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A sermon preached before the Right Worshipfull Company of the Levant Merchants at St. Olav's Hart-Street, Thursday Decemb. 15, 1664 by John Luke ...
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Soul for evincing whereof to indubitate certainty whether there be indeed a weapon of proof in the armory of reason I must not now digress to examine they have doubted of the immortality of the Soul but for the resurrection of the body it hath ever been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luc. 2.34.24.11 Act. 17.32 a matter to make merry with to mock and scoff at * Caecil apud Minut Foel aniles fabulae with some pueritia deliramenta with others the best word that Pliny that most diligent searcher of the effects of nature meeting with some fictitious shew hereof in the roving conceits of the laughing Philosopher can afford it in the seventh book of his Natural History c. 55. where he derides them who think it shall be otherwise with them after they are dead then it was before they were born whose blasphemies tonching this matter in another place I abhor to repeat but you may read if you can abide it in the seventh Chap. of the 2d Book of that History with these and some such exceptions incomparable and in this particularly admirable that it should be written by one who thought himself every whit mortal Soles occidere redire possunt Nobis cùm semel occidit brevis lux Nox est perpetuò una dormienda That the ditty wherewith the Heathen people used to lull themselves asleep Whether tends all this 1 Tim. 6.20 2 Pet. 1.19 2 Tim. 1.10 O Christian keep that which is committed to thy trust Thou hast a sure word of prophesie the light of the Old but especially of the New Testament wherein besides the many plain propositions of faith the blessed Apostle in this chapter condescends to treat with our reason and argues us into found and efficacious belief unless we not only think we shall perish with beasts but have already sunk our selves below them in want of understanding The Resurrection without a proverb 't is as sure as death Read and humbly learn the price at which God hath set thee Pierce through the clouds with the eye of faith and live in the sight and influence of things invisible Which brings me to the 2d at this time the last use 'T is needfull I deliver all in the mass and summe which the time though renewed would fail me to number out in parcells Accept and preserve it in the words of S. Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homil. de resurrect mort fine Let our Ethicks be suitable to these Dogmaticks our life answerable to this doctrine especially in the confortable powerfull language of our blessed Apostle in the conclusion of this his excellent discourse Therefore my beloved Brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable alwayes abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your Labour is not in vain in the Lord. The resurrection of the dead is the calling the whole world before the Judgement-seat of Christ 2 Cor. 5 10. that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad How should this restrain us from all sin the wages whereof we know to be death Rom. 6.23 how should it animate us to all holy conversation and godliness which we are sure shall receive the gift of God eternal life To work out our own salvation to act with an eye on the recompense on reward to the glorifying of God is not derogatory from God's glory but the highest advancing it is not in a Christian to be mercenary but to be dutifull and thankfull 2 Cor. 4.17 Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory Death it self and the grave are vanquished and made the passages to eternal life Are we not startled at the thoughts of these approaching glories Be not weary of this burden of mortality don 't we long with the blessed Apostle to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven 2 Cor. 5.2 To hear the melody of Angels to speak in the dialect of glory to see in the perspectives of immortality to enjoy what eye hath not seen 1 Cor. 2.9 nor ear heard neither have entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him to crowd about the eternal throne with Cherubims and Seraphims and all the heavenly host Rev. 4.10 and fall down and worship him that lives for ever and ever to give thee O God in thy own heaven some worthy praise for all thy infinite goodness and loving kindness to thy sinfull vile and miserable creatures which we cannot do as we would whiles lost in flesh and abused with corrupted senses but when it shall please thee to call us above to consort us with thy holy Angels to cause this corruptible to put on incorruption this mortal immortality we shall not neglect one moment in the ages of eternity Phil. 5.20 Be our conversation in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Raise we our minds to eternal vigours be our hearts inflamed with victorious joyes and our lips opened in the voice of triumph Persume your minds with the sweet spices of the East feed your eyes with the fair beauties of the morning the morning after which no evening shall follow Value your Souls capable of everlasting glories your bodies improveable beyond the light of the Sun and disdain a glance at the decitfull allurements of this transitory life Your minds obsequious to heavenly attractives and aspiring without fainting to the perfections and exaltations of immortality Ioh. 11.25 Which blessed estate Christ Jesus the Resurrection and the Life grant unto us for his own mercies sake Amen FINIS
