Cbap.z.Sect.5 Looking unt():}eftH, BooidV,Part.4 789 6. Faith in going to Cbrifi as raifed from the dead, or as quickened by the Spirit,it is principally,and mainly to look to the end,purpofe, intcnt,and defigne ofChrd1 in his re~urrecbon; very devils may ~eleeve the lld1:ory of i. hnfts refurrechon, thq be!eeve J and tremble· but the Saints and people ofGod are to look at the al1l, l, 1 9 ·· meaning of L hrift why he wfe fi·om the dead ; now the ends are either fupreme,or fubordinate. I. The !itpreame end was Gods glory, andthatwasthe meaningOfChri!tsprayer, Farher,theJon.r7 , ,, houre u corne, glorifie thy Son, th.1t thy Son alfo m117 g:/ori(ie thee; with which agrees the Apo!tle, he rofe agt~ine from the duzd to the Ro:n 6. 'l •· gloryof the }ather. 2. The fubordinate ends were many; As, 1 . That he might tread on the ferpents head. 2. That he might dellroy the work~ ofthe devil. 3. That h~ might be the firftfruits of them that fleep. .4· That he mtght a1fure our fjiith chat he is the Word, a!1d that he is able to keep that which we have co;pmitted to him againfi that day. 5. That he might be , , juftified in the Spirit; as he was be~?t,ten in the womb by the Spirit, led up and down mthe Spmt, offered up by the eternal Spirit, fo he was raifed fro~ the dead by the Spirit, and juftified in the Spirit at his refurrecbon. . Ch~1ft was under the greateft attainder that ever man was, he ftood publickly charged with the guilt ofa world ?f fins, and if he had no~ been jufl:itied by the · Spirit, he had ihlllyen under the blame ot all, and had been lyable to the execution of all; and therefore he was raifed up from the power ofdeath, that he might be declared as a righteous perfon. 6. That he might ju!tifie us in his juftif:cation; when he was jufiified, all the Elect were virtually and really juflified in him. that aC\: ofGod which pafi·on him, was drawn up in the nam~ ofall his Saints : as whatever benefit or pri viledge God meant for us . he firfi of all beflowed it on Chrift; thus God meaning to fanC\:ifie ll', he fanC\:ified Chrifi firfi, and God meaning to jullifi~ us, he jufiilies Chrill fir it ; fo , whatever benefit or priviledge he bellowed on C:hrift, he beftowed it not on him for himfc:lf~ b~t as he was acommon pcrfon, and on,~ reprefenting us, thus Chnfi was fancbfied mllead of us! for thm fak!s 1 fan~ Job.I7; '?· [fijie mJ ftlfr, that they alfo may be fanftijied throutTh thy truth. and thus Chriit was jufiifie\:i inflead of us, for ao by the offence ~j Rom.5 · 18, one,judg_ement came upon.a!l for condemnation, tven fo b; the rig h. teoujneJJ eofone ,the free gift came on all men unto juftificlltioiJ, · Hhhhh3 7.That.
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