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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09264	A fruitfull sermon, on 1 Cor. 15. 18, 19. VVritten by VVilliam Pemble of Magdalen Hall in Oxford	Pemble, William, 1592?-1623.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.	1629 (1629)	STC 19578; ESTC S114348	13,402	30

A FRVITFVLL SERMON ON 1 COR. 15. 18 19. VVritten By VVILLIAM PEMBLE of Magdalen Hall in Oxford LONDON Printed by R. Y. for Iohn Bartlet at the signe of the gilt-Cup in Cheapeside 1629. To the Reader WEe doe finde Christian Reader great opposition made against our Faith not only by our Affections but chiefly by our Reason for when our Faith is encountred by our Affections wee doe gather many times some succour from our Reason but when our Faith is layd at by our Reason the tentation is not more strong than dangerous For if our Reason get the better of our Faith in any particular our Affections follow amaine And such tentations where they once take doe shake and stagger the strongest Christians Men I know are most an end wedded to their passions and doe liue more after their perturbations than their reason and therefore there is little good to bee done on the minde of a man till his perturbations bee at some quiet Now where our Reason is guided by Faith and the Word there it doth good vpon our passions but where our Reason goes by its owne principles and not by the Word there our affections are the worser for our Reason and a man shall neuer come to deny all his Affections till he haue first denied his Reason But blessed be God Faith is our victory and it doth not only quiet the Affections but at last it doth so triumph ouer Reason it selfe that men are willing to become fooles that they may be wise The vnderstanding of a man rests not till it bee satisfied and nothing can giue full and vltimate satisfaction to the intellect and mind of a man till by Faith it be captiuated to the obedience of God and Christ and when that is once done then Reason followes the light of the Word and the Affections follow the light of Reason And hence it is that our Faith doth adhere with most firmenesse to those Principles and Articles of our Creed wherein Reason is quite at a stand I will make my instance in the Article of our Resurrection a Point by the consent of all I know but one vtterly aboue the whole element of nature reason in it selfe doth not onely deny it but deride it Philosophers hisse at it The Apostles themselues in that their greatest tentation did for a time look somewhat strange vpon it But yet we see when their Reason was denied and their Faith tooke place they were not more willing to liue and dye vpon any Doctrine of Saluation than vpon this of the Resurrection and to beleeue this is a meer Act of Faith alone One perhaps two of the Apostles saw his death none his Resurrection And t is obserued that it was so ordered by the Prouidence of God that this maine Point of Diuinity might bee beleeued by the Apostles and deliuered ouer by them to the Church of the Gentiles as a meer act of faith and not of sight Faith being the euidence of things not seene and the iust liuing by faith and not by sight Faith then doth most in those Points of Diuinitie wherein reason is most opposite A proofe wherof the Lord gaue in the Author of this Sermon who a few daies before his last sicknes preached this Sermon as touching the Resurrection by a sweet secret prouidence of God the better to fit himselfe for his last Enemy He was a man full of wit learning strength of reason yet against the worst that Satan could do reason yeelded his Faith wrought out all disputes and he was so firme in this Point that hee reioyced that his body should not wait so long for the Resurrection as do the bodies of the Patriarks Reason said nothing faith did all and set him in that height strength of beliefe that he beleeued here without doubting Albeit whilst wee liue here we do know but in part yet an imperfect faith may and doth bring forth a full assurance sith faith is a grace giuen because only whilst wee are imperfect and when once we are made compleate then our faith doth cease The Orator blamed himselfe for that when he was in trouble he did not walk by his own Principles But this our Diuine what he deliuered in this his last farewell he fully beleeued in his sicknesse Let vs pray that as he so we may liue by faith not by reason both whilst we liue when we dye then we shall finde the truth and comfort of this That faith when it s once made strong doubteth least of those things against which our reason disputeth most Blessed is hee that beleeues and sees not Thine in Christ Iesus RICH. CAPEL 1 COR. 15. 19 20. If in this life only we haue hope in Christ we are of all men the most miserable But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept THe Disputes of the blessed Apostle in this whole Chapter is to proue a Resurrection of the dead against the error of the Epicures and Sadduces The maine Argument whereby hee proues it is this If Christ bee risen then the dead shall rise But Christ is risen Therefore the dead shall arise also The minor that Christ is risen the Apostle proues from the third Verse vnto the twelth by the Scriptures by the witnesse of the Twelue Apostles and more than fiue hundred Brethren to whom hee appeared after his Resurrection and lastly by his own Testimony vnto whom Christ shewed himselfe after his ascension into heauen The maior That if Christ be risen the dead must rise too the Apostle beginnes to proue at the twelfth Verse Now if it be preached that Christ is risen from the dead how say some among you that there is no Resurrection of the dead This foule inconsequence the Apostle confutes in the next Verse by the absurditie that would follow thereupon That if there be no Resurrection of the dead then is not Christ risen Vpon which absurditie other absurdities would also follow That if Christ bee not risen then the Apostles preaching and testimony touching Christs Resurrection were false and that the Corinthians faith in Christ is vaine If Christ bee yet in his graue they and all that beleeue in Christ bee yet in their sinns they that are dead in the Faith of Christ are perished and gone to hell in their sinnes they that liue in the faith of Christ are of all men most vnhappy without reward here and sure of punishment hereafter But Christ being raised from the dead these absurdities are taken away the Apostles are true in their preaching and all men are happy in beleeuing in Christ put to death for sinne and raised from death for our iustification If in this life only we haue hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable But now Christ is risen c. 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