to the E P H E S I A N S. Now,myB.rerhren,inthis'Drath,_.and .thePai1uof it, lieth the danger that~ Ch ·n lhould never be raifed up agom, iliould never come to ·Heaven; tor thofe J'ermott Pa~~ .. of 'Death would have tetched l1is Soul away, a~d made all Angels and XXV!lr. Men to have died the Se.cond death,never to have bee~ ra1fed,never to fattsfie the~ wrath ol God; they were Sorrows of Death, Deadly_ Sorrow!;_as fome tntcrret it, as He himfelf iscoiled a Man of Sorrows, whtch 1s annbuted to none ~ut to him, becaufe none endured the Sorro\~s he d1d, deadly Sorro";'s; as 1t IS called the AbomiMII011 rf dejol<tlt011, that 1s, Abom1nable d.Colauon: fo the Sorrows of 'Death, that is, Deadly farrows, Helltfh farrows, Infernal farrows, (if you will fo exprefs It) for there was the caufe of tt, the Wrath of God; there was the fubftance of it. Now, in a word, to gather up this. Saith he, God bath raifed him up , he being free, or having ·freed. himfelf by the power of the Godhead from thefe Pains of Death, which (if 1t had been pollible) he fhould have been held by them but hold him they could not: Therefore the words tn the 27th Verfe interprets it without all !training, there is a great deal of do what lhould be meant by leaving his J'o11l m Hr//, and h1s Holy One not to fee corr11ptto11, that 1s, fiis Body: Say I, the 24th Verfe lnterpreteth It, Htm bath God raifod ttp, bee ing freed from the Sorrows of death, of the Second death·, the Birth-throws of it . God delivered his Soul of 1t, left not his Soul mHell, then he ra1fed up his B~dy that it lhould not fee Corruption. Herein now lieth the difficulty of raifing up our Lord and Sav~our Jejeu Chrt(/, more than all the Men m the World; for if all the Angels 1n Heaven, and all the Men tn the World, had en– countred with thofe Surrows of 'Death he encountred wtth, they had never been rlifed up, for they could never have overcome them;_ therefore faith the Text here, the.Exceeding greatnefs of hts power was lhewn 10 raijiJJg ttp Chrifl from death toglory. And this is one fenfe, in refpeelof which there_ is an Exceedi11g great11ejs of power attributed to the Refurreelion of Jefus Chnft. But Secondly, If you will know wherein the E:~aedittg grealtufs oj powel' lieth; if you obferve the Coherence, it is not only in raifing him up fimply from de~th, there is but a little fa id of that here, but it is attributed to the Glory he was raifed up to. Therein lay the Power; it lies not fimply in the Ttrmi11ur a quo, the term, the ftate from which he was raifed; but if you take in withal this, That God bath jet him at hi! owtJ nght hattd in the heavmly places, far above allpri1rcipalities andpower!. Tal<ebut the compafs of the diftance be– tween the ftate he was raifed from, and the fiate he is raifcd unto, nod theri you will all acknowledge what the Text faith here, there is an Exceeding greattJejJ of power indeed. . So that if you ask me now, What this Power was that was !hewn upon Chrift? I Anfwer Firft, Meerly in his raifing him up, for he was to overcome that which no Creaturo could overcome, before he was capable of being raifed, he was to pay the lafi Farthing, whereof the Son·ows of 'Death were part, and the greatell fum; And then, Secondly, If to raife him up meerly had been no more than to raife another man, yet to raife him up to Glory, there lieth the Exctfdi11g greatnefs of Ius power, Take the Ter>1Jinm ad tprem, the fiate wherein he is now; Eph+ 9· He that afcended, he defcmded firjl into tht lower parts of the Earth. Now then, go and make a pair of Compalfes, niake a proportion between thefe two; put one foot of the Compafs in Heaven, whether he is afcended, jar above allprilfcipalitin andpower!, and put the other foot of the Compafs 1n the lower parts of the Earth, 10 the.Grave in which he lay, and to raife him up from the one to the other, is the Exceediu,~ greatlte(s of power the Apoftle here fpeaks of. Meafure from the loweft part of the Earth, to jar abOVf all pri11· C1palttin and power!, and therein lieth the Power put forth in raijing Chnfl here fpoken of. Now
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