/ 50 Ofthe Power 'TheSummd· T 0 the grantingwhereof, He proceedeth hOt without fome folem . ~i•f!"•mding ty or circumll:ance, wellworthy to be remetnbred. nz. 10 1 r! For firll:, Verfe 21. He faith, As my Fat/;erJent me,Jofend Iyen: wh· h is their authori;zing, or givi ngthem their credence. lC Seco.ndly, Verfe 12. Hedot~ br.eath ~pon the.m, and withall infpireth them With theHoly GhoR: .: which IS theu enablmg or furnilbing thereto, J\nd having fo ~uthonz.e~ and enabled them,now in thisVeij'e here, He g1veth them their Commiflton, and thereby doth perfectly inaugurate them, into this part oftheir office. . ACommiftion is nothing elfe,but the imparting ofapowerwhich be..' fore they had not. Firll: th.erefore, He im~ar~eth to them aporver,apow. er overfinnes; over fins, either for the remtttmg, or the retainingofthem as the perfons fball be qualified. • And after, to this power He addeth apromife (as theLawyerstermeit) ofr.J?..ati/;abition,that He will ratifie and make it good,that His potoerfha!l accompany this power, and the lawfull ufe ofit in His Church for ever. Thedeper.: And very agreeably is this power now bellowed' by Him upon his ;;;;:'~[~he tefimeCl:ion. N.ot [o converii~ntly before His death; bccaufetill then, H~ time. had not made Ht5Joule an o!Jermgfor firme,nor ttll then, He had not fhed HI$ }::~.Y "' 1 he. bloud, ll>itl;out ll>bich there is 110 remi(Sion offinnes .Therefore it waspromifed Efay ~ 3. re. before, but not given till now, becaufe it was convenient, there fhould ~~~:~·;.21~. befolutio, be_fore there were ab(ol~tio. Not b~foreHe was ri(en,then. . r8.18. And agame, no longerthan till He was nfen, not till Hewas afcen. Whynow. ded. Firft, to !hew that the remiflionoffins is the undivided and imme– diate effeCl: ofHis death Secondly,ro!hew how much the world needed it, for which ealife He would not with.hold it, no not [o much as one day (for, this il>M done in the wry day of His refurreElion.) T/,irdly, but el. pecially, to fet forth His greatlove and tender care over u~, in this,chat as foone as He had accompliihed His owne refurreCl:ion, even prefent!y upon it, He fees in hand with ours,and beginnerh the firll: part ofit, the very firll day ofHis riling. TheScripture maketh mention ofafirft andfecond de4tf1, and from them two, ofa firft and jecond refurreetiorz: Both, exprefly fet downc Apoc, 2 o.6. in oneverfe; Happy io he that hat/1 /;is part in the firftrefurrection ;(or o-ver Jitcl; tl1e Second death /;ath no power. Vnderlhnding by the firll:, thedeatf, ·of tl1efot~le by fimze, and the rifing thence to the life ofgrace: by the 0· cond, thedeath ofthe body by corruption, and the rifing thence to the hfc ofglory: · Chrift truly is the Sa);iottr ofthe whole man, both foule and body, from the firft andfecond death. , But beginneth firll: with the firll:, that is,withji1z,the death ofthejoule ~nd the riling from it. So is the methodof'Di);inityprefcnbed by J-?m~· Ma:::3:16. p :lfe.. Firll:, ~o cl~anJe. t.~a£ ~~!c_~ ~ !!'itbin (t.he for~ le) ~hen, that ~~;;{;~,~
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