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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61834	A sermon concerning death and the resurrection, preached in St. Maries, at Oxford, on Low Sunday, April the 28. 1644 before the committee of the members of the honourable House of Commons / by W. Strode ...	Strode, William, 1600 or 1601-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing S5984; ESTC R33817	14,393	24

or to new cast that which was before That Potentiall being which man had within the hand of his Maker before his Creation the same and more remaines after his Dissolution Look on Nature the Creature is potentially couch'd under her Power in the Seed look on Art so is the frame within the Artificers call in the wood look up to God so are they that shall rise within the Mold before him how grosse is it to beleeve Nature in her Naturall Effects Art in her Artificiall and onely to mistrust God in his workes Divine Ask not how the Bodies confounded one with another shall be sifted and sever'd for God is the Keeper of Bodies and Elements he knowes where every Atome lies what belongs properly to every Person and how to call it forth How vaine is it to question Gods Power in things impossible to our scant Apprehension yet to widen your Apprehension in this particular and to shew you an Answer to more then ever was objected Though all adventitious matter should be separated and none should remaine but that which issued from the loynes of our Parents and was also derived from our first Parents Adam and Eve God out of those few drops could raise distinct and proper bodies to all mankind Nihil Deo Impossibile nisi quod non vult saith Tertullian nothing is Impossible to God but what he will not doe and what he will that 's necessary Now God hath reveal'd his will by appointing and using the meanes of Raising us and hath past his promise by his Son Iesus that through him he will raise us up at the last day This is the Fathers will which hath sent me saith our Savlour that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up againe at the last day Ioh. 6. 39. v. so that now Gods Iustice and Truth are deeply at stake till there come a Resurrection His Iustice would have stood ingag'd however though no such meanes no such promise had been reveal'd if we grant there is a God it may be evinc'd out of morall principles that of necessity there must be a Resurrection though we knew not how for either there would be no difference of Vertue and Vice in respect of Reward and Punishment and so divine Iustice would be but a Bug-beare or else there would be need of a Resurrection that they who have been prosperous in their wickednesse might be called to account hereafter and they that have here suffered by Vertue might then shine in Glory But since the meanes are expressely revealed since Christ hath paid the price of our Resurrection and God hath promised to make it good since many Martyrs have died in defence of this Hope upon Gods word God is further ingag'd both to Christ and Them both in his Iustice and Truth to performe his purpose and promise And we may be sooner induc'd to yeeld that there is no God or that he was not at all our Builder nor Christ his Corner stone then that he should begin to build and not make an End or Promise an End and not fulfill it Wherefore without doubting let us here rest our Hope that as the Glory of the Father hath raised his Sonne so he will perfect his Glory in raising his Sonnes Attendants Thus you have heard the three Degrees of our Comfort the Safety of Life in Death in that it is hid the sure meanes of safety for that it is bid with Christ and the strong Author of the meanes in that it is hid with Christ in God It remaines now on our part that we be not affrighted with Death because it is no longer the Iaw of Destruction but the Gate of Life and a Passage into Everlasting Happinesse * If those bold Spirits that having heard of the Immortality of the Soule or at least her Rest from misery presently dispatched themselves out of this World without any other call or further warrant but onely this Notion if those undaunted Venturers had been likewise taught the Resurrection of the Body to a better Life and had such an occasion to spend their lives as is now offer'd to us the defence of Religion Lawes and Liberties doubtlesse their Courage had been so inflam'd that either through too much Valour they would undeservedly have found their seeking or have gotten such honour as might stay the desire of death by pursuing the death of others and by taking content in Acts of Glory I doe not wish any to run this Course unadvisedly a sober Expectation of Death or Victory in usefull Service both by charging and sustaining is Valour sufficient and not too much for any Souldierly Martyr Further since Christ by the wood of his Crosse hath sweetned our bitter waters and died for Sin to make Death easie since he hath risen againe to lead us the way into Life Eternall I cannot too much inculcate this other Lesson that we walk not disorderly in this our Pilgrimage least we turn the Gift of Life into double Death the Ioy of our Hearts into Horror and Iudgement our Rising into Bottomlesse Falling In it selfe nothing can be so sweet and desireable as the Appearance of the Lord Iesus in the Resurrection Why should we so confound the Conscience with unrepented Guiltinesse that we should need Mountaines to cover us from his Presence Let us rather amend our wayes and live carefully that we may die with Comfort and Rise with Ioy that the Hope of a Ioyfull Rising may remaine comfortably seal'd unto us in the time of our Hiding by Assurance of the Holy Ghost through Christ the Meanes and God the Author To whom be all Thankes Praise Dominion and Glory now and for evermore Amen FINIS Gen. 3. 19. Isa. 51. 6. Hom. Iliad {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * Cics de contem morte