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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

your cup overflowing your wayes prosperous your children gracious your dayes many your death comfortable your salvation sure and that through him that loved us and gave himselfe for us Christ our Lord To whom be glory for ever Amen Your servant in the Lord EDMUND PINCHBECK The Fountaine of Life or Life in its derivation from CHRIST PROV 8.35 Who so findeth me findeth life AS the faithfull devout soul admires the beauty and perfection of her beloved sets her highest estimate upon him makes him her sole and only glory and in strong desires of communion with him is so inflamed in her affections that she becomes even sick of Love Cant. 2.5 So she preferres the knowledge of him that excellent knowledge as the Apostle cals it Phil. 3.8 above all the knowledge in the world she counts that knowledge not only her deepest learning but highest happinesse upon earth even her eternal life as Christ himselfe stiles it John 17.3 How resolute the Apostle advances this knowledge unwilling to exchange it for any other you fee by that in the 1 Cor. 2.2 I determined not to know any thing among you c. The Corinthians affected learning many of them addicted themselves to the study of arts and sciences and were such good proficients in the same that Tully calls Corinth Lumeu totius Graeciae the eye and light of all Greece But what was all this Corinthian learning the Apostle being Judge to the glad tidings of salvation what was all their Ethicks Politicks their Philosophical depths Rhetorical straines Poetical devices to that great mystery of godlinesse God manifest in the flesh the Apostle sees such an emptinesse in mans wisdome precisely considered in it selfe that he will not own it but rejects it as altogether unworthy to stand in competition with the deep things of God As St. Austin professes of himselfe that it abated the heat of his love to Tullies Hortensius a book whereof he was formerly much enamoured only upon this ground as himselfe makes the relation because in that book the name of Christ was not to be found So for all the people of God he that hath ever rightly tasted the honey and honey-comb of Evangelical sweetnesse can never terminate his desires never rest fully satisfied in any contentment how pleasing to flesh and blood or glorious soever it be in the eye of the world that relates not to Christ is not perfumed with the odours of his merits is not inscribed with that holy and reverend name Jesus Hence it is that the Sunne-clothed woman Rev. 12.1 the embleme of the whole Church is said to have the Moon under her foot but upon her head a crown of twelve starres as for the world all the inferiour things of this life which for their inconstant mutability are as the Moone she lightly regards But as for the Doctrine of the Gospel that divine light made known to the world by those great Luminaries those bright shining starres in the right hand of Christ the twelve Apostles that she prizes as a crowne of glory that she highly exalts so honours that all other things are as nothing to her in comparison of it And this the saints do not from a precipitate rashnesse but from all deliberation and advice I count all things but losse c. Phil. 3.8 The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the place before quoted 1 Cor. 2.2 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here are words of censure and judgement I determined I count as if the Apostle should say I see good reason why I should magnifie this knowledge I have good ground for it why I should purchase it with the losse of all things But why is it so desirable what do the people of God discerne in it to be so inamoured on it In a word it only availes to make wise unto salvation 2. Tim. 3.15 It was paradventure a rash censure which was put upon Aristotle that great Master and Prince of Philosophers Vae tibi Aristoteles laudaris ubi non es damnaris ubi es Wo to thee Aristotle that art admired where thou art not but damn'd where thou art But I wish it prove not oft too true amongst men of highest endowments what Austin speaking by Anthony the hermite was once a fraid of for his own particular Indocti rapiunt coelum c. The unlearned take heaven by violence whilest we with all our learning such learning are tumbling down to hell Yea it matters not what a mans qualifications be suppose there were a man as was spoken by one Berengarius that did know all knowables were wiser then he that was wiser then all the children of the East 1. King 4. were able to fathom the depths of all secrets comprehend the mysterie of all arts and sciences what then did he not amidst all these his intellectual treasures discern the unsearchable riches of Christ as the Apostle calls them Eph. 3.8 did he not know him the knowledge of whom is our Justification Isaiah 35.11 he would still for all this be found to abide in darknesse still to remaine a poore miserable forlorn man But why do I make such a preface premise such a commendation of this super-excellent evangelical knowledge but that I might ingratiate my text and gaine your attention to the same for what is the substance and burthen of it but Christ Christ in his relation to the Church Christ as the aime and scope of our endeavours Christ as the fountaine of life the Author of our happinesse Now as the starre did the wise men of old if it bring us into the sight and vision of our blessed Saviour deserves it not to be heeded and observed accordingly Oh that it had some Apollos some golden-mouthed Chrysostome whose tongue might be as the pen of a ready writer every way furnisht to a full discovery of the same then like Peter at the transfiguration of Christ upon the mount you would think it good to be here good through my text like that grate or lattice the spouse speaks of Cant. 2.9 to behold him that is so faire and ruddy Cant. 5.10 fairer then then sonnes of men Psal 45.2 even the expresse image and brightnesse of his Fathers glory Heb. 1.3 Now for the answerable correspondency it beares to the present occasion In times of heavinesse and dejection when the heart is perplexed and troubled when the sould to speake in Jeremies phrase is fill'd with bitternesse and made drunk with worme-wood what more seasonable then words of comfort and consolation according to that of Solomon Heavinesse in the heart of man maketh it stoop but a good word maketh it glad Prov. 12.25 Now for funeral heavinesse when the mourners go abroad in the streets for such sorrows as these that so deeply afflict us for the present what words more comfortable more cordial and refreshful then a doctrine of life of such a life as knows no death as triumphs over death as can expostulate with death in the words of the