1. By immediate Revelations, I Sam. iii. 11, 12. 2. By His prophetical Inspirations. 2. Ordinarily, by His Providences. 3. What is it to fubmit our Wills to GOD's? 1. We fubmit our Wills to His commanding Will. 1. When we do what He wills we should do. 2. When we therefore do it, because He wills it, 1 Sam. xv. 22. 3. That we will the doing of it, as well as He, I Chron. xxviii. 9. 1 S. Pet. V. 2. 2. That we may fubmit to His afting Will, is requir'd, r. That we do not murmur at what He doth, 1 Cor. x. 10. 2. That we acknowledge His Will in it, S. Matt. vi. 26. and x. 29. 3. That we will and choose what He doth, 1 Sam. iii. 18. 4. Why are we to fubmit our Will to GOD's? 1. Because He is our Creator and Gover nour, 1 Sam. iii. 18. 2. Because His Will is always good, Pfal. cxix. 68. 3. Because what we will contrary to GOD, is Sin. Signs of our fubmitting our Wills to GOD's. 1. When we acknowledge GOD's Goodnefs in our very Troubles. 2. When we run not to unlawful Means, but wait upon GOD, Ifa. xxviii. 15, 16. Hebr. x. 38. S. Fam. v. 7, 8. 3. When we perform our Duty, whatsoever the Success prove, Act. v. 29. 4. When 4. When we can blefs GOD for all Things, fob i. 21. 1 Theff. v. 18. MOTIVE S. 1. We daily pray that the Will of GOD may be done, S. Matt. vi. 10. 2. Whatfoever we fuffer, tho' it be more than we would, yet it is less than we deferve, Lam. iii. 39. Ezra ix. 13. 3. GOD's Will muft ftand, whether we fubmit or no, Ifa. xlvi. 10. Prov. xix. 21. 4. The End of Troubles is to try us, whether we will fubmit to His Will or not, Job i. 11. 5. There is no Mifery we can undergo, but by this Submiffion it is turn'd to a Mercy. 6. This Submiffion is the beft Evidence of true Grace. ་ 7. It is the beft Means to an happy and comfortable Life. 8. We are unfit to choose any Thing ourfelves; 1. By Reafon of the Ignorance of our Understandings. 2. By the Perverfenefs of our Wills, Rom. vii. 19. 9. We cannot be sav'd, unless we fubmit to GOD's Will. 10. Chrift fubmitted. S. LUK. S. LUK. xxiv. 6. He is not here, but is rifen. S without Faith in Chrift, we can never come to the Enjoyment of Him, fo without the Knowledge of Chrift, we can never come to Faith in Him; fo that it as much concerns us to know Him here, as to look after the Enjoyment of Him hereafter. Now there is a twofold State of Chrift, neceffary to be known by us, in order to our Enjoyment of Him; His State of Humiliation, and His State of Exaltation, in which the Execution of His threefold Office, and the whole Difpenfation of our Salvation confisteth. Of His Humiliation there are three Degrees, His Sufferings upon Earth, His Burial under the Earth, and His Defcent into Hell; and fo likewife in His Exaltation there are three Degrees too, His Refurrection from the Earth, His Afcent into Heaven, and His Sitting at the Right Hand of GOD. It is the first which we this Day celebrate, and therefore the first we shall at this Time speak a little to; even, that He is not here, but is rifen. They are the Words of two Angels, in the Shape of Men, to fome Women that came to anoint Christ's Body in the Sepulchre; who finding the Stone rolled away, and no Body in the Sepulchre, are much perplex'd at it, till at length the Angels ask them, why they feek the Living amongst the Dead, and tell them, He is not here, but is rifen. DOCT. DOCTRINE. Chrift is rifen from the Dead. That Chrift was crucify'd, dead and buried, it was the Jews Faith and Derision; but that He rofe again the third Day, is only a Chriftian's Faith and Perfuafion. And obferve, we are not only to believe, that He rofe again, but that He rofe the third Day. Tho' He that came to bring others to the Joys of Life, was Himself brought into the Pangs of Death; yet it was not in the Power of Death, long to detain the Lord of Life; tho' Worms had Power to fend Him to the Grave, yet they had not Power nor Time to feed upon Him there. No, He had lain but one whole Day, and two Pieces, before the Angels cry out, He is not here, but is rifen. He lay three Days, that we might believe He was not alive but dead; He rofe again the third Day, that we might believe He is not dead but lives, lives now to make Interceffion for our Souls in Heaven as really, as once He died to make Satisfaction for our Sins on Earth. He is not therefore here, He is rifen. This Truth I fhall fhew you, both the %, and ♪ior of; first, that it was fo; and then why it was fo, that Chrift rofe from the dead. I. That Chrift rofe from the Dead. It is an Article of our Faith, which all true Chriftians are perfuaded of, but none can be too much confirm'd in; for this Article of our Faith is the Foundation of our Religion, and the Ground of all our Comfort, the Bafis of Chriftianity, the Sum of the Law and the Gospel; and if we were fully perfuaded of this Article of our Faith, what a wonderful Change would it make in all the Actions Actions of our Life? Did we verily believe, that He is rifen from the Dead, and that all Power is given Him in Heaven and in Earth, and that He is at this very Moment making Interceffion for us; how active should we be in Duty, how zealous for His Glory, how conftant in our Attendance upon Him, how fcornful of all Things in Comparison of Him? Now there are four Things which may convince us of the Certainty of it. 1. The Old Teftament foretold it. 2. The New Teftament afferts it. 3. There were many Eye-Witnesses of it. 4. The Spirit of GOD gives Testimony to it. 1. The Old Testament foretold it, that it fhould be fo: It is no new Doctrine brought of late into the Church of GOD, but as old as Mofes and the Prophets; fo that the very Scriptures, which the Jews fo zealously maintain, and fo conftantly affert to be the Word of GOD, may condemn them of their Error in this Point, foretelling the Refurrection of Christ. 1. Typically, in Ifaac's Deliverance from it |