A SERMON Preached before the Right Worshipfull COMPANY OF THE LEVANT MERCHANTS At St. Olav's Hart-street LONDON Thursday Decemb. 15. 1664. By JOHN LUKE B.D. Fellow of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Seculum Resurrectionem mortuorum nec quum errat ignorat Tertull. LONDON Printed by R. Daniel 1664. Illustri magnifico Domino ANDREAE RICCARD Equiti aurato Mercaturae à Sole se Levante nuncupatae Praesidi Consultissimo Eximio Domino JOHANNI JOLLIFF Armigero Vigilantissimo vice-praesidi Integerrimis nobilissimi Commercii Sociis Universis Singulis Viris splendidissimis Generosissimis Humanissimis Amicis Patronis plurimùm Honorandis Nihil Eorum rogatu non tentandi studio Exaratam habitam candidae censurae publicè subjectam Concionem qualemcunque istam In amplissimae eorum benevolentiae Quò tenuioris facultatis Eò impensioris gratitudinis observantiae suae Certissimum argumentum D. D. D. Divinâ largiente gratiâ Smyrnae vetustissimam urbem Evangelii causâ petiturus Europâ Asiáque Terrâ marÃque Quâ Occidens Quâ Oriens Christo Duce vocaverit Celeberimae Societatis Devotissimus in eodem Christo Servus JOHANNES LUKE Imprimatur Joh. Hall R. P. D. Episc Lond. à sac Domest Ex aedibus Londinens Feb. 11. 1664. 1 Cor. 15.29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead A Verse by consent of dissenting Interpreters placed first in the order of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those hard intelligibles Voss de Baptism disp 12. th 2. Bertam Lucbr Franktal Tarnov Exerc. Bibl truths retired into the depth mysteries bound up in a fast knot which the Apostle Peter admonisheth our Christian Caution to observe in the writings of his beloved Brother Paul 2 Pet. 3.16 In which are some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures unto their own destruction He who had been rapt into the third Heavens 2 Cor. 12. â— he sometimes speaks in the Clouds he whose mind was conversant with sublimest contemplations no wonder if his abstruse conceptions leave a tincture of their mystery in dark sayings Psal 49.4 Holy Scripture is a plentifull storehouse of the food of life accommodate to all ages and constitutions Here you have milk for babes and strong meat for grown men Hebr. 5.13.14 plainness to descend to our weakness difficulty to exalt our industry plainness to invite our study obscurity to keep off contempt perspicuity for our institution obscurity for our veneration we bless the goodness of God in the clear discoveries we adore his wisdome in the veyled mysteries The plain instructions of Scripture the precious truths we are sure of we will improve by the grace of God for our salvation the knots and difficulties the doubts and uncertainties if we cannot unfold and state them to our satisfaction at least from the warning of the blessed Apostle we will take heed with the same divine help that we do not wrest them to our destruction In the reading this chapter you have observed that Saint Paul therein maketh it his work largely variously undeniably to prove and establish that grand article of Faith the scoff of the Heathen the comfort and joyfull expectation of the Christian the Resurrection of the dead this verse among others evidently to contain an argument whatever it be of the same important affirmation quickned and sharpned in forme of a question a repeated question the better to touch pierce and awaken the irrational stupid sons whether of ignorance or heresie that opposed themselves to the Gospel truth Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead An Aenigma without an Oedipus an oracle without an interpretation a pearle of truth locked up Luke 11.52 no key of knowledge that we understand either from Scripture or the Histories of the age when it was written wherewith to open to our view it 's sacred lustre Augustinus ex Varr. 1.19 de Civ Dei The old Heathens numbred two hundred eighty eight opinions concerning the summmm bonum the chief good and true felicity and in this at last they ought all to have agreed that never an one was true Magnen de atomis The Philosophers reckon two and fourty concerning the constitution of a body the composition of continuous quantity and still such digladiations remain in the Physiek and Mathematick Schools concerning these minutes and motes in the Sun as if they would have their own opinions like the subject whereof they argue divisible in semper divisibilia How many the several opinions and conjectures touching the true sentence of these words are I am not able to say * Ex iis quatuor hic infra sequuntur 5. Baptizati pro scipsis in spem rei quam post mortem assequuturi sint viz. Resurrectionis Castal 6. Tanquâ— commortui Christo agentes repraesentantes mortuos Theodoret. Cajetan 7. Ut Christo commoriantur cum eo resurrecturi Sedul 8. pro corporibus naturâ mortuis Isid Pelus 9. Superside resurrectionis mortuorum Chrysost 10. Pro peccatis quae opera sunt mortua abluenelis Aquinas 11. Lotionibus usi propter immunditié contractam in sepeliendis mortuis Bertram 12. Lavantes super mortuos abluentes cadavera 13. Lustrali aquâ purgati jam mortui vel post mortem Beza Pareus 14. Fideles qui cadavera abluentes ipsi tinguntur pro mortuis i. e. mortuorum abluendorum causâ refert Lud. de la Cerd not in Tertul. 15 Supplicio affecti martyrio coronati pro assertâ mortuorum resurrectione vid. Estium 16. Ut mortuos resurrectionem expectare doceant Voss 17. Supra praeter eos qui jam antea extrema passi sunt Tarnov 18. Memorat Estius ablutionem quandam vicariam Judaeis usitatam 19. Item quid A. Montanus novè statuerit 20. Apponat numerum protrahat sicui vacat lubet sixteen or seventeen I have had the patience to number and question not but in consulting new Authors we may be furnished with new conceits many an one disliking what went before him and himself as little regarded by him that followes To bring in an Inventary of all Opinions were not to preach but to tell a story and to make a rehearsal without a Sermon yet should I propose any one single such notable objections are in readinesse against it and such a number plead fair for competition with it that I fear you will wish for the non-apparents and think best of those that are withdrawn from your choice If any consentaneous to the analogy of Faith had above other particular interest in the occasion of our meeting 't were perchance no unpardonable errour to speed the match taking confidence from the innocent circumstance to commend that truth to your prepared minds which