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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21649	Two sermons preached before Her Majesty the Queen-Dowager in Her Majesty's chapel at Somerset-House / by Phil. Ellis.	Ellis, Philip, 1652-1726.	1686 (1686)	Wing E604	22,596	44

upon the Principal Mysteries of our Redemption and shews how they are apply'd to us and express'd in us as a spiritual Circumcision Col. 2.10.11.12 by putting off the Body of Sin signified by the Circumcision of Christ a dying and being buried with him in the Waters of Baptism imported by the shedding his precious Blood and laying his dead Body in the Monument that we are quickned and revived together with him and continues Let no man judge you in part of the Holy Day In parte diei festi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so the vulgar Latin and the Greek have it where the common Translation reads in respect of the Holy Day I know the sense of the Letter according to the general Interpretation is Let no one condemn you for neglecting to observe the Jewish Festivals or Ceremonies But some Expositors understand it to be spoken in a larger and more spiritual sense and by way of Caveat that we should not flatter our selves as if we had perform'd the Obligations of this Day for the purpose by devoutly meditating upon the Resurrection of Christ which is only one Part of the present Solemnity without proceeding to the other to solemnize our own Rising again from the Death of Sin which is the Second Part the Fruit and End of the other But whether you allow of this Interpretation or no at least this is fidelis sermo a faithful Saying an unquestionable Truth If we be dead with him 2 Tim. 2.11 we shall also live with him Die therefore we must not only a natural Death which is the Punishment of Sin but also a spiritual one which is the Death of Sin We incurr'd the fatal Sentence of returning into Earth by seeking those things which are upon Earth we revive into a Spiritual Life by seeking those things which are in Heaven The one consists in the Separation of the Soul from the Body the other in the Union of the Soul with Christ 2 Cor. 4.11 that the Life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal Flesh as the Apostle speaks that our Conversation even in this World may be so pure our Actions so spiritual and our Affections so fix'd upon things above as to express a lively Similitude of our Lord's Resurrection Wherefore the Holy Fathers observe a threefold Analogy or Resemblance between the Resurrection of Ch●●st and that of a Christian The first arises from the Cause of his Resurrection which the Apostle tells us was the Operation of God or the Omnipotent Hand of the Divinity reuniting the Blessed Soul of Jesus to his dead Body and not permitting his Holy One to see Corruption Thus a Soul once dead to God can never by its own Strength for it has none by its own Endeavors or Performances which are inanimate or by the practice of Moral Vertues which are dead in themselves re-enter into the Life of Grace without the merciful Assistance miraculous Operation and the Change of the Hand of the most High whose sole Prerogative it is to command Light to shine out of Darkness 2 Cor. 4.6 as well to repair what has once ceas'd to be as to make what never was before This is a Fundamental Truth and as it were a First Principle of Christian Religion deliver'd by Jesus Christ declar'd and frequently urg'd by the Doctor of the Gentiles and repeated by the Holy Ghost in many Councils and at last in that of Trent where it is decreed Conc. Trid. Sess 6. Can. 1. de Justificat to the condemnation of Modern Pelagianism and to vindicate the Churches Doctrin from the Calumnies or Mistakes of those who still misrepresent it That whosoever asserts Man by his own Works perpetrated either by the Strength of Nature or by the Assistance of the Law may be justified without the Grace of God thro' Jesus Christ Anathema Let him be accursed By declaring the Insufficiency of Nature to a Good and Justifying Life she condemns those Men who think they may be sav'd by leading only a Moral Life according to the Dictamen of Reason without the Practice of Religion By excluding the Old Law she censures the Judaizing Christian w●● places it in equal Ballance with the New or at least thinks this not sufficient without the Observance of the other And lastly By establishing the Necessity of Grace to perform every Good and Vertuous Action she warns us not to presume or relie upon our own Merits she directs us whither we are to lift up our Eyes whence we are to expect our Salvation and points him out who gives Birth to our good Desires Warmth to our Affections and Life to our Actions both the Velle Perficere Philip. 