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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85735	A demonstration of the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and therein of the Christian religion. Very usefull for the further satisfaction and confirmation of all good Christians; as likewise for the confutation and conviction of those that have a Jewish or atheisticall spirit in them. / Written by Richard Garbutt, Bachelour in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Sydney Colledge in Cambridge, and afterwards preacher of the Gospel at Leeds in Yorshire [sic].	Garbutt, Richard.; Jackson, Nathaniel, d. 1662.; Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1656 (1656)	Wing G207; Thomason E1693_1; ESTC R202150	67,066	193

1 Peter 1.4 that fiery tryall whereof St. Peter speakes should have no power upon them should not drive them to impatience not to desist or desert their Evangelical callings but hold out 20 30 40 years together unto the death and in death Moses was a godly Saint and yet driven to a little impatience that he was weary of his calling through the vexful behaviour of the Jews If thou deale thus with me Numb 11.15 kill me I pray thee out of hand Elias was a godly Saint yet driven to a little impatience when the storme fell so fierce upon him It is enough now O Lord take away my life 1 Kings 19.4 for I am not better then my fathers Job was a Saint who like him and yet driven to a great deale of impatience when he opened his mouth and cursed his day Let the day perish wherein I was borne c. Job 3. for a whole Chapter together But where do we ever read that all the afflictions the world could heap upon them put the Apostles into any impatience or that their spirits were any whit broken or their hearts dejected with them nay it broke their hearts when others pityed them and would have had them favoured themselves in Christs sufferings What meane you to weep and breake my heart Act. 21.13 Act. 20.22.24 for I am ready not onely to be bound but also to dye c. And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem But none of these things move me neither count I my life deare unto my selfe c. And I take pleasure in infirmites c. 2 Cor. 12.10 whence could they have this patience nay this joy in all their tribulations but from the power of the Holy Ghost And therefore I marvell not that St. Paul should so often urge this for an evident proofe of the truth of his ministry his Apostleship his Gospel that he preached namely his patience and indefatigable enduring of all misery and all affliction for the Gospels sake 2 Cor. 6.4 and 11.23 c. Gal. 6.17 Col. 4.18 2 Cor. 4.7 and 10. In all things approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience c. And from henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus And Remember my bonds Well I will conclude this with his reasoning we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us alwayes bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body That it may appeare that Jesus Christ is alive indeed by giving such strength and power to such a frail creature as Paul otherwise of himselfe was for that it is not to be understood of the life of glory to be manifested afterwards in the body but so as it is already expounded the drift and circumstances shew That the excellency of the power c. in our mortall body c. and because in the fourteenth verse he proceeds there to that sense Sixthly Grace of tenderest love and affection to the Salvation if they could of the whole world to the Salvation of those they never saw nor heard of before to the Salvation of those that it cost them many a long tedious journey to come into them to the Salvation of those that when they came among them gave them but cold entertainment even sought their death that came to bring them the word of life such love whence could they have it but from this power of the Holy Ghost Consider but how cold and back-ward men are in this business to build up one another even neighbour his neighbour and friend his freind in their Salvations and say if these men must not needs have been acted and moved with something in them more then flesh and blood that made them so zealous and earnest for the Salvation of the whole world of the unknowne world the remote world the injurious world that sought their deaths as much as they did their lives Take a scantling of this their earnest zeale and love to every Souls Salvation in St. Paul First In St. Pauls sollicitous care and feare nothing so full of care and feare for anothers good as love None so loving therefore as St. Paul that had such cares and fears and jealousies in his heart as touching others Salvations 2 Cor. 7.5 Without were fightings within were fears Within fears namely lest by some means men should be tempted and drawne away again from the faith Gal. 4.19 2 Cor. 11.2 and 28. Col. 2.1 And I am jealous over you with a godly jealousie And besides those things that are without that which cometh upon me dayly 1 Thes 3.1 the care of all the Churches And I wish you knew what great conflict namely of feare and care I have for you And for this cause when I could no longer forbeare namely for care and fear about you Secondly See it in St. Pauls wise and studious diligence by art and by industry 1 Col. 28. striving if he could to win every Soul Though I be free from all men yet have I made my self servant to all 1 Cor. 9.19 that I might gain the more that we may present every man perfect c. Nothing so painfull and devicefull of any course to speede as love Thirdly See it in St. Pauls earnest obtestations and entreaties that men would regard themselves and that which makes for their own Salvations no so humble a supplicant as true love the tender mother would beg it on her knees at her sons hand that he would reclaime and know his own good so St. Paul most humbly beseeches all that they would know their own good know the things that belong unto their own peace Now then we are Embassadors in Christ 2 Cor. 5.20 and 2.6 we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God And we then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vaine 2 Cor. 10.1 And Now I Paul my self beseech you by the meekness c. and gentleness of Christ c. To name one place more for all If there be therefore any Consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 if any comfort of love c. what would beg so hard for no other boone but onely that men would know the things that belong to their own peace but onely Love Fourthly See it in St. Pauls abundant thanks and prayers for those whom God hath vouchsafed to call unto the participation of his heavenly truth It is no small measure of love that makes him so sensible of others eternall good others that what were they to him but onely that they were the Sons of Adam so sensible as to be so abundant in thanks to God for that blessing unto them and in prayers to God for the continuance of it Most of

