L - / Chap.1.Seet.3 Looki~gum~f,fru. Book. IV. Part.4. 699 fo Jefus Chrift is r~ckoned to us, both before his death, and in his death and after his death, as acommon .publick perfon'; not living, d ,~ng, or rifing againe, Gngl~, or alone for himfelte, b~c as reprefenting all the beleevers tn the world; and hence tt is that <!Adam is called the fi rft man , and Jefus Chrift is called t-he fe•·ond man; a-s if there never had been, nor ever £houldbe 1 Cor.Jf. 47· any more men in the world fave only tbefe two.; at1d why? .but becaufe chefe two between them had all the reft of the fons of men hanging at their girdles : Adam had all the fonnes of m\!n borne into this world called eartkly men, included in him ; and Clmft had all his Elect, whofe naine11 are written in heaven, and therefore called heavenly men , included in him ; •fo th,at now whatfoever Chrift did,it is reckoned by God as ifdone by us, and ·'· for us. When Chr~ft arofe,he arofe as our head, and as a common perfon, and in Gods account we arofe with him, and in him. As among all ~he (hea-ves in the field, there was fome one £heafe, that in the name and roome ofall theteft was lift up, ana waved before the Lord ; fo when all were dead, chrift as the firft -fruits - rofe againe from the dead, and by this act of his refurrerhon all . the Elect ti·om the beginning of the world to the end, are rifen with him, and in him. He u the firft- fruits of them tbat fleepe , 1 Cor. rs·.2.0, though the Saints are afieepe, yet are they virtually rifen already wi th Chrift' bw.mfe hers thei r fi rft-fruits. Let this ever be re~ membred, that Chriit rofe againe as the firft-fruits, as the fecond ,man, as an head . as acommon perfon. · z. That Chnft rofe againe by his own power, this he meant when he f<t id, dr:ftr~J thu Temple, and in three dayes I wilt rai(e it Joh. t,I9, up. He(aith not, dellroy you , and fome other £hall raife it up; no, no~ ,bur I, even 1 my felfe will do it; yea, and I will do it by tny own proper power and vercue ; here's a plaine argument of the divine na ture ofChri !l, for none..ever did, ever could do that but God himfelfe ; fome were raifed before Chri!l was incarnate, but not any by himfel fe . or by his own proper power; only a power was imparted to fome Prophet by God for that time and turne, and fo they were raifed ; but Chrill: rofe againe nbt by a power imparted to fome, but by his own power. The widows fo n of Sarepf-tah was raifed by Eli.u, and the Shunamites fon was raifed by Elifha, both thefe were raifed by others, and thofe others that raifed them, did it not by their own :power, but by a - -- - - · ·- U uu u 2 power.
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