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A63137	A sermon preached at the funeral of the honourable Colonel Robert Rolle of Heanton Sachville in the county of Devon esq; by William Trevethick M.A. and pastor of Petrockslow in the same county	Trevethick, William, 1612 or 13-1693.	1661 (1661)	Wing T2133A; ESTC R219720	49,922	131

1 By the resurrection 2 By the life 3 How Christ is said to be the resurrection and the life 2 In the opening of the second proposition I shall shew 1 Who it is that Christ meanes by these words he that believeth in me 2 How he that believeth in him shall live 3 In the opening the words whereby the power of Christ in raising of the dead is amplified I shall shew what is meant by these words though he were dead yet shall be live First the resurrection is somtimes taken in the Scripture figurativly What is ment by resurrection Ro. 6.4 5 Eph. 2.5 6 5.14 Colos 3. 1 Rev. 20.6 Rivet in Psal 16. p. 120 Rom. 6.4 Resurrectio prima est transitus a morte peccati ad vitam gratiae Sixtus Senens Biblioth Sanct. l. 6. Annot. 347. est spiritualis omnium salvandorum ex morte peccati reviviscentia Pareus in loc Mortuorum resurrectio dicitur Mortuorum itaque vocabulo non est nisi quod amisit animam de cujus facultate vivebat Corpus est quod amittit animam et amittendo fit mortuum ita mortui vocabulum corpori competit Porro si resurrectio mortui est mortuum autem non aliud est quam corpus corporis erit resurrectio Resurrectio est ejus quod cecidit Tortullian adversus Marcion l. 5. p. 308. 309. n. 17. edit Basil 1562. Ca●o est quae mo●te subruitur ut exinde a cadendo cadavere enuncielu Resurrectio caducae rei est i.e. carnis Idem carnis resur de l. p. 56 57. n. 14. for the raisin again of the soul from the death of sin to the life of grace which is called a passing from death to life Joh. 5.24 This is called the first resurrection which is nothing else but regeneration the efficient cause where of is Jesus Christ and this is only of the elect And it is also taken properly for the raising up of the body which was fallen by death And yet not of the body without the soul Anima est quae corpus 〈…〉 but as death doth dissolve that union and conjunction which is between the soul and the body so the resurrection shall restore it whence it is also called a regeneration Mat. 19.28 Piscat in loc Musc in Ps 2. p. 22.6 B●cause as in the first birth a man 〈◊〉 brought forth consisting both of soul an● body so in the resurrection which is as another birth he shall be raised u● an intire man consisting both of soul an● body Briefly The resurrection proper●● taken is a supernaturall act of God whereby the same soul is reunited 〈◊〉 the same body to the end that the same person even the same intire man may be presented in the day of judgment to receive the rewards or punishment of his forepassed life Job 19.26 27● 2 Cor. 5.10 This also is twofold according to the differing condition of the persons that are to be raised up The hour is comming in the which all that are in th● grave shall hear his voice and sha●● come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation Joh. 5.28 29. By which i● appears that of the resurrection thu● properly taken Jesus Christ is also the author and efficient Secondly by The life we are to understand principally life spirituall and eternall together with all the degrees of it from its beginning in grace to its perfecting in glory in that it is such a life as is the fruit and consequent of faith as he immediatly expounds it when he saith He that believeth in me shall live never die This is indeed the life by way of excellency whereof Christ alone is the fountain and spring when he is called the Prince of life Act. 3.15 he that hath life in himself and from whom it is derived unto others who by faith draw it from him as water from a fountain According to that of Paul Gal. 2.20 I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of God All mankind by nature are in an estate of death and no one of them is put into an estate of life Calvin but he that is risen from the dead none can rise from the dead but by him who is the resurrection none can live but by him who is the life He that hath the son hath life and he that hath not the son hath not life 1 Joh. 5.12 In a word the life here spoken of is chiefly life spiritual and eternal begun in grace and to be perfected in glory unto which life there is no true way but by him who is the way the truth and the life Joh. 14.6 And thus you have heard what we are to understand by the resurrection and what by the life In the third place I am to shew how Christ is the resurrection and the life And I find it expressed by a learned author somewhat to this effect Christ Lanc in colos 3. as God is the resurection and the life properly and efficiently As man and as he hath died for our offences and was raised again for our justification so he is the resurrection and the life materially Cartw. Harm in loc as mediator and so he is the resurrection and the life formally even in and by whom they rise and live As he is the head of the body the Church so he is the life of the members by which they are raised from the dead and are alive unto God and do live the life of God that is the life of grace here and shall at last with him also live the life of glory When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Colos 3.4 To speake a little more particularly to the words Whereas he saith I am the resurrection and the life Singula verba emphatica Sunt Every word hath its force I and not another nor by prayer to another nor by the power of another but of my self and by mine own power I am not I have been or I shall be but I am This is a manner of speakeing which is most proper unto God who is ever the same and by thus speaking he would have us to know that it is alwayes in his power to do it when he will by whom he will and as he pleaseth For as the father raiseth up the dead and quickneth them even so the son quickneth whom he will Joh. 5.21 He speakes in the present tense time past is not and time to come is not yet Tempus praesens est tantum tempus Time hath no being but at present I am the resurrection more Hebraeorum aftes the manner of the Hebrews He useth the abstract for the concrete but in an active sense As when the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 1.30 He is made unto us wisdom and

