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A85735	A demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and therein of the Christian religion. Very usefull for the further satisfaction and confirmation of all good Christians; as likewise for the confutation and conviction of those that have a Jewish or atheisticall spirit in them. / Written by Richard Garbutt, Bachelour in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards preacher of the Gospel at Leeds in Yorshire [sic].	Garbutt, Richard.; Jackson, Nathaniel, d. 1662.; Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing G207; Thomason E1693_1; ESTC R202150	67,066	193

a blessed Resurrection let us labour to belong to the first fruits It is strange that we should thinke to continue nothing but very tares and stinking weeds in Gods field and thinke at harvest time to be carried home into his barne as the best Corne. Beloved however it prove with us that many a tare and filthy weed may be brought home among the good Corne and many a good eare of Corne left behind in the field yet at that harvest the end of the world not one tare in Gods field shall be brought home into his barn nor one eare of good Corne left behind to rot in the field Let us therefore strive to belong unto the first fruits if we look to be blessed in the first fruits Secondly If Christ be risen as the first fruits then let this confirme all them that belong unto the first fruits in the assured blessed hope of their undoubted glorious Resurrection if the poorest despised member of Christs body shall not rise again to glory then Christ himselfe is yet in the power of death death gnawes upon him It is the Apostle himselfe that is thus bold But if there be no Resurrection from the dead 1 Cor. 15.13 then is Christ not risen the Head is not in Heaven if any of the members shall for ever rot in the earth Observe how still the Scripture makes the blessed hope that is in us of our Resurrections to rest and build it selfe upon Christs Resurrection Job 19.25.26 so Job I know that my Redeemer liveth is one that death hath no power over and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth and what then Job what if thou knowest that why I know then that I shall not alwayes be wormes meat but though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God So the Apostle having prayed that God would give the Ephesians enlightned minds to know the excellency of the happiness that awaits them in Heaven in these words That yee may know what is the hope of his calling Eph. 1.18 and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints Lest they should thinke But how should wee ever attaine this happiness wee poore mortall corruptible creatures that dayly dy and rot and putrify in the grave and no signe of any such ensuing glory therefore he prayes withall that they may know the greatness of Gods power in raising up Christ from the dead as an assurance that he will also raise up them And that ye may know what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead verse 19.20 because as it follows he raised up Christ to be the Head over all things to his Church which is his body the fulness of him which filleth all in all and therefore Christ is maimed and imperfect without his body His body therefore doubtles shal be assumed at last to him body and head to make one perfect man and one full Christ Till we all come in the unity of the faith Eph. 4.13 and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man c. what firmer hope therefore of our Resurrections then that wee are thus to be the fulness of Christ who should otherwise be a maimed Christ an imperfect Christ a halfe Christ a head without a body Further for this point makes that which the Apostle hath Phil. 3.10 That I may know him and the power of his Resurrection and the power of his Resurrection to me ward to raise mee up also by an influence of the head upon the members after all my fellowship with him in his sufferings 1 Pet. 1.21 Who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God sc nothing doubting but that he would also raise you up having raised him up your first fruits Rev. 1.18 I am he that liveth and was dead and have the keyes of Hell and of death have the keyes he slipt not out onely himselfe deceiving the keeper but he came out powerfully with keyes in his hand to let out also whomsoever of his he would he did not indeed as Samson did with the door of the gate of the City Gaza carry away the door and all that whosoever would might go forth but onely tooke away the keyes of the door to let out and lock in still whom he would Thirdly If Christ be risen as the first fruits then let this comfort us against the feare of death if we reckon of a day wherein he that dyed for us and rose again will for that which is sowne in corruption raise it again in incorruption which is sowne in dishonour raise it in glory sown in weakness raise it in power which is sowne a naturall body raise it a spirituall body Why should we much be afraid of death death do●s but spoil us of our rags to give us robes does but pull downe our old ruinous house to reare up a new one and a stately one in the roome We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved 