are we bound to pray unto God the Sonne Stephen called upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Act. 7.59 Act. 9.13 compared with ver 21. and the Saints are described to be such as call upon the name of Jesus we are bound to beleeve in the name of the Sonne as well as in the name of the Father Joh. 14 1. we are commanded to glory in Christ 1 Cor. 1.30 compared with Jer. 9.23 all acts of worship that are proper to the Father are given to the Sonne and when he bringeth his first begotten into the world he

great part of the men of the world captive the first is of the grosse Atheist the other of the Semi-atheist The first is of the grand Atheist how many are there that have the face of Christians but their hearts are heathenish who resolve there faith into meer reason and their hopes into sight Such were the Sadduces in Christs time Acts 23.8 who denied Angels and spirits and the resurrection such Were before Christ among the Prophets as those Epicures Isa 22.12.13 who when the Lord called for weeping and mourning behold joy and gladnesse slaying of oxen and killing of sheep eating flesh and drinking wine saying Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die such were some after Christ in the daies of the Apostle vers 32. of this chapter Peter prophesieth that there should be such to the end of the world wicked and profane men scoffers 2 Pet. 3.3 4. who should walk after their own lusts saying Where is the promise of his comming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation It was an article objected against one of the Popes in the Councell of Basil that he had often said before divers Joannes 23. Saepe coram di versis praelatia pertinaciler juadente dia●olo asseruit vitam aternam nonneque aliam post banc dixit animan bominucum corpore relinqui Concil Basil Ses● 11 that were was no such thing as eternall life and Paul the third is reported to have said when he was dying now he should know three things whether the soul was immortall whether there was a hell whether there was a God if all these atheisticall opinions were buried in hell yet Satans temptations and the hellish corruptions of our own hearts would raise them up again and therefore 't is good to be established that we may stand fast in this evil day and having done all to stand Against this atheisticall opinion lay this down for a sure foundation surely there is another life besides this life and to strengthen you therein consider these Arguments First Surely there is a God Paulus 3. Moriturus dixisse fertur se jam experturun veritaten● trium quaestionum de quibus in tota vita dabitas●et 1. an ●nimae sint immortales 2. an sit insernus 3. an sit Deus Gerrard loc com de mort p 178. the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth forth his handy work every creature pointeth us to the Creatour and he that beleeveth not is condemned of himself and thou art left inexcusable O man now if there be a God there must needs be another life wherein God will fulfill the good he hath promised and execute the evil he hath threatned for in this life there is arighteous man that perisheth in his righteousnesse and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his daies in his wickednesse Arg. 1 Secondly Consider Jesus Christ whom you heard not only to be the Son of man but to be the Son of God and the true Messiah that great mystery wherein God hath made known the riches of his glory for without controversie great is the mystery of godlinesse Christ manifested in the flesh P●●l 19.1 Eccles 7.15 1 Tim. 3.16 a mystery so much admired by the Apostles ador'd by Angels beleeved by Devils if there be no other life consider Arg. 2 First What was the end of Christs incarnation why did God become man and he that was the mirrour of Angels become the reproach of men Heb. 2.10 was it not that he might bring many sonne and daughters unto glory and that glory not in this life for when he appeareth in another life Col. 3.4.2 Cor. 8.9 then are the Saints to appear with him in glory why became he poor but that we through his poverty might be made rich and obtain the riches of the glory of the inheritance which is incorruptible and undefiled 1 Pet 2 3 4. and that passeth not away reserved in the highest heavens for them who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation Secondly What was the end of his bitter passion why did be taste death who was the Lord of life but that through death he might destroy him that had power over death Heb. 1.14 15. that is the devil and deliver them who through the feare of death were all their life time subject to bondage and what deliverance from this death is imaginable If the end of this life put an end to all our comforts then the dangers of death are not abated nor the feares of death any whit diminished but he was made perfect through suffering that he might become the authour of eternall life Heb. 5.9 to all that doe obey him Thirdly What was