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diff --git a/old/63688-0.txt b/old/63688-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index d6f62d0..0000000 --- a/old/63688-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,726 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook, "He was buried", by Thomas Macgill - - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: "He was buried" - A Sermon for Easter Even - - -Author: Thomas Macgill - - - -Release Date: November 16, 2020 [eBook #63688] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "HE WAS BURIED"*** - - -Transcribed from the 1849 D. Batten edition by David Price. - - - - - - “He was buried.” - - - * * * * * - - A SERMON - - FOR - - EASTER EVEN. - - * * * * * - - BY - THOMAS MACGILL, - - CURATE OF CLAPHAM, - EVENING PREACHER AT THE MAGDALEN HOSPITAL. - - * * * * * - - * * * * * - - * * * * * - - Clapham: - PRINTED BY D. BATTEN. - - 1849. - - * * * * * - -_If there be any profits from the sale of this publication_, _they will -be added to the funds for Building a Temporary Church in Clapham_. - - * * * * * - - - - - A SERMON. - - - 1 Cor. xv. 4.—“HE WAS BURIED.” - -WHO has not witnessed a funeral! Who is unacquainted with the emotions -that possess the heart whilst carrying the remains of a beloved friend to -the grave! And even when we have no interest in the deceased beyond the -ties of a common humanity, there is a majesty in death itself that -overawes the mind, and the gloomy pomp that proclaims death’s triumph -arrests the thoughtlessness of man and repeats to him the lesson of the -Bible—“The grave is thine house, and thou must make thy bed in the -darkness.” Who has not felt his curiosity awakened when some splendid -train of mourners has passed by, declaring by the parade in which -corruption sits in mockery, how noble, or how renowned, or how rich the -victim on whom the hand of the destroyer has fallen, and how utterly vain -and empty are all human glories. And who has not experienced a hallowed -sympathy when he has met a little band hurrying towards the churchyard -all that is mortal of some friendless man, who lived unknown and died -unbewailed, and who now seems to be stealing out of a world that had -scarcely acknowledged his existence,—yet declaring in his undistinguished -departure that “death has passed upon all men, because all have sinned.” - -To-day I invite you to contemplate the funeral ceremonies of the Prince -of Life, of Him who lay down amid the mansions of the dead, that by dying -He might destroy death and him that had the power of death. - -The mourners on this mysterious occasion were few in number. The Lord -whom all despised, and who had no home in which to lay his head in life, -could scarcely attract around him in death as many as could carry him -from the cross to the grave. His disciples, with one honoured exception, -had all disappeared in shameful flight. A few women, with tearful -sympathy, lingered to mark the spot where their Lord should be laid, and -assisted Joseph and Nicodemus to perform the last offices to the -crucified Immanuel. These two persons were men of considerable -distinction in Judea, rich and honourable, and members of the great -council of the nation. Of Joseph it is written that he was “a good man -and a just.” Of Nicodemus we read that he was a ruler of the Jews, a -public teacher, “a master in Israel,” but of a remarkably timid -disposition. Three years before this sad day he had visited Jesus under -the cover of night, and received instructions in the mysteries of the -kingdom of God, but he had never yet openly avowed his attachment to -Messiah. The world’s frown, the dread of its reproach, the certainty of -its persecution, had deterred both Joseph and Nicodemus from confessing -Christ before men. But his death, the event that encreased the peril of -his disciples, had the effect of dissipating all their fears, and -constrained them openly to profess their respect to the Lord. With a -boldness which defied all danger they begged from Pilate the body of -Christ, that it might not be cast into a malefactor’s grave, but entombed -with such honour and distinction as circumstances would allow. The -earnest desire of such a person as Joseph was not to be refused, and -agreeing, as it doubtless would, with Pilate’s own feelings respecting -one whom he had pronounced innocent, the request was at once complied -with. - -How strange an event was this! At the very time of Messiah’s utmost -desertion, when heaven frowns with gathered blackness, and the cry has -been uttered, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me!”—when lover and -friend were put far from Him, there went forth from the Sanhedrim that -had condemned Him two distinguished witnesses to proclaim His praise, and -shew to His lifeless remains the respect they had themselves denied to -His living person. - -Thus it is, Christian brethren, that, when least expected, God’s hidden -work of grace may be silently advancing; in young and aged hearts -Christianity may be putting forward its sacred and resistless claims and -obtaining a mastery within, that needs only to be put to the trial to -exhibit its real power. There is not always the “rushing mighty wind” -when the Spirit of the Lord takes possession of a man’s heart. There is -not always the intense sorrow of “one mourning as for an only son,” when -the sinner looks to Christ. There is not always the alarm of “Men and -brethren what shall we do?” when sin’s appalling consequences are first -spiritually discovered. The work of grace is often silent and gentle, -like the season of spring in a tropical clime, when the earth by some -rapid change of the atmosphere seems by enchantment to be covered with -new created loveliness, and welcomes the blessed showers of heaven with a -bloom as sudden as it is glorious. And how often are the very -circumstances that seem most unfavorable to the progress of faith, chosen -by God for the manifestation of His grace. Yet let no man carry this -principle beyond its legitimate use, nor consider that the existence of -religious principles can ever be consistent with a life of ungodliness. -In the case of Joseph it is expressly declared that, though he was a -member of the Council that condemned Jesus to death, he had not consented -to their verdict.