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<P>A SERMON PREACH'D ON EASTER-DAY AT OXFORD, IN SAINT PETERS CHVRCH IN THE EAST, the Accu&s;tomed place for the REHEARSALL SERMON on THAT DAY: Wherein is prov'd the SONNE'S Equality with the FATHER, the Deity of the Holy GHOST, AND The Re&s;urrection of the &s;ame Numericall Body, Again&s;t the old, and Recent Oppugners of the&s;e Sacred Verities. BY RICHARD GARDYNER, D. D. and Canon of the Cathedrall Church of Chri&s;t in OXFORD.</P>
<P>OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, Printer to the &V;niver&s;ity, for Francis Bowman, Anno Dom. 1638.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL, AND REVEREND, <HI>DOCTOR BAYLIE,</HI> PRESIDENT OF S^t IOHN Bapti&s;t's Colledge, Deane of SARVM, <HI>and the Worthy</HI> Vice-chancelor <HI>of the</HI> VNIVERSITY of OXFORD.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_I May &s;eeme to <HI>hazard</HI> your di&s;plea&s;ure in <HI>&s;urprizing</HI> you with this <HI>In&s;cription</HI> be|yond your expectati|on, and again&s;t your <HI>A&s;&s;ent.</HI> Yet I tru&s;t you will pardon my <HI>boldne&s;&s;e</HI> for not pardoning
<PB REF="3"> your <HI>mode&s;ty.</HI> The <HI>matter</HI> being <HI>con&s;ign'd by</HI> your <HI>Warrant</HI> to come abroad in <HI>publike</HI> view, I pre&s;ume you will <HI>deigne</HI> it a &s;afe <HI>con|duct</HI> vnder your <HI>Name,</HI> &s;ince it would be an <HI>injurious</HI> &s;urmi&s;e to imagine you are loath to maintaine, and <HI>make good</HI> your owne <HI>hand.</HI> The Preaching, and Printing of the <HI>Argument</HI> is an intire <HI>Act</HI> of my <HI>Obedi|ence,</HI> which prompts me to beleeve you cannot choo&s;e but <HI>protect,</HI> what you &s;o much <HI>ap|prov'd.</HI> Not long agoe my meane, <HI>ob&s;cure</HI> &s;elfe repre&s;ented the <HI>Per&s;on</HI> of our owne much honour'd. <HI>DEANE</HI> in this &s;pirituall <HI>Imployment:</HI> That <HI>task</HI> was <HI>back'd</HI> with good &s;ucce&s;se, for he freely <HI>guarded</HI> it with his <HI>Tutelar</HI> power, being unwilling what was done in <HI>his &s;ervice</HI> &s;hould be <HI>expos'd</HI> to the <HI>mercy</HI> of the <HI>world,</HI> and left to &s;eeke <HI>forreine</HI> en|gagements.</P>
<P>I know from my owne experience that you are made up of the &s;ame <HI>extractions</HI> of <HI>good|ne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>gentlene&s;&s;e;</HI> your <HI>affections</HI> alike <HI>poys'd;</HI> your <HI>pul&s;e</HI> beates in as <HI>even,</HI> and as <HI>&s;oft</HI> a temper, there's no <HI>&s;ullennes,</HI> no <HI>rough|ne&s;&s;e</HI>
<PB REF="3"> in it. As yet you <HI>dignify</HI> an equall <HI>Dig|nity</HI> in the <HI>Church;</HI> you <HI>fill up</HI> the <HI>place</HI> of Government with that <HI>generall</HI> applau&s;e, which heretofore was <HI>pay'd</HI> as His <HI>due.</HI> And though the <HI>beames</HI> of his <HI>Favour</HI> &s;hine upon me in a more <HI>direct line,</HI> yet I feele the <HI>Re|flexion</HI> of your <HI>friendline&s;&s;e</HI> much <HI>intended</HI> towards me. The <HI>Concurrence</HI> of which <HI>Cir|cum&s;tances</HI> hath in&s;tructed me that my <HI>De|dication</HI> would be <HI>mi&s;plac'd,</HI> if it <HI>pointed</HI> to any but <HI>your &s;elfe.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Scope</HI> of the <HI>di&s;cour&s;e</HI> &s;uites with the &s;ea&s;on of the <HI>Day,</HI> &amp; <HI>Times,</HI> in that it vindi|cates the <HI>Rights</HI> of our <HI>Common Saviour,</HI> and our <HI>intere&s;t</HI> in his <HI>merits.</HI> I acknowledge in <HI>&s;incerity,</HI> not out of adulation, (and yet to Speake <HI>truth</HI> of <HI>&s;ome</HI> is rendred in the <HI>Dialect,</HI> and <HI>bad Comment</HI> of the Malevolent to <HI>flatter,</HI>) that by the <HI>piety,</HI> and <HI>prudence</HI> of the <HI>Arch-Angell</HI> of our <HI>Church,</HI> the mo&s;t vigilant <HI>Sentinell</HI> of our <HI>Vniver&s;ity, Sociniani&s;me</HI> is not <HI>di&s;cerne|able</HI> among&s;t us, although their <HI>bookes</HI> have <HI>Clancularly</HI> crept in, endeavouring to <HI>infect,</HI>
<PB REF="4"> and <HI>poy&s;on</HI> our <HI>faith.</HI> My <HI>zeale</HI> to the <HI>Primi|tive Truth,</HI> with which we have been &s;o long, and &s;o happily po&s;&s;e&s;s'd, rais'd me to pur&s;ue it's ju&s;t defence, le&s;t the <HI>unexperienc'd</HI> being en&s;nar'd with the <HI>glaring</HI> appearance of <HI>So|phi&s;ticated</HI> Rea&s;on, might be entic'd to <HI>&s;uck up</HI> the <HI>venome</HI> their Rancour hath <HI>di&s;|gorg'd.</HI> If they intend to <HI>bargain</HI> with <HI>con|ceal'd factors</HI> to accomodate them for a <HI>Reply,</HI> let them know they &s;hall not winne &s;o much upon me as to wrest, or extort the lea&s;t an&s;wer, for I meane not to make a <HI>Trade</HI> of writing, e&s;pecially again&s;t &s;uch, who would <HI>re|duce</HI> us to our <HI>fir&s;t Rudiments,</HI> and put us to prove <HI>Prinicples</HI> not to bee <HI>Controver|ted.</HI></P>
<P>It is enough, J have di&s;charg'd my duety to <HI>God,</HI> and my <HI>Nation,</HI> in making a plaine <HI>di&s;|covery</HI> that the <HI>malice</HI> of their <HI>Tenets</HI> &s;trikes at the <HI>Roote</HI> of Religion, <HI>&s;hakes</HI> the <HI>ground</HI> of our &s;alvation, vilifies the <HI>generally recei|ved</HI> expo&s;itions of the <HI>Orthodox Fathers,</HI> who drew the <HI>water</HI> of <HI>life</HI> neare&s;t to the <HI>Foun|taine</HI> Head, and makes our owne <HI>particular
<PB REF="4"> Church</HI> to be all this while at <HI>a lo&s;&s;e,</HI> by &s;tand|ing <HI>immoveably</HI> upon the <HI>old way,</HI> without stepping a&s;ide to any <HI>crooked by-paths,</HI> which <HI>Cro&s;&s;e</HI> the venerable <HI>foot-&s;teps</HI> of the <HI>Ca|tholique, Apo&s;tolique</HI> Doctrine. Thus ha|ving <HI>&s;ilenc'd</HI> my <HI>penne;</HI> to <HI>&s;uffer</HI> for &s;uch a <HI>cau&s;e</HI> will be my <HI>triumph,</HI> and I &s;hall gaine the <HI>victory</HI> when they count me <HI>overcom'd.</HI> But I <HI>&s;tay</HI> you too long in the <HI>Porch,</HI> may it plea&s;e you to looke in, and behold the <HI>building,</HI> on which if you vouch&s;afe a favourable <HI>glance,</HI> you &s;hall the more oblige me to bee</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours ready at your Commands RICHARD GARDYNER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>8. CHAP. ROM. ver&s;. 11.</HI></BIBL>