the end of his resurrection but that his Saints might be quickned up together with him Ephes 2.6 1. Pet. 1.3 and made to sit in heavenly places together with him and so obtain a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead Fourthly What was the end of Christs ascension but to prepare a place for his people and if I go and prepare a place for you saith Christ Joh. 14.2 3. I will come again and receive you that where I am there ye may be also Fifthly What is the end of his intercession but that he may be able to save them to the utmost Heb 7.25 that come unto God through him and how are they saved by him to the utmost if there be not another life after this life in this life the Saints are slain all the day long and counted as sheep unto the slaughter therefore abhorre that blasphemy as once to imagine that this great mystery of piety should be a mystery of iniquity if there were no other life expected then this then as St Paul saith of the resurrection Christ is not risen so may I say then Christ is neither borne nor hath he suffered nor is he ascended nor sitteth on the right hand of the Majesty on high despise not this glorious mystery through unbeleife for if he that despised Moses his law dyed without mercy of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who treadeth under foot the Son of God Heb. 10.28 29. and treadeth the blood of the Covenant under his feet as an unholy thing and doth despite to the spirit of grace Arg. 3 Thirdly 2 Pet. 1.19 Consider the Covenant of Jesus Christ we have a sure word of prophecy to which we doe well to take heed as to a light that shineth in a dark place men may deceive and be deceived all flesh is grasse 1 Pet. 1.23 24. and the goodlines thereof like the flower of the earth but though men die the Word of the Lord liveth and abideth for ever and though Heaven and Earth passe away Math. 5.18 yet not one jet or title of this word shall passe away

now if you believe not that there is another life then you make the Word of God to be a refuge of lies and the holy Scripture is looked upon by you as some imposture and read over the parts of the Covenant and dare you imagine that his Commandements are irrationall First Consider his Commandements viz. Lay not up for your selves treasures on Earth which the moth corrupteth Math. 6.19 Joh. 6.27 Luk. 13. and theeves break thorow and steale labour not for the meat that perisheth but for that which endureth to aternall life strive to enter in at the strait gate and can these directions of the Lord of glory be thought by you to be delusions Secondly Consider the threats of the Covenant doe you think them to be vaine affrightments Christ saith What shall it profit a man if he gaine the whole world and lose his own soul Math. 16.16 now if the soule be the temper of the body and if there be no life but this then the soule is lost for ever for every one must lay downe his life there is no man living that shall not see death Christ biddeth us feare him that killeth body and soul why doe all the Scriptures tell us of devouring fires everlasting burnings Isa 33.34 cap. 30.35 that Tophet is prepared of old the pile thereof is much wood the breath of the Lord kindleth it the worme never dyeth and the fire never goeth out but the smoke of the torment ascendeth for ever and ever doe you or dare any one of you when you heare the words of this curse blesse your selves in the imagination of your heart and say I shall have peace though I adde drunkennes unto thirst Deut. 19.19 be sure though you despise this Word of the Lord yet this word shall take hold of you and all the curses of this book shall lie upon you Z●ch 1.6 and the Lord shall blot out your name from under Heaven Thirdly Look on the promises of this Covenant's and can any of you think those promises which God counteth to be most precious to be lies most pernitious doth Christ use Stratagems to overreach his people can you think the God of truth will deceive who will not suffer any man to goe beyond 1 Thes 4.6 or defraud his brother but will be an avenger of such things how often doth Christ engage himself by his promise Matth.'s 19.29 that no man hath lost futher or mother houses or lands for my name sake but shall receive manifold in this life and in the life to come eternall life how often doth he pronounce his Disciples blest when all men shall revile and persecute them and biddeth them rejoyce and be exceeding glad in that day Math. 5.12 13. for though their troubles be great yet their reward shall be greater in Heaven Fourthly What doe you thinke of the graces of Gods Covenant which are the fruits of the spirit Gal. 5.22 as love joy peace c. If the eyes of our understanding be opened to know what is the hope of the calling and the riches of the glory of the inheritance with the Saints in life you cannot but confesse that the worke of Conversion is greater then the worke of Creation and the exceeding greatnes of his power