57f Ofthe Ru u R a • c T 1 o N. Serm--;;;-;;_ other ofhis vic1ory,as to day. Betweene His burial! ;n~ had been;fomewhathad @eene done; fomewhere He had becne; in fomenew 11> _ere prejfe, inJJozra, that had given anew tincture ofred to His rayment all over. '"'· ,.. .Boththe~e lhall you findetogether fe; downe in one and the fame Chapter, in two 'Apoq.&. verfes fiandmgclofeone to the other, Apoc. V. ' CH R r s T reprefented firll as Lambe, aLambejlaine, died in His owne bloud: this is the firfi Preffi. 'And i1 ~~1 ~ tlcn. . J/" diately,(in the T_ery next verfe) fir~ight rcprefemed agaiocln a new lhape, as a Lio~, · - 449 - · allbe-bloudywtththebloudofHisprcy: A LIOnoftheTrtheofluda; whichcomc home to this here. For!"da(it is faid)he !houldwajl1 Hisrohe in theblolldofthe grapes And fo much for 'lorcular cdlcavi. ' ~Soi!IJ,aionc. We mufinotleave outfolt~s in any wife: that both thefe He did alone. [oalont as not any man in the world with Him in either. ' ' ~l>!h.• 6.s6. Not in the firfi; there, pre!Jed He was alone. Allforfooke Him : His Difciplcs •7--1 6 • firfi ;alone forthem. Yer, then, Hewas not alone; His Father was frill with Him: bur afi:er, Father :md all: as appeared by His crie, Why haft thoufor{akenMe? Then was He all aloneindeed. ' Y'<Jic !J Nor in the fecond neither. The very nextverfe,Hecomplaines, how that He looked aboM Him ro~tnd, and couldnotfee any , would once offer to helpe Him. Out of JJozra He got alme; from death He rofe, conquered, triumphed infemetipfo, Him– fdfealone. The Angetlindeed rolled away thej!one: bur, Hee wasrifen firll, and the jlone rolledaway after. Accordingly, wee to.reckon of Him : that fince in both thefe PrejfaHeewas for tls; He, and none but He: that His, and nonebut His be theglory ofbotl!. Tlm feeing neither we for our [elves, nor any for us, could bring this ro palfe, bur He~ and He onely; Hee and He onely might have the whole honour of both; have no partner in that which isonely His due, and no creatures elfe at all, eitherinHeaven or Earth. And, is CH ll I s -r comefrom Bozra ? theQ, be fure of this, that Hecretur– ning thusintriumph (asit isintheLXVIII. P[almc, rhe PfabmoftheRefumili– on) He will not leave us behind, for whom Hee did all this, bur His orvne will Htt Pfal. 68 ·!'· bring agAine, as he did from JJafan: as from Ba(an, fo from JJ~zrtl : asfrom tht dttp pit oftbe[ea, fo from the deepe pit ofHell. He that raifed I ES us, 1hall by hsus >Cot •·'<· raifetlsttp alfo fromtheAd•maof Edom,the red mould ofth~earth,the po\\'trof the grave: and from the Bozraof Hell coo,the gulfe whence there is nofcapingour. :Rom.S.J7· Will make us in Him (faith the Apoftle) more than conquerours, and tread downeSdt•n under o11rfeet. c HR Is T s You fee, how C H 1t 1 s -r sgarments came to he red. 0 f rhc •vine prefc that gorm•utS,why made them fo we have fpoken; but not ofthe colour it !elfe. Aword oftharroo. It ~ed. was His colo;rat HisPafion. They put Him in f11rple: then it was His weedinderi· fion: and fo was it in earnefi. Both redit was it felfe, and fo, He made it more With the dye ofHis owne bloud. And the fame colour Hcis now in againe, at His Rijing. Not with His owne, now; bur, with the bloud ofthe wounded Edo111ites; whom treading under His feet, their bloud befiained Him and His apparell. So, one and the fame colour atboth: Dying and Rifing,in red; bur, with diff'erence,as much as IS be· Cant. ·~ ,JO, l\bth.I7.%, M.1rke 9 . 3· tweene His owne, and His enemies bloud. . TheSpoufeinrhe C1111ticles, askcdofher Beloved's colours, faith of Hun; U!la Beloved u white andred; rvhtte, of Hts owneproper: So He was, when He!hcwe Himfdfe in kinde, transjigtmdin the tMount; His apparelithenfu white, no Fl~erlf thcearthcouldcomomreit. Wh1te ofHtmfclfe: howcomesHeredthen ~ Noto Himfelfe, that, bur for us. That i~ OLlr naturallcolour, we are borne pollrttedtP 11~ Llm. +·• 4· Dlvne blored. It is finnes colour, rhat : for, Jbame tSthe colour of finne. _o11r Jinne ~ Ef•y •·•3. (~aith E[ay chap. I.) are IM crimfl'!, of as deefe dye di any f"':ple. Tlus, r~en~e tmcture of our fin,nes · the !idomites colour nght: forEdom IS red. The ttn~L ) . . n~
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