Chap.~.Setl.z Loolting unto!Jefm. BooiciV,Parr.4 759 : had his three d~tyes,.and no more, fo mu£1: thou have the fame three dayes like unto his; the fir£1: day was called the day ofpreparation ; the fctond was the Sahbat~ day ; and the third was the refurreetion day; fo thy fir£1: day ts a day of preparation a day of paffion, wherein thou muft Lhive ~nd .ftruggle againft fin and Satan wherein thou mull futfer all thm bmer darts till thou dyefr,a nd'give up the Ghoft. ~nd thy fccond day is a day ?f reft , wherein thy body mull lye 10 the grave, and thy flefh refl: m hope ; wherein thou fhalt ent~r into peac.e, 11nd reft in th] bed, If: _ untill the trump,et found, and btd thee arife, and come to judge' a.f7·%~ ment : and thy thirdday is a day ofrefurreetion unto glory. It is thefirft day of theweek,or the firft beginning ofa never ending world. Thus conude~ the time ofChriftsrefurrcetion, and thence mayft thou draw down fome ufe for thy fouls nourifhment . , 2 , Conuder of the rca fonswhyChrift arofe; was it not to confound the Jews ? they could no t endure to heareof Chrifts refurreCl:ion , and therefore whc:n P etfr and the other Apoftles preached that poynt, they-were cut to the he11rt, .•md took,_counce/ ta flay them. .It 'is the cafe of them t? fay, we ':ill not J:ave this man A a. 5·33; to reigne over m ; they that by thetr Gns cructfie Chrtft every day crannot without horrour think of his exaltation, it cuts them t~ . the heart that .Chrift !s rifen t~ be their Judge. Againe, was it not to confirmc the fatth ofChnfts followers ? till he was rifen their faith was but a_weak faith ; "Yeak-in knowledge, weak j~ . aff~nt weak in conhdence, weak maffurance · much ado had , Chriftwith the~, m~ny a time had he chid t'hem, . wh1 are ye fwful 0 ye of Jm!efmth? but after he had fhewed htmfelfealive · by manyinfallible proofes1they could then cry it out·· my LorJ : 11na my God. Againe, w~s it not to evidence that he had fully fat isfied all our debts? th¢ Apoflle tells us, that Chrifl: was our · fur ety ; ar. his death he wasarrefied ,and caft into prifon, whence · he could not wmet1ll all was payed ; a-nd the refore to heare that Hcb, 7· t z. Cnrill is rifen, and that he hath broken thebolts and fetters of .· the grave, it is a c!eare eyidence that God is fa tisfied and tha t . Cbrift is difcharged by Qod himfelfe. Oh what br;fts of con~ folation are here ? Againe, was it not to conquer Gn death and devil? now he took from' death his fiing, and fr~m hell his ftandard ; nowhe feazed upon the hand-writing that was againft us, ' ,,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=