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A03426	Credo resurrectionem carnis a tractate on the eleventh article of the Apostles Creed / by W.H. Esquire sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.	Hodson, William, fl. 1640.	1633 (1633)	STC 13552.5; ESTC S5090	28,339	192

Remission of sinnes and the other of Everlasting life teaching us that then only the Resurrection of the body is a benefit when Remission of sins goeth before eternall life followeth after for as the Resurrection is sepes Fidej so eternall life is Corona Fidej In this as in each parcell of the Creed are two maine things observable First the Act which is to beleeve therefore Credo must be applyed to every Article Pides est tota copulativa Secondly the object which is the ensuing Article In the Act is the personality which is faiths possessive Ego I beleeve This was Iobs Creed Scio quod Redemptor n●… I know that my Redeemer liveth I must saith one put all men in my Pater noster only my selfe in my Creed My prayer must bee like the penny which Peter found in the fishes mouth with which Christ bid him pay tribute pro me te I must pray for others beleeve for my selfe No mans faith can do mee good but mine owne for I cannot beleeve by an attorney nor be saved by a proxie When doubting Thomas foūd his faith at his fingers ends then did hee cry out with an holy appropriation my Lord and my God Vt brevissima sit absolutissima confessio saith Bullinger for hee did utter that in two words which is the contents of the two Testaments and summe of all summes of Faith and holy beleefe That living carcasse whom formerly wee mentioned hee that was even poore to a proverbe was enriched with this singular faith Iob 19.26 I shall see God in my flesh id est as it is excellently glossed on I in my flesh shall see God or Videbo Deum in carne h. e. Deum incarnatum I shall see God having taken flesh on him If I have this faith in particularity and can apply things generall to mine owne comfort then God even my God shall give me his blessing Et non est haec superbia Elati sed confessio non ingrati From the Act we remove our meditations to the object and here wee will first explaine those two Emphatical termes 1 Resurrectionem 2 Carnis For in these models summaries of Christian doctrine there is weight in every word we must therfore herein imitate the finers of pure gold Qui non tantum auri massas tollunt verum bracteolas parvas that make use not only of the wedge but even of the smallest foile or rayes that their mettall casteth Resurrection is properly a rising againe upon a fall taken for this praeposition Re as it hath beene noted B. of Wimō by a pious and learned Father of our Church doth ever imply not only Againe but Againe as it were upon a losse not second onely but a second upon the failing of the first as Redemption a buying againe upon a former aliening Reconciliation upon a former falling out Orthod fid lib. 4. ca. 28. Restitution upon a former attainder Resurrection upon a fall taken formerly to this suites well the definition of it given by Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Resurrection is a second quickening or setting up againe of that which first fell Resurget quod prius cecidit In this word then Resurrection we do find the strength and sinewes of an argument If the body rise it must first fall in this is implicitly woven up a confessed truth That all men must dye the first death Debemur morti nos nosiraque to dye is as true as good a debt as any the world knowes for the levying of which debt as one excellently and with a silver pen there is an extent upon all mankind and a Statute recorded by Saint Paul Statutū est omnibus semel mori This a decree not to bee reversed a debt not possible to be declined Here might I have store of rich cloath to apparel my lines withall but lest the hemme should be bigger than the garment I have taken no more than what is suitable to my purpose My second observation is that in this common cognizance of our faith in this Article of my Creed I do not say at large I beleeve a Resurrection but more strictly more expressely thus Credo resurrectionē carnis I beleeve the resurrection of the flesh Carnis scilicet non Animae This word Resurrection doth properly belong to the body the body that fals must rise To thinke that our soules shall sleepe in dust as our bodies doe till the last doome is but a dreame of the Anabaptists the spawne of the ancient Arabicks Ne in somnium quidem cadit anima cum corpore quomodo ergo in ueritatem mortis cadet quae nec in imaginem ejus ruit saith Tertullian and experience tels me that my soule while it is now like the Arke of God In medio pellium in these wals of flesh hath her owne working and lively operation even then when the Publican arresteth my body while my senses are imprisoned in the bands of sleepe For the mind of mā is a restlesse thing Of the immortality of the Soule and though it give the body leave to repose it selfe as knowing it is a mortall and earthly part yet it selfe being a spirit therfore active and indefatigable is ever in motion it hath no rise at all from this clay It sleepes not in a living body therefore it shall not sleepe in a dead body it is made of an everlasting nature As Gods eternall decrees have an end without a beginning so the soule of man hath beginning without an end It hath beginning to live it shall have no time to dye There is indeed a death of the Soule not that it ceaseth to bee but when it ceaseth to bee righteous Habet anima mortem suam cum vitâ beatâ caret quae vera animae vita dicenda est saith Augustine consonant to this is that genuine and proper interpretation of those words of the Evangelist what will it profit a man to gaine the whole world and lose his soule Perdere animam saith the glosse Est non ut non sit sed ne male sit for the soule being immortall is capable of Eternal either Felicity or Misery and whatsoever life it liveth yet it never ceaseth to live I have briefely set down the riches of the observatiōs that naturally arise from the explication of these two termes both which I find comprised in one verse Psal 16.20 Thou wilt not leave my soule in grave there 's the Immortality of the soule nor suffer the holy one to see corruption there 's the Resurrection of the body This David knowing before saith the Scripture spake of the Resurrection of Christ the accomplishment of which prophecy is often repeated in the new Testament Act. 2.31 Act. 13.35 howbeit David after hee had served his time by the Counsell of God hee slept and was layd with his Fathers and saw corruption yet by the vertue of an insitiō into that Christ whose sacred body the Lord preserved from the least

