770 Book.lV.Part+ Looking unto 1efus. Chap.z. Sect.3 r•hn.:z. 9· :Rom. 8,34· e:l<ce\\ent and glorious aily good i~, the ~ore earneft and eager {bould our defires be, now Chnft as ralf!!d from the dead is an excellent objeCl:; the refurrerl:ion of Chrift is tbe glorifying of Chrifl: ; ~ ea, his glorifying took its beginning at his bleffed refurrection; now it was that God highly e);:dted him, a11d rrave him a name above every name, r:fc. and in this refpect how defireable is.he ? ' 2. There is fomething in reference unto us; As, r. He rofeagaine for our jujlijication; I muft needs grant, that Chrifl:s death, and not his refurred:ion is the meritorious caufe of our jufl:ification; but on the other fide Chrifl:s refurred:ion, and not his dearh is for the a{tplying of our jufl:ification; as the ftampe addes no vertue, nor matter of real value to a piece ofgold, but only it makes that value wpich before it had actually apptyable and currant unto us; fo the refiJrrection ofChrill was no part of the price or fatisfaction which Chrifl: made to God, yet is it that which applycs all his merits, and makes them of force unto his members. Some I know would go further, Lucim a learned writer faith, that jujlijic11tion u therefore attributed to Chrifls refltrreEfion, becaf.'feit WM thecompleate, and ultimate aft of Chrijls active obedience, and from hence inferreth that rcmijfion of fin if attributed to hu p!!ljfive obedience, andjufti(ication or imputation of rit, hteoufnef[e, to hu aft:ve obedience, Goodwin no way inferiour to him, faith, that jul1ification is put upon Chrifts refurredion with a rather, who w he that cordemneth? it is Chrijl tht~t dyed, yea rather that t~ rifen againe; not but that the matter of our juftific(l.tion is only the. obedience ane death of Chrift, but the forme ofour jufl:ificacion, or the al't ofpronouncing us righteous by that bis obedience and cjeath depends upon Chrifl:s refurrection; for then it was that Chrifl: bimfelfe was juil:ified, and then he was juil:ified as a common perfon, reprefenting us therein, fo that we were then juflified with him, and in him; and we are faid to be rifm with him, o d to fit with him in heavenly p!.1ces. Burger, one admirably jud1c:ous, faith , tha t jufl:ification is given to Chrifts refurrection, as a priviledge flowing from its efficient caufe; Indeed Chrifls de~tth t5 tl:emeritoriom caJtfe ofour j~>~ftification, bttt Chrifh refurreRion iJ in (cmefenfe (faith he) the efficient caufe, becaufe by hu rijing ag~1ine , t he Spirit of (j'od doth 11Jt~k!; m cqable ofjgft,ficMiol11 and then beftowah it on m. I .know there_
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