THE THEOLOGICAL WORKS OF ISAAC BARROW, D. D. IN SIX VOLUMES, VOLUME V. CONTAINING SERMONS ON THE CREED, EXPOSITIONS, &c. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCCXVIII. Clari Press. CONTENTS For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also re- ceived, how that Christ died for our fins, according to the Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his pason by many infallille proofs, being seen of them forty days, The Reasonableness and Equity of a future Judgment. The Certainty and Circumstances of a future Judgment And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and lo testify that it is he which was ordained by God to be The Divinity of the Holy Ghost. p. 215 Lord's Prayer. p. 509. -- Decalogue. p. 533 The Doctrine of the Sacraments. p. 587. Dead and Buried. SERMON XXVII. 1 Cor. xv. 3. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also res ceived, how that Christ died for our fins, according to the Scriptures. St. Paul, meaning in this chapter to maintain a very fun- Serm. damental point of our religion (the resurrection of the XXVII. dead) against some infidels or heretics, who among the Corinthians, his scholars in the faith, did oppose it; doth, in order to the proof of his assertion, and refutation of that pernicious error, premise those doctrines, which he having received both from relation of the other Apostles, and by immediate revelation from God himself, had delivered unto them, év apótons, in the first place, or among the prime things; that is, as most eminent and important points of Christian doctrine; the truth whereof consequently (standing upon the same foundations with Christianity itself, upon Divine revelation and apostolical testimony) could nowise be disputed of, or doubted, by any good Christian. Of which doctrines (the collection of which he styleth the Gospel; that Gospel, by embracing and retaining which they were, he faith, to be saved) the first is that in our text, concerning the death of our Lord, undergone by him for our salvation : which point, as of all others in our religion it is of peculiar consequence, lo it much concerneth us both firmly to believe it and well |