2.13 the Will to rise again and the Execution of it by seeking those things which are above This is the Second Analogy of our Resurrection with that of Christ the Proof and Experiment that we are risen from Death to Life For as we cannot distinguish an Animate from an Inanimate Body but by the Palpitation of the Heart Pulse of the Artery Heaving of the Lungs or the Exercise of some sensible Faculty so cannot we discern a Soul inform'd with the Life of Grace from another which is depriv'd of it but by such Operations as are proper to that Life as the Restraint of our Appetites a Command of our Passions a Modesty in our Behavior a Veracity in our Words a Sincerity in our Dealings a Relieving the Poor assisting the Distressed embracing and doing good to our Enemies These are the Authentick Proofs of a Real Resurrection and a lively Resemblance of Jesus Christ's Surrexit Dominus vere Our Lord is truly risen And how did he make it out he was truly risen Multis Argumentis says St. Luke By many Arguments many infallible Proofs And wherein did these consist but in appearing often to his Disciples shewing the Marks of his Death eating and drinking in their Presence Acts 1.3 and speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God In like manner Matth. 5.16 if our light so shine before men that they see our good works we express the Resemblance of a Glorified Body Donum Claritatis 2 Cor. 4.10 If we carry about the Mortification of Jesus in our Bodies we copy out the Marks and Stigmata of his Passion If we stand firm and unshaken in the midst of Persecution we become a lively Representation of his Impassibility Donum Impassibilitatis Psal 118.32 If we run with delight the way of his Commandments when Charity has enlarged our Hearts and even the Lets and Impediments we meet with in the Service of God are so far from retarding the Course of our Vertue that on the contrary they inflame our Zeal and furnish new Matter to provoke and heighten our Courage we imitate the Third Quality of his Glorified Body Donum Agilitatis In fine If whether we eat or drink 1 Cor. 10.31 or whatsoever we do we do all to

the glory of God as the Apostle advises if our Discourses and Familiar Entertainments savour of those things which are above and at least indirectly appertain to the kingdom of God these are Arguments we are truly risen with Christ being of their own nature such Proofs of a Spiritual Life of a Spiritual Resurrection from the Death of Sin as the Exercise of the Animal Functions and Rational Powers are a Demonstration of the Continuance or Reviviscence of the Natural 2 Cor. 11.23 We read That the Spirit of Darkness sometimes transfigures himself into an Angel of Light sometimes takes a Body of Air which the deluded Sense cannot distinguish from a Solid and Real one and sometimes as Artfully moves a Solid but Dead Body as if it were Alive Both Sacred and Profane History offer innumerable Proofs of these Slights of Satan I shall instance only in the Second which is most for my purpose 1 Sam. 28.15 Thus the Witch of Endor is said in the First of Kings to have rais'd Samuel whose own Words seem to prove it a real Resurrection Quare inquietasti me ut suscitarer Why hast thou disquieted me to raise me up Yet St. Augustin assures us Samuel did not rise again in his own but only in a fictitious and imaginary or at most in an aereal Body And thro' these Slights and Delusions of Satan it happens that many seem to rise again with Christ who in effect rise only with Samuel If we regard their Promises and Protestations Sin shall never reign any more in their mortal Body their Eyes are open'd to see and bewail their past Transgressions they have recover'd their Speech to declare at the Feet of their Confessor those vicious Habits and secret Crimes which so long had been lock'd up in Silence and lay putrifying in their Breasts at the Voice of Christ they issue like so many Lazarus's from their Monuments and run to embrace their Life in the Holy Communion And after all this who can doubt but their Resurrection is real and they are truly risen again with Christ But if you keep your Eye a little upon them you shall see them still playing about the Flames which had scorch'd them before you shall see them frequenting