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A86131	A sermon prepared to be preached at the funerall of Walter Norbane, esq; by W. Haywood Dr. in divinity: one of the chaplains in ordinary to his late Majesty of glorious memory.	Haywood, William, 1599 or 1600-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing H1239; Thomason E1027_16; ESTC R208879	23,782	34

this ought to go first for it went first in Christ even before his Body was glorified while he was in his mortality his soule was perfectly holy and enjoyed the vision of God These two estates of Christ viz. Before his resurrection and after represent our two Resurrections One of the soule to Righteousnesse and Holinesse begun in this state of mortality another of the Body glorified with immortality at Christs second coming to judgment The soules resurrection leads the way called therefore in Scripture the first Resurrection Blessed and holy is he that hath his part in that For over such the second Death shall have no power Revel 20.6 Two deaths we read of before the end of the world The souls death in sin and the bodies death in the Grave Both would have their resurrection But first the soule from the Death of sin to the life of righteousnesse which is by Grace And then the Body from corruption to Immortality which is by Glory To begin with the souls Resurrection to the life of Grace observable it is that this also is a plantation supernatural as well as the life of Glory No praise to us then in any good fruit we bear but to the Root Christ Jesus the Root of Jesse whereinto we are planted Without me saith he ye can do nothing for it is God that worketh in us both to will and to do according to his good pleasure What hast thou which thou hast not received Even the power and will of bestowing and doing good to others is none of ours to boast of it is bestowed from on high Ye see here the Apostle promiseth such a Resurrection by way of Reward Ye shall be planted so as to bring forth good works Not as if you were able to bring them forth of your selves but God will plant you so that ye shall be able to bring them The reason why the Apostle useth this Metaphor of planting may be to shew how entirely we are beholding to Christ and to his Resurrection for the whole power of well-doing As also to let us know that our fruit bearing in Christ is the very end of our planting Therefore we are planted indeed for the fruits sake for when that cometh then it appears we are living plants then is our Resurrection justified as good we were dead still as barren and yield no encrease to our Master If no fruit then no part sure in this plantation nor in the first Resurrection Well but by what means is this planting brought to pass ye will ask or how are we grafted into Christ's Rising By Faith say some for Faith is that by which we live the life of Grace called therefore sometimes the life of Faith Faith unites us that 's certain for by it we dwell in Christ and Christ in us that Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith Ephes 3.17 Others say by Hope Blessed be God who haeth begotten us again to a lively hope through the Resurrection of Jsus Christ from the dead 1 Pet. 1.3 Others again by Love for Love is the most uniting Grace of all which makes us one with Christ and Christ with us one undivided and not to be separated for What shall separate us from the love of Christ Rom. 8.35 Indeed by all three we are incorporated into Christs mystical Body and therefore enliven'd and planted in our first Resurrection But especially and above all is this Resurrection to appear by a holy Conversation in newness of life This is the lively Image and similitude of Christ's Resurrection that as he was changed from mortality to Glory so we from our former corrupt conversation to holiness and righteousness We are grafted into a better stock that we should henceforth bring forth better fruit in vain are we new grafted if our fruit be still the same As the grave made a great change in Christ his glorious Body far differing from his frail and passible one so our lives renewed by Repentance must be far estranged from former sinfull courses All is to be new framed after the Image of the new Man old things are passed away behold I make all things new for if any be in Christ he is a new Creature A new heart that which before delighted in vanity now in perfection of Vertue and Purity New hands those that were wont to hurt and defraud our brethren now exercised in helping and relieving them New tongues those that were given to lying and dissembling to railing and cursed speaking now filled with blessing and truth instruments of Gods Praises New eyes they that so much joyed to behold beauty and vanity now flowing with water for their youthfull follies New feet those that were swift to shed blood now shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace and prepated to run the way of Gods Commandements The whole man new not after the Image of the old Adam in the deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse but after the Image of the second Adam in sincerity and Truth This is rightly planted into the Similitude of Christ's Resurrection by being new framed according to his glorious Image And still we may go nearer For the likeness of Christ raised again is the very Image and likeness of God saith Leo. Now Gods likeness is in all Heavenly Vertue far above all passions and frail perturbations is his eternal Constancy He is all Mercy all Truth all Goodness imitate him what we may be mercifull as your heavenly Father is mercifull kind as he to the unthankfull and evil who sends his Rain upon the just and unjust long-suffering full of patience and slow to take vengeance Moreover see that all be in a right state of Government for Christs glorious Body is wholly subject to the will of the Spirit let our bodies also be in a right subjection to our souls and our souls in subjection to the Law of God Let our sense be ordered by our reason our reason by the Precepts of holy Scripture and especially in the manner of your vertuous working endeavour to resemble your Pattern for there is the right trial indeed Herein lyeth the main difference betwixt men regenerate and unregenerate betwixt those conformed to Christ's likeness and those unconformed That from a true Christian his works come easily voluntarily delightfully like the motions of Christ's glorified Body but from the unregenerate they proceed heavily cheerlesly wearisomly Ianguidly and interruptedly Will ye then discern the truth of your Plantation into the Rising of Christ Observe the manner of your fruit-bearing whether what ye do vertuously ye do delightfully heartily chearfully constantly abundantly without any tediousness or weariness of well-doing If so then ye may gather some comfortable assurance that ye have your part in the first Resurrection in which if you hold out with patience will without fail bring you to the second for that followeth as a Reward upon this and it is a Reward worthy waiting for indeed If ye have thus been planted into Christ's Resurrection

