to the EPHESIANS. all now live unto God. In Rom. 8. to. it's faid that the Body is dead, by reafon ~ ofSin; but the Spirit is Life, by reafon ofRighteoufnefS: that is, in refpect ofSer. XVII: what is in the view ofGod, unto whom all things to come are prefent. ~ Fo~trthly, We are faid to be raifed, in Chrif1. I mull: fpeak a Word or two to that, fur [in Chrift] mull: refer, to r.ifed 11111p, as well as tom•de 111Jit in heavenly places. Now we are faid, to be raifed in Chrift, in refpect; Firft, That he is the caufe ofour Refurrection. He is, The S ~~~~~:ions} Caufe. 2Exemplary I. He is the Efficient Caufe ; for he putteth his Spirit into us. But I will not ftand to open that now. JI. He is the Meritorious Caufe ; for by his Death he merited our Refurrection. By his Death, he did merit his own Refurrection; for though he had a Right to rife, as he wa• the Son ofGod; yet he had a Right, likewife by virtue of his own Blood and Death : fo you have it, in Heb. I 3· 20. The God of'Peace, that bro•ght "f,_ain from the dead ow Lord JeftH, that great Shepherd of the Sheep, thrOHgh the 'Blood oftheeverlafting Covenant. Do but mark; it is an allufion to that in Za– chary: By the Bwod ofthy Covenattt, I havefentforththy Prifoners DHtofthe Pit; that is, out ofthe Grave : and as God delivers Prifoners, fo he delivers Chri!l: himfelf; for that you !hall find in Scripture, that what is faid of Chri!l:, is applied to his Church; and what is faid ofthe Church, is applied unto Chri!l:. As therefore, his Prifoners were brought back from the dead, by the Blood of the Covenant 5 fo here (the Apo!l:le alluding to that) Chrift'sbeing brought back from the dead, is faid to be the purchafe ofhis own Blood, he WM brought back_, faith he, thrOHgh the B~ofthe everlafting Covenant. Now then, ifChrift bimfelf, was brought l>ack from the Dead, tbrou~h the Blood of the Covenant ; certainly we much more are brought back again from the dead, through the Blood ofthe Covenant. Therefore you !hall find, that our R.efurrection is afcribed as well to the Death of Chrift, as to his R.efurreltion. I Tbeff.-4-I4. lfwe believe that Jef111 died, androfe again, even fo thent alfo w/Jichfleepin Jef111,will God bring with /Jim: or as the Word i• in the Original, he will bring them thatfleep, through ]ef111, with him ; for fo in· deed it is in theGreek_, thereforeChryfofto11nefers it, as well to the Words that follow, as to !leeping in Jefus. III. He is likewife the Exemplary Caufe ofour R.efurreltion. That,look what ftate his Body and Soul were in, when he rofe again, what fpiritual and heavenly qualifications were in him, the fame likewife !hall be in His. And therefore we are faid to beraifed up in Chrift ; becaufe, we have the fame endowments put upon us,which Jefus Chrift'sBody and Soul had. You have this expre!ly, in the I Cor. 15.47. fpeaking ofthe Refurrea:ion, faith be; The frft ManisoftheE.rth, Earthy : thefecond Man is the Lordfrom Heaven. As is the earthy, fuch are they that are earthly ; and as is the heavenly, fuch are th~y alfo that are lleavenly.And as we have born the Image ofthe earthly, we !hall alfo bear the Image of the heavenly. Our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, he is iivepG>7r@', he is a Man in– deed, above the Heavens, that is, he hath a Body fitted to that State; there is nothing in him, not a Member ofhis Body, that is earthy: Now look, what qua– lifications he had-to fit him for that place he is now gone to, be being advanced far above all Principality and Powers ; the fame, faith he, foal/ wehave alfo, and e– ven as we received an earthy frameoCBody from Adam, which did fit us for this earthly World, 'and for all the-Comforts of it, fo we !hall have·an Heavenly Body, and au:heavenly O:ate put upon that B'ody, like unto Jefus Cbrift, conformable to his Body; as you h~ve it in the' Philippian<, which I will not !tand upon. There– fore Come efour Divines fay, tllareur Saviour Chri!l:, did not fimply merit tlie R.efurre&ion ofthe Dead, for that lloweverthey muft have rifen again, and be v brought
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