A02178:1849
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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Now let us see those reasons, which are drawn from God as he is our Mediator, wherein1 we will consider certain things done in his own person, and things to be observed in the means which lead us unto him. Luk. 8. 55. Our Saviour Christ ariseth from death to life the daughter of Jairus. And which is a further degree, Luke. 7. 14 he revived the widows some lying on the bear in a coffin ready to be buried. Nay, which yet is a further degree and more marvellous, Joh. 11. 44. he raiseth Lazarus, (Martha's brother) having been dead four days. Lastly, Matth. 26. he mightily raiseth himself, having been dead three days and three nights, and that without all quality of corruption. Who then dare doubt, under pain of damnation, that the same Jesus Christ can raise our mortal and corruptible bodies, or that he will not change our vile bodies, and make them like his glorious body, by tha• mighty power, whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself? Behold Pilate sealeth the stone which covereth Christ in his burial, armed men are prepared, and watchmen sit at the grave, neither could all these things keep under the power of Christ from ⟨p. 186⟩rising What then? Forsooth (which is most unlike) they invented, that poor silly souls came & stole him from the armed men. Well, he was seen first of Mary, then of certain Disciples, afterward of moe than five hundred We see now his rising was corporal, it was no spiritual resurrection; in what sort he rose, in like manner shall we rise also: but he rose in the flesh, then shall we rise in the flesh, and therefore not in the spirit alone, as our brainsick heretics imagine. Now he rose not for his own cause, no more than he was purely borne, holily lived, and innocently dyed: all these things he did for us, that we might be sanctified, that we might be justified, that we might be glorified. Neither did he2 suffer in the body alone, but in the soul also: whereby he showed, that he freed not the soul alone, but the body also, because the body as well as the soul was guilty and punishable for sin. He rose not in soul alone, but in body also, whereby he brought grace, and restored holiness as well to the body as the soul, seeing both body and soul had lost the same by transgression.