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A76239 An antidote against immoderate sorrow for the death of our friends: taken from an assured hope of our resurrection to life and glory. Delivered in a sermon preached in the parish-church of North-Wraxall in Wiltshire, the 12th. of Aprill 1660. at the funeral of Sr William Button Baronet. By Francis Bayly his houshold chaplain. [Bayly, Francis, fl. 1660]. 1660 (1660) Wing B1474; Thomason E1026_5; ESTC R208754 22,562 34

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her dead on the Crosse we may see him suffering for sin in his Resurrection triumphing over Death although by his death he merited and by his suffering the curse was taken away yet by his resurrection the hope of life is begotten again in us Calvin gives this reason Quia ut ille resurgendo c. because as he by rising became deaths Conquerour so the victory of our Faith doth consist in the resurrection agreeable to that of the Apostle who dyed for our sins but rose again for our justification 'T is true the death of Christ is the fundament but his resurrection is the complement of our salvation and therefore Aquinas amongst other reasons why he gives that it was necessary that Christ should rise again makes this the last but not the least ad complementum salutis nostrae for the perfecting of our Salvation for saith he Christ by rising himself bequeathed unto us an everlasting one he is therefore tearmed the resurrection and the life because to us he is the Author of both Hence St. Paul Col. 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appear then ye also shall appear with him in glory and as it is further expressed Heb. 5.9 He being made perfect became the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him for as in Adam all dyed so in Christ shall all be made alive therefore Col. 3.18 he is called head of the Church and first-born from the dead not only because he raised himself from death to immortal glory but because he is principium effectivum c. the effective principle and cause of the rising of all his Members not only the meritorious cause who by his passion and victory over death merited a glorious resurrection for us as it is Rom. 8. Not only the exemplary cause for the glorious resurrection of Christ doth shew unto us an example of our future Resurrection unto glory is it is Phil. 3.21 Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body but the efficient cause hence by the Apostle he is called primitiae dormientium the first fruits of them that slept 1. Cor. 15.20 But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept now he is called the first fruits of them that sleep because as under the Law the offering of the first fruits was the cause of blessing and consecrating all the rest of the fruits primitiae enim frugum non consecrabantur Deo ut solae essent sanctae sed ut reliquus anni proventus sanctificaretur Zanchie the first fruits were not consecrated unto God that they alone might be holy but that all the encrease of the year might be blessed for thus were they made sacred one sheaf is taken out from the rest which sheaf was called the first fruits that in the name of the rest in lift up alost and shaken to and fro before the Lord that done not only the Sheaf so lifted up was holy but all the Sheaves in the Field were holy no lesse than it and the rule is Rom. 11.16 If the first fruits be holy all the lump is so too thus fareth it in the resurrection We are all dead saith the Apostle dead sheaves all one and that is Christ was in the manner of a sheafe taken out of the number of the dead and in the name of the rest lift up from the grave by virtue whereof the first fruits being restored to life all the rest of the dead are entitled to the same hope in that he was not lift up for himself alone for Christ rose not as a private person to himself alone but as a publick example representing and effecting it to us all the same nature and property shall be derived from the roots to the branches from the head to the Members the rising were untoward and preposterous should not the head rise first it were imperfect and fruitlesse should not the Members follow after decet quemadmodum praecessit caput saith St. Bernard it is but natural proportion that as the head is gon before the Members should follow after which are quickned by the same spirit First to the life of grace then of glory But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in your mortal bodies he that raised up Jesus from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies Rom. 8.11 Whereas Oecumenius observes he says not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to put a difference between raising the just and the unjust all shall have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their rising again but all shall not be quickned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is of a larger extent then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is not to life alone but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to life and glory and they are those that sleep in Jesus saith the Apostle that adducet cum eo God will bring with him such who have an interest in him by faith which is the limitation of the persons to whom this blessing belongs my next part which I promised to handle and now offers it self to our Consideration which I reduced to this proposition 2. Only those who have an interest in Christ by faith will God bring with Christ to glory The wicked shall awake out of the dust and rise again but to endlesse torments it were well with these wretches if the Sea and Grave might still retain them better still to say to the wormes you are my brethren and Sisters and to corruption thou art my mother then having broke alliance with them to be in a far worse family of the damned Spirits when God shall dismisse them with a goe ye cursed into Hell fire prepared for the divel and his Angels it is remarkably set down Matt. 27.52 That when Christ rose many dead bodies of the Sts. arose not one wicked man to premonish us that none shall rise with him to glory but such who are incorporated into him by faith Therefore saith he whosoever beleiveth in me shall never dye Joh. 26. That is the second death for he that hath part in the first resurrection over him the second death hath no powen it was to the faithful Servant that Christ said enter into the joy of the Lord but cast the unprofitable Servant into utter darkness where shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Matt. 25. It was the Interest of St. Paul had in Christ by faith that enabled him to his cupio dissolvi I desire to be dissolved and therefore was he assured of the Crown because he had kept the faith I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is layed up a crown of glory for me nothing can unty this knot or break this union which a true faith makes between Christ and a Christian nor life nor death nor powers nor principalities saith the Apostle this enabled Moses to contemn the