to theE P HE SI ANS. A:od fo much now lor the R~furretfioll it felf1 theneceffity of it, ahd the elldof~ it which I have done moft bnd!y. Strmo!' ' XXIX. Secondly, Confidertheraifer of him, (that is th'e ne~t thing) the raifero'f ~ him is faid to be God tht Fatbrr. You !hall find that this work o! raJ.fing UJ> Chrift from the dead, is accounted fo great a work that you have tt !hll attnbuted to God. I.r is his name that he is the Father of Chrifl; (as you heard before )ami it is aName that by way of pariphrafis is ufed for G~d; when he fpeaks of God, heputteththisin (till_, that ht raifed liP_ Chrifl from the deild, You have it in tour places of Scnpture; Rum. 4· 24. Rom. 8. r '• Colof• 2. nj 1 1 rhere is only this one difficulty to be explained here; How the Father is faid robe the raifer up of Chrifl, when ret the ~cripture telfeth us that Chrijt ratfo1 up himftl{ that is, the Second Perfon umted ra that Souland Body, brought them both'together again and quickned it. That Chrift raifed up himfelf, you have exprefs Scrtpture for tt. .'fohn 2. •9· Veflroy thzs Temple, and 111 thre"t d,zits I wia rai{t it up. He fpake of the Temple of hts Body. John to~ 1 7, t8. I havr power to lay down my life, atJd I have power to take it agaill. And the truth is,. (my Br-ethren) it was neceJTary that he that was your Me:. diatour fhould be able to raife up himfdf. Why! Becaufe in the works of Me~ diation, whereof this was one, he was to borrow nothing, it inuft all be his own, If he had borrowed any thing (mark what I fay) it had ·not been a Metliator'$ work, for he had been beholding to God. If there had not been fame fenfe wherein what he did, and what he was, had been his own fo as not his Father's; all his works had not been works of Mediation; his fatisfad:ion had not. If in dying he had not offered up himfelf, if by his own power he had not overcome thofc Sorrows of 'DMth, he had not fatisfied. Why? For if it had been a bar• rowed Power, then all the fatisfadion he offered had been God's already, he could not have paid, for no man could pay one with what is not his own: fo whert he came to rife aj:lain, if he had not raifed himfelf by his own power, it had not been a Mediaior sadioo. Now Brethren, How then is it that here it is faid, Godraifotlhim tlp from th~ dead, whenas he raifed up himfeli; and it was necelfary that he lhould do fo, if' he be Mediator ? That wicked Heretick, SocinU!, be denieib that Chrift did raife himfelf from the dead, becaufe he knew that this would pinch him, that therefore he muft be · God; for to raife one trom the dead, is made a work of Omnipotency, as Rom.4! ~ 17. He beliwed on him,ewn on God, who quickned tht dead, and caUeth thofe thingr which btnot, M thot~gh they were. It is the property of God to quicken the dead, even as much as to create; therefore to avoid this (he denieth that he is Qod) . he goeth againft exprefs Scripture, and denieth that Chrift: ~aifed himfelf, and he bath cunniog evafions for it; but I will not ft:and upon ~ . . But to Anfwer this; and to reconcile it, How both the Father is fliid to raife Chrift, and Chrift: is faid to raife himfelf. I will give you to this Three fevera! Anfwers to reconcile it. Firft, You muft know, that all the works of the Three Perfons what one doth the other two are faid to d~. It is a ctrtain Rule, that Oper; TritJitatis ad extra funt mdzvz/a, all thetr works to us-ward of Creation and Redemption, and whatfocvet elfe, they are all works of each Perfon concurring to them. As they have but one Being, one Elfence; fo they have but one work; yet as they trave three feveral Subfiftances, fo they have three feveral manners of working. Hence now the Father is faid to raife Chrift, fo it is here: fo likewife Chrift is faid to raife himfelf, as you have it in the place I quoted even now. And thtrdly, you have as exprefs a place of Scripture that the Holy Ghoft raifed him too, Rom. 8. 11. If the Spirit of him th,Jt raifed 11p JefU! from the dead dwtll myou. He fpeaks of the Holy Ghoft; and he faith, this Spirit raifed up Chrift froin the dead,
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