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A11247	Resurgendum. A notable sermon concerning the resurrection, preached not long since at the court, by L. S.	L. S., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 21508; ESTC S120772	19,781	36

had a Priest sent vnto them to teach them the true seruice of God yet withall they retained their old superstition and affection to their natiue Idolles and so became Mungrelles in religion neither faithfull worshippers of the true God nor kinde followers of their false gods 4. Reg. 17.33 Naman the Syrian after he was cleansed of his leprosie made a vowe to offer incense or sacrifice to none but vnto the Lord yet he will needes go with his Maister into the house of Rimmon whereby he may keepe the kings fauour keepe his authoritie continue his honour enioy his wealth and this is to seeke to reconcile heauen and earth together 4. Reg. 5.18 Nicodemus his case was much like who would gladly be a Disciple of Christ yet commeth to him by night that he might not loose his credit of the world Ioh. 3.2 Matth. 19.10 There came a young man to Christ verie desirous to knowe what conuersation to vse in earth that he might obtaine eternall life in heauen Our Sauiour letteth him see the way to obedience of the commandements Thou shalt not steale thou shalt not kill c. Saith the young man If this be all I am in good case all these haue I obserued from my youth Christ meaning to sift him and to shake him out of the ragges of hypocrisie willeth him to sell all and to giue to the poore c. When he heard this the case was altered and he went away sorie that he could not hold his possessions and Christ together This young man is nowe become old and a grandfather of many children in these dayes who will be thought to be Egles in affection to soare aloft and yet are snailes with their houses vpon their backes and creepe vpon the earth These haue squinting eyes with the one looking at the heauens with the other beholding the earth these be outlawes who are faithfull to no common wealth indifferent men in factions who fauour no side these be such cakes as the Prophet Oseas speaketh of baked vp vpon the one side and raw vpon the other neither hote nor cold and therefore to be spued out of the mouth of God In deede they are earthly minded but in shewe heauenly affected their tongues and countenaunce their wordes and lookes are holy but their hearts and hands their affections and actions are worldly The marke and brand of the flesh can not more fitly be set vpon any then vpon many who carrie a zeale of holy profession Let many aske their owne hearts whether I say truth and they shall receiue answer I lye not They must confesse that they are trees full of leaues but voyd of frute dunghilles couered with snowe white without and foule within The case of the foxe is more worth then his carkasse and the profession of these men somthing to be esteemed but the body of their behauiour is vile nothing worth They are painted graues in truth they be citizens of the world though in shew they pretend this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this heauenly conuersation But the true seruants of God although in infirmitie without perfection yet in sinceritie without dissimulation in minde and affection are heauenly and haue their conuersation as citizens of Ierusalem which is aboue they acknowledge them selues to be pilgrims and strangers hauing here no abiding citie but looke for one whose maker and builder is God They are in the world but not of the world they vse the world as though they vsed it not they do esteeme their houses as Innes to rest in not as mansions to dwell in for euer they know that all the manifold graces of God in the mind in the bodie without the bodie are taken of their Maister and they but stewards thereof They vse all worldly commodities as staues in their hands which they will set downe at the last step of their iourney or as oares to rowe with which readily they will leaue when they come to the hauen where they would be Their vnderstanding is lightened with Gods truth their affections are strengthened by his will their actions are reformed by his word They looke not backe with delight to their old sinnes as Lots wife to Sodome nor returne with their hearts to Egypt againe with the murmuring Israelites neither wish they to tarrie on this side Iordane without the land of promise as Ruben and Gad and halfe Manasses did but as Daniel opened his windowes toward Ierusalem so they lift vp their eyes to heauen and send thither their sighes and grones in aduersitie testifying that all their refuge is there and lift vp their voyces with praise whē matters go well with them confessing that all good gifts come from aboue As the Egle casteth her bil and renueth her youth and as the snake strippeth of her skin and becometh smooth so they leaue the rotten ragges of Adams corruption and put on the innocencie of Christ which is the wedding garment wherewith vnlesse we be clothed we shall be shut out from the marriage feast If God threaten they tremble if he shew foorth his louing countenance they are cheered at the heart if he teach they giue diligent attendance if he correct they humble them selues They labor in worldly causes but not with worldly affections they giue obedience to lawfull rulers not as to men but as to the lieutenants of God they walke vpon the earth with the feete of their bodies but in their desires which are the feet or rather the wings of the mind they are conuersant in heauen The workes of darknesse are wearisome vnto them because they are children of the light the frutes of the flesh are lothsome to them because God hath renued thē by his spirit the freedom of Gods adoption is most sweet vnto them hauing escaped the slauerie of Satan Whatsoeuer is purely good they desire it with their whole hart what is meerely euill they hate it with perfect hatred things indifferent which are good or euill as they are vsed or abused in them they are carefull to make profit and heedfull not to offend in all things they first seeke the glorie of God and next their owne saluation This is the narrow way that leadeth to life this is the delight of Gods Saints in earth this is to haue a heauenly conuersation which may not be thought a matter of deuice or imagination as if no such were to be found like Platoes common wealth or Zenophons king some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a heauenly conuersation I sayd at the first that none haue it in perfection but euerie one lesse or more must haue it without dissimulation For none are perfect in this life the brightest fire hath some smoke the cleerest water some mudde The face of Venus had a mole the most heauenly affection hath some infection of the earth Noah the seede of the second world and the relique of the first was yet ouertaken with wine Lot was a righteous man yet foully defiled with incest Dauid a