had to their brothers weaknesse and their own modesty Suitable whereunto is the message which they send wherein they prescribe nothing as to his comming or sending or doing but only commend-his case to Christ saying Lord behold he whom thou lovest is sick v. 3. and so leaving him to the freedom of his own will to do as seemed good unto him Which argues the sobriety ond meeknesse of their spirits that in a matter of the greatest weight even in a case of life and death they were so ready to submit unto his pleasure whereunto we have 2 The answer which Jesus Christ return'd by the messenger sent him wherein he aslures them of life and safety to the sick and of advantage to the glory of God and of Christ This sicknesse saith he is not unto death but for the glory of God that the son of God may be glorified thereby v. 4. And this we may be sure to gain by an hummble and submissive addresse to Christ in the sicknesse of the body though we may not be sure to be freed from death temporall yet we may be sure of comfort in the promise of being freed from death eternall However this ought to support the spirit of a Christian that Christ shall be magnified in his body whether it be by life or by death Phil. 1.20 3 The discourse which Iesus Christ had upon this occasion with his disciples wherein he signfieth to them his purposes to return into Judea to raize up Lazarus from death wherein he suffers not himself to be discouraged from his duty by the danger which they suggested might attend him in the doing of it with all giving them to understand that one special end which he proposed to himself in this undertakin was the strengthning of their faith v. 15. And not of theirs only but also the begetting increase and perfecting of faith in all the elect that remained yet to be called in And to that purpose this being one of the greatest and last miracles that ever he wrought while he was conversant in the world and also a most remarkable demonstration of his almighty power and Godhead He hath caused it the more particularly to be recorded by the Evangelist with all its circumstances As the place where it was don near Jerusalem they that doubted needed not to go far to inquire out the truth of it the time when it was near the Passeover when the Jewes in great multituds from all parts resorted to Jerusalem The means whereby he effected it were the same by which he still upholds the world even by the word of his power The witnesses in whose presence he did it they were many and those of all sorts men and women friends and foes some that believed and some that were hardned who went their wayes and accused him to the Phaisees ver 46. All which circumstances are so exactly recorded to the end that they which were present might the better remember it and that they which were absent might the easier believe it Ut inde rem pene natura sua incredibilem diligenti circumstantiarum descriptione credibilem redderet To the end that a mater which in its own nature was in a manner incredible by an exact description of all its circumstances might be rendred apt to be believed 4 We have also here at large set down that consolatory discourse which Jesus Christ held with Martha upon the occsiaon of the death of her brother Wherein we may observe the course which Christ takes and the subject which he makes choise of to comfort and restore her grieved and afflicted spirit And that is the doctrine of the resurrection and of life eternall wherein he especially laboureth to regulate and confirme her faith As to the main that there should be a resurrection she no way doubted but concerning the power of Christ and his interest in that work she did much need to be farther instructed In the 21. v. She seemes too much to confine the power of Christ to his corporall presence Lord saith she if thou hadst been here my brother had not died As if according to his Deity he were not every where present or as if the distance of place could hinder his power from working of miracles In the 22. v. she seemes to ascribe all the power that Christ had to do any thing for her unto the prevailency of his prayers to God Implying that she did not believe that he was able to do it of himself when she saith but I know that even now whatsoever thou wilt aske of God God will give it thee And whereas v. 23. Christ had promised that her brother should rise again v. the 24. She captiously diverts it or turns it off applying it to his rising again in the resurrection of the last day As if Christ could not make good his word till then or as if the consolation which she might receive from the doctrin of the last resurrection were but of light concernment This weaknesse or wavering of her faith Christ corrects in the words of my text where he informs her that he is not only the ministeriall or instrumentall cause as she seemed to suppose but the very author and principall effioient cause of the resurrection and the life I am the resuerection and the life c. Which words I shall consider 1 Absolutly as they are in themselves 2 Relatively with respect to the context 1 As they are considered absolutly they contain two distinct affirmative propositions In the first of which we have anassertion of the power and interest which Jesus Christ hath in the resurrection and the life Jesus said unto her I am the resurection and the life In the second we have the specification of the proper and adaequate subject or materiall cause of the resurrection and the life and that is the believer He that believeth in me shall live Whereunto he also adds an amplification of his power from the extent of it and that both in respect of the quantity of the Subject it reacheth to every one that believeth be they never so many He that believeth it is indefinitly expressed in this verse but yet explained in the next verse to be understood as universall where he saith whosoever believeth in me And also in respect of the quality of the subject whatsoever his condition may be be it never so desperate Though he were dead yet shall he live 2 As they are considered relatively 1 They are inferred by way of argument for the correcting and curing of Martha's ignorance unbelief and Errour 2 For the moderating and quieting of her passions now apt to be distempered by immoderate grief 3 For the regulating and improving of the present dispensation of providence in the death of her brother and of her mourning upon that occasion Before I come to the observations I shall endeavour to unfold the terms And 1 in order to the opening of the first propositon I shall shew what we are to understand