<P>But if the Spirit of Him that rais'd up Ie&s;us from the dead dwell in you, He that rais'd up Chri&s;t from the dead &s;hall al&s;o quicken your mortall bodies by his &s;pirit that dwell's in you.</P></Q>
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<P>_MY me&s;&s;age on <HI>Chri&s;tmas day</HI> was Chri&s;t's com|ming <HI>into</HI> the earth; my <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> tidings are that He came <HI>out</HI> of the earth. There He wore the cog|ni&s;ance, and badge of a <HI>&s;ervant:</HI> Here He
<PB N="2" REF="6"> did <HI>Lord</HI> it, like a <HI>Soveraigne.</HI> There the Divinity was <HI>ecclips'd</HI> by the <HI>interpo&s;ition</HI> of his Fle&s;h, He being pleas'd not only to <HI>a&s;|&s;ume</HI> our Nature but to <HI>yeeld</HI> vnto it. Here the beames of his heavenly Maje&s;tie &s;hin'd forth &s;o cleerely, that in the &s;ame Nature, which was <HI>conquer'd</HI> He <HI>van|qui&s;h'd</HI> the Conqueror, and put the <HI>Graue</HI> to <HI>flight.</HI> There <HI>Natus e&s;t nobis,</HI> here <HI>&s;ur|rexit pro nobis.</HI> We are concern'd in both, yet our po&s;&s;ibility is conditionall, it &s;tands vpon a <HI>But,</HI> and <HI>If: But if the &s;pirit of Him that rais'd vp Ie&s;us from the dead dwell in you. &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>The words relate the re&s;urrection of Chri&s;t in his Body <HI>Naturall,</HI> and <HI>My&s;ticall.</HI> The &s;ame <HI>&s;pirit</HI> is <HI>Agent</HI> in One, and the Other. The maine <HI>Act,</HI> Rai&s;ing. The <HI>per|&s;on</HI> rais'd, <HI>Ie&s;us.</HI> The e&s;tate <HI>from whence,</HI> from the dead. The <HI>effect,</HI> and <HI>con&s;equent</HI> of Chri&s;t's <HI>Antecedent</HI> Ri&s;ing, the quick|ning of our mortall Bodies. The condi|tion requir'd to <HI>qualifie,</HI> and make vs cape|able
<PB N="3" REF="6"> to ri&s;e with Him, the re&s;iding, or in|habiting of the &s;ame &s;pirit in vs. <HI>He that rai&s;ed up Christ from the dead &s;hall all&s;o quic|ken your mortall bodies by his &s;pirit that dwels in you.</HI></P>
<P>I will begin as the <HI>Spirit</HI> &s;hall enable me with <HI>the Spirit of him</HI> that rai&s;ed up Ie&s;us from the dead.</P>
<P>The <HI>Spirit,</HI> when it referres to the <HI>De|ity,</HI> may be taken <HI>E&s;&s;entially,</HI> or <HI>Per&s;onally.</HI> The fir&s;t acception is common to the whole <HI>Trinity,</HI> for <HI>God,</HI> &s;aith Saint <HI>Iohn,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S Ioh. c. 4. v. 24.</NOTE> is a <HI>Spirit;</HI> &s;imply, and ab&s;olutely. The o|ther &s;ignifies a di&s;tinct <HI>Manner</HI> of &s;ub&s;i&s;t|ing by way of <HI>Effluence,</HI> or <HI>Emanation,</HI> and that &s;pecifies the <HI>Third per&s;on,</HI> who by a &s;u|perexcellency is term'd a <HI>Spirit,</HI> becau&s;e He is as it were <HI>&s;pir'd,</HI> or breath'd from the <HI>Father</HI> and the <HI>Sonne:</HI> And thus is the word here u&s;ed.</P>
<P>But fir&s;t we hence ob&s;erve the <HI>Trinity
<PB N="4" REF="7"> Per&s;onall.</HI> The <HI>Third per&s;on</HI> is &s;et downe in plaine termes; the <HI>Spirit,</HI> being his u&s;uall name throughout the whole Scripture. The <HI>Father</HI> is intended by the <HI>periphra&s;is</HI> of him. By <HI>Ie&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> the Sonne, the <HI>&s;econd per&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Neither is it any di&s;paragement to the &s;onnes <HI>equality</HI> with the <HI>father</HI> that the holy Gho&s;t is <HI>implicitely</HI> in the text, and ex|pre&s;&s;ely in the 10. of <HI>S. Mathew</HI> &s;til'd the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the <HI>Father,</HI> for in the 4. to the <HI>Ga|lathians,</HI> and in the 9. ver&s;e of this chapter, he is as truly called the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI> In the 14. of <HI>S. John</HI> 'tis <HI>Rogabo patrem,</HI> I will entreat the Father to &s;end him. But in the 16. of the &s;ame Evangeli&s;t hee a&s;&s;umes the authority to him&s;elfe, &s;aying, <HI>ego mittam,</HI> I will &s;end the Comforter, to &s;hew that with the Father he &s;ent him.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aqu. part.</HI> 1. <HI>q.</HI> 36. <HI>art.</HI> 4 <HI>in corp. &amp; q.</HI> 37. <HI>art.</HI> 1. <HI>in corp.</HI></NOTE> We &s;ee a ne|ces&s;ity it &s;hould bee &s;o. <HI>Nam cum Spirtus &s;anctus &s;it Patris, &amp; Filij amor unitivus, vel nexus communis;</HI> for the ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Spirit</HI> being the mutuall <HI>love</HI> of the <HI>Father,</HI> and the
<PB N="5" REF="7"> <HI>Sonne;</HI> his <HI>Emis&s;ion,</HI> or &s;ending forth mu&s;t be alike from both. Yet becau&s;e the <HI>Father</HI> is the <HI>fountaine</HI> of <HI>orderly</HI> proce&s;&s;ion in the <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> all the <HI>glory</HI> of the <HI>action</HI> may bee reduc'd to him, in regard 'tis his preroga|tive to be the <HI>Originall</HI> of life, and glory to the re&s;t.</P>
<P>And here, without more adoe, wee are in &s;incerity to &s;ub&s;cribe to the <HI>Deity</HI> of the <HI>holy Gho&s;t.</HI> For &s;eeing his <HI>Per&s;onall property</HI> is in the God-head <HI>e&s;&s;entially,</HI> 'tis certaine hee agrees in the Vnity of the divine E&s;|&s;ence, becau&s;e <HI>what&s;oever is in God is onely his being.</HI> And indeed how can a &s;inne a|gain&s;t the <HI>holy Gho&s;t</HI> make the delinquents lyable to an infinite puni&s;hment, unle&s;&s;e it be becau&s;e it doth prejudice the <HI>Jnterest</HI> of an <HI>Infinite being?</HI> He who is the Enditer of the Scripture, and te&s;tifies the truth to eve|ry faithfull &s;oule hath beene punctuall herein to <HI>take away mi&s;taking.</HI> For <HI>Ananias</HI> his Lying to the <HI>holy Ghost</HI> in the 5. of the Acts, and the third is explained in the very
