Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	dead_a	death_n	quicken_v	3,267	5	10.4250	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40096	A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord maior of London, and the Court of Aldermen, &c., on Easter-Monday, 1692 being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing F1723; ESTC R37351	17,587	40

themselves with the Cavils which have been often raised against the Resurrection of the Body they all supposing such a Sameness as is no where to be found in the sacred writings nay the Contrary to which the Apostle in the fore-cited words hath at least intimated And the Argument taken from our Bodies being such Fluid things as we know they are do nothing hinder but that the Dead may rise with as much the same Bodies with those that were Buried as the Buried are the Same with those they were Born with or that they had but a few years before they dyed But in short we shall doubtless Rise with as much the Same Bodies as it can be our Interest to desire we should and he who believes this needs not fear in the least that he believes too little relating to this great Doctrine of the Resurrection of the dead And tho' he may not have so large a Faith as some others yet if it hath its due Influence upon his Practice he hath every whit as good a one to all Intents and Purposes Now as to our Evidence for the truth of this Article we have the greatest that can be since our Lord did so plainly Reveal it before His death and Confirmed the truth of all His Doctrines by His Resurrection Or which is the same thing demonstrated hereby that He was no Imposter in having declared Himself to be Sent of God and the Son of God We are therefore altogether as certain of our own future Resurrection as we can be of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. And from what hath been said we may be assured that we can be certain of no matter of fact which we have not beheld with our own Eyes if we are not sure of this But the Apostle doth not stick to say that if there be no Resurrection of the dead then is not Christ risen 1 Cor. 15. 13. And he both repeateth this and Enlargeth upon it v. 15 16. Yea saith he and we are found false Witnesses of God because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ whom He raised not up if so be that the dead rise not For if the dead rise not then is not Christ risen And farther Christ in rising again is declared by S. Paul to be the Representative of all true Christians He saith Now is Christ risen from the dead and is become the First Fruits of them that Slept Now the First Fruits under the Law did represent the whole Harvest and their being offered to God brought a Blessing on all the Other Fruits and by the offering of them as he also saith the rest were sanctified or Consecrated to God And so is the whole Church both in Soul and Body by Christs Resurrection And I add by His presenting Himself to His Father in Heaven upon that very day on which the First Fruits were offered according to the Law And so His Resurrection to Glory was a proof and pledge of all His sincere Disciples rising to Glory also And therefore this Apostle tells the Ephesians that as they who were dead in Sins were quickned together with Christ or raised from the death of Sin to the life of Righteousness so likewise God hath raised them up together and made them sit together in Heavenly Places in Christ Jesus That is in Christ their Head their dead Bodies are already raised and with their Souls may be said to be at present Glorified in Him in Him I say considered as their Head or Representative And thus we see there is a necessary Connexion between the two Propositions in our Text God hath raised up the Lord and He will raise up us by his own Power Now to make Application of what hath been said on this Part of the Text In the First place Is it so certain that God will raise up us by His own Power even as certain as that He hath raised up Christ then are we not all of us infinitely concerned to make it our greatest Business while we remain in these Bodies which is our state of Probation and Tryal to be found in the Number of those who shall be accounted worthy to obtain that World to use our SAVIOURS own Words and the Resurrection from the Dead and to stand before the Son of Man That is to attain a Glorious Resurrection and to stand with Courage and Confidence before the Son of Man And how should we Watch and Pray always that we may escape those dreadful things which shall come upon the wicked S. Paul having said That he had hope towards God that there shall be a Resurrection both of the just and of the unjust immediately adds And herein do I exercise my self to have always a Conscience void of Offence both towards God and towards men And no man can be perswaded of this and withal consider it but it must of necessity have this effect upon him Especially since though the Resurrection of the Body may still be at a great distance yet the other Life is at the door and near at hand as to each of us The Doctrine of the Soul-sleepers being plainly confuted both by our blessed Saviour and the now mentioned great Apostle And indeed that Doctrine is no better Philosophy than Divinity it speaking great Ignorance of the Nature of Souls Nor have I ever met with a Philosopher who believed a Future Life as they all did or were inclined to do except the profest or the sly Atheists but took it for granted that humane Souls are so far from being deprived of all Sense and Consciousness of Being that they gain much the freer use of their Faculties by their leaving these Bodies They looking upon them as Prisons and dark Dungeons to Souls in which they are miserably straitned and pent up And they were so far from thinking that Bodies do give Life and Activity to Souls that they held the quite contrary And not onely that the Life and Activity of Bodies is wholly from their Souls but also that Souls can never be so truly said to live as when they are let loose from these Bodies And the Book of Wisdom presents us with the same Doctrine Ch. 9. 15. Where 't is said That the Corruptible Body presseth down the Soul and the earthy Tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things And in saying that we are all upon the Borders of the other World I say we are very near to great Happiness or great Misery Good Souls in the separate State being very Happy by their having got rid of that Body of Death with which they were here so clogged and by the free Exercise of Love to God and to one another and of all the Divine Virtues thereby obtained in which their Bodies to their great grief miserably interrupted them As also they must needs feel great Happiness from comfortable Reflexions on the good they did or endeavoured to do in these Bodies and the joyful Foresight of that Crown of Righteousness which