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A11610	The worthy communicant rewarded Laid forth in a sermon, on John 6.54. Preached in the Cathedrall of St. Peter in Exeter, on Low-Sunday, being the 21. of Aprill, Anno 1639. By William Sclater, Master of Arts, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now chaplaine of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop's Barony of Saint Stephens, and preacher also at S. Martin, in the same city.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1639 (1639)	STC 21850; ESTC S100965	42,655	89

Figure not strictly and abstractively no more then that Text in St. John must be Joh. 3.13 where Christ speaking of himselfe as the Son of Man saith that he is in Heaven when yet he there spake upon the earth as man to Nicodemus it must therefore be understood by Communication of properties and in concreto it being True that that divine Person which by an admirable union had Two Natures united to its selfe did and was thus or thus as Gods Spirit in the Scriptures is pleased to expresse so deep and great a mystery Thus ye see that if there were no other Texts to prove it yet from this one the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Two Natures of Christ hypostatically united to his Divine Person would bee sufficiently collected But because this point is hence but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only to bee discoursed of this being rather the hypothesis then the thesis of the Text directly I rather come to shew how and by what sinewes the Resurrection of Beleevers is from hence deducible and this is founded upon Two maine grounds First because Christ himselfe being the k Eph. 1.22 Head of his Church and every Beleever a lively member of his body by vertue of the mysticall and effectuall Union that is betweene the head and the members as the head is raised so shall the members likewise Besides Christ is as the Primitiae the first-fruits as Saint l 1 Cor. 15.20 Paul saith wee as the rest of the whole lumpe looke now as the dedication of the first-fruits of their increase did unto the Jewes consecrate and in a manner sanctifie the whole other encrease even so our Saviour by his Resurrection hath consecrated unto all his members theirs Cùm eadem sit ratio primitiarum totius cumuli as m Beza ad 1 Cor. 15.20 Beza noteth there being the same reason by this consequence of the whole lumpe and of the first-fruits The wicked shall indeed bee raysed up too but unto everlasting shame confusion and contempt as n Dan. 12.2 Daniel and Saint o Joh. 5.29 John say by the power of God but the beleever and his True member onely by vertue of his effectuall merit and Communion I will raise him up The other thing to be noted is the Time mentioned for this raising up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the last Day he meanes the day of our common p 2 Cor. 5.10 appearance before him wherein the heavens being on fire shall be q 2 Pet. 3.12 dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat Saint Paul calleth it by an emphasis a 2 Tim. 1.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that day that so remarkable that so b Jud. ver 6. great and dreadfull day of c Rom. 14.12 account by Saint Peter it is called the day of the d 2 Pet. 3.10 Lord Then it is that Christ will raise up the Beleever even at the last day of the world after which both day and time shall be no more This is a sentence which like the miraculous wine in Cana of Galilee is set down as the best till e Joh. 2.10 last and is indeed like to King Davids wine that which maketh f Psal 104.15 glad the heart of every righteous man who if in this life onely he had hope he were of all men else most g 1 Cor. 15.19 miserable For as the life of an unbeleever is like a Tragedie which is presented in with Musick and all expressions of jollity but it goes off usually in a dismall and a sad catastrophe so is the life of a Beleever to a Comedie which though brought upon the stage in blackes under sad lookes soft paces faint speeches and such like emblemes of sorrow yet stay a while and ye shall see all goe off in mirth and musicke the righteous when the other calls for the rockes and mountaines to fall upon him and to shelter him from the wrath of the Lambe in vaine shall at that last day being raised up by his head Christ Jesus lift up his head with joy because that his Redemption h Luk. 21.28 draweth nigh I will raise him up at the last day that is as i Rupertus ad cap. 6. Joh. Rupertus glosseth à congerie aeternâ morte mortuorum ex nomine eum vocans discernam I will segregate him from the whole other masse or drove as it were of wicked men that shall dye eternally for their impenitencie in sinne and call him forth by name and will not bee k Mat. 10.32 33. ashamed to owne him then at that last day who was not ashamed of his reproach in his warfare against the world the flesh and the Divell here below So True is that of King David that if we marke the perfect man and behold the upright wee shall finde that the end of that man is peace but the Transgressors shall be destroyed together and the end of the wicked shall be cut off Ps 37. 37 38. conferre Eccl. 8.12 13. Ps 92.7 Mal. 3.17 18. Wherefore let us comfort one another with these words as well knowing that howsoever the righteous shall be recompensed by afflictions yet it is but on the z Pro. 11.31 earth saith Salomon and no farther the end of their dayes is the day of the end of all their sorrow and misery for ever and ever To conclude let the a Deut. 32.29 thought then of our ends bee still the end of our thoughts and that our end may bee good let us bee sure that wee have good ends in all our projects and our Christian performances or b Ecclus. 7.36 undertakings before that last end of all comes Then shall we indeed be raysed up with joy and comfort most unspeakable at that last Day The meanes to accomplish this is To propound our Saviours Resurrection as a Patterne of ours in our spirituall c Ephes 5.14 awaking out of the sleep of sinne by our spirituall and as S. John hath phrased it Our d Rev. 20.6 7. first Resurrection Now before Christs there was an e Matth. 28.2 earthquake so in our Regeneration there is a conquassation usually and a shaking of the soule a f Act. 24.25 16.29 trembling of the conscience through a sight of sinne and of our misery thereby the day of our second must be like the day of our first birth Dies lachrymosa a Day of g Ingressus slebilis progressus debilis egressus horribilis Ber. Teares shed in contrition for our sinnes past when wee must as Moses did the h Exod. 17.6 rock in Horeb strike the rocks of our too too obdurate hearts with a rod of remorse that from thence may flow out even rivers and streames of sorrow for our loose conversations before calling The continuall dropping of this water hollowes the stone mollifies and softens the heart preparing it aright to