2 Cor. 5.1 we have a building of God a house not made with hands he that now fears death much hath but either a little faith or an ill conscience and no marvaile if these two be afraid to dye the one looking at death as an end of all his hopes and the other as the beginning of all his misery But a good faith and a good conscience will not feare that which it knows can neither hold it nor hurt it it knows that Christ is risen as the first fruits and it knows that it belongs to those first fruits it knows what that means John 6.39 This is the Fathers will that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again at the last day And that and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin Rom. 8.10 but the spirit is life because of righteousness And that Heb. 2.14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himselfe likewise tooke part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death the Divell He knowes that that which was spoken in a figure to the Jews shall in the very letter be performed to him and all Christs members Esay 26.19 Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing yee that dwell in dust c. and that which was a parable to them shall be a truth to the Saints That the valley of dry bones that were very dry Ezek. 37.5 the four winds shall blow upon them and breath shall come into them and they shall live and stand up upon

an horrid manner Thirdly They had a Vision of Angels that affirmed unto the women that he was risen and withall remembred them that it was but as he had told them before that he would rise again the third day and therefore they need not distrust it Fourthly They had after many corporall apparitions unto them of our Saviour himself and still you may observe there goes alwayes almost with the apparition some notable circumstance one or other to be an argument to confirme the verity of it as First for the apparition to Mary you have this observable circumstance that though Jesus had talked with her a while and she knew him not but thought he had been the Gardiner yet at the speaking of one bare word Mary she presently knew him and sayes Rabboni this was either a plaine effect of his Divinity so on the sudden to work on her heart or else of his humanity to speake just in that familiar form which he used when he was alive so that she knew him to be he by his voice The Divil may sooner counterfeit a visage then a voice Again for the apparition to the two Disciples by the way you have these two circumstances First Their hearts extraordinarily burning within them while he opened to them the Scriptures which argues his Divinity Secondly A speciall manifestation of himselfe unto them by breaking of bread using the same form of thanks-giving or same form of action in breaking or both which he used while he was alive and that argued the same humanity Again for the apparition to the Apostles when Thomas was absent you have two circumstances that are most demonstrative of a true living body First this handle me and see me for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see me have Then this Luke 24.41 Have ye here any meat c Though the Divell can form a body of the Elements a body that may be felt yet not true live body that can eat and digest meat not a true live body that hath flesh and bones that hath heat and pulse and all the temper of a true live body If this were so how should we be sure one of another that we are not fantasms Nay if handle mee and see me were not a good argument how were the Jews sure that it was the true Jesus that was Crucified the true Jesus that was laid in the sepulcher If they were sure they Crucified and buryed the true Jesus the Disciples were as sure that it was the true Jesus that rose again and appeared unto them And this is that circumstance which afterwards brought Thomas off from his infidelity when eight dayes after Christ appeared unto them John 20.28 Thomas being with them and thrust his hand into his side and said my Lord and my God And this is so strong an argument that S. Peter cares for no more Act. 10.41 He shewed himself openly not to all the people but to chosen witnesses even to us who did eat and drinke with him after he rose from the dead he did eat and drinke with them most familiarly and sensibly conversed with them even as familiarly and sensibly as when he was alive so that if we were sure of him then we are as sure of him now And this is the argument S. John beats so on That which we have heard which we have seene with our eyes c. 1 John 1.1 Consider now further that this was forty dayes together that he thus at severall times conversed with them that all his speech at those times with them was not about such things as the speech of a deceiving Divell would have been but of the things pertaining to the Kingdome of God Act. 1.3 of the things whereby the Apostles afterwards destroyed every where the Kingdome of the Divels and their Idolatrous worship Consider also that the Disciples were so incredulous formerly of the Resurrection that the words of the women that told them he was risen seemed to them idle tales Luke 24.