<PB N="6" REF="8"> next ver&s;e to be all one as to <HI>ly to God.</HI> To let us know the mighty worke of <HI>Creation ownes</HI> him as well as the Father, and the Sonne, 'tis regi&s;tred in the 33. of <HI>Iob,</HI> the <HI>Spirit</HI> of the Lord hath made me, and the <HI>breath</HI> of the Allmighty gave me life. And if &s;o; then he hath a <HI>Reall &s;ub&s;i&s;tence,</HI> and is not a meere <HI>Motion,</HI> or quality in <HI>God,</HI> as the <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">of old, and <HI>Socinus</HI> of late bla&s;pheme. I will not beate that forlorne here&s;y any farther, there's enough to cleare the <HI>point</HI> in his <HI>rai&s;ing up</HI> Ie&s;us from the <HI>dead,</HI> an effect, which none but the <HI>&s;upre|mest cau&s;e</HI> can produce.</P>
<P>And indeed it was needfull for S. <HI>Paul</HI> to re&s;t, and <HI>anchor</HI> this wondrous <HI>Act</HI> upon an omnipotent Agent. For the e&s;tate of the dead in the eyes of men, and in the conceit of Chri&s;ts <HI>chiefe</HI> followers was lo&s;t, and de&s;perate; &s;o that wee &s;hould never have believed that death, and the grave would let goe their <HI>hold,</HI> and part with their <HI>prey,</HI> were it not that wee have the Apo&s;tles
<PB N="7" REF="8"> word, nay Gods owne deed for it. The di&s;ciples that went to <HI>Emaus</HI> had their &s;oules &s;o appall'd, and their hearts &s;o dead within them, when they &s;aw the onely <HI>&s;taffe</HI> of their comfort quite <HI>bur&s;t</HI> in pieces, and <HI>block'd</HI> vp within a Pile of &s;tone, that through weakne&s;&s;e of faith they were al|mo&s;t at a <HI>Non-plus.</HI> We, &s;ay they, as it is in the 24. of Saint <HI>Luke, did</HI> hope, (&s;ee, now they <HI>doe not</HI>) that He <HI>&s;hould</HI> haue redee|med <HI>I&s;rael.</HI> And <HI>Peter</HI> him&s;elfe, who be|fore bore record of his <HI>Divinity,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S. Ioh. cap. 6.</NOTE> when he averr'd thou art <HI>that</HI> Chri&s;t the <HI>Sonne</HI> of <HI>God,</HI> now comming to his tombe, and not finding him there, went away <HI>wondring</HI> with him&s;elfe at what had happen'd, in the 12. ver&s;e of Saint <HI>Luk's</HI> former Chap|ter. So that tho&s;e words of <HI>David</HI> in the 30. <HI>P&s;.</HI> may well befitt this ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Sonne</HI> of <HI>David. What profitt is there in my blood when J goe downe to the pitte? Shall the du&s;t giue thanks to thee? Or &s;hall it declare thy truth?</HI></P>
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<P>Our <HI>Saviour</HI> foreknew how gladly they would per&s;wade them&s;elves, and o|thers that he was a &s;pirit, or it was a &s;ha|dow, a phan&s;ie that deluded his di&s;ciples, and therefore to &s;top the mouth of malice hee frequently appeared to them. Hee did not &s;o familiarly pre&s;ent him&s;elfe to their company as before his death,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 54. <HI>art.</HI> 3. <HI>&amp; q.</HI> 55. <HI>art.</HI> 6.</NOTE> that they might know his body was <HI>Alterius gloriae</HI> a glorified body. Yet hee did oft conver&s;e with them, to &s;hew his body was <HI>eju&s;dem naturae,</HI> the &s;ame individuall body. He did eat in their pre&s;ence, not often to informe them <HI>Aberat e&s;uriendi nece&s;&s;itas,</HI> he was to hunger, and thir&s;t no more. Yet he did not altogether ab&s;taine from meat, they gave him a piece of a broyled fi&s;h,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aqu. &s;up|plem.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 81. <HI>art.</HI> 4. <HI>Part.</HI> 1. <HI>q.</HI> 51. <HI>art.</HI> 3. <HI>ad</HI> 5.</NOTE> and hony combe, and he truly ate before them, to a&s;&s;ure them <HI>Aderat edendi pote&s;tas,</HI> that hee ro&s;e in his humane body, &s;ince it had a <HI>na|turall capacity</HI> to receive &s;u&s;tenance, though the converting it into nutriment was di&s;|pen&s;'d with, in regard there was no need of it. Hee would make their <HI>eyes</HI> and
<PB N="9" REF="9"> <HI>hands</HI> his witne&s;&s;es, behold my hands, and my feet, It is <HI>I my &s;elfe;</HI> handle, and &s;ee, a &s;pirit hath not <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and <HI>bones,</HI> as you &s;ee Me have. To <HI>Mary Magdalen</HI> he &s;aid, <HI>Noli me tangere,</HI> touch me not, to &s;ignify <HI>Immor|talitatem dederat,</HI> hee had cloath'd it with immortality. To his di&s;ciples, <HI>videte &amp; palpate,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>S. Augu&s;t. ep.</HI> 57.</NOTE> to give &s;ecurity <HI>Naturam non ab|&s;tulerat,</HI> he had not chang'd the &s;ub&s;tance, but the quality.</P>
<P>In the one he &s;hewed <HI>gloriam re&s;urgentis,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 55. <HI>art.</HI> 3. <HI>in corp.</HI></NOTE> the rare endowments hee had adorn'd it with upon his ri&s;ing; in the other hee de|clared <HI>Veritatem re&s;urectionis,</HI> the evident truth of his Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>Saint <HI>Peter</HI> became hereupon &s;o well catechis'd that hee told the Iewes in a full a&s;&s;embly, <HI>Him,</HI> whom you have &s;laine, and crucified, <HI>this Ie&s;us</HI> hath God rai&s;ed up, <HI>Act.</HI> 2. <HI>Him,</HI> whom you have deny'd, be|tray'd, and kill'd, <HI>Him,</HI> hath God rais'd, <HI>Act.</HI> 3. Yet this doth not derogate from the
<PB N="10" REF="10"> glory of Chri&s;t that <HI>Deus &s;u&s;citavit,</HI> God rai&s;ed him up, is &s;o much repeated, for though as the <HI>Sonne of man</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">. Hee was rai&s;ed up, 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 15. yet <HI>as the Sonne of God</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">. He ro&s;e againe, and re|viv'd to be Lord both of quick, and dead. <HI>Rom.</HI> 14.9. As the <HI>Father</HI> hath life in him|&s;elfe, &s;o hath the <HI>Sonne</HI> life in him&s;elfe. <HI>Joh.</HI> 5. Hee had power to <HI>Lay downe</HI> his owne life, and he had power to <HI>take it up</HI> againe. <HI>Joh.</HI> 10. The rage of the Iewes de&s;troyed the Temple; in 3. dayes hee built it up a|gaine; he &s;pake, and performed it in the <HI>Temple</HI> of his <HI>Body.</HI></P>