erroneously mistaken this doctrine of the Resurrection the more are we all my beloved from this meditation bound to thanke our good God who hath so blessed us with m Ephes 1.3 spirituall blessings in Christ Jesus that he hath given us better eyes by means of the vaile of naturall blindnesse removed to see into this great mystery of godlinesse and hath let this part of the n 2 Cor. 4.4 light of the glorious Gospel of Christ in the knowledge of his Resurrection to shine into our hearts My purpose was not on this occasion to dwell at large upon this Common place of the Resurrection now onely Two things I note as Principally here intended First the Author of the Beleevers Resurrection Christ himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I Emphatically I will raise him up What stronger argument of the Divine Nature of our Saviour Noe man meerely such hath ever quickened his o 2 Cor. 3.5 6. owne soule but Christ doth this Potestative by vertue of his own innate Power for so he saith I have p John 10.18 power to lay downe my life and I have power to take it up againe and therefore saith q Bern. ser 10. de Pasch Bernard differencing Christs from all others Resurrection Reliqui suscitantur solus Christus Resurrexit Well may others be raised Christ onely rose hee onely by himselfe could conquer death Wherefore though the originall word in Mar. 16.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be passive yet must it bee understood actively as a Reverend r Bp. Lake on 1 Cor. 15.20 p. 157. Prelate hath observed This power manifested in Christs Resurrection was prefigured say ſ Albinus quaest in Gen. Albinus t Julianus Pomerius lib. 1. contr Judaeos p. 556. in Patr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Julianus Pomerius and others greatly learned in that prophecy of old Jacob Gen. 49.9 where Juda is said to stoupe down and to couch as an old Lyon and yet saith the same great Patriarch as a Lyons whelp from the prey my sonne thou art gone up this is a cleare Type of our Lord and Saviour who by S. John is called the u Apoc. 5.5 Lion of the Tribe of Judah who during the Time of his passion and his humiliation seemed to couch as it were and to lie downe in his grave as an old and weakened Lyon but as a Lyon that is young in much strength hee rouzeth up himselfe againe having broken the bonds of x Act. 2.24 31. Death and Hell in his victorious Resurrection so that this taking up of his life againe sheweth the Truth of his Divinity and omnipotent consubstantiality y Phil. 2.6 equall with his eternall Father and the holy Ghost that hee was not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 onely like unto but verily 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the same substance with his Father against that damnable heresie of Arrius under which though the n Haeresis Arrii prorupit totumque orbem invecto errore turbaverat Sulpic. Severus l. 2. sacr hist p. 144. in 8o. cum Drusio world seemed in the dayes of Athanasius the Great in a sort to o Ingemuit totus orbis Arrianum se esse miratus est Hieron cont Luciferian Confer Hooker l. 5. p. 266. ad p. 274. Et Dr Field l. 1. c. 10. in medio My L. of Duresme c. 15 sect 5. p. 368. qua supra Et Mr Wotton serm 2. in Joh. p. 77 78 c. groane yet was it condemned in the first generall Councell at Nice and himselfe at last voyded with his p Ruffin l. 1. c. 13. hist Eccles bowels and entrals as he was about to go to maintaine his blasphemy his soule out of his body being smitten by the immediate hand of Divine Justice for his obstinacie herein Now as this sheweth the Divinitie so in that in the former part of the Text he mentioneth his flesh and his bloud it 's cleare also that hee had likewise an humane nature too even hee tooke part likewise saith the q Heb. 2.14 Apostle of the same flesh and bloud with the rest of the children and so became a Eph. 5.30 flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone and all this too not in b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat. ad Philip. p. 5. opinion onely and fancie as the old exploded c Vide Estium ad cap. 2. in Philip. ver 7. p. 79. Marcionites and Manichees conceited 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Ignatius saith but Really and in Truth for so the Scripture plainely The word was d Joh. 1.14 made flesh Made I say and that not brought downe along with him out of heaven as the Apollinarian Heretickes imagined but made out of the flesh of the Virgin Mary so Saint Paul expresly Gal. 4.4 Factus ex muliere made of a woman for that preposition ex or of noteth the materiall cause of his incarnation and that our Lord and Saviour was substantialiter factus as d Theophyl ad 1. Mat. ver 23. Theophylact notes made of the very substance of the Virgin which overthroweth also that Valentinian heresie which taught that Christ passed onely as water through a conduit-pipe through her wombe but took nothing Really of her substance for St. Paul elsewhere Rom. 1.3 saith expresly that he was made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the seed of David according to the flesh Factum propriâ significatione intellige saith e Beza ad Rom. 1. ver 3. Beza the word made is there properly to be understood as shewing the very substance of Christs flesh to be made of the very substance of the Virgins And indeed had it not been so he could never have been capable of f Heb. 2.14 Death or suffering thereby to overcome him that had the power of Death the Devill as St. Paul disputes most strongly the Godhead being as not passionate as the Vorstian blasphemie was so neither passible or subject unto death or shedding of bloud g Heb. 9.22 without which yet there was no remission of sinnes possible Sometimes indeed the Holy Ghost speaking in concreto of Christs Person which had united to it a twofold Nature by that which Divines call a Communication of properties that is given to the whole person which is proper onely in abstracto to the one nature So we read Act. 20.28 God is said to have purchased the Church with his owne bloud Now God himselfe is a h Joh. 4.24 Spirit saith the Scripture and a Spirit saith our Saviour hath not flesh and bones as yee see me have Luk. 24.39 and if there be no flesh nor veines to hold and containe bloud which for the remission of sinnes i Heb. 9.22 must be shed then surely there can be no purchase of the Church by bloud therefore that speech and the like in the language of the Scripture is to be understood in Trope or sacred