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If
Christ
be
yet
under
the pain
of
death, as the
apos-
tle
argues,
1
Cor.
xv.
17.
and
be
not
risen;
then
our
faith
is
vain,
who
are
yet
in
our
sins
:
I3ut.if he
be
risen,
then
our
faith
and
hope are confirmed, and
our
sins
are
atoned
for,
and our
souls
are pardoned,
if
we
trust
in
him.
o
how
many guilty consciences
are
made
easy,
and
that
upon solid grounds,
by
the
resurrection
of Jesus
from
the dead
?
He
is
a God
of
peace,
and reconciled
to
sinners,
who
brought Jesus
.Christ
from
the
dead, by
vir-
tue
of
the
blood
of
the
everlasting
covenant; Heb.
xiii.
20. Rom.
viii. 34.
Several
of
the dead
saints arose after
his
resurrection,
and
that
by
the virtue
of
it,
Mat.
xxvii. 33. as
an
emblem
of
the many
dead
souls
that
should rise from
a
death
in
sins
and trespasses
by
the same influence.
Eph.
ii.
5,
6.
A
risen
Saviour
,hath,
according to the
apostles
preaching,
giving
them.repentance.
and
remission
of.sins.
Luke
xxiv.
46, 47. They
are
raised from
a
death in
sins,
by
virtue
of
the
resurrection
y:
.
2.
How many earthly,
carnal and sensual
souls,
have
been made
heavenly
-
minded,
by
faith,
in
a risen
Saviour.
Many
there
are
who have felt
the power
of
the
word;
Col.
üi.
1
If
ye
are
risen with
Christ,
set
your
a
ec-
tions on
things
above,
where
Christ sitteth
at
the
right
-
hand
of
God.
A
risen
Jesus
calls
the soul upward, and heaven -ward.
What
have
we
here
on
earth
worth living
for,
since
Jesus
is
risen from the
dead, bath left the world
and
gone
to heaven
?
Jesus our
hope,
our
life,
our
eternal
joy
;
Col.
i.
27.
This
gospel
of
a
risen
Saviour bath done more to
refine
the heart
from
earth,
and
flesh,
and sensuality,
and
the
love
of
this world,
and turn
to
God,
and things heavenly,
than
all the reasonings
of
philosophers
through
all ages,
and
in all
nations.
Compare
the cities where they
dis-
puted,
with the
churches
which
Paul
planted,
and then
Judge.
3.
How many captives
of
Satan have been
released
by
the power
of
.Jesus,
since
his
release from the
grave?
The
devil
had
no power to hold
Christ
in
the fetters
of
.death
;
Acts
xii_
37, 38.
and
bath
been forced
to
release
thousands
of
his slaves
by
the
authority
of
a,
risen
Jesus.