—No; men cannot be the children of God whilst they are -avowedly the children of their father the devil, whose works they do. - -But to return to the narrative. No sooner had Joseph obtained the -consent of Pilate than he hurried back to the cross. The day was, -however, far spent and the sabbath was at hand, therefore the funeral -ceremonies must needs be finished in a very hasty manner. With such -assistance as the occasion commanded, Joseph and Nicodemus removed the -sacred corpse, extracted the nails from the cross, wiped off the stains -of indignity with which that holy countenance had been profaned, and -having wound the body in fine linen with spices and aromatic gums they -bore it to a new tomb wherein never before was man laid. There amid the -dimness of twilight, the fitting emblem of the extinguished hopes of the -world, they deposited with speechless grief, the precious form of Him who -came in the name of the Lord to save us. O ye men of holy and humble -hearts, how sad was your task! and your faith was too feeble and your -hopes too gloomy to sustain you in this pious duty. - -It is to be observed that the sepulchre in which Christ was laid was a -new one, the property of a rich man, and was situated beyond the gates of -Jerusalem. Thus the Scriptures were fulfilled which declare that He -should be “with the rich in His death (Isaiah liii. 9.) thus was -fulfilled the type involved in the command that the ashes of the -sacrifice should be carried without the camp, (Leviticus iv. 12. Heb. -xiii. 11, 12). It was also a part of the proof necessary for the fact of -the resurrection, that He had been laid, not in the place where the -bodies of felons were usually cast, nor in any ordinary burying ground -where other bodies lay, and where some deceit might have been practised -by the disciples; and being a grave excavated in the rock it could only -be approached by one entrance, and the entrance was guarded by sentinels -and sealed. These circumstances are of vast importance as bearing on the -reality of His resurrection, and they are proofs which easily and -naturally present themselves to the mind. - -“There laid they Jesus.”—Observe its locality; it was in a garden, a -lonely but a lovely resting place, constructed amid the arbors and -flower-paths, and near it there would grow many a fragrant plant with -leaves painted by heavenly art, and be like ornaments of beauty designed -to relieve the gloom that overhangs the dwellings of the dead. Here -there would be nothing to remind us of death, no sickening vapours of -corruption; no mouldering fragments of humanity, to proclaim it a place -of skulls. All around would breathe the spicy odours of the eastern -clime; yea, from the sepulchre itself would exhale a balmy sweetness, -fulfilling the words of the royal poet, - - “All thy garments smell - Of myrrh and aloes and cassia: - Out of the ivory palaces - Whereby they have made thee glad.” - -And what does this flowery abode of death speak to us, Christian friends? -It proclaims how death and the grave have been divested of all their -terrible features by the work of Christ, how He hath planted flowers of -heavenly promise around the margin of the tomb, perfumed the sepulchre -itself with odours of eternal love, and scented the once hateful garments -of the dead with the fragrance and freshness of a sure and certain -immortality. It proclaims that there is nothing now in the chill and -darkness of the narrow house, to alarm the fears of the dying Christian. -For Jesus has been there and has left within it the impress of His own -form, and has changed its aspect and altered its character. It is no -longer a prison-house, but the vestibule of heaven, in which the children -of the kingdom repose their wearied frames before they enter with -spiritual bodies on the employments of a glorious eternity. - -“And there,” says St. Matthew, “was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary -sitting over against the sepulchre.” Let us draw near, and share with -them their holy musings. - -There, in that rock, lies He that made the world. There are sealed up -the lips which said, “Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden -and I will give you rest.” There are closed the eyes which always beamed -compassion, and wept for human woe. There, cold, are the hands which -were laid on little children to bless them, and opened the eyes of the -blind, and delivered the widow’s son alive to his mother. There reposes -that gentle head, that knew no resting place till He could say “I have -finished the work that my father gave me to do.” There lies the Life of -the world and the Hope of Israel!—The Wonderful, the Counsellor, the -Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace! He was fairer -than the children of men! He was the image of the invisible God! He -went about doing good; He was rich, and for our sakes He become poor! - -Were we seated beside the two Marys, with bleeding hearts we might think -what epitaph would best become Immanuel’s tomb; and had we been like them -at that moment, ignorant of the purpose of His death, this would express -both our faith and our fears— - - “We trusted that it had been He - Who should have redeemed Israel.” - -But had their conceptions of the great scheme of the atonement been -correct, had they understood the nature of Christ’s satisfaction for sin, -had they comprehended how before one sinner could be saved the law must -be made honourable in all its penalties and all its requirements, they -would have been disposed to rejoice rather than mourn when Jesus came to -the grave, and they would have written “Lift up your heads, O ye gates, -that the King of Glory may come in, to spoil you of your strength and -prostrate all your pride. He comes, the Lord of hosts, like a second -Samson, to lay His hands on your most colossal