37 2 An Expojition of the Epiftle ~.:__------:------ --· ---- ~ Now obfcrve the difference, He was made of the feed of 'lJavid according to Sermo11 the ~t[b. Take his Humane Nature, he WMmade; but take his Divine Nature XXVIII, the Spirit of Holitufs in him, he was only declared to 6e tht Son of God; h~ ~was not made the Son of God, he was btgotten, nor m,zde. Now he was declared with power to be fo. 1 will not fiand to open thofe words, 'lJeclartd, t§c. and the various acccpta– tion of them. Only obferve, That he was declared with power to be the Son of God, with an Omnipotent power, as in Luke4·36. it is faid, With power'" commanded tht unclean Spir:ts, and thfJ came 011t; fuch a power as is only proper to God. But the main thing I quote the place for is this, what it was that declared Chrifi with fo much power to be the Son of God? It followeth,· 'By the Rtjurrdliollfrom the dtild, faith he. Why cloth he infiance in this; he had wrought Miracles you know, he had raifed Lazarsu, and he had raifed another from the dead;doth not that argue him to be the Son ofGod with as much power as his own Refurrechon? No, If you will have faith he an infiance of an Almighty power, and that he.was the Son of God; take his ~!Murretl:ion from the dead, he was declared m1ghnly to be the Son of God by his Refurretl:ion. Therefore the Apontes (if you obferve it) when tlicy would prov,e him to be the Son of God, the Me.f!iah, !\ill )OU lhall find they open his Rcfurrection. Look AfJ.2. from the 21.. verfe, and fo on, when they would convince the JtW! that he was the MeJ!iah, they do it by his Refurrection: And look ACI-4- ~. you have the like, where it is faid, They taught tht Ptoplt, and prtachul through Jefus the RefurreC!ionfrom the dtad. You lhall find the like AC/.1 ?• H· wherePar1/prov~th him to be the !"fe!fiah. by the RtjurreC/ion from the deatl. And therefore tn 1 Tnn. ~, 16. Chnfi IS f~1d to be piflzjird 111 tht Spirit, that is, having been put to death in the flelh, ~nd quickned by the Spirit, his Godhead; that is, he was jujlified, he was dtclartdthat Righteous one that had died for fin, and to be the Son of God t" all the World. Now then, how doth the RtjurreCiion of Chrij/ argue him to be the Son of God with power, that the excuding grtat1ttjJ of h# powtr lho~o~ld be put forth in his being rai!ing from the dead ? That IS the thing I muft fpeak to. Interpreters wpon that place Rom.1+put it upon this; fay they, Ht raifed np himftlf by l;u ow" power; that IS the j;lofs they put upon it, therefore he was drclartd to betbt So1zoj God, btcauje ht raij'ed up !Jimfelf. And indeed it is a firong Argument, that he was the Son of God with power, if. he raifed up himfelf, But you will fay, How cloth that prove it? It provetlrit thus, Suppofc there had been no more in his own Refurretl:ion than in any mans elfe; yet becaufe he raifed up himfelf, it was declared with power that he was the Son of God. But how might that appear to the .]tws that he was the Sotz of God? Why might not the .1ews think, that Ch1 ift had been raifed up by thepower of God, as Lazarus h!d been raifcd up, or thofe in the Old Tefiament had been raifed up? How doth it prove, that he is the Sotz of God in his Refurretl:ion, more than in any thing elfe? And how doth it appear, that he raifed up himfelf as the So11 of God'! I will fhew you how it·appearcth. He had faid before, he had giveq it ou; it was that he died for, he had told them that he was the Son of God; and the· Witne!fes brought in this witnefs,. that they hear~ him fay, Vrflri!J' this Ttmptr; 1111d i11 thrte daus I wJII bu1/d zt agaw. Now 1f he had bed, 1f he had n~t 'been the J'o;J of God, God would never·have raifed him up; therefore it was ll manifefi Argument that he was the Son of God, by his being raifed up again; andbeingtheSonof God, raifeduphimfelf by that power that is in God him– felf. Therefore in Joh11 '·'9· faith he, Vrjlroy thu Temple, and rn thrtt days I willraiftitup; and Job,to,t8. I ba:'t powtr to lay downmy/Jfe, and I h.wt power to take it agai11. Had he hed, had he not been the Son of God, certainly
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