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A90706	The fountain of life, or life in its derivation from Christ. In a sermon preached at the funeral of that honoured lady, the Lady Jane Reade, the relict of Sir John Reade, (sometimes whil'st he lived) of Sorangle in Lincolnshire, knight. By Edmund Pinchbeck, B.D.	[Pinchbeck, Edmund].	1652 (1652)	Wing P2244; Thomason E679_10; ESTC R206749	30,152	41

that it is such a righteousnesse as God expects and requires from us the receipt of this righteousnesse from Christ all believers are bound to acknowledge Jer 23.6 This is the name whereby he shall be called The Lord our righteousnesse This is the righteousnesse in which the saints so triumph I will greatly rejoyce c. Isaiah 61.10 yea if Christ be such a righteousnesse for us who can but rejoyce for then are we free from the malediction and curse of the law yea here is not only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an happy and blessed redemption from the bondage of the law from the captivity of sinne and Satan but likewise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 power to be called the sornes of God yea here is a blessed right and interest in the purchased possession The second is the life of holinesse he is not only wisdome righteousnesse redemption but sanctification too 1 Cor. 1.30 Christ doth not only cast our sins into the bottome of the sea passe an act of oblivion upon them but subdue them Micha 7.19 not only pardon sinne but heale infirmities Psal 103.3 not only free us from the power of sinne and of death but enable us to walk in the Spirit furnish us with all requisite graces put his Spirit in us and cause us to keep his commandements Ezek. 36.27 yea he that walks not with God in the way of holinesse knowes not Christ John 14.15 Thirdly of comfort and consolation Behold I bring you tidings of great joy c. where is joy great universal c why Christ is the ground of it This day there is a Saviour born c. yea as Christ is a Saviour so he that experimentally knowes him so to be cannot but rejoyce in him as in the instance of the virgin Mary My soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath c. yea hence is such a joy the stranger meddles not with a joy unspeakable and glorious 1 Pet. 1.8 such a joy as the saints cannot conteine within themselves They shall sing for joy of heart Isaiah 65.14 and therefore be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce in the Lord be joyful c. As it is a priviledge so a duty too now how doth Christ effect all this in the hearts of his people the meanes whereby he works the same are especially these two First the outward Ministery of the word and then the inward operation of his Spirit For the first consider that in John 5.25 The dead shall hear the voice of the Sonne of God and they that hear it shall live The dead who are they the Atheist the Infidel the drunkard the wanton c. are all dead Eph. 2.1 yea like loathsome carrions they are most odious and abominable in the eyes of God and man but what is there for them no possibility of life yes if they hear and receive the Gospel they shall live you see how hearing and living go together this should countenance and gaine credit to the word if thou wouldst live heare As for the second the Spirit quickens the immortal seed of the word unites unto Christ efformes to the image of God in holinesse replenishes the heart with good motions and therefore called a quickening Spirit John 6.63 the Spirit of life Rom. 8.2 and therefore as thou tenderest life take heed how thou quenchest grievest resistest the same how both these conjoyne and work together to the production of this spiritual life we may illustrate from the parable of the drie bones Ezek. 37. The parable properly and in the first place belongs to the house of Israel upon their return and restitution from the land of their captivity but by similitude and resemblance as some learned divines have led me in the way you may see the whole state of the Church prefigured in the same in Ezekiel you have the ministers of the gospel in the drie bones the sonnes of men all dry and barren and destitute of all spiritual goodnesse in his prophecying upon these drie bones the dispensation of the Gospel when those Embassadours of Christ go abroad in the world they know not whether such and such enormous sinners may live if any ask the question they would with Ezekiel referre it to God Lord thou knowest yet because God sends them they go and prophesie accordingly O ye drie bones heare the word of the Lord and then what follows behold in the first place a noise and a shaking trouble of conscience and perplexity of spirit from the sense of sinne and terrour of the Law as in St. Peters converts that were pricked in their hearts Acts 2.37 Then in the second place you have a meeting of bones bone unto his bone the understanding will memory affections c. that were formerly scattered and dispers't in the wayes of sinne all now unite and conspire together to be a new creature in Christ Jesus In the third place flesh and sinews grow upon them and the skin covers them flesh that may stand for softnesse of heart and tendernesse of conscience sinews for strength of resolution and the skin for boldnesse of profession And then for the perfection and consummation of the new creature the winde breaths upon it that is the holy Spirit that winde that blows where it listeth furnishes the same with saving gifts and graces and then it lives a spiritual life stands up upon his feet to runne the wayes of Gods commandements and becomes a very great army prepared and ready and enabled to fight the Lords battels from all which together ye may note in the first place that it is not impossible for the worst of sinners to be converted dry bones may live Secondly the energie and activity of Gods holy ordinances as they are from him and tend to the glory of his name so his power goes along with them they work wonders when his blessing is upon them Lastly what an alteration change Christianity and Religion makes where it is embraced it turns a valley of dry bones into an army of spiritual souldiers fighting under the banner of Christ the Captain of their salvation And thus we come to the last particular Life in its perfection the life of glory He that heareth my words and beleeveth in him that sent me hath everlasting life Iohn 5.24 The glory of this life transcends all humane apprehension all the powers and faculties of nature attain not the sublimity of it the eye in seeing eare in hearing heart in conce●ving extend farre but here they are all at a non-plus all poor deficient The thing which eye hath not seen ear not heard c. 1 Cor 2.9 and therefore to content our selves with a short glimps of it we may guesse at the perfection of it from these and the like grounds as first from the place where this life is led and that 's the Kingdome of God the paradise of God the house of God the Heaven of Heavens the city of the living God St. Iohn in the description

THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OR Life in its derivation from CHRIST In a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of that honoured Lady the Lady JANE READE The relict of Sir JOHN READE Sometimes whil'st he lived of Sorangle in Lincolnshire Knight By Edmund Pinchbeck B. D. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power Revel 20.6 With thee it the Well of life and in thy light shall we see light Psal 36.9 London Printed by T. R. E. M. for Humf●ey Tuckey at the black-spread Eagle in Fleet street over against St. Dunstans Church 1652. To the Worshipful THOMAS READE Esquire AND M rs BRIDGET READE his right vertuous wife eldest daughter and one of the Co-heirs of the Right-Worshipful Sir CHARLES CROFTS of Bardwell in Suffolk Knight GOd in his providence and goodnesse hath so ordered the holy Scriptures so adapted them to all sorts and conditions of people so fitted them for us according to our several wits our several capacities and apprehensions that every one whosoever with due and requisite preparation addresses himselfe to the search of the same may receive benefit by them Here is strong meat for the best stomack and milke for the tenderest babe here are depths according to Gregories resemblance where the Elephant may swim and shallowest foards where the lamb may wade without danger of drowning here are some things closed and sealed up that a Daniel cannot understand Dan. 12.8 some thing againe so obvious and manifest like Habakkuks vision that he that runnes may read From this extent and fulnesse of the holy Scriptures me thinks I hear resounding that of the Prophet Isaiah Ho every one that thirsteth come to the waters If God hath thus prepared them for the general good of all thus furnished them to give satisfaction to all the thirsty desires of our soules is it not equal that every one without exception should take notice of them challenge his interest in them improve them to the intended good of his soul God brooks not our ignorance in them if God have written unto Ephraim the great things of the Law and then ungrateful fair such a favour if he so neglect them that they be counted as strange things Ephraim shall hear tell of it God by way of complaint will charge it against him as you see Hosea 8.12 But now from the perfection of the holy Scriptures you may easily discerne the imperfection of this ensuing Sermon for although it be derived from the Scriptures and for the substance and matter of it be wholly terminated in the same yet herein it degenerates and becomes unlike them in that it affoards no depths for Elephants nor strong meat for stronger Christians no entertainment for men of higher endowments As Job brings in the creatures returning their answers concerning the place of wisdome The depth saith It is not in me the sea saith It is not in me Job 28.14 so if you should enquire here for these arcane hidden sublimities into which Eagle-ey'd ingenuity especially delights to pry this poore piece would answer accordingly that none of these mysterious subtilties are found within the barren region of these incult lines And therefore not to prejudice sharper wits more exercised in the things of God but to leave them to the height of their wonted speculations lest after they have read it over they finde cause to complaine with him in the Comoedy Pol ego oleum operam perdidi I have lost no lesse then my time and labour about it If it were in my power to make choice of my Readers I would admit none but such as could dispense with that which the Apostle calls milk wholesome but common and ordinary food and that drest up after a plain countrey-fashion As for your selfe worthy Sir to whom in the first place it stands directed although there be no Adamant nothing of worth in it to attract your acceptance yet I know you cannot but affoard it a courteous entertainment if in these respects you be pleased to reflect upon it as first how it was preached at the funeral of your dear mother that honoured Lady the Lady Anne Reade Or secondly how according to your love to the Lord Jesus it stands imprest with the image and superscription of Christ bearing that name in chiefe which is as Bernard exalts it as honey in the mouth musick in the ear Jubilee in the heart that name which is all fragrant and odoriferous as an oyntment poured forth Cant. 1.1 that sole and only name that imports salvatton Acts 4.12 Or Lastly being a discourse of that happy life we derive from our blessed Saviour how it may fortifie and strengthen your hopes against that fear wherein the hope of the wicked faileth Prov. 11.7 even the fear of the King of feares death As for the publication of it had not the importunity of some whose desires were equivalent to commands whose requests brook no denial overcome mine aversenesse I had never adventured to tender such a poor mite to the publike treasury such worthlesse goats-haire to the service of the Tabernacle For according to the unexpected suddennesse of the occasion as it was hastily formed not having the happinesse of these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those second revising considerations to which all things accurate and polite are beholden It was put off in an ordinary vulgar habite without all requisite polish that might make it fit for open view But now sith it must abroad to visit the world and I cannot withhold it not to dismisse it without a benediction let it go and prosper a little sparke blown up amidst drie fewel such as is apt and fit for combustion easily kindles and breakes forth into a flame so a weake word if stirred up by his Spirit of whom it was said Did not our hearts burn within us whilest he talked with us may warme affection inflame zeal effect something that is good in an honest heart If therefore your selfe your vertuous wife your deserving sisters Mistris Anne Ogle Mistris Judith Robinson Mistris Martha Empson whom I ever honoured for their piety and goodnesse or any other of your faire flourishing family who for the diseased Ladies sake may peradventure be pleased to take notice of it or any other of Gods people any where belonging to the household of God may in the influence of it the Spirit of God working by it receive any furtherance in the wayes of God and hereby gaine any nearer communion with the fountaine of life our blessed Saviour my desired end is accomplished Thus with the tender of all unfeigned respect and herein I cannot but remember him as interessed in the same whom mine obliged thoughts suffer not to forget your dear Father in law Sir Charles Crofts mine honoured friend together with the very good Lady the Lady Crofts his prudent vertuous and duly respected wife I shall ever petition the Father of mercies that your Tabernacle may be peacefull