the same licentious Company which gave them their Death wantoning upon the same Brink of the Precipice whence they so lately fell like Ghosts still hovering about their Graves and Places of Burial in fine not advanc'd one step farther off the imminent Dangers and immediate Occasions of Sin And after all this who can doubt but their Resurrection was only in the Air imaginary or Fictitious a Stratagem of the Devil to delude them and to amuse their Confessors while St. Paul's Declaration touching the State of the Widow is verify'd in every Soul She that liveth in pleasures 1 Tim. 5.6 is dead while she liveth Haec praecipe says the Great Apostle teach command urge and inculeate this Doctrin For the Resurrection of a Soul cries St. Bernard is not so easie a thing as you imagine it is a great and wonderful Sacrament magnum prorsus mirabile Sacramentum animae suscitatio Great in reference to the Power of God and Wonderful as to the Disposition requisite in the Sinner To break the Treble Cord of a threefold Concupiscence to destroy all vicious Habits Root and Branch to lay violent Hands upon our own Hearts and tear from our Breasts what is as dear to us as Life and almost as deeply ingrafted as Nature to turn the Stream of our Affections to hate our own Souls which we so tenderly cherish and indulge to love and embrace a Penitential Life of which we have so great an abhorrence to which we carry such a strange aversion and antipathy Ah! Christian this is not the work of a few Hours Recollection this is not the Fruit of a few superficial Tears which dry and vanish as they fall this is not the Effect of a Sigh which passes with the Wind or of a hasty Resolution which is forgot almost as soon as made this is not the Violence that takes Heaven which do's not yield upon every faint or false Attack These indeed are Circumstances which ever attend a true Resurrection but they are not infallible Proofs They are common to a Real and a Fictitious one They may be indeed the first Dawnings of a New Life but are too often only a gaudy Spectre a meer outside and an amusing Apparition So true is that terrible Assertion of the Holy Bishop of Barcellona S. Pacian Ep. 3. ad Synphr Paucorum est labor qui vere resurgunt Few there are who truly rise again because few will take the pains to extricate themselves from the Snares of Sin and remove every Occasion as far as in them lies of relapsing into it after the Example of the Holy King Josias 2 Kings 23. who not only broke down the Idols banish'd the Artificers demolish'd the Altars but also cut down the Groves to efface even the Memory of Idolatry lest the Convenience of committing the same Crime might be an Invitation to commit it Yet this work of estranging our selves from the Dangers of Sin tho' attended with so many Difficulties is but a remote disposition to a Spiritual Resurrection a removens prohibens there are others and nearer requir'd not only to the Introducing but also to the Nourishment and Preservation of the New Life This is the Third Analogy the Holy Fathers observe between the Resurrection of Christ and that of a Christian viz. the Duration and Perpetuity of it intimated by the Apostle when he tells us Christ being rais'd from the dead dies no more Rom. 6.9 By which words not only a feigned but also a failing Repentance is struck out of the Book of Life And this Admonition is particularly address'd to you of the Houshold of Faith who after a sincere and unfeigned sorrow of Heart after a clear and undisguis'd Enumeration of all your Sins by Confession of Mouth after a serious Endeavour to apply to your selves the Satisfactions of Christ by the exercise of Good Works use violence upon your Hearts in exterminating ill Habits and avoiding those Occasions which formerly prevail'd upon you and in fine are truly risen again but alas are not risen again with Christ For after you have set your hand to the Plow you look back upon the Ease and Pleasure of the World after you have been feasted with the Bread of Angels your Hearts return into Egypt you remit of your primitive Fervour you slacken in your Devotions you inquire into a corrupted Moral and hunt after Cases to dispense with your Resolutions you hearken to the Language of the World till you are insensibly seis'd with the Infection it gains every day upon you preys upon the Life of the Spirit and at last wholly consumes it Thus the very Means of your Salvation corrupt into the Occasions of your farther Misery and your rising again serves