text of the Apostle I joine issue againe with my former Meditations and will shew that CHAP. 8. The same bodies which we now have shall bee restored unto us in the same substance They shall bee Immortall Honourable Glorious Spirituall Impassionate THe end of our MEDITATIONS shall bee the meditation of our end the contemplation of another life is the Star which guides us from the East to the West from our Orient to our Occident and brings us at length to the place where our Saviour is We know that in every man there is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a naturall querulousnes against death but this is silenced with the remēbrance of our Resurrection by which wee learne that death is better than life because a passage to a better life Here wee grow up to a full vigour and then wee decrease till we decease but when we shall ascend above the wheele of time where nothing but eternity dwelleth wee shall have such an issue from death as shal never passe into another death there at first wee come to perfect stature so continue for ever that life shall last as long as the Lord of life himselfe But why doe I attempt an Eagles flight with the wing of a wren why doe I seeke to expresse that which cannot bee expressed I will not goe beyond my line for a diapason rest to our song for a pawse a period an Amen I will a little descant on that which I find set downe by the Apostle through the sacred Scripture but principally in that excellent Chapter which we may call the Spring garden of our Resurrection 1 Cor. 15. As the Princely Prophet David when hee sweetly warbled on the glorious Attributes of God hath for the Amaebaeum burthen to his song For his mercy endureth for ever so that divine Extaticall Doctor of the Gentils as if hee had beene the Apostle of the Resurrection makes this comfortable Doctrine the matter of most of his Epistles upon this stocke doth he seeme to plant the whole body of Christianity At the generall Resurection 1 Thes 4.16 the dead in Christ shall rise first the observation is that the sentence of Absolution shall bee pronoūced before the sentence of Condemnation a venite come unmee before an Ite depart from mee God is loath to let his fury bee predominant Then saith S. Paul shall wee who live and remaine be caught up with them also in the clouds the word in the Originall is passive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee shall bee ravished so our rising and upgoing shall not bee by our owne power but the power of God Againe This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortall must put on immortallity not a corruptible or mortall at large but hoc this corruptible this mortall The blind men which our Saviour cured received no new made eyes but only sight to the eyes they had before The widdowes son Lazarus rose in the same bodies in which they died Hee that was seene in the flesh shall bee seene of the flesh yea of this selfesame flesh videbo mihi Not the substance or lineaments of our bodies shall be changed but the qualities When the Apostle saith hee shall raise up our mortall bodies hee so calleth them in respect of that which they are now not in respect of that they shal be then For in the Resurrection as he testifieth that had a prelibation of that glory they shall bee raised 1. Immortall not subject to any more disease or death wee shall not stand in need of these ordinary helps of meates and drinks by which our nature is preserved Christus transiens ministrabit nobis and it shall bee our meate and drinke to do our Fathers will 2. Glorious The Iust shall shine like the Sunne in the firmament Et qualis tunc erit splendor animarum quando solis habebit claritatem lux corporum And to confirme the verity and solidity of this glory it shall not only be revealed unto us but saith the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in nobis in us Ierusalem as the Kings daughter is all glorious within 3. Honourable Every defective member shall bee restored to its integrity Iacob shall not hault Isaac bee blind nor Leah bleere-eyed nor Mephihosheth be lame Hoc est credere Resurrectionem integram credere 4. Spirituall I meane a body so spirituall not that it shall loose the dimensions of a body and pierce through any naturall body as the light pierceth through the glasse as the Papists say of the Body of Christ after his Resurrection by a penetration of dimensions but because without contradiction they shall obey the motions of the Spirit besides the glorified state condition it then be in 5. Impassionate Free from such passions as may hurt and offend but not from the passion of Ioy the joy of the soule shall bee the soule of Ioy. Other particulars I cease to enquire because God doth forbeare to deliver them and in the silence of the Holy Ghost I will not be curious I will not winde my selfe into a laborynth where the happiest wit may lose it selfe If the Disciple that leaned on our Saviours brest his Legatus à latere qui esinu Domini biberat mysteria Apoc. 2.17 from out of the bosome of his Master dranke deepe of the heavenly wisdom brake off his Revelation with a Nemo scit needes must I take up here a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quis ad haec idoneus needs must I leave my Reader with a Theologia negativa a negative Divinity or divine ignorance and tell what is not in heaven The plumage of the Cystrian Swanne appeares more white when 't is oppos'd to the Ravens blacknesse and wee may better conjecture at the joies above if wee consider the miseries on earth In this world are a world of troubles non habet is hic requië saith the Prophet Rest and Glory Glory and rest are two things that meete not here the glorious life is not the most quiet and the quiet life is for the most part inglorious Sublunary transitory Are as barres in th' armes of Glory Riches and Honor like Absalons Mule do sometime leave their Master in extremity A consideration which if wel digested would gather our divided thoughts and rouze up our soules quae sursum quaerere quae sursum sapere to seeke first the Kingdome of Heaven and then wee know caetera adijcientur and indeed when heaven is once named all worldly things are but c. not worthy mentioning It is observed by those that are skild in the holy tongue Deus est centrum quietativum that in the sacred name Iehovah are none but litterae-quiescentes mystically implying thus much unto us that God is the God of rest in whose presence as the Prophet sings there is joy Psal 16.11 and fulnes of ioy and fulnesse of it for evermore When once we shal be planted in that caelestiall paradice there shall no