old Man that we may be planted into the New And what is there more in Christianity to be done Yet though this be the nearest and most genuine Exposition of the Apostle so to understand him as speaking of mortification and rising to a new life the other way of applying this Text to men naturally dying or pressed with great tribulations may not be excluded as altogether improper For even to that purpose also Saint Paul in other places applyeth this very Metaphor of dying and rising with Christ as 2 Cor. 1.8 We are troubled on every side but not distressed Persecuted but not forsaken alwayes bearing about in our body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be manifest c. And though resembling Christs Death and Rising by true Repentance and a holy Life be the most excellent and most profitable way of imitating him as without which outward suffering availe little and therefore that sense needs most exhortation Yet we cannot deny such a conformity to Christs Death by our sufferings to be a neerer way and more fully resembling the likenesse of his plantation As our rising from corruption to glory draweth neerer the likenesse of Christs Resurrection than our rising to newnesse of life onely So our planting into Christs Death by a fellowship of his sufferings and by being brought down to the grave with him is a neerer and fuller resemblance of his passion than the Death of true repentance and mortification to sin only if no other affliction be added But how much more full if both be joyned together As in this our deceased brother to my knowledge they were an afflicted Body and a penitent soule a self-deniyn life and a patient and lamb like death a flesh crucified with the affections and lust and a spirit raised and revived with hope of immortality a soule aspiring to heaven while his body sunk to the earth What nearer what fuller what truer or more immediate planting into the death and Resurrection of Christ And he that is so farre incorporated what Text can fit him better For if we have thus been planted into the likenesse of our Saviours Death We shall be also into the likenesse of his Resurrection We proced to a division of our Text. Two plantations in this Scripture appeare joyned in connexion and inferred one upon the other The one a sad and heavy plantation the other a joyfull and comforting the one in weeping and mourning the other in triumph and rerejoycing the one may be called our Winner plantation the other our Summer If not rather the one our seed time the other our harvest out Winter planation or seed-time For if ye have been planted together into the likenesse of Chirsts Death And our Summer plantation or harvest Ye shall be also into the likenesse of his Resurrection The former of these containes our conflict the later our Crown Not more bitternesse and pains in the one than comfort and sweetnesse in the other We begin with the former which is our Winter plantation or sowing in tears For if we have been planted into the likenesse of Christ's Death Where the first word that meets us is the Conjunction Si implying a Condition Si complantati fuerimus If we have been planted Giving us to know that these two plantations are so connected one to the other as our labour and our reward our warfare and our victory that without having our part in the former there is no hope of attaining the latter unlesse we first communicate in the Winter plantation of our Lords Death at the summer plantation of his Resurrection there will be no arriving Except we first suffer with him no hope of reigning It is the Apostles way of arguing for some length together whereby he perswades Timothy to endure hardnesse as a good souldier of Jesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 If a man strive for Masteries yet he is not crowned except he strive lawfully The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits Remember that Christ first died before he rose againe and it is a faithfull saying If we be dead with him we believe we shall also live with him So the two plantations are inseparable and rightly we may conclude if any man misse his part in the later it is for lack of the former if any attaine not to the Resurrection of Christ it is because he failed in the suffering which may be the reason perhaps why the Apostle thus puts it upon an If as a thing to be doubted of If we have been planted into his Death For so hard appeares the condition and so rate the number of them that are truely so planted that it may well be doubted and doubted of the best of us all Insomuch that the Apostle speaks here in the first person as if he doubted of himself for company If we have been planted fully and throughly into the likenesse of Christs Death And it is but what ye find in the third to the Phillipians All things I account but dung that I may be found in him with the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death If by any meanes I might attaine to the Resurrection of the dead Not as if I had allready attained or were allready perfect But I follow after if I may apprehend Phillip 3 12. If I may apprehend So that he doubts of his own sufferings likewise and whether this first plantation be compleat with himself Ye see therefore that he useth the preterperfectense also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If we have been planted Have been that we desire to be that we intend to be every one will be ready to say and no If no doubt upon that All the feare is whether or no we have allready enough of this plantation Which makes him say in another place I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh Coloss 1.24 As if somewhat in this kind were still wanting on his part and therefore well may he utter it with Si si Dubitantis If we have been allready planted sufficiently into the likenesse of his Death Doubted it may be the rather because of the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here added Si complantati faith the latine if we have been planted together which is diversly expounded together with Christ or together with one another Together with Christ If we have been obedient as he was to the Death not shrinking from our pattern so much as in a wish but resolved with him who when he saw the cup coming prayed not my will O Father but thine be done And then together with out brethren If we have not deserted out companions in suffering As St. Paul complaines of Demas that he had forsaken him and embraced this present world 3 Tim. 4.10 And at my first answer to wit before Nero No man stood with me but all forsook me Si complantati may teach us that suffering together in a good