RESVRGENDVM A NOTABLE SERMON CONCERNING THE RESVRrection preached not long since at the Court by L. S. We haue here no continuing Citie but we seeke one to come Hebr. chap. 13. verse 14. Resurget iustus vt iudicet peccator vt iudicetur impius vt sine iudicio puniatur IW LONDON Printed by Iohn VVolfe 1593. The Printer to the Reader I Send thee here gentle Reader a Sermon for stile eloquent for order methodicall and for substance of matter right heauenly heartily praying thee euen for thine ovvne soules health to vouchsafe the reading thereof Taken it vvas not from the Preachers mouth by any fond or nevv found Characterisme vvhich to the great preiudice of some vvorthie and learned men hath of late verie pitifully blemished some part of their labours this vvay vvith intollerable mutilations but set dovvne at their desire vvho might herein command by the Authors ovvne pen and indited as I verily persuade my self by special instinct of the holy Ghost And surely the doctrine of this Sermon is such as I make no doubt at all but it vvil be held to be most needfull and necessarie especially for these desperat times of ours vvherein amongst other most erronious sects vvhich rent in peeces the coate of Christ and the vnitie of his Church that one of the Saduces vvho say there is no resurrection is not perhaps of all other the least imbraced VVith this sort of hel-hounds this godly Sermon though not of purpose doth chiefly encounter and vvith inuincible argumēts beateth them dovvne flat to the ground assuring all flesh of that great and generall Resurrection vvhich euery true Christian is bound both in heart to beleeue and vvith his mouth to confesse hovvsoeuer the prophane Atheist in the greatnesse of his vaine and vvicked imaginations may othervvise fancie to himselfe not vvithout his ovvne remedilesse damnation vnlesse in time he do repent him of his sinne And vvould to God many such alarums as this might dayly be rong and sounded into our eares that if it vvere possible euery Christian might haue as deepe an impression and be no lesse affected vvith the continuall cogitation and remembrance of our resurrection at the last day then that godly father S. Ierome seemed to be vvho sayd Whether I eate or drinke whether I sleepe or wake or what thing else so euer I do me thinkes I heare a trumpet alwayes sounding thus in mine eares Arise you dead and come vnto iudgement And so gentle Reader I leaue thee to the grace of God A NOTABLE SERMON CONCERNING THE RESVRrection preached not long since at the Court by L. S. Philip. 3.20.21 20 But our conuersation is in heauen from vvhence also vve looke for the Sauiour euen the Lord Iesus Christ 21 VVho shall change our vile bodie that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious bodie according to the vvorking vvhereby he is able euen to subdue all things vnto him selfe THose teachers of Gods truth whose works be not answerable to the word are fitly compared to Mercuries the images in the streetes which point the right way to other men but stand still and walke not thē selues or to the stage player who speaking of the earth pointed to heauen and meaning the heauen pointed to the earth manu commisit soloecismum Such haue the voyce of Iacob but the hands of Esau of such the Apostle with teares exhorteth the Philippians to beware in the 18. verse of the third chapter And that they may the better be knowen he setteth downe their properties and painteth them out in their colours as that they be enemies to the crosse of Christ their bellie is their God they glorie in their shame they are earthly minded But such as build with both hands the church of God that is by sound doctrine and holy life such as haue Vrim and Thummim brightnesse of knowledge and integritie of conuersation such as go armed before their brethren as Ruben and Gad and halfe Manasses did not to be touched with errour in faith or deformitie in life these be good guides to folow and sure loade starres to direct our course Amongst which Paule with a good conscience placeth him selfe and such as be like him setting downe in this place their conuersation to be heauenly And good cause why for that there is their Sauiour and that thence they long for him whose comming shall not be frutelesse to them for he shall chaunge their bodies from such base infirmitie as now they are in to such glorie as his body is clothed withall Which may not be thought incredible because his will and power which subdueth all things shall bring this to passe In the farther vnfolding of which words the Apostle putteth in my hands these two principall things to deliuer vnto you First the change that is in the soules of the godly in this life Secondly the change that shal be in their bodies after this life In the former there be these points to be handled That their conuersation is not earthly but in heauen The cause that draweth them thither the Lord Iesus Christ A longing and expectation of his comming In the change that shal be of the bodie we are to consider What our bodies are nowe They are vile What they shall be then Like the glorious bodie of Christ The causes which bring this to passe The will of God and his mightie power These be the ioynts and parts of this present Scripture whereof I will speake as the time shall permit me your Honorable patience heare me the Apostle direct me and God shall assist me with his grace Saint Augustine parteth all the people in the world into two companies the synagogue of Sathan and the Church of God into Babylon and Ierusalem into the sonnes of the earth and the Citizens of heauen In which now are all the godly hauing their conuersation in heauen that is behauing them selues as free Burgesses of Ierusalem which is aboue Manie Cities in the world haue lawes and customes differing one from another yet not so contrarie but one may enioy freedome of diuerse at once But heauen and earth haue so continuall and so vnreconcileable variance as no peace can be compounded betweene them For he that is free to the one must be disfranchized in the other he that is friend to the one must be foe to the other he that hath giuen his faith to the one must sweare against the other It is as possible for light to agree with darknes for life to be friends with death for the Arke of God and the idol Dagon to lodge quietly in one place as for a man to serue God and Mammon to be true to the Lord and the world to be free Denison beneath and aboue to haue an earthly and a heauenly conuersation Therefore Elias doth sharply reproue the people of Israell for halting betweene two opinions in following the Lord and going after Baall 3. Reg. 18.21 The Samaritans for feare of Lyons which deuoured them