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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63882	A sermon preached before the King on Easter-Day, 1684 by Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3283; ESTC R38918	14,934	35

the reason he has left will rather oblige him to sit down under a wild suspicion that his Life is a waking Dream that the Heaven and the Earth and all things else about him are but false representations made by some hidden accursed power that is always deluding his fancy and that there is nothing in the World but the Devil and himself fit Companions for one another And having thus discours'd Historically of the Matter of Fact which the Prophet delivers in the Text I shall now proceed to consider but very briefly of the Mystery of Faith the consequence or effect of these great things that Christ either did or suffered for us so the power of his Resurrection as St. Paul calls it is also set down in these words He shall revive us He shall raise us up again and we shall live in his sight He shall come unto us as the rain as the latter and former rain unto the earth This Similitude is taken from a thing that is most common that is Rain and yet this Philosophical or at least this Experimental Age will allow me thus much That the richest Notes and the most undoubted Conclusions in the Book of Nature are such as we draw from the most vulgar and therefore the most constant Observations Therefore of all the Similitudes upon which the Divine Prophecies and Parables in the Old and New Testament are turn'd and form'd there are no Comparisons so frequently used as these between the products of Nature and the growth of Grace between the Fruits of the Earth and the encrease of heavenly Vertue and Glory in the humane Soul and Body no temporal Blessings are so often promis'd or so constantly perform'd to put us in mind of the Spiritual as the sending of the former and the latter rain the shining of the Sun on the just and on the unjust the watering the earth and blessing it and making it very plenteous The Church is every where represented as God's Husbandry as God's Vineyard and Christ himself is by himself resembled to a Corn of Wheat that fell into the Ground and dy'd as if he had said The Corn of Wheat this my Body the Corn of Wheat which falls into the ground and dies this is my Body which is given and broken for you To the same intent and purpose 't is observable that the Ceremony of waving the Sheaf of the first-fruit of the Harvest on the next day after the Feast of the Passoever was appointed in the Law of Moses as a significant Type of the Resurrection or of Christ's reviving and raising our mortal Bodies as His Sheaves with him and 't is yet more observable that God's peculiar Providence over-ruling the blind Jews to defer their Feast until Saturday that year when our Saviour suffered order'd it so that they wav'd the Sheaf exactly on the first Easter-morning when Christ arose But these effects on our Bodies are not the only or the greatest effects of Christ's Resurrection the Power and Wisdom of God in it is greater still in comparison of this Wisdom the Apostle counted all things no better than dung good only as that is to manure the Ground to prepare it for that good Seed and for this blessed Rain that should come upon it that was all that all the knowledge of the World was good for to those who knew not Christ But of what consequence now to our Souls as well as our Bodies is the Knowledge and Belief of this prime Fundamental Article The summ of all this Because Christ did and suffered all this for us therefore did God his Father give him by the Holy Spirit a power to raise up himself first and then all that are his with all manner of Resurrections both of Soul and Body from all manner of Deaths to which they were obnoxious Therefore the Scripture in some places uses the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is his full and intire Resurrectim the whole 6th of the Romans and most of the 5th is upon the force of his Passion and his Resurrection where 't is made the Idaeal Cause the very similitude and pattern of our Resurrection and more than so a vital influence is supposed to be derived from him upon us to assimilate or make us like him as well in our Souls as our Bodies that as we have been planted together in the likeness of his Death we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection For this implanting viz. in our Baptism supposes a drawing of Vertue from Christ and is secur'd on his part to our lives end there is imply'd not only our Obligation but our Ability by the power he gives us that we also should walk as he did after this day forty days together in newness of life supposing that none can raise their hearts from the World and be thus renewed but by thinking on these things And this falls in with my third and last Part the Obligation upon our parts or the Condition imposed upon us if we mean to reap advantage from this revealed Doctrine of Christ's Resurrection and ours then must these Principles be pursued extreamly home and we must go on throughout the whole course of our lives to practise accordingly Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord For in the very next words to those of my Text the Prophet takes up this lamentation O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee O Judah what shall I do unto thee For your goodness is as a morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away It seems that these men whom the Prophet had to do with were men of good intentions but so they say Hell it self is full of good intentions that is 't is full of those that one time or other intended to do well but here was their great mistake they thought the great work was done as soon as it was but intended Alas we are apt to take every faint endeavour and every feeble attempt for overcoming the World But then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord that is if we proceed in taking just pains with our selves till we love what we know or else we know nothing yet as we ought to know He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love That Jesus Christ came into the World to save Sinners this is not only a faithful saying but avowed with good reason by the Apostle to be worthy of all men to be received but every thing in Nature is received according to the capacity and figure of the worthy or unworthy Receiver Our Christian Philosophy 't is a most noble speculation Angels delight to pry into it Unbelievers themselves will acknowledge in their sober moods that our main Body of Divinity is a piece of magnificent Wit admirably refin'd and strongly knit together But because they want a soul for it to ponder and contemplate these great and amazing Truths till they come to practise as they ought therefore the men