to the E P H E S I AN S. - 397 I fhould have mentioned another reafon Which is in the latter end of _that gth, ~ Chap.verfe 27,28.ior hegoeth on_to fpeak of the death of Chnfi.As zt u appoint• S'trmon td tmlo att mnl once to die, lmt tJjter 1h1s tht .1udg"?mt, fo.Chrijl WaJ 011Ct offiXXX. red, ( tuat is, he diedoRe~, he Was offered up by dymg, fo1s the oppofitlon,and ~ fo much the fimilitude •mplleth,) to 6rar thefo1s of ma'!Y; and therefore mRom. 6. 10. we fhail find that phrafe is ufed, He ditd u11to fi11 ona. _ You know the curfe was that man lhould d1e the death, l11 the day thou trltefl thereof thott jb11tt du the death. Our Saviour Chri(l; was made the whole Curfe becaufe he would redeem us from the whole CLirfe; There was :t Curfe Went out againll: his Soul, he paid deadly pains, (as I told you out of Afl. 2. ) and the~ he cried out it was fimfhed , when he bore the wrath of God 10 h1s Soul after thar; Here now was that whereby our Souls were redeemed; but our Bodies mu!! be redeemed too from death, therefore after all th1s he mufi die , as it is appointedforallmenoncetodie; Isth~ta Law faith he, and_will Chrifi be a mediator ? He mufi d1e too. Th1s 1s the Apofiles reafonmg 10 Hebrews 9• 27, 28. . . . . Hence it was (and 1t 1s an Obfervatwn worth your matkmg,) that God (be– caufe his death, the expiring of Soultrom Body , was the comj_)leating of that Sacrifice,) ordered it to be at the hour of the evening Sacrifice, which was his Type, the evening Sacrifice waso~ered up atthe Thira hour~ that is at Three of the Clock, then d1d Chnfl breath h1s Soul out and offered up h1mfelf to be a Sacri• fice, for dying was effential to a Sacrifice. So much for the Firlt, that he is faid to be dead, I lhall give you but fmall touches and hints. The Seeond thing concerning Chrift, which is agreat Article of our Faith too, is, that Jefus Chri!t remained in a ftate of death. If you mark it he doth not fay limply that he raifed himup from death, but from tht dtad, that is, he .was a companion with the dead, that is, look what eftate there Bodies were in,his Bo– dy was in, he was free among the dead though in another fenfe than Hrma11 fpeaks of himfelf, he was in the company of the dead, he was raifed from the dead. This (my Brethren,) was likewife to fulfil the Curfe, the Cutfe was not on– ly that Adam lhould die, but he was to return to his dufi, fo Gm. ~. 19. And thetefore you !hall find they are rtlade two things by the Pf11lmljl. Pfnt. 146.4 (peaking of Man, faith he, bu heath goeth forth, there is the act of dying; and he tur~uth to hi& Earth. Every man is not butied, but the common Sepul– chre of all mankind is the li:arth, though a man lieth en the top "of it, that is Commu11t Sepu!chrum, the common Sepulchre of all mankind. Now, our Sa– viour Chrifi he was in a fiate of death, not ony dying, but he remained in a fiate of de•th. · It is a iltange fpeech, in Afl. I 3· H· where fpeaking of our Saviour Chrifi, faith he, He ra1jtd him from tht dead, 11ow 110 mcore to fet Corrtlpti· 011. Here he expreffeth what it is to be raifed from the dead, no more to return to corruption. Why, did our Saviour Chrill: ever fee corruption ? No, the Text e_xpreffeth the contrary, in the l rth, verfe, Thotl wilt 1101 fitfftr thy holy IJIJe to {ftcorrt~ption. Why doth the Apollle then fay; He rmfed h11n from the dead, no mort to jet corruption1 · . ijis meaning is plainly this, though indeed his Bo_dy was n6t corrupted, fo~ as ·h1s !lady "':as free from lickne~s wh1le he.hved, fo tt was free from corruptton when he d1eJ, 1t became not hts honour, tt wa• exempted from licknefs and m– firmities ; yet faith he, take that llate of the dead which tendeth to corruption and he was under it, Hr WM raiftdfrom tht dead, no mort to ret11rn iocorrup– tio11 ; not that he corrupted before, but that he remained in a fiate in which ilate mens Bodies ufed to b'corrupted. Our Saviour Chrifl: was not only to get a victory over death, but'over the Grave, over a ilate of death· now corruption is the ilate of death, and that the Apollle meaneth by corrupfion,when he faith to return no more to corruption; yet actual putrifaC:bon, that he meanet1 aft~rwotrd, when he faith, flr witt.;ot fi1f(r his b"l_y Qn( to fee corruptio11, 1!. e e 1. To
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