<P>Thus was He <HI>Primitiae dormientium,</HI> the fir&s;t fruits of them that &s;lept, not becau&s;e he dyed before all men, or was rai&s;ed be|fore all others, but in that he was the onely one that rai&s;ed him&s;elfe from death. They ro&s;e <HI>iteram morituri,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 53. <HI>art.</HI> 3.</NOTE> to dye againe, but Chri&s;t is ri&s;en, and dyes no more. He ro&s;e by the power of his <HI>Deity;</HI> which was <HI>hypo&s;tatically</HI> united, they were rai&s;ed by
<PB N="11" REF="10"> he vertue of his ri&s;ing, for 'tis true of his re&s;urrection, which is &s;ayed of his blood, <HI>prius profuit qu&agrave;m fuit,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S. Bern.</NOTE> it was effectuall before it was actuall. Hence is my Apo&s;tle &s;o po&s;itive, <HI>He which rai&s;ed up Ie&s;us from the dead &s;hall al&s;o quicken your mortall bodies.</HI></P>
<P>A benefit &s;o &s;ure that in the 2. to the <HI>Ephe&s;ians,</HI> and the 6, wee are all ready ri&s;en with him, and e&s;tated in <HI>po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion</HI> of tho&s;e heavenly man&s;ions, though yet we be but <HI>in expectation,</HI> For there mu&s;t be a corre|&s;pondence betwixt him, which is the <HI>Head,</HI> and us the <HI>Members,</HI> and unle&s;&s;e we imagine the <HI>body</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> like that Vide|ous image, who&s;e <HI>Head</HI> was gold,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 2.</NOTE> and <HI>Feet</HI> clay, our <HI>glorious</HI> Head mu&s;t needs have <HI>glorified</HI> members.</P>
<P>It was the Tenet of <HI>Entychius</HI> &s;ome|times Bi&s;hop of <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 54. <HI>art.</HI> 2. <HI>&amp; &s;upplem.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 79. <HI>art.</HI> 1.</NOTE> that our earthly Tabernacles, which mu&s;t be com|mitted to the du&s;t, were too meane to bee re&s;tored, and renewed at the la&s;t day, &s;o
<PB N="12" REF="11"> that hee thought the ble&s;&s;ed &s;oules &s;hould in &s;tead of them bee inve&s;ted with other bodies, of a &s;trange, I know not what <HI>&s;ub|limated</HI> &s;ub&s;tance. The &s;ame <HI>Chymena</HI> it <HI>hatch'd</HI> againe by the <HI>Socinians</HI> now, who would &s;eeme more <HI>&s;ubtile</HI> then all that have beene before them, when indeed their boundles errours demon&s;trate them more <HI>brain&s;icke</HI> then the former. <HI>Smalcius</HI> in the name of his <HI>incredulous</HI> Fraternity pronounceth this de&s;perate po&s;ition, <HI>Cor|pora haec,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Smiglec. exam. cent. error.</NOTE> <HI>quae nunc circumferimus re&s;urrecto|ra non credimus.</HI></P>
<P>Were they not given over to the &s;pirit of <HI>contradiction</HI> they might read their con|futation in the <HI>Etymon</HI> of the word.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq. &s;up|plem.</HI> 3. <HI>part. ex Dama&s;c.</HI></NOTE> For what is <HI>Re&s;urrectio, ni&s;i iterata, vel &s;ecunda ejus, quod cecidit &s;urrectio?</HI> But a re&s;titution of the &s;ame thing, which once peri&s;hed, and was gone? And therefore the very fle&s;h turned to corruption, and re&s;olved into a&s;hes mu&s;t in the &s;ame nature, and manner returne to it &s;elfe, el&s;e it cannot
<PB N="13" REF="11"> properly be termed a Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, if our particular bodies &s;hall not ri&s;e againe, then we our owne parti|cular &s;elues &s;hall never be reviv'd. <HI>Nam hic numero dicitur ab vnitate Corporis, aeq&ugrave;e ac animae.</HI> For the <HI>individuating,</HI> or making a man to be <HI>numerically,</HI> one and the &s;ame, depends as well from the <HI>Identity,</HI> or one|ne&s;&s;e of the <HI>body,</HI> as of the <HI>&s;oule.</HI></P>
<P>Saint <HI>Paul</HI> fore&s;aw &s;ome <HI>cavilling</HI> &s;pi|rits would plead for a <HI>mutation</HI> of bodies when the la&s;t trump &s;hall found, and thereupon he <HI>fortifies</HI> again&s;t them with a &s;ignificant, and powerfull propo&s;ition, <HI>This corruptible mu&s;t put on incorruption; This mortall mu&s;t put on immortality.</HI> He i|terates the pronoune, <HI>This</HI> corruptible; <HI>This</HI> mortall to per&s;wade the <HI>certainty</HI> of rai&s;ing the <HI>&s;ame,</HI> naturall, humane body. He ingeminates the <HI>Oportet,</HI> This corrup|tible <HI>mu&s;t,</HI> This mortall <HI>mu&s;t;</HI> to warrant the <HI>nece&s;&s;ity</HI> of the performance: The te|nour
<PB N="14" REF="12"> of his &s;peech is &s;o earne&s;t that hee &s;eemes to clappe <HI>him&s;elfe</HI> upon the <HI>brea&s;t,</HI> and to point with his finger at his <HI>owne body.</HI> This <HI>Identicall</HI> thing; this <HI>Idem nu|mero.</HI> not an other in&s;tead of this, but <HI>this corruptible, which I now carry about me,</HI> This mortall, <HI>which &s;hall lodge in the bowells</HI> of the earth, <HI>maugre</HI> the jawes, and belly thereof, &s;hall be re&s;cu'd thence, and &s;etled in <HI>Eternity;</HI> which is a pregnant proofe that by affirming <HI>fle&s;h and blood &s;hall not in|herit the king dome of heaven,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Greg. Mag. c.</HI> 29. <HI>expo&s;. moral. in cap.</HI> 19. Iob.</NOTE> <HI>Non exclu&s;it naturam, &s;ed culpam,</HI> hee excluded not the nature, and <HI>&s;ub&s;tance,</HI> but the <HI>enormous pravity</HI> to which 'tis &s;ubject in this &s;tate of <HI>infirmity.</HI> Whereupon it immediately followes by way of Comment on what went before, neither &s;hall <HI>corruption</HI> inhe|rit <HI>incorruption.</HI> Fle&s;h, and blood <HI>tainted</HI> with corrupt lu&s;ts &s;hall not be admitted, but as <HI>refined,</HI> and <HI>purified,</HI> it &s;hall finde a place in heaven.</P>
<P>For why &s;hould not the fle&s;h, which
<PB N="15" REF="12"> hath bin <HI>Co-worker,</HI> and <HI>Ioint-martyr</HI> with the &s;oule, participate a proportionable <HI>guerdon</HI> as well as the &s;oule?
