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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07953	The devout soules search with the happie issue of comfort found : in a sermon, preached at Paules Crosse, Ian. 14. 1610 / by Thomas Myriell ...	Myriell, Thomas, d. 1629.	1610 (1610)	STC 18323; ESTC S1309	34,861	106

wake as a most vigilant and carefull defender What was signified by e Gen. 22.11 Isaack laid as a Sacrifice on the Altar readie to be offred but presently losed and vnbound againe but that CHRIST IESVS the true Sacrifice for the sinnes of the whole world should be offred to death on the Altar of the Crosse and the sorrows of death immediately losed againe whereof it was impossible that hee should be holden This glorious Resurrection of the SONNE OF GOD was further signified by Ioseph f Gen. 41.14 who a few dayes was imprisoned in the dungeen afterwards aduanced to the regiment of a Kingdome By g Iudg. 15 14. Sampson who while he slept was bound with ropes but when he awaked againe snapped them in sunder as threeds By Ionas h Ion. 2.10 who was swallowed of a fish but after three dayes cast vpon drie land againe Looke further on the concurrences happening together with it as the great Earth-quake e Mat. 28.2 which then was Matth. 28.2 Sure saith Hilarie it was the vertue of his Resurrection and signified that f Aquin. in Cate super Mat. 28. Resurgente virtutum coelestium domino inferorum trepidatio cōmouetur The Lord of the heauenly powers arising the weaknes of the infernall powers should be troubled Consider the huge stone rolled turned away frō the graue with the handsome folding of the cloathes and napkins left behin de him and weigh seriouslie that same transparent Lie of the keepers how euen then they proue Christs resurection to be true when they went about to make the world belieue it was false They being therevnto hyred with money gaue out that His disciples came by night g Mat. 28.13 and stole him away whilst they were sleeping Matth. 28.13 But ô Children of the diuell how absurdlie doe you speake For if you slept how can you tell hee was stollen away and if you were awake why doe you say you slept Againe recount the manie Apparitions that he made after his resurrection If I be not deceiued Paul the Euangelists reckon eleuen seuerall Apparitions of Christ after his Resurrection for more confirmation of the truth thereof Sometime he appeared to comfort the sorrowfull hearts of his Disciples sometime to conuince the obstinate hearts of his enemies Sometime hee eate meate with them shewed them his wounds which hee kept saith Augustine h August in die Sanct. Pasch Serm. 4. Non agestate sed potestate not for any weaknesse in himselfe but for the strengthening of others especially vt sanaret vulnus incredulitatis That the apparant woundes of his crucified bodie might heale the hidden sores of their vnbeleeuing soules Afterwards saith Paul i 1. Cor. 15.6 Hee was seene of more then fiue hundreth bretheren at once and lastly of mee as of one borne out of due time 1. Corinth 15.6 These things being thus cleare peraduēture now you will wonder why the Iewes belieue not Christs resurrection to be true Surely no other reason can be yeelded of it but this that partly obstinacie is come vpon Israel till the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in And certes euen wee which belieue the trueth thereof are not beholding to our selues for it It may be saide to euerie faithfull soule among vs as Christ saide to Peter k Matth. 16.17 Flesh and blood hath not reuealed this vnto thee but my Father which is in heauen Matth. 16.17 For though Paul demaunds l Act. 26.8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible vnto you that God should raise againe the dead Act. 26.8 And indeed as Augustine saith m Concidera autorem tolle dubitationem August in die San. Pas Ser. 4. There is no cause of doubting if we consider the authour yet such is our obstinate blindnesse by nature the the most easie plaine true things are hard harsh and false in our iudgement till n 1. Cor. 2.12 We haue receiued the spirit of God that we may knowe the things which be of God 1. Cor. 2.12 In this regard the faith of Christ generally embraced in the world is numbred amongst the most famous mysteries of our religion o 1. Tim. 3.10 Without controuersie saith Paul great is the mysterie of godlines God is manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirit seene of Angels preached vnto the Gentiles BELEEVED ON IN THE WORLD and receiued vp into glorie 1. Tim. 3.16 Hereupon Bern hath this obseruation p Bern in vigili Nat. dom Ser. 3. Tria opera tres mixturas c. That omnipotēt maiestie in the assumption of our flesh did three workes made three mixtures so singularly maruellous and so maruellously singular that as he neuer did them before so he was to doe them neuer after Coniuncta sunt quippe ad in vicem deus homo mater virgo fides cor humanum For there were ioyned together God and man a mother and a Virgin faith mans soule The like also hath Augustine obserued q August de ciuit de lib. 22. cap. 5. There are three incredible things saith he and yet haue they bin done It is incredible that Christ should arise in our flesh and that he should ascend vp to heauē in our flesh and thirdly incredible est mundum remtam incredibilem credidisse it is also incredible that the world should giue credit to so incredible a matter To conclude then As faith bids vs beleeue the truth hereof so r I am quippe illum inuenit fidei sed adhue eum quaerit spes Aug. in Psal 104. hope requires vs to expect the power hereof that is that Christ our head which once arose in his owne person shall in due time also quicken vs his members in our persons that so the head and the bodie being coupled together God may be all in all And let this hope be vnto vs an author in all the stormes of aduersitie to saue our soules from shipwracke What saith Paul ſ Rom. 8.34 Who shall condemne It is Christ which is dead Yea so the Iewes and Pagans beleeue saith Augustine therefore Paul addes yea or rather which is risen againe This none beleeues but a Christian And in a sound beleeuing hereof consisteth the verie saluation of our soules t Reu. 10.9 For if thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus and beleeue in thine heart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saued Rom. 10.9 Thus Iob comforted himselfe u Iob. 19.25 I know that my redeemer liueth and that he shall stand the last on the earth Iob. 19.25 It is our duetie then with patience to expect that in our selues which through power we beleeue God effected in him and when death shall approach vs as it were wholly to deuour vs then to cōfort our selues with the thought of this that y Iob. 19.16 Though after our decease wormes destroy this bodie yet in the appointed time we shall see God in our flesh Iob. 19.16 which God the Father with his deare Sonne our Sauiour and the holy Ghost our comforter three persons and one euerlasting God be all honour and glorie Maiestie and dominion ascribed for euer and euer Amen FINIS