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A44499	The life of faith in death, in expectation of the resurrection from the dead opened in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Slany late maior of the famous town and corporation of King-Lynn in the county of Norfolk : who deceased in the year of his maioralty, Jan. 10. 1649 / preached there by John Horn ...	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2804; ESTC R19330	35,460	36

then others and thou tellest them that they must never rise more to receive a reward for them here they die and have not received the promises and if death swallow them up and they never rise they must never receive them Look to this you that deny the resurrection I know your evasion you say they have it already they are in Christ and risen with him and he is the resurrection and the life and so they have their reward but hearken thou vain man though they be risen with Christ in their spirits risen from earth to heaven yet this is not all their resurrection nor have they herein their reward their full reward for thus Abraham was raised in his spirit to look after the heavenly countrey even before he died as they that are raised with Christ in their spirits are exhorted to seek the things above Col. 3.1 2. but yet even after that he died in saith and had not received the promises he neither was raised above faith to live without any further exercise of faith as some vainly prate nor had he or any of them received all the reward of faith but they all died in faith not having received the promises and therefore must have yet another resurrection or a compleating of that resurrection in the redemption of their bodies that they may receive those promises according to that Rom. 8.23 We that have received the first-fruits of the spirit yet wait for the adoption the redemption of our bodies for indeed the promises are to the man the whole man now a man is not a man without his body too Hominem proprte carnem diet qu●a vocabulum bominis occupavit the soul is but part of the man nay as Tertullian hath well noted the body is rather called the man because it first had the denomination of man God formed man of the dust of the earth and breathed into him the breath of life he was called man before the breath of life was breathed into him Gen. 2.7 therefore the resurrection is of that also that must be raised and united to the soul that so the man may inherite the promise made to him yea what is resurrection but a raising to life that that died but the spirits of just men die not with their bodies they were raised up and enlivened before and live by faith even when the body dies therefore it s the body must be raised He shall change our vile body and make it like his own glorious body Phil. 3.21 yea not the righteous only but the wicked too must rise Act 24.15 There shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and of the unjust Heark you Allegoriarum nimium amantes nimium amentes you that dote on All gories where will you finde ground of Allegory for this will ye say the unjust and wicked too have Christ and are risen with Christ perhaps you will say they shall rise from sinne to righteousnesse and so into and with Christ but beside that this crosseth the Scripture all shall not so rise you make that the resurrection of the just and if that shall be the unjusts resurrection then I pray what is that that 's further spoken of of the just seeing that they have already and yet speaking in the future tense he saith they shall arise but what need we many words when our Saviour is so expresse in Joh. 5 29. All that are in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of man and come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of condemnation not from sinne to righteousnesse in this life but to condemnation for their unrighteousnesse acted in this life But we need not go so far from the text to prove that there shall be a resurrection of the body Seeing by that that here follows that God is not ashamed to be called their God ver 16. our Saviour hath to our hands confuted that opinion of the Sadduces and proved that there shall be a resurrection even of them that are dead in the body for that was the thing that the Sadduces oppugned and not the quickning up of mens spirits to God as we may see by their way of arguing Mar. 12.18 27. Then it is at that glorious resurrection that all things shall be made new when the bodies that are dead shall by the power of God be raised new heavens and new earth prepared and given unto the Saints in which dwels righteousnesse that is then shall they have and enjoy remainingly the righteousnesse of God in the full accomplishment of all his former promises in the faith of which they died but had not received Dear friends hold fast this doctrine of the resurrection Applic. for as Tertullian well begins his book upon this subject Fiducia Christianorum resurrectio mortuorum the resurrection of the dead is the hope and expectation of Christians there is no doctrine more properly Christian then it none more comfortable none now in greater danger to be let slip these being those shaking times of the most fundamentall doctrines of Christian truth which the Apostle Peter long since warned us of 2 Pet. 3.2 3 13. There shall saies he come mockers Walking after their own ungodly lusts that shall mock at the performance of Gods promises in the coming of Christ and restitution of all things saying where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers f●ll asleep all things continue in their state As if they should say they are like to receive no more then they had before they died but let not this doctrine be shaken from you for what then will follow but a rotall falling off from the faith a denying of the resurrection of Christ 1 Cor. 11.17 18. and of the kingdom of Christ yea then faith and preaching and all is vain yea then the reins are given to all licentiousnesse Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die and when we are dead there is a sinall end with us and that 's indeed the issue of that wickednesse they that say Where is the promise of his coming Will not fear to walk after their own ungodly lusts It 's true one principle upon which they lean in denying it and way to insinuate the slieghting of it unto others as Tertullian hath long since observed and as experience of their words yet teacheth us is a disrespect they seem to bear to the flesh so our spirits enjoy God say they and go up to God what 's matter for this flesh it's but dust and to dust let it go and no matter whether ever it rise or not but as he also well observes Sunt tamen ●arnis amicessimi nemo enim tam carnaliter vivit quam qui resurrectionem mortuorum negat though they seem to slieght the flesh none love better to please the flesh none live more after the flesh praiers and ordinance and discipline