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezek <HI>cap.</HI> 18. <HI>v.</HI> 25.29.</NOTE> <HI>God</HI> proclaims in the 18. of <HI>Ezekiell</HI> that his wayes are <HI>equall,</HI> how then can it &s;tand with <HI>his ju|&s;tice</HI> that <HI>one</HI> body &s;hall victoriou&s;ly fight his battles, and <HI>an other,</HI> which never <HI>ap|peared</HI> in the quarrell bee honoured with the <HI>Crowne?</HI> If the <HI>Materiall</HI> halfe of us <HI>va|ni&s;h</HI> in our di&s;&s;olution, in vaine did <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> take our <HI>&s;hape</HI> upon him; for if our <HI>fle&s;h</HI> mu&s;t bee utterly de&s;troyed, it had beene &s;ufficient onely to a&s;&s;ume our <HI>&s;pirit?</HI> To what end are wee wi&s;hed at his <HI>&s;econd</HI> comming to <HI>lift up our heads</HI> in triumph,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S. Luk. <HI>cap.</HI> 21. <HI>v.</HI> 26.</NOTE> if the <HI>whole body</HI> &s;hall be con&s;umed to a <HI>Nul|lity?</HI> The truth is, the <HI>Socinian conclu&s;ion is</HI> con&s;onant to their heartle&s;&s;e, di&s;con&s;olate <HI>premi&s;&s;es.</HI> For well may they believe their bodies &s;hall not be re&s;tored, &amp; <HI>quickned by Chri&s;t,</HI> &s;o long as they hold <HI>no price</HI> was payed for their recovery. For as the <HI>Savi|our</HI> of the world will never &s;ee them pe|ri&s;h who dye in the <HI>faith</HI> of him their <HI>Re|deemer,</HI>
<PB N="16" REF="13"> &s;o 'tis ju&s;tly to be feared he will &s;uf|fer tho&s;e to be lo&s;t, who <HI>reject</HI> his <HI>Redemp|tion.</HI> But to us, who give heed to his divine word as to a <HI>light</HI> &s;hining in <HI>darkne&s;se,</HI> the <HI>old,</HI> and <HI>new</HI> Te&s;tament hath &s;aid enough to make us undoubtedly expect that every <HI>Atome</HI> of our du&s;t, and <HI>Cinders</HI> &s;hall be ga|thered together, and <HI>enliven'd</HI> by the <HI>pro|per</HI> &s;oule, and that with <HI>the&s;e eyes</HI> we &s;hall &s;ee <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>no other</HI> for us, as holy <HI>Iob</HI> &s;peakes.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S. Ioh. <HI>cap.</HI> 5. <HI>v.</HI> 28.29.</NOTE> Saint <HI>Iohn</HI> doth fully expre&s;&s;e this Article; the <HI>houre</HI> &s;hall come, in which all that are in the <HI>grave</HI> &s;hall <HI>heare</HI> his voice, and <HI>come forth.</HI> The <HI>Evangelicall</HI> Prophet <HI>E&s;ay</HI> in his 26. Chapter is mo&s;t Emphati|call. The <HI>dead</HI> men &s;hall ri&s;e, together with <HI>my body</HI> &s;hall they ri&s;e, that is when <HI>I ri&s;e,</HI> all the <HI>dead</HI> &s;hall <HI>ri&s;e:</HI> Awake, and &s;ing yee that dwell in the <HI>du&s;t,</HI> the Earth &s;hall <HI>cast out</HI> the dead.</P>
<P>But becau&s;e they advance <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> to &s;tand in <HI>Competition</HI> with Faith, we will allow it a <HI>&s;hare,</HI> holding it inconvenient to
<PB N="17" REF="13"> frame a bill of <HI>divorce</HI> betwixt them, then it cannot bee deny'd that <HI>Right</HI> na|turall <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> guided by the <HI>Spirit</HI> of <HI>Grace,</HI> and <HI>light</HI> of the <HI>Word</HI> hath a profitable u&s;e to <HI>illu&s;trate points</HI> of beleife.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq. part.</HI> 1. <HI>q.</HI> 1. <HI>art.</HI> 8. <HI>ad</HI> 2.</NOTE> <HI>Nam cum Gratia nontollat naturam &s;ed perficiat, opor|tet vt naturalis ratio fidei &s;ub&s;erviat,</HI> as the Schooleman well teacheth. The better to <HI>foyle</HI> the&s;e <HI>Goliahs</HI> with their owne <HI>wea|pon,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq. part.</HI> 1. <HI>q.</HI> 29. <HI>art.</HI> 1. <HI>ad</HI> 5. <HI>&amp; Cont. Gent. l.</HI> 4. <HI>c.</HI> 79.</NOTE> let vs con&s;ider <HI>qu&ograve;d Anima &s;eperata retinet naturam vnibilitatis,</HI> that</P>
<P>The <HI>Soule</HI> in her &s;eperation <HI>naturally</HI> inclines to be <HI>con&s;ociated</HI> with the body, becau&s;e &s;hee <HI>naturally</HI> de&s;ires to bee <HI>freed</HI> from that <HI>imperfection</HI> &s;he &s;tands in while &s;he is a <HI>&s;ever'd</HI> part from the <HI>whole,</HI> and &s;o we &s;hall be compell'd by rea&s;on to grant their <HI>Revnion,</HI> and con&s;equently a <HI>Re|&s;urrection,</HI> &s;ince their permanent, conti|nu'd <HI>di&s;vnion</HI> being again&s;t nature cannot be <HI>perpetuall.</HI> Be&s;ides</P>
<P>If man before he receiv'd his con&s;titu|tion
<PB N="18" REF="14"> was <HI>potentially</HI> in the <HI>dead</HI> Elements, out which he was extracted, and in like manner after his di&s;&s;olution remaines <HI>po|tentially</HI> in the &s;ame <HI>Ma&s;&s;e,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iu&s;t. Mart. ad qu. &amp; Re&s;p. Graec.</HI> if that book be his.</NOTE> why &s;hould in|credulous nature <HI>&s;hrink</HI> at the po&s;&s;ibility of rai&s;ing the <HI>dead,</HI> &s;ince the <HI>God</HI> of nature can as ea&s;ily <HI>new-ca&s;t</HI> Man, as he did actually <HI>mold</HI> him out of a <HI>potentiall</HI> being in his fir&s;t <HI>Principles?</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Rock</HI> out of which we were hewen, the bodies we move, and walk in doe &s;ufficiently per&s;wade that he, which of a little <HI>&s;eed,</HI> or <HI>blood</HI> could fa&s;hion a <HI>li|ving</HI> man in the <HI>Wombe,</HI> and &s;o produce him into the world, knowes how out of dry, and <HI>rotten</HI> bones to <HI>cloath</HI> him with the <HI>&s;ame &s;hape,</HI> which he him&s;elfe at fir&s;t <HI>be&s;tow</HI>'d vpon him. His ability to worke the <HI>Cure</HI> is illu&s;trious in his former acti|ons, for did he not e&s;tabli&s;h this ample world, and all things in it with a <HI>word,</HI> one|ly with a <HI>Fiat?</HI> And is his <HI>Arme</HI> &s;o <HI>&s;horten'd</HI> &s;ince that he cannot <HI>recollect</HI> our
<PB N="19" REF="14"> <HI>di&s;per&s;ed</HI> matter lying <HI>couchant</HI> in the earth, the &s;ea, or what&s;oever &s;ub&s;tance el&s;e?</P>