and down the world that our Fathers and our Preists and our Prophets have told us such strange things of should be made subject to him Nay is it credible that he that was this great God would be so borne so bred so crucified would so dye and be buried that majesty would be cloathed with such vileness that power and omnipotency would dwell with such weakness that life and immortality would embrace and shake hands with death and the grave So incredible is this Doctrine that all the cheife heresies of old were either against the true Divinity of our Saviour as the Arians Photinians c. or the true humanity as the Simonians Manichees Marcionites c. or the true union of Divinity and humanity into one person as the Nestorians Eutychians c. so unworthy thought they it was that the great God in one and the same person should become man or so overworthy that meane man should in one and the same person become God so that you may know our Saviour had good reason to say of Peters confession Mat. 16.17 whom do men say that I the son of man am Quodcunque Deo indignum est mihi expedit c. Natus est Dei Filius non pudet quia pudendum est moriuus est Dei Filius prorsus credibile est quia ineptum est sepultus resurrexit certum est quia impossibile est Tert. de Carne Christi Thou art Christ the son of the living God This is such high Philosophy that he that was the son of man he the same should be the son of the living God that our Saviour might well say Flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee And this that Christ crucified should be the Saviour of the world that Paul might well say we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling blocke and unto the Greeks foolishnes Whatsoever seemes unworthy of God is for me expedient c. the son of God is borne I am not ashamed of it because it seemes a thing not to be ashamed of and the son of God dyed this is altogether credible because it seemes absurd and after he was buried he rose again this is certaine because it seemes impossible And therefore Secondly it might have offended as an incredible Doctrine incredible that he that seemed to be but a poore weake crucified man should be the great God and Saviour of all or as incredible that he that was this great God and Saviour of all would be a poore weake crucified man Thirdly As a Doctrine too high for the world to embrace wallowing in flesh and blood what high Doctrine was it to teach the proud world the humility of Christ Jesus the uncharitable world the love of their very enemies the unchast world the restraint even of an unchast looke the revengefull world not to resist evill but rather if one smite him on the right cheeke to turn to him the left also The sturdy stomackfull world to seeke reconcilement with ones brother the gripple pinch-penny world to be liberall in almes the covetous carking world not to lay up treasures on earth not to be thoughtfull about to morrow but let to morrow take thought for it selfe in a word the profane dissolute world to tuck up their loyns of their mind and to be sober and walke unto a precise circumspect walking in all godliness and honesty Say any one now even the best here that considers from the experience of the reliques of his own corruption yet in him what a hard thing it is for the proud spirit to be taught the humility of Christ Jesus c say if the doctrine of the Gospel might not well have offended as a Doctrine too high for the world c. Fourthly As a Doctrine bringing still the crosse and persecution with it No sooner was any converted to the Gospel but presently blows flew thick about his ears and the Divell raised up a storme of persecution against him even a mans enemies proved they of his own houshold the father betraying the son to death c. so inseparable an attendant of the Gospel in the primitive times was the crosse and persecution that the Apostles still where they preached the Gospel preached the Doctrine also of enduring tribulation So Paul and Barnabas went through Lystra Icenium and Antioch confirming the Souls of the Disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith And that wee must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God Act. 14.22 So your selves know that wee are appointed thereunto to endure afflictions for verily when we were with you we told you before that we should suffer tribulation even as it came to passe 1 Thes 3.3 4. 2 Tim. 3.12 So all that will live godly in the world shall suffer persecution Say therefore they that consider what the wisdom of the flesh is namely to thinke it good sleeping in a whole skin good hearkning to S. Peters Counsell to our Saviour telling how many things he should suffer at Jerusalem and there be killed c. Spare thy self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let not these and these things befall thee Matt. 16.22 Say if the Doctrine of the Gospel might not also have offended as a Doctirne bringing the crosse with it Fifthly As a Doctrine that invited to all that hard matter and hard task of the crosse by no other promises then future of another world it should cost them here if they would be right Christians the denying of themselves the mortifying of their pleasures their plucking out their right eyes their cutting off their right hands and feet c. Moreover it would cost them the enduring the crosse the suffering shame the going still with their lives in their hands but reward here they should looke for none onely believe if they would Matt. 5.12 Matt. 19.28 Luke 14.14 Act. 3.19 great should be their reward in Heaven great in that regeneration great in that Resurrection of the just great in those dayes of refreshing from the presence of the Lord great in that coming of his to be glorified in his Saints and admired of all them that believe 2 Thes 1.10 Col. 3.3 your life is hid with Christ in God But in the meane time they must possesse their Souls in patience live by faith work all things and endure all things as seeing him that is invisible and looking for that reward which is invisible what a snub and hinderance thinke you was this likely to have been unto flesh and blood hankering still after the present things and loving to believe no more then it sees what a snub and hinderance from embracing that doctrine that invited unto such high doings and such deep sufferings upon promises onely hereafter and in another world whereof they had no other assurance then that Heb. 11.1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seene and therefore whence but from the power