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the paraphrase hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the argument and demonstration of things not seen of invisible things that are not the objects of sense but that are declared in the word of God such is the vertue and power of faith that it gives as great a certainty of those unseen things to the soul or minde as can be made over by any scientificall demonstration for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a demonstration to the minde not a presentation to the bodily essence as the Greek Scholiast upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Faith presents invisible things as visible how to the minde and hope which hope also springeth from it and is upheld by it as it there follows it 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too the basis or subsistence of things hoped for It so presents divine things to the minde that it also draws in the soul to trust in God and hope for good from him and the good things it hopes for faith gives bottom to and enables the soul to act towards them as if they had a reall existence as was before noted Rom. 10.17 And for the way to come by this faith the Apostle tels us Fides ex auditu c. Faith is by hearing by that means God ●fi●ct●th it whence that in Isa 55.3 Hear and your souls shall live 〈◊〉 but it 's not every hearing that produces this faith but that which i● by the word of God the hearing of the Gospel or word of faith that 's both mother and nurse of it from that it springs and by that it 's nourished in listening to that God puts forth his mighty arm and enables the soul to believe as sometimes he did to the Israelites by the brazen Serpent and to Naaman in the waters of Jordan to heal them He that hears my Words and believes on him that sent me c. Joh. 5.24 Hearing the Word is the way to believe in God First God declareth the truth which is truth when declared by him not made truth by our believing this truth heard perswades the soul by the divine power and spirit which is therewith ministred to close with what it hears and closing with what it hears the same power and spirit doth therethrough further while therein are opened excellent things as the hatred and justice of God against sin and yet his love mercy and good will in Christ toward the sinfull soul● c. p●swade the soul to embrace and close with Christ himself of whom the truth witnesseth and unto whom as its proper body and fountain as God is in him and he is God it leadeth and so the soul is by th● Word heard and through the divine power of God therein brought unto Christ and in and through Christ unto God by the beam to the body of the Sun and in that to all that fountain fullnesse of glorious light that sils that body and makes it so glorious But indeed the nature of this saith in which these holy men of God died and which is of so glorious use in life and death is in the text it self by ●cts and operations notably laid forth and described I shall briesly and but briesly touch upon them These all died in faith not having received the promises faith stands not in mens having in possession o● actuall fruition the things promised for then faith and sense should be confounded but 1. they see them the promises afar off That 's the first act of this faith though alone of it self it is not faith for it 's said of some they have seen and hated Joh. 15.24 yet this is I say the first act of this faith or the first act tending to this faith through which the following acts are also generated where this is rightly seated and the abiding in this and of this is that in and through which the other acts are carried on too and perpetuated this act being the first product of the Word heard and that which most immediatly springeth from it for while God speaketh he presents in his speakings truth to the soul and the soul hearing and receiving in the word spoken findes therein and therewith a divine power illuminating and giving light to it and power of discerning that light as if the light of the Sun coming to a blinde man in a dungeon should both present light to him and in the same moment give him a faculty and power of seeing thus in Psa 119.130 the entrance of thy word giveth light and giveth understanding to the simple the soul receiving or looking upon divine word sees things set before it that it never so saw before as his own vilenesse and filthinesse and Gods goodnesse and compassions and the great and glorious things in his way his Son to be met with and enjoied But these are said to have seen them afarre of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isa 46.10 God shews the end from the beginning things to be done never so long time hence yet being revealed in the word and there presented are by faith seen indeed men not hearkning to the word misse of much light and knowledge therein held forth and see not many things which in wist viewing or diligent attention they might come to see things afar off the things promised which were not of a long time to be performed whence neither had they so full and clear a sight of them as those that see them in nearer times as things seen afar off at a great distance are not so fully and clearly seen as when they are seen nearer hand Now they are brought near to us these being the last times yea some of these promises that they saw through the word at a distance are already in part performed and are become Gospel declarations to us as the coming and resurrection of Christ of the former whereof Mary could in her time say much more may we now He hath holpen his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy as he spake to our forefathers to Abraham and to his seed for ever Luk. 1.25 And the Apostle Paul declares the latter as another step of the performance of these promises saying we declare unto you good tidings how that the promise that was made unto the fathers God hath fullfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Jesus from the dead We believing see them by faith as things already done and they are the grounds of our believing in him for those further things contained in those promises which are yet unfullfilled and which we are to expect the performance of in his season but then there must be with this seeing a further act even that that follows in the next place of them viz. 2. They were perswaded That 's the second act in this divine faith it 's not a bare speculation of truths in the proposition without a perswasion that they are truths and worthy to be heeded