<P>The <HI>verdit</HI> of &s;en&s;e will pa&s;&s;e on our &s;ide; for who &s;ees not <HI>minus e&s;t reparare quod erat, quam feci&s;&s;e quod non erat?</HI> It is a worke of much le&s;&s;er power to <HI>re&s;tore</HI> that, which &s;ometimes was, then to <HI>Cre|ate</HI> that, which never had bin. Why do&s;t thou wonder &s;aith <HI>Tertullian</HI> that God &s;hould revive thee being dead? He that at fir&s;t made thee of a <HI>Clod</HI> of Earth, can <HI>refine</HI> thee out of a <HI>Clod</HI> of Earth. <HI>Qui non eras, factus<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">es; Qui non eris fies.</HI> Thou,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tertull. Apologet. adver&s;. Gent.</NOTE> which wert not, art now made, and againe, when thou &s;halt not be, thou &s;halt be made. Yeeld me the <HI>meanes</HI> by which thou wert <HI>made,</HI> and then enquire after the <HI>meanes</HI> by which thou &s;halt be <HI>rais</HI>'d.</P>
<P>The continuall <HI>cour&s;e</HI> of <HI>nature</HI> in the <HI>dige&s;tion</HI> of the food brings a forcible <HI>Re|mon&s;trance</HI> that the Re&s;urrection is not in|credible. Out of the <HI>Earth</HI> comes the
<PB N="20" REF="15"> <HI>bread</HI> we eate, that <HI>bread</HI> after it pa&s;&s;eth through &s;everall <HI>concoctions</HI> is alter'd and chang'd into <HI>blood,</HI> then convey'd through|out the parts of the body, and at la&s;t at|taines to be even of the <HI>very &s;ub&s;tance,</HI> and nature with the body. Now tell me what &s;trange difference is there betwixt this, and the <HI>quickning</HI> of our mortall bodies. In this, that, which was <HI>Earth,</HI> and &s;prung out of the <HI>Earth,</HI> becomes <HI>fle&s;h</HI> in <HI>&s;ub&s;tance,</HI> which before it was not; in the <HI>Numeri|call</HI> re&s;urrection, that, which was <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> and after turn'd into <HI>Earth</HI> becomes <HI>fle&s;h</HI> againe in the <HI>&s;ame</HI> nature, which before it was. If that were not dayly, and <HI>ordinary,</HI> this new &amp; <HI>extraordinary,</HI> the <HI>difficulty</HI> would appeare no <HI>greater</HI> in the One, then in the Other. I could drawe arguments from the whole <HI>booke</HI> of <HI>Nature,</HI> for every <HI>leafe</HI> therein is a <HI>Commentary</HI> vpon this doctrine.</P>
<P>We may behold a <HI>tall</HI> lofty <HI>tree</HI> to ari&s;e out of a little <HI>&s;eed.</HI> If you demande, &s;aith <HI>Gregory</HI> the <HI>Great, vhi latet fortitudo ligni,
<PB N="21" REF="15"> a&s;peritas corticis? viriditas foliorum?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Greg. Mag. c.</HI> 28. <HI>in c.</HI> 19. Iob.</NOTE> whence was deriv'd the <HI>&s;olidity</HI> of the wood? the <HI>&s;uperficiall</HI> roughne&s;&s;e of the <HI>barke?</HI> the <HI>flouri&s;hing</HI> greenne&s;&s;e of the leaues? expe|rience te&s;tifies it proceeded from the <HI>&s;preading</HI> vertue, which lay <HI>trea&s;ur'd</HI> vp in the <HI>&s;eed.</HI> what marvaile then if He that from a &s;mall <HI>&s;eed</HI> dayly <HI>extracts</HI> the wood, fruit, and leaues in the <HI>trunke,</HI> and <HI>branches</HI> of a tree, doth likewi&s;e <HI>reduce</HI> bones, veynes, and haire out of the lea&s;t <HI>remainder</HI> of our <HI>du&s;t?</HI> And having <HI>grafted</HI> them in|to the former <HI>&s;tock</HI> of the &s;ame <HI>fle&s;h,</HI> com|mands againe <HI>breath,</HI> and warmeth into that <HI>fle&s;h, blood</HI> into tho&s;e <HI>veines, &s;trength</HI> in|to tho&s;e <HI>bones,</HI> and <HI>beautifies</HI> tho&s;e heires with a fre&s;her <HI>hew. Tertullian</HI> thought good to demon&s;trate the re&s;urrection from the <HI>Phoenix,</HI> &s;pringing vp <HI>new-liv'd</HI> out of her owne <HI>a&s;hes;</HI> from the <HI>flyes</HI> lying dead all the <HI>Winter,</HI> and reviving with the <HI>heate</HI> of the <HI>Sunne</HI> in the <HI>Summer;</HI> from the dayes <HI>expiring</HI> at <HI>night,</HI> and ri&s;ing next morne <HI>attir'd</HI> with <HI>light;</HI> from the Earths
<PB N="22" REF="16"> <HI>decay</HI> in the <HI>Winter,</HI> and its <HI>budding,</HI> and blo&s;&s;oming in the <HI>Spring,</HI> &amp; &s;o concludes <HI>omnia pereundo &s;ervantur, omnia interitu re|formantur,</HI> all things are <HI>pre&s;erv'd</HI> by pe|ri&s;hing, and <HI>perfected</HI> by dying. Whence it inevitably followes that <HI>Man,</HI> the <HI>Lord</HI> and ma&s;ter of the <HI>vniver&s;e,</HI> for who&s;e &s;ake the Creatures partake their thriving <HI>vici&s;|&s;itudes</HI> cannot dye for ever; &s;ince 'tis not probable he &s;hould be <HI>exceeded</HI> in perfecti|on by &s;uch <HI>inferiors</HI> which were made to <HI>&s;erue</HI> him, but his <HI>death</HI> mu&s;t needs be bet|ter then his former <HI>life,</HI> becau&s;e out of it he &s;hall not meerely be <HI>re&s;tor'd</HI> to what he <HI>lo&s;t,</HI> but be po&s;&s;e&s;s'd of much more then ever before he had <HI>title</HI> to. He &s;hall not onely be <HI>reviu'd,</HI> but ri&s;e vp, and <HI>flouri&s;h</HI> too: for &s;o much lies open in the verbe <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">&s;hall <HI>quicken;</HI> He which rais'd Chri&s;t from the dead &s;hall al&s;o <HI>quicken,</HI> which is the <HI>benefit</HI> that redounds to vs, vpon the rai&s;ing of our mortall bodies.</P>
<P><HI>Oecumenius</HI> ob&s;erves the <HI>Apo&s;tle</HI> &s;ayes
<PB N="23" REF="16"> not <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, but <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, to put a diffe|rence betwixt rai&s;ing the <HI>Iu&s;t,</HI> &amp; <HI>vnju&s;t.</HI> All &s;hall have <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, their ri&s;ing againe to <HI>life,</HI> but all &s;hall not be <HI>quickn'd.</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">is of a larger extent then <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, it is not to <HI>life</HI> alone, but <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">, to life, and <HI>glory.</HI> Such as de&s;pi&s;e God, and good|ne&s;&s;e &s;hall <HI>wake</HI> out of the <HI>du&s;t,</HI> but to per|petuall &s;hame, and <HI>confu&s;ion.</HI> They &s;hall ri&s;e in the li&s;t, and <HI>bed-roll</HI> of obdurate, im|penitent &s;inners, to <HI>endle&s;&s;e</HI> torments. They &s;hall not be <HI>quickn'd</HI> in the <HI>Ranke</HI> of Saints to liue with <HI>Christ</HI> in the &s;ight of <HI>God.</HI> It were well with the&s;e <HI>Wretches</HI> if the <HI>Sea,</HI> and the <HI>Graue</HI> might &s;till <HI>retaine</HI> them; for 'tis to be wi&s;h'd rather to knowe nothing after death, then to be rais'd to heare that <HI>fearefull</HI> &s;entence, <HI>Goe yee cur&s;ed into ever|la&s;ting fire.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 19.</NOTE> Better &s;till to &s;ay to the wormes, you are my <HI>brethren,</HI> and <HI>&s;i&s;ters,</HI> and to corruption, thou art my <HI>mother,</HI> then having broke off <HI>alliance</HI> with them, to be in a farre wor&s;e <HI>family</HI> of <HI>damned</HI> Spirits, and <HI>tormented</HI> Gho&s;ts. 'Tis remarkeably