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that also our Saviour upbraided them with unbeliefe and hardness of heart that they believed not them namely the women and the two Disciples and Peter which had seene him after he was risen That Thomas also for all that the other Disciples averred it unto him yet he would believe none of them all hee would believe nothing but his own hands and fingers would these men therefore that were so hard of beliefe would ever they have believed such a thing without most infallible proofes as it is Act. 1.3 To whom he should himself alive after his passion by most infallible proofes c. and therefore neither were they deceived but knew well enough what they said when they answered the High Priests and rulers of the Jews straightly charging them to speake no more of Jesus and the Resurrection with a Non possumus wee cannot but speak the things which wee have seene and hoard Act. 4. 20. If therefore they could neither bee deceived nor deceivers there is weight enough in those words this Jesus hath God raised up whereof wee are all witnesses and again they urge it Act. 2.32 Act. 3. Act. 5. Act. 10. The testimony therefore of these eye-witnesses is in the second place assurance enough unto us of Christs Resurrection Thirdly the testimony of the Spirit which Christ after his Resurrection and ascension sent down from Heaven to be a powerfull witnesse unto the world of his Resurrection by giving unto his extraordinary grace of holiness extraordinary grace of preaching the Gospel extraordinary grace of confirming it by miracles extraordinary grace of a happy successe in the busines to draw in so short a time almost the world after them these things shew that Christ was not in the power and hands of death but sate down at the power and right hand of his Father It is plaine a King is not in hold by his enemies when every where he does such things that makes the world ring of him as plain that Christ was not deteined in hold by that enemy death when every where by the Spirit which he sent he did such things as made the whole world ring of him Whence first had the Apostles and Apostolicall men that extraordinary grace of preaching the Gospel but onely from fulfilling that promise in Act. 1.8 ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem c. Hence had they their extraordinary grace of promptness grace of diligence grace of sincerity grace of patience grace of tenderest love and affection after the Salvation if they could of every Soul First The grace of boldness whence could they have it but from that power of the Holy Ghost coming upon them How timorous and white liver'd otherwise they were their running all away when their Master was apprehended their hardiest mans I meane Peters denyall of him at the speech of a silly

diligent that other enemies of theirs could say when they came to Thessulonica These that have turned the world up side down are come hither also Act. 17.6 so diligent that by their means in a small time the sound of the Gospel went into all the earth Rom. 10.18 and their words unto the end of the world and that leaven of the Kingdome spoken of Mat. 13. had leavened the whole lumpe Fourthly Grace of sincerity to take all this pains for no sinister worldly respect whatsoever but meerly for the Gospels sake to plant it whence could they have this sincerity but from the same power of the Holy Ghost How sincerely they preached the Gospel without seeking either praise or profit by it see a little Not praise Act. 3.12 for when upon the cure of the lame man the people came flocking about them and admiring them almost as halfe Gods what sayes S. Peter Ye men of Israel why looke ye so earnestly on us as if by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walke And when upon the like occasion the men of Lystra would have honoured Paul and Barnabas for Gods they were so far from seeking their own praise that they did all they could to hinder it Act. 14.14 c. they ran in among the people crying out and saying Sirs why do you these things we also are men of like passions with you c. And when some magnifying Paul and some Apollo and some Cephas calling themselves after their great Masters I am of Paul c. how doth Paul take up all pride that might arise thereupon 1 Cor. 3.5 who is Paul and who is Apollo but ministers by whom ye believed And we preach not our selves 2 Cor. 4.5 but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Christs suke If therefore that of our Saviours be true John 7.18 He that speaketh of himselfe seeketh his own glory but he that seeketh his glory that sent him the same is true and no unrighteousness is in him then they seeking not their own glory when it was offered them but anothers that sent them it must needs be that they speake not of themselves but acted by his spirit that sent them So for profit how sincerely they preached the Gospel without perverse aime that way Their hungry bellyes oftentimes in hunger and thirst which was not voluntary abstinence for that is meant afterwards in fastings often 2 Cor. 11.27 Their cold backs in cold and nakedness Their purse penniless Act. 3.6 silver and gold have I none these show what a little gain they made of the Gospel Paul would never have writ for a cloake as far as from Rome to Troas four hundred miles if poor man he had had that