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on
the
Excellency
of cbrift.,
Eying
of
a
perfon;
but
there
is
fomewhat more
that
is
re-
quired of
a
juftihed perfon
,
and
therefore no perfon
can
make
this
anfwer, by
the
Refurreaion
of Jefus
Chrift but
fuch
a
one
as
bath
a
good confcience
:
I
he
anfwer
of a
good
confcience
(faith
the
Text)
by
the
RefurreEEion
of 7efar
c,
hrafl
:
If
thou haft
a
corrupt and vilde
wicked
confcience,
thy confcience
flyes
in thy face for
fins
that
thou
liveft
in,
know,
that
thou canfl
never
make
anfwer
(ro
thofe de-
mands
that íhall
bee made againfl thee)by
the Refiirre
&ion
of
jefus
Chrift,with any
comfort,till
thy confcience
comes
to
bee
purified
by
faith
:
That
is
the wonder
of
Chrifls
Re:urreclion , mightily declared
to
bee
the
Son
of
God.
Arid
in
his
Refurreftion
,
there
is
a
Refurref}ion
of
all
the
Saints,
all
the
elect
ones
;
for
the
Scripture
faith,
That
bee
was the
firft
fruits from
the
dead,
that
is
,
that
look
as
the
firft fruits did
fanßifie all
the
ma
, and all were
con
-
fecrated in the
firft
fruits being
offered to
God
:
So all
the
elea
ones in Chrifls
Refurreaion did
rife
again,
I
fay,
vertually
in him,and
it
was
a
pledge
of their Refurre,
}ion,
the Refurreaion of
their
fouls
fpiritually to life
here ,
and
their
Refurreaion
to eternal life
,
and
fo
wee are to
exer-
cife our
faith
upon Chrifis Refurre&ion;
this
is
the
mytery
of
godlinefs
in
Chrifts
Refurr-eftion,
and
hence
is
that
known
place
in
a
Tim.3.16.
Without
cóntreverfìe,
faith
the
Text, great
is
the
myflery
o
f
godlinefs,
God was
manifefied
in
the
fleh,
jujii
fled in
the
Spirit.
A
wonderful
myflery
there
is
in
godlinefs
;
why
what
myftery
?
God
was
manifefled in the
fled)
,
the
Son
of God
came
and
rook
our
nature
upon
him
,
that
was
wonderful
, but
this
is as
great
a
wonder
as
the other,
jssflifyed
in
the Spirit,
it
is
all one
as
by
being ¡unified upon his Refurredlion
,
by
the
power
of.the
Spirit hee was
quickned,
and
life
was put
into
him,
and
fo
bee
rote again, and thereby
was
declared
before all the world
to
bee juflified , to fland
acquitted
from all
the
charge
of
ourtins
that
was
upon
him
;
and
fo
if