pillars, and complete by -His own death the overthrow begun in the days of His life.” - -On the tombs of mortals, however illustrious, we write these humbling -words, “Here he _lies_,” but I hear the angel saying at the tomb of -Christ, “Come, see the place where the Lord _lay_.” - -Brethren, “companions in tribulation, and in the patience and kingdom of -Christ”—it is well for us to stand by His grave and compare His deep -humiliation with His essential glory. Let us behold in His death the -infliction pronounced against sin; let us learn the odiousness of it in -the sight of God, the vastness of the evil displayed in the magnitude of -the remedy, the boundlessness of God’s grace in “sparing not His own Son -but giving him up” to the death “for us all.” - -But, above all, let us learn to look on Jesus as one whom _we_ have -pierced, and who has purchased our ransom from eternal death by sorrows -and sacrifices which neither time nor eternity will enable us to estimate -aright. Let us put ourselves in the place of those charged with the -bloody deed, when they reflected that they had sacrificed an innocent -being. Suppose that you had been consenting to His death. Suppose you -had been the cause of it. Suppose his murderers had only been agents -employed by you. Then your resentment will operate nearer home, and your -grief will rend your own heart. And this, brethren, is the only true -repentance. By faith the sinner perceives his own blood guiltiness in -this cruel tragedy, and “looking upon Him whom he has pierced, he mourns -for him.” (Zech. xii. 10.) No; you cannot learn the true evil of sin and -your own lost condition because of it, but by considering and laying to -heart the cross and passion, the precious death and burial, of your Lord -and Saviour. Many think that sin is but a light thing; but hear Him, in -whom _was no sin_ and who _did no sin_, saying, in the anguish of a -wounded spirit “My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death.” See Him -“sore amazed and very heavy;” behold “His sweat as it were great drops of -blood falling down to the ground.” No; you cannot otherwise learn what a -dreadful evil sin is—you cannot trifle with it—you cannot be reconciled -to it—when you see the agonies of Him who “made His soul an offering for” -it, and became a curse on account of it. - -In the ancient history we read that the citizens of Rome, when they -beheld the mangled body and the gory mantle of Cæsar, rushed forth in -fury to be avenged upon his murderers. So will the heart of every true -believer, when he sees the wounds of Jesus, be stirred up to mutiny and -rage—against himself, against those sins which caused the shedding of -that innocent blood. - -And such emotions best become this solemn time. The language of this sad -event is this—“Scarcely for a righteous man will one die, peradventure -for a _good man_ some would even dare to die, but God commendeth His love -to us, in that _while we were yet sinners_ Christ died for us.” Come, -then, to the hallowed scene of Immanuel’s death. Come, and anoint His -body with tears of godly sorrow, and swathe it in the fine linen of -undissembled love. If David, in that most plaintive of all elegies, -could say over the slaughtered bodies of Saul and Jonathan, “Weep, O -daughters of Jerusalem, over Saul who clothed you in scarlet, and put -ornaments of gold upon your apparel,” much more may we say, “Weep, ye -believers in Jesus, weep over the King of Salem, who clothes you with -righteousness and crowns you with salvation.” - -And are there some among you mourning the loss of dear relatives, -departed this life in God’s faith and fear? I bid you look upon the tomb -of Christ, and learn what it is to have sorrow sweetened by grace and -sanctified by truth. If their Saviour strengthened them amid the -weakness of mortality to glory in His cross, and practically to exclaim, -“O death, where is thy sting; O grave, where is thy victory?”—if now you -feel that the fairest flowers you can strew over their memory are those -of faith and hope and love, why should your hearts be heavy and your -spirits faint! Know ye not that Christ hath laid _them_ in his own -resting-place, and that all who sleep in Jesus, God shall bring with Him? -Precious Gospel! which has brought life and immortality to light; which -bids us “not be ignorant concerning them that are asleep”—which tells us -that our departed brethren are blessed, and that when we too shall come -to the shores of the better land, we shall be welcomed by them arrived -before us—that we shall together walk along the golden streets of the -holy city, and sit down together by the fountains of joy which adorn and -beautify our common home. - -But whatever may be our private griefs, whatever the hopes we cherish of -departed friends, let the burial and grave of Christ remind us that we -must die, and that after death there is the judgment. It appeals to the -thoughtless and the careless and the gay, with a searching enquiry, “When -will _your_ spirit be at rest?” when corruption preys upon your body, it -asks “are you united to the Saviour? Have your submitted to the -righteousness of God, and renounced your own, as a sinner guilty and -hell-deserving? Have you fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set -before you on the cross of Christ? Or are you yet dead in trespasses and -sins—a captive to Satan—a vessel fitted for destruction?” - -Men and brethren, the fashion of this world passeth away, the grave, and -the mourners, and the funeral train, are preparing for us all. Then it -is high time to awake out of sleep. - -And now, “O Lord, grant that as we are baptized into the death of thy -blessed Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, so by continual mortifying our -corrupt affections we may be buried with Him; and that through the grave, -and gate of death, we may pass to our joyful resurrection; for His -merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus -Christ our Lord. Amen.” - - * * * * * - - * * * * * - - London: D. 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