variety or his converts had been so franke unto him as to have furnished him with money to have bought a new one he made but a little harvest of the Gospel that was glad to write for an old cloake 400 miles to hap him against winter The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus 2 Tim. 4.13 bring with thee And that it was for happing to his back against the cold winter you may gather from that which followeth do thy diligence to come before winter verse 21. verily this argument if any other that the Appostles should with that sincerity preach the Gospel all praise and all profit set aside this helps to confirme the truth of the Gospel if any other that they should take such infinite pains in that harvest send forth Labourers into thine harvest and aime at no harvest at all thereby for themselves in the world Mat. 9.38 And therefore not without good reason does St. Paul so often stand upon this thing Act. 20.33 1 Cor. 4.11 and 9.3 2 Cor. 11.10 and 12.14 1 Thes 2.5 to stablish his converts in the truth of the Gospel which he preached Neither at any time used we flattering words Who is there even among you that would shut the door for nought But what a deal of pains tooke they for nought or rather they knew well enough whom they trusted and who it was that said lift up your eyes and looke on the fields for they are white already to harvest He that reapeth receiveth wages John 4.36 They would never have sweat so in this harvest and so little wages here but that they knew of those other wages Fifthly The grace of extraordinary patience whence also could they have it but from the power of the Holy Ghost who were they and what were their bodyes was their strength the strength of stones and their flesh of brasse Job 6.12 that they should be able to hold out against hunger and thirst against cold and nakedness stripes and imprisonments c was their Souls not like other mens but heavenly spirits sheathed in earthly bodyes that they should not be overcome no not much affected with all the opprobries reproaches ignominies that the world could cast upon them that all the paine and all the shame the world could put them to they should still continue as strong as steddy as anvills unstirred unmoved for all the blows What can this be but the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon them if so many strong men with Iron hammers should let drive at a piece of glass or earthen vessel and not be able to breake it all men would say it were an enchanted glass or vessel how many let drive at those earthen vessels the humane natures of the Apostles with such bats and blows as would almost have broken steele and adamant That therefore these earthen vessels were not broken with all these blows what should be the reason but onely that they were enchanted enchanted with that power of the Holy Ghost coming upon them that made their frail natures hold out so against dint of stroke of all persecutions I will turn aside saith Moses and see this great sight why the bush burnes with fire and consumeth not Exo. 3.3 that was a strange thing to his conceit so a strange thing it must needs be to any ones consideration that the Apostles who for their fraile humane natures were nothing but bushes and brushwood and combustiblest stuffe that could be strange that they should continue in the fire the fire of tribulation and consume not burne not yeeld not but as though their bodies were burnish't brasse shine onely the brighter for the fire surely what can be the reason but onely because as the Lord was in the bush and so it consumed not so the Lord was in these bushes these weak Apostles and they consumed not In the third of Daniel the Princes Governours Captains and the Kings Councellours all flocked together to see those men upon whose bodies the fire had no power they thought that a wonder surely I know not whether it be a greater wonder that the bodies of the Apostles flesh and blood like other men

crucified both Lord and Christ but presently they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and the rest men and brethren what shall wee doe It made their hearts pant to thinke they had offended him that now being risen from the dead was made both Lord and Christ and so able to take what terrible revenge he would of them Consider what is written in Matt. 21.44 There our Saviour bringing out the 118. Psal a Psalme of the Resurrection cites this text The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the Corner he adds that whosoever shall fall on this stone through disobedience offend and stumble against it shall be broken it shall worke commonly his rume and confusion for this world but on whom soever it shall fall it shall grind him to powder on whom soever Christ at his second coming shall with all the weight and might and vehemency of indignation fall he shall then make powder and meere mish-mash of him Comparate vos cum Judaeis illi contempserunt pendentem in ligno vos contemnitis sedentem in coelo Aug. de verbis Domini 45. If therefore Christ be risen you now speake not a word nor doe a deed against the son of man but against him that is declared to be the Son of God Compare your felves with the Jews they contemned him when he hung upon