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`Doll.
Chr1h
in all
things
hach
the
preheminence.
Col.
r.r8.
r
Cor.r¡.zo.
z;.
Inr}ance
in
re
fritrcftion.
r.
2.
3.
Join:. r9.
.Ephefianf,Chap.
2,
V
$
R,
7,
we mull look at him
who
goeth between God
and
us.
When
we
have
offended force
great perfonages,
if
force
mean one fhould move
them
in
our behalf,
it
would not
fo flay us
z
for we know
they
will
often
not hear them fpeak, or have them
in
light regard,
if
they
give
them
hearing
:
but
if
we can
procure fuch
as
be their Peers to
deal
effe-
Etually
for us,we
doubt not but that things
!hall
be well compounded;
what
will
they deny
fuch
as
are equal(
to themfelves,
and
molt
needy
acquainted
with
theme
So
with
us,
if
we have
Chrift,&c.
Again,
this phrafe
[in
Chrifl]
Both give
us
to confider,
How that
in all
things
Chrifl
bath
the preheminence
;
all
the
benefits we
come
to
in
him,he himfelf
is
firft
poflelfed
of
them.
And
this
is
that
the
Apo.
{tie
fpeaketh to
the
Coleffians,
that
He
is
the firfl-
fruits of
the
dead,
that
in
all
things
he
might have
the preheminence
:
and this
is
that
which
(r
Cor.
r5.)
is
taught, when
he calleth
Chrifl
the
lift-fruits
of
them
thatfleep; and
teacheth, that the
fame things (hall be
applyed
in
us,
but
in
our
order,
ftrfl
Chrifl,
then
they
that
are
of
Chrifl.
He
is
the
Lord
of
the
quick
and of
the
dead,
and
by
whom
all
are quickned.
Chrifts
Refurrecetion
bath
a
fpeciall
preheminence
and
priviledge
above
all
others;
for
all
others before were not begotten
from
a-
.mong
the dead, becaufe they were
railed up
with mortality,
'tending
to
death
again
;
but in
that
he dyed, he dyed
but
once,
not
long
to
be held of it, but in
that
he
is
rifen, he
is
raifed
to
live
for
ever,
death
(hall
no more have
power over
him.
Again,
all
other rote
as
private
and
fngular
men, not
as publike
perfons
in
the
name
of
other,
giving hope to all
other
of
their
Re.
furreaion;
therefore they were not the firft.fruits
duly gathered,
but
like
a fingular ear
of
Corn
more timely gathered.
Now
Chrifl
is
ri
fen
(as he
dyed) not for himfelfonely,
but
for
all us, and we
all
are
raifed
in
him
;
as a Burgeffe
of
a
Parliament, what
he Both or
fpeak.
cth,
it is
in
the
name
of the Corporation, who doth
it
in
him.
Laflly,
he railed
himfelf,
as
he
was
the Lord from
heaven,
the
quickening fpirit.
Defíroy
this Temple,
and In
three
dayes
1
will
raifi it
up,
Great therefore every way
is
the
prerogative
of
our 'Lord
Jefus
Chrift.
All (pirituall and faving bleffings are
firft
in
Chrifl,
and
by
Faith
are
derived to
us
from
Chrifl
;
and before we
can
have
any
of
thefe bleffings
which come from
Chrifl,
we
muff have Chrift
by
Faith. Our Redemption
Chrifl bath begged, or rather
bought of
his
Father, yet we
are
of
our felves,
as
if
there
were no fuch
matter,
till
by Faith
we
come
to be
in
him.
Suppofe
there were twenty Traitors
in
the Tower, who
lay
cons
dunned
;
fay again,
the Prince
fhould yeeld
his
Father
fuch
fatisfa-
¿lion
for
Come
whom
he would fave, wherewith the King
his
Father
fhould reft
content, and
give him
their
pardon thereupon
;
here
the
thing
is
done
betwixt
the King
and his
Son;
yet till the Prince
feed
to
them,
write
to
the
Keeper
to
deliver..fuch and
fuch,
they
are
in
the