-··-:--- ---· ---- --- ----' ----........ --...... -···-~ -·· ·- ---·· " . . Chap.z.Seet.z L§aking 11nto Jtfns. · Book iV. P;1rt.4. . 761 or glory, yet in Chrif\: my head I have as good right to it as any heire apparent to his lands. 2. He rofe BY his own power; And fo did none but Jefus Chrifi:; from the beginning of the world it was never heard that any dead man railed himfelfe; Indeed one inll:ance we have that a dead mans corps thould raife up another dead man, they caft the man into the Sepulchre of Eli- l King 1 pt• fha, and when the man WM let down and touched the boneJ of Elifha, he revived and flood Hf on hi.r feet; dead Elifha railed up a dead man from the grave, but dead £/ijha could not raife up himfelfe . from the grave ; only Chrif\: arofe himfelfe, and at the fame time he raifed many others ; and here was the argument of his Godhe~d, 1 h11vepowerto !aydownmylife, a.ndlhave power toJoh.Io.Jif, tak! it up againe ; how fuould we but truft lum with our life, who is the refurreetion and the life! he that beleevethin him though he weredead,yet fha/1 he live. 0 my foul, he was able to raife himfdfe, much more is he able to raife thee up; only beleeve, andliveforcver.-3. He rofe with an earth-quake, 0 the power of Chrifl: in every paffage! what ayled thee 0 earth to skip like a ramme ? was not the new tombe hewen out of a rock? and was not a great f\:one rolled to the doore of the Sepulchre ? the ground wherein he lay was firme and folid, and fhaO t/;£, rock_ Joe 1s. 4 • be removtd out of his place ? 0 yes ; the Lord. reigneth, and t/;ere- Pfat. 99 , 1, fore the earth i.r moved; Oh what a rocky heart is this of mine? how much harder is it than th ." t rock; th:~t moves not, melts not at the prefence ofGod, at the prefence of the God of 'f acob? the Sun (they fay) danced tbat morning at Chriftsrefurrechon; the earth (!am fure) then trembled; and yet roy heart i~ no way affeCl:ed with this newes ; I feele it neither dance for joy, nor tremble for feare; 0 my foul, be ferious in thii meditation, confider, what a pof\:ure wouldihhou have been in, i.fthou ha.dft been with thofe fouldiers that watched ;(hrift ; fo realtize this earth-quake, as if thou now felt it trembling .under thee. 4· An Angel miniftred to him at his refurreCl:ion; An Angel M:u.1S.t ~ C61mC' and rolled b;~ck_ the ft enC from the I doere' ana fate upon it • Angels were the firf\: Minif\:ers of the Gofpel, thefirf\: p'reachers ofChrifts refurred:ion ; they preached more of Chrift th:ln all the Prophets did; they firl.\: told the woman that Chnft wao Luk, :~~6' •. rifen 3 and they did the firf\: fervice to .Chrift at his refurred:ion. · E cee ·e ;,.
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