to the E P H E S I AN S. --------:-::-:-:-:-------;------~ certainly God would never have raifed him up; therefore feeing he was raifed ~ up by God, certain!y he was the So11 of God. ~'i:~~~r. But yet fiill the Objection remaineth; for you will fay, though he was de.~ dared to be the Son of God by being ,raifed 11p a.gai11, he having given it out, (which is all that Jnterpre~ers put upon that place;) but. yet what fpeci.-1 Power was there put forth m his Refurrechon, more than m any mans elf~, that he lhould be fa id to be declared to bt the Son of God wzth power by h1s R.efurrection, and that God lhould lhew forth the exceedittg greattufs of hid powtr in railing of him up? That IS the thmg I am to fpeak to. To ;hat I w111 but fuggefi Two things unto you, wherein the Powe>" lay of raifipg up Chrifi from death to life; and a :Special Power, more than in railing up all men elfe be!ides, that were before h1m, or Jhall come aftet him. • My Brethren, Our Lord and Saviour .'Jefeu Chrifl, he undertook never to rife or enter into his Glory, till fuch time as he bad fat1sfied for the fins of all his Elect; they lay all upon him, therefore to raife him up fromdeath to glory, mull needs be a work of a greater power than ever yet was to ra1fe up any man, whatfoever he were; for he bad all the fins of all the Elect, that he was to fatisfie for, meeting in him. My Brethren, let me fpeak unto you, We are dtad in foJS and tre(paffos; but let me tell you this, be was to die for Sins and Trefpaf{es, that is the phrafe the Apofile ufethRom,6,JO. We read it, He died unto fin, or, He died for fin, the word will bear it. He was by his death to fatisfie for fin, or he mufi never rife again. Now then, take Jefus Chrifi not only as an ordinary man, but take him as he is made Sin, as he is made a Curfe, there mufi a mighty Power go to bring him to glory; for he mull fuffer for that firfi, he mufi have a power to endure that firll before he be capable of being raifed up again; which all Angels and Men could never have born; therefore there is fo great a Power declared in his riling again. In Rom. 4-~4•~). We believe o11 him that raifed up Jefeu o11r Lordfrom tht dead, who was deliveredfor our Offences, and was raifed again for our .Tu• flificatioll, Mark that; The Refurrection of Chrifi was not an ordinary R.e. furrection, for it was not an ordinary Death; for (faith he) when he died he was delivered for our Offences, and he mufi fatisfie for them by his death; and' when he was raifed again, he was not raifed as a particular perfon, it is not like the railing up of an ordinary man; but, faith he, he was raifed for our Ju· fiification , for the Jufiification of all that he died for: and therefore he mu!t fatisfie for Sin, and pay the uttermofi farthing before be rife again. Hence now cometh there to be fo great a difficulty in railing up our Lord and Saviour Jefur . __.Chri}l, to that Glory he was raifed up unto. I will_omit fom~ Confirmations of this Truth, and give you but one Scripture, wh1ch will prefent It unto you. It IS Af1.~- ~4- Whom God hath rai(ul up, ha· ving loofed the paiHJ of death, 6tcaufe it was not po(/ible he jbo11fd 6e holden of zt. It is Peter's Speech concerning Chrifi and his ·Refurrection. Acd verfe 27. Becaufe thotewilt not leave m7 Soul in Hell, 11either wilt thou ]ti/fer thy Holy One tofee corrttptioll. To open thefe words, and to prove the thing out of them which I intenl!, viz. That in railing up Jefus Chrifi from the dead there was an infinite Power put forth, more than in railing up any one that ever yet was raifed up. The Apoftle's fcope here is to prove, that Jefus Chrifi is the Son of God, and he proverhit by his Refurrection, and by the difficulty that was in it, which is 1mphed m thefe wo~ds, Becau[e it was not pojfi61e he jbould be holdetz of death, or of tbe (orrows of drath. If it had been poiiible they would have held him, B b b 1. but
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