towards them that beleeve is according to the mighty working of his power Ephes 1.19 which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead dare you without abhorrence and reluctance entertaine a thought that the reall grates of God are but the meere fancies of men and that there is no distinction between good and evil betwixt light and darknes and involve your selves in that woe Isa 5.20 Woe be unto them that call evil good and good evil Fifthly What doe you thinke of all the comforts of this Covenant the joy of gods chosen Psal 106.5 to much begged by David so much admired by the Apostle that beleeving the Saints rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1.8 Rom. 5.2 and rejoyce in the hope of glory of God and are ever looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God the thoughts of the great day when the sun shall be darkned Tit. 2.13 and the moon turned into blood rayseth up their spirits higher and Christ biddeth them lift up their heads Luk. 1.28 for their redemption then draweth neare Sixthly What doe you think of the Children of this Covenant the holy Prophets and Apostles and Saints and Martyrs who loved not their lives unto the death Rev. 12 1● but kept the word of Christs testimonie Moses was learned in all the wisdome of the Egyptians yet be refused to be called the sonne in Law to Pharaobs daughter Heb. 11.26 27. and chose rather to suffer affliction with the children of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a moment because he had respect unto the recompence of reward Paul brought up at the feet of Gamaliel Act 20 2● counteth not his life deare unto him that he may finish his course with joy and of that cloud of witnesses how many of them were racked tortured and accepted not deliverance that they might obtaine a better resurrection Heb. 11.35 Dare you condemne all the generation of the righteous and soules of those boly ones that are now made perfect if you imagine there is no other life besides this then you condemne not onely the wisest of men of folly but the comforts and the graces and the threats and the promises and the commands and directions of God of falshood and that Atheistical foule that dares imagine the God of truth to be lyar shall finde that God Almighty will give him his portion with lians Rev. 21.8 and unbeleivers for ever in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstene Arg. 4 Fourthly Consider the glorious Angels 1 Tim. 5.21 Math. 26.53 Heb. 12.22 you have read of their state and condition that they are elect Angels of their number that they are many legions and an innumerable company of Angels how they shall appeare with Christ at his comming in that great day when he shall come with his mighty Angels Math. 25.31 Math. 22.30 and how the happines of the Saints after death is to be made like the Angels of God now consider what is the great imployment of the Angels to great in power till that great day come doth not the Scripture tell us that they wait over us that they are ministring Spirits Heb. 1.14 Esal 34.7 Luk. 15.10 Matth. 11.10 sont out for the good of them who shall be heires of Salvation doe they not pitch their tonts about us joy in our conversion there is more joy in heaven among the Angels of God for the conversion of one sinner c. and they behold the face of God for us and why is all this if there were no other life then the joy of the

silent Fifthly The expression of death by the Holy ghost is a departure 2 Pet 1 14. putting off this tabernacle and it is a strange ●●ake to take the house for the inhabitant Sixthly I cannot rockon the world of absurdities which follow this great errour that it 〈◊〉 gap to the overthrow of all the thoughts of Eternity for if arguments from nature can prevaile to delude the soule so farre as to thinke the soule is abolished at death what arguments can prevaile with a carnall heart to perswade it that the body shall be raised after death the voice of nature cryed aloud amongst the heathen that the soules of man were immortall and that there was a different state of the soules of just men and unjust after death the Elizian fields full of happines for the one sort and the Tartarean darknes full of horrour for the other t is an ancient observation that almost all Philosophers all Hereticks confessed the soule to be immortall and though they did not much desire it Animae salutē credo tractatu carere omnes fere baeretici eam quoquo modo volunt tame● non negāt Tertul. de resur Carnis yet they were not able to deny it but the resurrection from the dead was by few of them discerned scarce by any of them acknowledged besides this errour is destructive to all religion our corrupt natures are full of the seeds of Atheisme we need all religion to eradicate them but nothing to foment them thoughts of Epicurisme sinke deep to count the fruition of carnall pleasures the greatest good how many thousand soules have miscarryed upon this rock who from