698. Book.IV.Part-4- Lookinguntofe{us. Cbap.I. SeCl.J from tbe dead the third day. ·When Peter was preaching Chrift to .the high Prieft and counce!, that condemned him to death, he told them that the God of our Fathers hath raifed "P {efws, whom he.flew and hanged on a tree, him hath Go4 exalted with hi.r right h.md to hea Prince anda Saviour ; and fu1table l o this is that of Paul, he humbled hiinfe!fe, and brcame obedient to the death ewn to the de,uh of thecrof[e ,whrreforeGcd a/fa hath highly ex61/teihim,and ,.Atl:.;.;o JI. J\ler,t.lt . Fhil.:z..u. .. given him a name which is above every mtme. It was for his own glory, and his Fathers glory that he fhould rife againe from the dead , God raifed him up from the dead andgave.him glorJ; aod he was theref~re exalted th,lt every tongue jhou/.d eonfJfe that Jtfus Chrifl u Lord, to theglory of Ged the Father. Of all the reafons of Chril.l:s reiurreC\:ion we muft look upon this as the mame. f6r as he hath made all things for himfclfe, fo he bach done all rl11ngs .for his own glory ; Chrift wa; rai f'ed up from the dead (Ca1ch lNe Apo1lle) by the glory oft he Father: By the glory, otto the glory or for the glory of hirnfetfe, and of his Father. ' -----------. ...-- --- SECT. 3· Of the 11Mnnerof Chrifts refurreflion. 3. I-~~ Ow be rofe; for the manner ofhis refurred:ion w~ may ::-.1 confider in it thefe particulars. - 1. That Chrill rofe againe as a common perfon, he flood in our llead, and therefore when he rofe from death , we and all the _. Church ofChrill rofeto_gcther with him and in him. We have formerly obferved that Chrifr took upon him the perfon of no man. he took only the nature of man into the union of the fecond perfoo, that fo-he might dye and rife againe, not as a particular, bur a common perfon; that he might be as a repref ntati ve in our roome and ftead .; that be might be as a fpiritual head, and as the fecol'ld Adam, who could infuCe life into all his members. In this refpeCl: the Apo£He makes comparifon betwixt Adam, and Chrift; now Ad11m, we know, was reckoned before his fall as a common publike perfon, not !landing Gngly or alone for himfdfe, but as~ reprefenting all mankinde co come of him ; fo
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