Andrewes - Heaven Collection BX5133.A56 X3 1641

Sermon Il· 0/the R E suR R E c T 1o N. But yet, fo~all that, Adh.ereditattm is a newpoint. Btgetting is (proper!y) but to /ife,and nothmg elfe: Thegreaterpart,byfarre,arebegotten[o.To Inhmt,belides, oneofathoufand. Aske poore mens children: Aske younger brethren. But this (~~re)not invivamonly; but inH.ere1itatemalfo,an~ thele aretwo. • To be begotten;. 'l!ivam.-, To beheires,h.eredstatem.It IS no; Lazarm sreftsr~efhon;to rife againe tQcthe clition he had before.ItJs C H R I s T s; rijing, to rece1ve an Inhmtance with'llll. con Nor 'a 1 aJI we need to doubt any prejudice to Go o, fromw~om it com~s, by our comming to this lnhmtance,Vwamand n.. redltatem(thcre)wlllltapd well toge– ther.H:ere,rheywill not.Here,the!"h:ritancecomes nor,but by the death ofth~par– tie in polfdlion: But there, no preJudiCe to the An•eflor; he d1cs not,for the he1re t() fuccecd. There is Sttccejiio minommfine recefione majorum. A (uccefion, as oflight i thefecondburnes cleare; yet the.firff goes not out, but burnes as cleare as it. Norno prejudice to the Htire neither: Tom, byHim; norroHim, by m. It is not as here: One carries it from all, and all there!l: goe without; Or, ifthey come: in, his part is the ldfe. N~: it is ofthenatureoflight, and other fuch fPirituali thin& s (asfounds, andfmells) wh1ch be Omnzbtu una,& jing11lts tota. If there be a thoufand together, every one fm, hcares,_ (~/Isas much, ashefhould doe, if there were no more but hunfelfe alone. Such 1s this: not, ergaahqMs vfflr.Jm, but ergavos. And (as we faid)onething itisto beborne; another, tobefo, to inherit: So fay we againe now; One thing,to behornetoaninheritance; Another, to (uch an lnheri~ tA;oce as this here. For,in Inheritances, there is great oddcs ;onemuch better than an– other;even here with us: But this, better; incomparably better; another manner In:. heritance farre,than any wit~~ us here. We would know, what manner one,and Saint Peter<>ives us alittle overture, how it isconditioned, that we may know, it is worth a Ben~diEltu. ETheologiJ negativJ hee cloth it; there is no other way ro <lefcribe 1 things 11 come, but by removing from them fuch defe&s, as (we complaiHe) are inci• dent and encombet all, we can·Inherii here. . . 501 Three they are, •Corrumpi, •Centaminari, 3 Marcefcere; Corruption, S~ile, and 'Fading; towhichmsnoflraq·ue, we:md all ours arc fubj ect. Ofwhich three • Cor~ ruption refcrres, to the very being it felfe: • Defiling, to the fintere and true heing, without all forren mixture: l Fading, to the beautie, the primeandflourijhing cJfate, thateach thmg bath. TheStthjlan,·e, that corrupts and comes to norhing : fllppof(!, by death: (for; 1 r~~torr•ptiJ~ Corruption is contrary togeneration.) The tmdejiledpure e!l:ate, that is{oiled,and embaled, by fome bad thing comming to it from without: (as it might be; byinfel1ion ·or licknelfe.) And though both thefehold, the bell: elbtelong will nor; but lofe the lultre by and by, and fade away of it felfe. 'Saint P,eter enlarges this, after, in this Chapter: taking his theme from thevoicein Ef•j XL. dfljlejh ugrajfe,andadtheglo- \TerCe,~; ty of it a< theflower ofthegrajfe. Thegra./Jeitfelfelafts not long; bur;'heflower ofthe ~<fayl!0· §i graf{e, nothing fo long, as thegra(fe it felfe. Let there be noblajlingto comipt it; no Wlhrto defile it; yet, ofit felfe,it falls off, and leaves theltalkc!l:anding. Itis (now) the time offlowers,and fromflowers,cloth theApoflletake his tetttie,of Marccfcm. It is properly thefading oftheRofe. Straight; ofit felfc, cloth the Rofe m&rcere, andthe Violet,~ivere, wax pale and wan. Their bell:, their Aourifhing e!l:ate they hold not long ; nmher theflowers, that arervorne, northey, that weare them Retther :they,norwe:butdecaywedoe,(Go o wot) inafhorttime. And,as we,fo they i as theheires,[o theinheritancesthemCelves.TheircormptiMe 'Cor. a(~; bath not put on incormptionneither.Theycorrupt daily(we fee)from one to anorher. One mans Inheritance corrupts, by another mans purchafe; To rhem, that had them, and h;wethem not, they arecorrupt. And, notthar way alone: diverfeothe~efcheat, for want o~hezrs;con.fifwe,forfomeoffences;riotedand made away,byunthrt{'tmejfe; the~:ere !\npped,a~d turned cleane out: the i nherirancewa!l:ed,and quire brought to not mg. Atl~~!\,1fnotthey, tom; We,to them,corrupt: which comes all to one. , But fay, they jiAnd and corrupt not : aaoth~r complaint there i5 : Their foil:, lP'•defilt~! z z. ~~tt; •

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