hence have turned to be lovers of pleasures more then of God to preserve your soules from this infection 2 Tim. 3.4 Vid. Tertul. Lactan. c. Discede ab Ethnico haeretice quid alieno uteris clypeo si ab Apostolo ornatus es Tertul. de resur I have been thus large in proving this assertion I should proceed to confute the arguments brought to the contrary but the time preventeth me onely in briefe their argnments are either drawne from corrupt nature which are abundantly answered by the fathers in their disputes against the heathen and they wondred that hereticall Christians that enjoyed the light of Scripture should borrow any arguments from Galen and the rest of the heathen that sat in darknesse and in the valley of the shadow of death let Heathens turne to Christians to assert this truth but never let Christians so sarre ●●●●tatise to Heathens as to assert their ●orrours or else their objections and seeming arguments are taken from mistaken Scripture I have scarcely time to relate them much lesse to refute them Object Some object and say Did not God threaten Adam In the day thou easest thereof thou shalt die and if he died Gen. 2.17 then the whole man did die for the body is not the man without the soul and therefore reason that immortall Adam must be made mortall Sol. To this I answer 1. That the death which God did threaten was not only naturall but spirituall and eternall and spirituall and eternall death may be upon the soul when the body perisheth the Angels that fell from their first standing are under death yet their being is not abolished Rev. 20.10 14. and after the day of judgement the wicked shall be cast into hell the second death yet they shall never be reduced to a non entitie for the smoake of their torment ascondeth for over If any say Rev. 14.11 Why is the whole man said to die if the soul liveth when the body is destroyed Lanswer That whatsoever belongeth to any part of any whole Quicquid convenit parti qua pars convenit toti secundum illam partem may be truly asscribed to the whole according to that part Man seeth yet the whole body is not an eye for then where was the eare but the whole light of the body is the eye Christ was born put to death buried and this is said of whole Christ but this is only in reference to the humane nature for the God-head is immortall 2. pet 3.18 and therefore he was put to death in the flesh only Object But they say When men are dead the Scripture expresly saith that they cannot praise God Psal 6.5 and 88.9 Isa 38.8 9. Sol. I answer the dead qui tales so farre as they are dead cannot praise God Rev. 14.13 the body that lieth in the grave resteth from its labour yet this doth not exclude the realiy of the act but the manner of the performance and so saith Hezekiah they shall not praise thee as I do this day Isa 38.19 the father to the children shall make known Gods truth 1. Though they cannot do it for anothers conversion yet they can do it for their own consolation and these souls that are with the Lord they follow the Lamb where ever he goeth and have their hallelujahs continually in their mouth Rev. 5.9 and blessed be they that dwell in God presence Psal 84.4 they will be alwaies praising him Object God is said only to have immortalitie c. Sol. God alone is immortall à parte ante from all eternity he alone is independently unchangeably infinitly immortall impossible 't is for any creature or all the creatures to anihilate God 't is an easie thing with God to anihilate any of his creatures he alone is the authour and continuer of immortality But I dare not in this point presume to detain you any longer what ever flesh and bloud may suggest or carnall reason object let your souls everlastingly dwell upon this strong foundation beleeving that there is another life besides this life There are many other Uses of this Doctrin to perswade you not only to beleeve this truth stedfastly but to blesse God for it abundantly That your souls doe not die with your bodie herein triumph that death hath no power of absolute destroying but only of changing and that change to your souls if you be in Christ is unspeakably for the better Be you therefore intreated all the daies of your life and appointed time Job 14.14 to wait till your change come esteem this truth as one part of the oracles of God most comfortable and one of the greatest remedies against all future fears and present miseries that though death destroy your bodie yet your hope may be in the rock of eternity that you may say as the Apostle doth here If we had hopes only in Christ in this life we were of all most miserable As you have heard the extent of this hope The 4th part so consider the ground of this extent here exprest by the Apostle drawn from an absurdity that the best of men otherwise should be most miserables which is an absurdity so grosse which the light of nature cannot but abhorre and therefore Paul counts it needlesse to use any other arguments to refute hence