41.21111111 4.10 The PrieflhoodofChri . his life did conferre redemption upon us. And therefore in the Scriptures our juilification and falvation are attri- buted to the Lifeof aril1. Hee was delivered for our, offences, andRofe againeforour jollification, Rom.4.25 IfChrsfil beenot raifedyourfoitb ie vaine , you are yet in your fumes, Cora5.I7. Hee flail convince the world ofrightesofneffe , &cargo Igoe to my Father, lob.16.10. Becaufe Iliveyoofha live al /o, Ifwee bee dead with Chrifi, wee beleeve that wee (hall alfo live with him, Rom.6.8. Being madeperfea or confecrated for ever, he became the Author ofeternall falvationunto all them that obey him, Hcb.5.8.7.28. Hee is ableper- feEtly tofave , bet-axle bee everlivetb,Heb.7.25. Wee were reconciled in his death; but had he there reiied,we couldnever have been acquitted nor entred in , for hee was tobee our forerunner. And therefore theApoiile ad- deth a noth0givo, a much more to the Life ofChrif}. Muchmore kingreconciledAOwee bee favedbybit life, `kom.5do. Not in point' ofmerit, but onelyofefficacy for us; as in buying Land, the laying downe ofthe price giveth a man a meritorious iotereff, but the deliveringof thedeeds, the refigning ofthe propertie,theyeelding up ofthe poffeilion giveth a man an gaud 1 interefi inthat which hee hath purchafed: fo the deathofChrifi defer_ veth , but the interceflionand life ofChrifi applieth fal- vation untous. It was not barely Chrills dying, but his Dyinfvielorioally, fo that it was impoflible for death to hold him, e.41-1.2.24. whichwas the ground ofour fal- vation. Heecould not juiiific us, till hee was declared to bee juiiified hirnfelfe; therefore die Apoffle faith ,that he was Itsflifiedby the Spirit, T Titn.3.16. Namely by that Spirit,which quickned him, &I:x.1,4.8.11,r Pet.3.t 8. When Chrifi offered himfelfe a Sacrifice for finne hee was nambredamong tranlgrefforsliark,15.28. Hec bare our finnes along with him on the tree , and fo died under the wrongsofmen, and under the wrathof God, in both VERSE 4. 11111.1MIMMIMOOssal...1...
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