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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56706	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at St. Bridget's Church, on Easter-Monday, 1696 by ... Symon, Lord Bishop of Ely.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1696 (1696)	Wing P854; ESTC R22927	20,343	43

Thieves And whose Life was not valued by the wise Men of their Nation so much as the Life of a seditious Murderer The Gentiles also thought this Foolishness a meer sottish Humour of some dull People to addict themselves to the Service of a Man that hung upon a Gibbet and there made a most shameful End And so they might have thought still if it had not been for his Resurrection which took away this Scandal and made it appear that it was no Folly nor Disgrace to honour one whom God had most highly honoured above all other Men. His Glory now shone the brighter because the most base ignoble and infamous Death of all others could not obscure it He appeared now like this Sun which after it hath been a while wrap'd up in a very thick Cloud breaks forth with the greater Splendor This therefore was to be asserted and firmly setled because it advanced him above all other Law-givers whatsoever who still lie in their Tombs if their Ashes have not been long ago scattered into the Air and blown no body knows whether They have a Memory indeed in Story but it is that they are dead and have no Authority now to demand Obedience to their Laws This exalts our Blessed Lord and Saviour above the greatest Kings and Conquerors that ever have been in the World who after all their Atchievements over others were at last utterly defeated by Death and so vanquished as never to recover their Thrones any more Search after the Sepulchres of all the Caesars read their Inscriptions if there be any remaining and that which seems to raise their Names and to make them great in truth depresses them and lays them low since after the loftiest Titles upon their Monuments they confess them to to lie buried underneath Hic jacet terrarum Dominus Here lies the Lord of all the Earth was the highest Stile wherein the goodliest Monuments of Earthly Monarchs could speak But our Saviour's Tomb spake another Language or rather the Angels of God told his Disciples when they came to visit it Surrexit non est hic He is risen he is not here Why seek ye the living among the Dead XVI Mark 6. XXIV Luk. 5. He is Caelorum Dominus the Lord of the Heavens as well as of the Earth whether you shall see him ascend and there he shall live for evermore This great Lord never ceases to reign He hath no Successor in his Kingdom But as God himself sitteth King for ever and ever Which when the Nations of the World heard and it was substantially prov'd how could they chuse but say notwithstanding the Scandal of the Cross as they do in the Book of the Revelation Who would not fear thee O LORD thou King of Saints who would not glorifie thy Nome for thou only art Holy or Sacred Thy Throne O God as it is else where is for ever and ever the Scepter of thy Kingdom is a right Scepter Thou lovest Righteousness and hatest Iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladness above thy Fellows that is raised him above all the Kings that ever were Thus with respect to Christ himself we ought to commemorate his Resurrection with the greatest Joy as I might show if it were not time to proceed to the other Particulars because it was in Order to his own Advancement to the Throne of Glory as the Reward of his ignominious Sufferings III. Thirdly As his Resurrection did him more Honour than his Death had done him Disgrace so it proved likewise that by his Death he had given to God all the Satisfaction that he desired And therefore is most necessary to be firmly believed and stedfastly preserved in our Memories that we who do confess him may all rest assured that by his Blood which he shed upon the Cross for us he hath made a compleat Propitiation for the Sins of all the World He himself said before he died VI. Joh. 51. that he would give his Flesh for the Life of the World that is offer up his own Body unto God a voluntary Sacrifice to preserve us from eternal Death For he laid down his Life of himself as he professed X. Joh. 18. and without his Consent no Man had power to take it away And he truly laid it down as the Blood of the New Testament for the Remission of Sins as he likewise himself speaks just before his Death XXVI Mat. 28. Now if his Blood had not been an acceptable Sacrifice unto God upon this Account for which it was offered or if there had remained any thing more to be done which God required or expected from him for the Expiation of our Sins which was the End he tells us of his Sacrifice God would not have raised him out of his Grave For that was not only to acquit him of all the pretended Crimes for which the Jews unjustly condemned him But to free him also from the Iniquity of us ●●l which the Lord as the Prophet speaks LIII Isa ● laid upon him and to declare Publickly to al●●●e World that he had received full Satisfacti●n for them and demanded no more Nay by his Resurrection God not only testified that his Blood was most Precious in his Sight and had obtained what he intended but also enabled him to go with it himself into the Heavens there to perpetuate this Sacrifice to the End of the World and by Virtue of it make Intercession for us For we are to look upon his rising again after he was slain to be in order to his doing just as the High-Priest under the Law did who taking the Blood which had been shed at the Altar on the great Day of Atonement carried it into the most Holy Place where the Glory of the LORD resided and there presented it unto him From whence if he came forth alive it was a final Declaration that God was well pleas'd with the Sacrifice and was at Peace with his People In like manner did our Blessed Lord and Saviour who is both our great High-Priest and also our expiatory Sacrifice after his Blood had been shed upon the Cross gather it up again at his Resurrection and go with it into the highest Heavens there to appear with it in the Presence of God for us And from thence hath already begun to bless us by sending the Holy Ghost to us as an undoubted Testimony that his Blood hath made the Atonement which he designed Whereof we shall be more assured at the consummation of all things when we shall see him come in Person out of the most Holy Place at the last Day and appear alive the second time without Sin unto Salvation IX Heb. ult But for the present it is Evident by his Resurrection and his sending the Holy Ghost which Tertullian well calls his Vis vicaria or his Power which supplies his Place till he come again that he hath fully expiated our Sins so as to obtain an Eternal Redemption for us and