to 'the E PH E SI AN S. 379 th~rc were birth-throws of death, that were dead!y. They were not pains be~ indured after he was dead, for then you know the Body indures nothing, and his Sermon Soul was in Paradtjf, therefore thefe pains of death, thefe deadly pa>ns mu!t be XXIX, indured before yet there were thofe that hindred his R.cfurrection; that had he~ not overcome ;hofe pains fir!t, God had never raifea him up. Now, our Saviour Chrifl did fcatter, d1d diiTipate all thefe pains of death, he paid them to God, he bore all our fins, and God's wrath, and when h,e had done tbis, now faith God, I can raife him up when I will, now let him die, when that was linifl1ed he gave up the ghoft; for when he hung upon the Crofs,, you know he fa id rt i;(imfbtd, 1take it he had relatwn to thot great brunt wh1cn the Apofilc to the Hebrews, faith he feared, which was thefe paws, thefe deadly pams of mdunng the •vrat!J of God for mans fins; Now faith he, the great brunt IS over, lt IS fin1fl1ed, and when thefe were fcattered then did God come and raife him up , and herein lay the greamefs of ~he power lhewn inthe Refurrection of Chri!t, that God rai[ed him up, he havwg loofned the, pams of death firfl:, or Chnfi bewg loofned, or having overcome, the words wlll bear all th1s,then God rn•fed h:m up. Therem I fay lay the power, nod therein lay more in his R.efurrection then in all mens elfe be~des. Or elfc Secondly, the power that wrought toward Chrifi mentioned here, re. ferreth to his exaltation; for you fee he doth not only fay the power that wrought in Chri{\ in raiGng him from death, but in fetting him at his own right hand, you mufi take both in. Now, what is wanting in the one is fupplied in the other, Suppofe there was but a fmall power in railing him up fro~ death to life; yet to take a poor Carpenters Son, (whom all would have defp1fed,) and to carry him up to Heaven, where he t],ngeth off Flefl1, the frailty of the Humane Nature; and appearetl1 more glorious, infinitely more glorious than all t~e Angels, and is filled with more knowlcdge,and that all that God meaneth ~o d?,lhall run through the hand of that humane Nature; here was a power to ra1fe !urn up thus high, beyond what the thoughts of man can reach: And fo much now for the power that was fl1ewn in ra.ling up Chrifi from death to glory,that part of the parallel is ~ifpatch'd. Now, to come to the fecond parr, and that is this, That in God's working up• on us there is a proportion of power to us·ward who believe, anfwerabie to the power that raifcd up Chrif\ from death to glory. For my clear proceeding in this, I will fet limits to my felf, which lhall help you to underfiand my fcope. Fir!t, I will nor fpeak of the likenefs that is between Chrifis li.efurredion and the working of grace in our hearts, although the Scripture telleth us in . Rom, 6. 4· that like as he was raifed up from the dead, fo we are raifed up to walk in new– nefsof life, he makes a I.kenefs between the one and the other. The words Ac· cordi11g lo bu worh11g in Chrift, note not fo much, a lil>enefs, as a proportion, and t!1erefore It JS .,$-;J-n?v i"iPJ.tld.YT~ x.p.in~ ~d~ti@-«:tni:, Accordittg to hU effeEltiaJ workznf!., the_ proportion of work•ng that elhcacy of power put forth, which he wrought ( fauh he,) ~~~ 7•fas Chrzfl._ S.o that now it is not my delign to handle a ltktnefs between Clmfi s R.efurrectwn and our Converlion, that is not the fcope (though that other Scri~ures hold forth, for I mufl: [peak pertinently to what tlus pbce holds forth,) but that 11 IS the fame power ( 10 aproportion, ) that works 10 the one and 10 the other. And then in the Se,.ond place, let me add that too, It is nota proponion ofE– qualtty, that 1s, that an equal propomon ofpower is put forth 10 us al!d in Chrifi. No, let Chnfi have the preheminence above all his Brethren, he is the wifdom of God and the power of God as he is called, , Cor. ' · 24. liut yet there is fo great a neernefs as that when God would fpeak of the power that goerh to quit'k– en our hearts, to work Faith in us, of all the works that ever he did he choofeth father to •nftance in his power in railing up Chrifl: from death to life, than in any work dfe whatfoever. c c c Then
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