<PB N="24" REF="17"> &s;et downe in the 27. of S. <HI>Mathew</HI> that when <HI>Christ</HI> ro&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S. Mat. 27.52.</NOTE> many dead bodies of the <HI>Saints</HI> aro&s;e. Not one <HI>wicked</HI> man did ri&s;e when <HI>Christ</HI> ro&s;e, to <HI>premoni&s;h</HI> vs that none &s;hall feele the <HI>benefit</HI> of his <HI>quickning Spirit</HI> but &s;uch who are <HI>incorporated</HI> into Him by a liuely <HI>faith.</HI></P>
<P>Life, &s;en&s;e, and motion, the <HI>vnion</HI> of the body, and &s;oule, with the <HI>vn&s;eperable</HI> facul|ties of them both, are the <HI>endowments</HI> of nature, and though they &s;uffer di&s;&s;olution, Chri&s;t doth <HI>re&s;tore</HI> the&s;e to all with whom He did <HI>Communicate</HI> in nature. Im|mortall <HI>peace,</HI> &amp; <HI>glory</HI> are the gifts of God; <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> hath <HI>appropriated</HI> the&s;e onely to tho&s;e, who <HI>per&s;evere</HI> in &s;aving grace. He is <HI>Judge</HI> of <HI>all,</HI> and &s;hall rai&s;e <HI>all;</HI> He is <HI>head</HI> of his owne <HI>body,</HI> and &s;hall <HI>quicken</HI> his owne <HI>members.</HI> As <HI>Judge,</HI> He &s;hall draw all to his <HI>tribunall</HI> &s;eate, and in flaming fire &s;hall render <HI>vengeance</HI> to them that have not knowne <HI>God,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. The&s;. 1.</NOTE> nor obey'd the <HI>Go&s;pell.</HI> As <HI>head,</HI> He knowes his owne
<PB N="25" REF="17"> <HI>members;</HI> and the <HI>cloud</HI> &s;hall <HI>catch</HI> them vp,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. The&s;&s;. 4.</NOTE> and they &s;hall liue for ever with the <HI>Lord</HI> in permanent <HI>felicity.</HI> Though their bo|dies in this tran&s;itory &s;tate be mortall, vile bodies which mu&s;t be <HI>de&s;troy'd,</HI> yet I can|not &s;et out the <HI>glory</HI> of them, when they &s;hall be <HI>quickn'd</HI> in the <HI>generall</HI> re&s;urrecti|on. 'Tis <HI>&s;owne a naturall body,</HI> &s;aith S. <HI>Paul,</HI> 'tis rais'd a <HI>&s;pirituall</HI> body. Not as if it &s;hould be without the <HI>parts,</HI> and <HI>dimen&s;i|ons</HI> which our bodies now have, but in re|gard of the <HI>condition</HI> it &s;hall then re&s;t in.</P>
<P>When our bodies ri&s;e <HI>glorify'd,</HI> they will be <HI>enrich'd</HI> with &s;uch a &s;pirituall <HI>qua|lity</HI> that like <HI>&s;pirits</HI> they &s;hall be <HI>&s;ustain'd</HI> by the <HI>power</HI> of <HI>God</HI> without the helpe of all <HI>naturall</HI> meanes. Some thinke they are call'd <HI>&s;pirituall</HI> bodies in re&s;pect of their <HI>operation,</HI> their &s;trength, and <HI>agility</HI> being &s;o great, <HI>vt licet ad&s;it motio, ab&s;it fatigatio,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Aq.</HI> 3. <HI>part. q.</HI> 54. <HI>art.</HI> 2.</NOTE> that in the pure heaven aboue the cloudes they will move <HI>vpward,</HI> and <HI>downeward,</HI> or what way they <HI>plea&s;e,</HI> without <HI>defatiga|tion,</HI>
<PB N="26" REF="18"> whereas now we cannot &s;o much as walke <HI>forword,</HI> or performe any act with|out <HI>wearine&s;&s;e.</HI> I conceive that expo&s;ition, which the Ma&s;ter of the Schooles addes in the 3.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Q.</HI> 54. <HI>ar.</HI> 1.</NOTE> <HI>part</HI> of his <HI>Summes,</HI> to be mo&s;t <HI>&s;a|ti&s;fying.</HI> The bodies, &s;aith he, which &s;hall be <HI>quickn'd,</HI> are term'd <HI>&s;pirituall,</HI> becau&s;e in that &s;tate of <HI>glory</HI> the body &s;hall be wholy &s;ubject to the <HI>&s;pirits direction</HI> without <HI>re|luctation,</HI> or &s;trugling of the fle&s;h. There &s;hall be no complaint that the <HI>law</HI> of the <HI>members</HI> rebell again&s;t the <HI>law</HI> of the <HI>mind,</HI> but the <HI>&s;pirit</HI> &s;hall be <HI>all</HI> in <HI>all,</HI> leading, and guiding our bodies in all <HI>holy</HI> duties. O|thers to magnifie their future <HI>eminency</HI> al|lott them a &s;ubtle, <HI>penetrating</HI> power; whereby they become able to pierce through any <HI>&s;olid</HI> ob&s;tacle with as much <HI>facility</HI> as we pa&s;&s;e through the water, or ayre.</P>
<P>We will let &s;lippe the&s;e <HI>&s;ubtleties,</HI> being de&s;irous to be <HI>thankfull,</HI> and not <HI>curious.</HI> 'Tis enough we are a&s;&s;ur'd our <HI>fraile</HI> bo|dies
<PB N="27" REF="18"> &s;hall be conformable to Chri&s;t's <HI>glo|rious</HI> body.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Phil. 3.21.</NOTE> They &s;hall &s;hine as the <HI>bright|ne&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Firmament,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Dan. 12.</NOTE> and be as the <HI>&s;tarres</HI> for ever. Yea our Saviour in the 13. of S. <HI>Mathew</HI> enlargeth their <HI>dignity</HI> farther, &s;ay|ing they &s;hall &s;hine as the <HI>Sunne</HI> in the kingdome of their Father.</P>
<P>Thus <HI>God</HI> re&s;erves our be&s;t <HI>di&s;h la&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Iob. 42.</NOTE> he ble&s;&s;eth our <HI>later</HI> end, as he did <HI>Iob's,</HI> more then our <HI>beginning.</HI> The <HI>wombe</HI> of the <HI>grave</HI> &s;hall give backe our bodies in greater <HI>perfection</HI> then we receiv'd them from our <HI>Mothers</HI> Belly. The olde <HI>ragged</HI> Coate of our <HI>fle&s;h</HI> &s;hall be <HI>&s;cour'd</HI> from all naturall <HI>infirmities,</HI> and as a <HI>recompence</HI> for <HI>mouldring</HI> in the <HI>earth</HI> it &s;hall be overclad with a <HI>vestment</HI> of immortall <HI>glory.</HI> But who are the&s;e that may live, and die in ex|pectation of &s;uch a bli&s;&s;e? They are &s;uch, in whom the <HI>&s;pirit</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> keepes a <HI>&s;tand|ing hou&s;e</HI> to dwell in, which is the <HI>period</HI> of my Text, and the <HI>condition</HI> requir'd to <HI>qualifie</HI> vs for ri&s;ing with <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> the <HI>re&s;i|ding,</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="19"> or <HI>inhabiting</HI> of the <HI>Spirit</HI> in vs. He that rais'd <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> from the dead, &s;hall al&s;o <HI>quicken</HI> your mortall bodies by his <HI>&s;pirit</HI> that <HI>dwells</HI> in you.</P>