the crosse you contemne him when he sits in Heaven Obs 2 Second Observation That Christ is not onely risen but risen as the first fruits to sanctify and ascertiane our Resurrection as the first fruits under the law being offered to God were for the sanctifying and procuring a blessing upon the whole harvest now this that Christ is risen as the first fruits by his Resurrection to sanctifie and warrant our Resurrections divers things confirme it First The example of those that he actually brought with him from the dead when himselfe rose Matt. 27.52.53 And the graves were opened and many bodies of Saints which slept arose this little rast before hand showes what his Resurrection shall be powerfull unto hereafter even unto the raising of the dead bodies of the Saints that sleepe he set but two or three prisoners free but the goale-delivery of all his he will performe hereafter as he is powerfull to execute so he is wise not to precipitate and hasten counsels but stay the fulness of time Secondly The vertue of his life and Resurrection to revive us diverse speeches of himselfe show as that As the living Father hath sent me John 6.57 and I live by the Father so he that eateth me even he shall live by me live by me so that I will raise him up at the last day as foure times in that Chapter he repeats that phrase Againe that speech to Martha talking with him about her brother Lazarus his death I am the Resurrection and the life c. Also that Now is the bour come that the Son of man should be glorified John 11.25 verily verily John 12.23 except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and dye it abideth alone but if it dye it bringeth forth much fruit Thirdly The vertue of his life and Resurrection to revive us two speciall appellations of his in Sciripture show namely the appellation of an Head and the appellation of a Captaine of a head he being as a head unto his Church and the Church the very body and members of him their head if the body and members shall not be revived there is no life in the very head it selfe the head would derive life unto the body hence from this union betweene the head and members are we said to be already quickned together with him raised together with him Eph. 2.5 nay set down together with him in heavenly places Col. 2.12 The other appellation is of a Captaine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in that he is called the Captaine of life yee killed the Captaine of life whom God had raised from the dead Act. 3.15 c. It became him for whom are all things Heb. 2.10 to make the Captaine of their Salvation perfect through sufferings if Jesus therefore be a Captain of life and Salvation he is not onely to save himself but his Companies also that follow his colours he is not a Captaine of life and Salvation but of death and dectruction that lets his company perish in the field though himselfe come safe off without any hurt Fourthly So enfolded one in the othe● is Christs Resurrection and our Resurrection that the one is made to imply the other so when the Apostle preached especially Christs Resurrection yet the Priests and Sadduces tooke it so as preaching our Resurrection through him As they spake unto the people Act. 4.1.2 the priests c. came in upon them being greived that they preached through Jesus the Resurrection of the dead So St. Paul in his Apology before the Pharisees and the Sadduces instead of making his Apology for Christs Resurrection turnes it into the generall about our Resurrection as indeed the one enfolding the other so he might set the Pharisee and Sadducee together by the ears that so while the Wolves fight the Lambe might escape Act. 23.6 Men and brethren I am a Pharisee of the hope and Resurrection of the dead c. Lastly To name no more authorities consider the very next verse of my text and there you have Christ made the author of life and Resurrection as Adam of death for since by man came death by man came also the Resurrection of the dead And in the five and fortieth verse you have another comparison that as the first Adam was made a living Soul sc to become the fountaine of naturall life to all his posterity So the second Adam Christ was made a quickning spirit sc to become the fountaine of spirituall or Heavenly life to all his The first Adam was made a living Soul the secend Adam was made a quickning spirit Now before we come to the Uses a question or two is not unseasonable to be made and answered Qu. 1 First How Christ is the first fruits of all that slept 1 King 17. seeing the widow of Sareptaes son was raised to life by Elias 2 Kings 4. and the Shunamites son and a dead man by touch of Elisha'es bones 2 Kings 13. and three by our Saviour himselfe in his life time sc Jairus his daughter in the chamber uncarried out the widows onely son upon the biere carried out at the gates of the City and Lazarus having been four dayes in the grave how therefore was Christ the first fruits seeing these and those also as it may seeme Matt. 27.52 were raised before him Ans 1 For Answer Observe first That for all them that were raised to life except perhaps those Matt. 27. there was no proper Resurrection not such a Resurrection as we professe in our Creeds not such a Resurrection as that