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On
the Excellency
of
Chri
ft.
137
Death
:
All other
Conquerors
they
may
conquer men
,
a'ad
kill them,
but they cannot conquer
Death
it
felf
;
now
Je-
fus Chrifts
Conquea
was over
Death
its
felf
,
to have the
very keyes
of
Death,
and
that
follows
,
Death
an,d
Hell.
And
further,
which
makes
the
wonder
of
his
Conqueft,
bee doth
conquer death
by
dying, that
is
the wonder
of it.
What
man conquers
his
enemy
by
being
flain
himfelf
?
jefus
Chrift did fo,
hee conquers
all
his
enemies
that
came
againa
him, bee conquers
them
by
dying, and
therefore in
Col.a.it
is
fpoken
of
Chrifts
coming
to
dye upon
the Crofs
And
having
fpoyled
Principalities and
Powers ,
hee
made
a
fkcw
of
them
openly,
Triumphing
over
them in
it.
When
Chrift
was
brought
upon
the Crofs ,
one
would think hee
had been triumphed over himfelf
then,
for
hee
was
brought
very low
indeed
when hee
was
brought there
to
hang
be-
tween
two
Malefactors,
as
if
he
had been the
greateft
Male
-
faElor
of all
;
now one would
-have
thought
that
Devils
and
wicked
men,and Death,and
all had
triumphed
over him;
but
mark,the
Text faith,That
he
did
there fpoyl
Principalities
and
Powers,
and made a
_thew
of
them
openly
Triumphing
over
them
in
it.
Wee
can imagine fomewhat
of
Chrifhs
Triumph
now
in heaven fitting
at
the
right,
hand
of
the
Father,
when
hee
afcended into
heaven,
there
hee
Triumphed
;
but
to
imagine
a
triumph
of Chrift in
his
Crofs , when
his
ene-
mies were
fcorning
and contemning him
,
that
then
hee
fhould
fpoyl
Principalities and
Powers
and
upon
the
Crofs
Triumph
over
them ,
this
is a
great
myftery
of
godli-
nefs
,
and herein
is
the wonder
of Chrifts
Conqueft, of
Chrias
Triumph.
And then
further
,
the wonder
of
the
Triumph
of
Chrift
confias in
this
That hee
bath
not onely
vanquifhed
all the
enemies of
his
people,
but
hee
bath
vanquifhed them
by
his
own
power :
Conquerours have
ufe
of
the
arength
of o:hers,
but
Chrift had firength enough
of
his
own
without
any
ad-
dition, and
hee
did not
onely
quell
the
Adverfary,
but bee
turns
all-
into
good
to
his
people
:
It
is
one
thing for
a
T
Con-