<P><HI>Paraeus</HI> herein well notes that this <HI>me|taphor</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span">placeth the <HI>&s;pirit</HI> of God in vs, <HI>non tanquam Ho&s;pitem,</HI> not as a &s;tranger, without <HI>re&s;pect,</HI> but as an <HI>inhabitant,</HI> who&s;e <HI>tenure</HI> &s;hould hold &s;o long as <HI>life</HI> holds. Now where &s;uch a <HI>Master</HI> of a hou&s;e <HI>dwells, in ea imperat,</HI> there he <HI>rules,</HI> and go|vernes, and lookes to be obey'd. So that if we hope to ri&s;e in a <HI>glorify'd</HI> e&s;tate, we mu&s;t not be contented with a <HI>fla&s;h</HI> of the <HI>&s;pirit,</HI> which is no &s;ooner <HI>receiv'd</HI> then <HI>lo&s;t,</HI> as it was with <HI>Saul,</HI> but we are to labour that the <HI>&s;pirit</HI> may have a <HI>state</HI> of <HI>perpetu|ity</HI> in the <HI>whole</HI> man. For if our frequent <HI>recidivations,</HI> or <HI>relap&s;es</HI> into &s;infull cour&s;es doe &s;o <HI>grieue</HI> his <HI>Holyne&s;&s;e</HI> that he quite for&s;akes our <HI>hou&s;es</HI> of <HI>Clay</HI> before their di&s;|&s;olution, it will be in vaine to expect that after death He &s;hould repaire them a <HI>new,</HI>
<PB N="29" REF="19"> and provide for us hou&s;es <HI>without hands,</HI> and eternall in <HI>heaven.</HI> It is a <HI>mea&s;ured</HI> truth, Our bodies cannot be <HI>glorified</HI> at the comming of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> except our &s;oules bee fir&s;t <HI>&s;anctified</HI> by the Spirit of <HI>Christ</HI> in|habiting in us.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe&s;. 4.30.</NOTE> I grant 'tis the gracious <HI>of|fice</HI> of the <HI>holy Gho&s;t</HI> to <HI>&s;eale</HI> us to the day of <HI>Redemption,</HI> but if men &s;hall <HI>&s;light,</HI> and have no <HI>regard</HI> of the <HI>&s;eale,</HI> delighting to <HI>raze</HI> out his holy <HI>impre&s;sions,</HI> whereby their &s;oules become <HI>in&s;tar ra&s;ae tabulae,</HI> like a bare, <HI>empty</HI> table-booke, wherein no <HI>cha|racters</HI> of <HI>piety</HI> are &s;en&s;ible, &amp; <HI>vi&s;ible,</HI> how can they <HI>make account</HI> that his Eye of <HI>Pro|vidence</HI> &s;hould <HI>watch</HI> their bodies when they <HI>lye</HI> in the <HI>du&s;t,</HI> and bring them out to <HI>happine&s;&s;e?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 3.16.</NOTE> It is his <HI>goodne&s;se</HI> to con&s;ecrate our bodies as <HI>Temples</HI> for <HI>Him&s;elf</HI> to dwell in, but if we <HI>deba&s;e,</HI> and demoli&s;h the&s;e his <HI>Temples</HI> by <HI>&s;itting</HI> upon the <HI>Lees,</HI> and <HI>per&s;i&s;ting</HI> in lewd <HI>impurities,</HI> he will aban|don the&s;e his <HI>dwellings,</HI> and de&s;troy us for de&s;troying them. For if our <HI>Saviour</HI> was &s;o angry with them, which polluted the
<PB N="30" REF="20"> <HI>materiall</HI> temple that he made a whip,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">S. Ioh. 2.15.</NOTE> and <HI>&s;courg'd</HI> them thence, much more will the <HI>fury</HI> of his <HI>indignation</HI> burne again&s;t &s;uch, who cea&s;e not to <HI>pro&s;titute</HI> his <HI>&s;pirituall</HI> Temples to all filthine&s;&s;e and uncleane&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>It is too true that the be&s;t of men, while they live here, are troubl'd, and vex'd with the <HI>burthen</HI> of their <HI>corruptions,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.23.</NOTE> not onely the creatures &s;aith <HI>S. Paul,</HI> but all <HI>wee,</HI> which have receiv'd the <HI>fir&s;t fruits</HI> of the <HI>Spirit, we,</HI> which are <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> and <HI>Teachers</HI> of the Church, doe &s;igh, and groane, in regard the <HI>tang,</HI> and <HI>reli&s;h</HI> of the fle&s;h is &s;till &s;ending up noy&s;ome vapours to <HI>chill,</HI> and <HI>damp</HI> the devotion of the &s;oule. Yet 'tis as true that if the <HI>holy Gho&s;t</HI> keepe his <HI>dwelling</HI> in a mans <HI>heart,</HI> &s;uch a one will finde his <HI>will</HI> reclaim'd, and <HI>reform'd,</HI> his minde <HI>re&s;olv'd</HI> con&s;tantly to walke with <HI>God,</HI> &s;o farre as humane <HI>frailty</HI> will <HI>permit.</HI></P>
<P>If I were to preach to a <HI>Congregation,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 19. v. 2.</NOTE> which like &s;ome in the <HI>Acts</HI> did not <HI>know</HI>
<PB N="31" REF="20"> there was a <HI>holy Gho&s;t,</HI> I could <HI>&s;pinne,</HI> and draw out my di&s;cour&s;e to a <HI>va&s;t</HI> extent, by de&s;cribing the <HI>Notes,</HI> and <HI>Markes</HI> of the <HI>Spirits inhabiting</HI> in us, by laying down the <HI>meanes</HI> how to <HI>retaine</HI> his comfortable <HI>dwelling</HI> with us, but here, where <HI>knowledge</HI> wants not the <HI>roote</HI> of <HI>Iudgement,</HI> my en|deavour is to &s;peak <HI>Mult&ugrave;m, non Multa;</HI> ra|rather <HI>much</HI> in a <HI>Litle,</HI> then exceeding <HI>Much,</HI> and yet very <HI>litle.</HI></P>
<P>Now ble&s;&s;ed be the <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>Father</HI> of our Lord <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. S. Pet. 11. v. 3.4.</NOTE> which according to his abundant mercy hath begotteen us a|gaine to a <HI>lively hope</HI> by the Re&s;urrection of <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t from the dead to an <HI>inheri|tance</HI> incorruptible, undefil'd, that fadeth not away, but is <HI>re&s;erv'd</HI> in heaven, to which we be&s;eech him to bring us out of this <HI>Vale</HI> of mi&s;ery in his <HI>due</HI> time. AMEN.</P>
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