There shall no Evil happen unto thee, neither fball any Plague come nigh thy Dwelling. For he shall give his Angels Charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy Ways. They The Angels which kept not their first Estate, but left their own Habitation, he hath referved, in everlafting Chains, under The FALL of the Apoftate Angels. God fpared not the Angels that finned, but caft them down to Hell, and delivered them into Wherefore, feeing we also are compaffed about with fo great a Cloud of Witneffes, let us lay afide every Weight, and the Sin which doth fo eafly befet us, and let us run with Pa- tience the Race that is fet before us, Look- St THOMAS's Unbelief, and Conviction. JOHN xx. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. But Thomas, one of the Twelve, called Didy- mus, was not with them, when Jefus came. The other Difciples therefore faid unto him, we Except I fhall fee in his Hands the Print of - the Nails, and put my Finger into the Print of the Nails, and thruft my Hand into his And after eight Days, again his Difciples were within, and Thomas with them: Then came Jefus, the Doors being shut, and flood in the Midft, and faid, Peace be unto you. Then faith he to Thomas: Reach hither thy Fin- ger, and behold my Hands; and reach hither thy Hand, and thrust it into my Side, and be not faithlefs but believing. And Thomas anfwered and faid unto him, My Jefus faith unto him, Thomas, because thou haft feen me, thou haft believed: Bleffed are they that have not feen, and yet have believed. 355 Madness the Effect of a Diabolical Poffeffion. There came to Jefus a certain Man kneeling down to him, and Jaying, Lord, have Mercy on my Son; for he is Lunatick, and fore vexed: for oft-times be falleth into the Fire, and oft into the Water. And Jefus rebuked the De- vil, and he departed out of him, and the Child SERMON I. Chrift rifen from the Dead. I COR. xv. 20. But now is Chrift rifen from the Dead, and become the First-Fruits of them that flept.. H OW different, my Brethren, is this Day's Solemnity from those which lately called us to the "House of God! How happy the Change, "from Lamentation, and Mourning, and Woe, the Tragedy of a bleeding and dying Saviour, to Joy and Gladnefs, the Tri ་་ umph of a living and victorious one! This "is the Day which the Lord hath made [as we "have fung in one of the proper Pfalms,] he "hath made it high, he hath made it high a"bove the rest, by rifing on it from the Dead, by being born a fecond Time, born from "the Womb of the Earth, born now not to cc prove himself Man but God. This is that "most mysterious Day that turned our SaviVOL. III. Β ́ "our's I. SERM." our's Crofs into a lafting Trophy, and his "Crown of Thorns into a Ray of Glory; "that brought Honour to the once accurfed “Tree, and by a wonderful Effect produced Stanhope. Immortality out of Death, and everlasting "Renown out of Shame and Contempt. Let us be glad therefore and rejoice in this "Chriftian Jubilee, fince Death, the last and "moft formidable of our Enemies, is now "under the Power of one that can deftroy "him: All his Attempts upon the Captain "of our Salvation were weak and vain, and "therefore all his Force cannot prevail a gainst those who fight under our victorious "Leader. For this is our Security, this our rejoicing, that the Lord is rifen, yea, the "Lord is rifen indeed: Chrift is rifen from "the Dead, and become the First Fruits of "them that flept: The Lamb who was flain, now liveth again, and behold, he is alive for evermore, Amen; and hath the Keys of "Hell and of Death." With fuch pious Strains an elegant Pen of our own Church begins his Meditations upon the Gospel for this Day: And fuch like holy Extacies of Joy did the Apoftles first, and after them all the Churches of God discover at the Approach of this triumphant Morning, At |