Cbap.x.Sed~ SE CT. 2. Of the reafons of C hrijls refurrerlion. 2. wHy herofe, we have thefe.reafons, - 95 1 .That he might powerfully conv i::1ce, or confound his adverfaries, they that crucified him were mightily afraid of . his refurrecbon , they could tdl P ilate, Sir, we remember this Mac.: 7, 6 3,G 1 decejver [aid, while he was yet a~ive , after three daycs 1 will rift again,and therfore they defire hnf! of all lo~esto comma!"d the ~cpu/elm to be made Jure until the th1rd day; tf ever he nfe agatne whom they have killed, then they knew they were all fhamed , t~n the /aft errour (as they faid) would be worfe tken the firfl; All the world would look on them as a curfed generation, to kill the Meffiah_, to crucifie fucb a one as after his death and burial fhould rife again,now then,that he might either convince them,or confound them, notwithflanding their care, their watch , their feale, their making all f.Jre as poffibly they coul.d; at the very fame ·time he had told them before, he broke open the gates of death, and made the gates ot braffe to flie afunder. 2. That he might confirme the faith of all his followers. If Chriff be not ri[en ,your f aith is vaine , faith the Apoflle. Chrills 1 Cor.I ;.t4. refurreCI:ion both confirmes our faith as to his perfon,and to his office; for his perfon, this fpeaks him to be the eternttl Son of g od by the refurreClion from the dtt~d ; and for his office, this Rom. I. 4· fp~a ks .him t~ ~ the p~omifed Meffiah, the great Prophet, the · chtefhtgh Pne , theKwg and Saviour of his Church: When the Jewsfaw C1rift purging the Temple, and Meffiah.Jike reforming what tfe faw ami fie in the houfe of God, WhAt jig:we(fay Jehn ~. 18. they) fheweff jhou unto U5, feeing thM thou doeft thefe things? and 1 9· he Jaid untothem,deftroy this Temple, and in threedayes !will u, . rai[eit ltp.-7- When therefore he was rifen from the dead, his difciples rmy mbred that he hadfaid rhu unto them, and rhey be!eeved the Sv..ipture,and the word which 'fefm hadfaid · as the refurreCtion ofChrift argues his Mediatourfhip , fo it c~nfinnes their · faith, as it is faid, they beleeved the Scriptures, and they beluved jefm Cbrift_. And thus John writing of his refurreCl:ion,tells us, thefr
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