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A45802	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend John Scott, D.D., late rector of S. Giles in the Fields, March 15, 1694/5 by Z. Isham ...	Isham, Z. (Zacheus), 1651-1705.	1695 (1695)	Wing I1068; ESTC R15920	13,714	32

Christ sitteth on the right hand of God Secondly Heaven is the place for which we are created and God in forming Man after his own Image design'd him for the everlasting fruition of himself innocent Men would have been Translated to a much higher Paradise and we that are fallen know it to be the end of our Redemption Heb. xii ●2 that we should come to the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and that we should inherit the kingdom prepared for us from the foundation of the world Mat. xxv 34. Thirdly Heaven is the place of the greatest happiness attainable by us and not only inexpressibly beyond all these lower satisfactions but also above our comprehension for till we know the most extended capacity of the Soul and what degrees of blessedness what proficiency what illuminations 't is capable of and till we know moreover how far God will discover himself in filling all the dimensions of it and in raising it to the highest pitch of created Perfection we cannot have a just and proportionable Idea of that ineffable happiness which is purchas'd for us by the blood of Christ So much however God hath reveal'd to us concerning our future reward as is sufficient to quicken our most active endeavours for it Joh. iii. 2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when God shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is and certainly the Vision of God's Essential Glories which are unapproachable to us here and the resemblance to his transcendent Nature the beholding of him Face to Face the dwelling within the Circle of his Throne and the seeing of the Mysteries of Faith unvail'd together with the consequential ardency of Affection towards God and the loving and admiring and adoring of him proportionably to the light of the understanding all this is infinitely more worthy of our Ambition than all the fading enjoyments of the World and may engage us to be diligent in our Christian Race and in working for Eternity VII This will be further Evident from the second Point which I offer'd namely the incitement given by our Apostle from the consideration of our future bliss Our conversation is to be in heaven because we look for our Saviour's coming from thence in glory to raise us up to an immortal life and to change our vile and infirm and mouldering bodies into such as will be of a noble and lasting Frame and fashion'd after the pattern of his own Resurrection In this Argument of our Apostle we may take notice of two Assertions the first of them is That this vile Body which we carry about here is to rise again and to be re-built after the likeness of the glorious Body of Christ and if it were otherwise 't is not easily conceivable how the Doctrine of the Resurrection can be properly maintain'd For that only can justly be said to rise again which is fallen and buried in the earth but the Soul is uncapable of dying and therefore unless the same Body be reviv'd unless there be a Resuscitation of that which was asleep in the Grave we are in danger of losing the Resurrection Did not Christ arise with the same Flesh that was Crucified and retaining the very Print of the Nails and are we not to be raised after the same model and he hath told us that all that are in the graves shall hear his voice Joh. 5.28 29. and shall come forth unto the Resurrection either of life or of damnation And his Apostle hath taught us that this corruptible must put on incorruption 1 Cor. 15.53 and this mortal must put on immortality It shall put on a new Garment and by consequence shall remain entire and from hence the Identity of the corrupted and the rising Body seems to be clearly reveal'd If it be so 't is in vain to contradict it by Philosophical Cavils for to support our belief the Apostle minds of us Gods omnipotent strength whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself The Power of God is but a weak Argument for the Truth of an Article of Faith unless the Revelations of his Will be clear and convincing for otherwise by this Plea the most absurd monstrosities in Religion may be defended but where the Divine Will is perspicuously declar'd as in the case of the Resurrection the Omnipotence of God comes in for a seasonable and sufficient reply to all the astonishing difficulties that our Reason can muster up 'T is I confess not easy to conceive how the Members that have been consumed in the Grave and scatter'd into a thousand places and travell'd through all the Elements should after many Ages reassemble their broken pieces and shake off their rottenness and reassume their antient Figure and rise up into a beautiful Frame But who can prescribe Limits to an Almighty Being The thunder of his power who can understand Job 26.14 and since he hath promis'd to raise up Mankind who can say to him that it cannot possibly be We know the infinite Power of God in building this vast Universe when he had no matter to work upon and in fashioning Man the Image of himself out of the dust of the ground and we cannot but admire the daily Miracles of his Providence in continuing the successive Generations of Men and Forming them all in the Womb And then we may conclude that he who hath done all this is likewise able to recollect and reanimate our putrify'd Bodies and to over power all the obstacles that stand in his way Act. xxvi 8. And why should it be thought a thing incredible with us that God should raise the dead VIII The second Assertion in our Apostle is this That there is to be a change in our Bodies at the Resurrection and a likeness to the glorify'd Body of Christ they are to be substantially the same but cloth'd with a Robe of unknown Glory and with new Endowments and Qualities suitably to that Heavenly Life which they must enter into The question was made in the days of our Apostle How are the dead raised up 1 Cor. xv 35. and 42 43 44 and with what body do they come and he not only clears the certainty of our Resurrection but also the conformity of it to that of Christ and it was an old * Hieron Ep. 27. Tradition in the Church that every Christian shall be raised up in the same ripeness of Age as our Saviour was of at the time of his Passion The body is sown in corruption and raised in incorruption that is in this Life it hath the Seeds of dissolution and upon the withdrawing of the Soul must of necessity fall into dust and rottenness but hereafter it will be subject to no decay no frailty and no misery being fram'd of such a durable substance as to prove an immortal Habitation to the returning Soul It will not be pinch'd with necessities and pains