3. Also enriched it with all r/race that our nature is capable of; for the nature of Christ had this double prerogative above ours : first of all, that blessed mass of flesh, it was knit to be one person with God ; and then, that nature was enriched and ennobled with all graces above ours. And this the Spirit of life did to Christ himself, to his human nature that he took upon him, that he might be a public person. For God, the second person, took not upon him any man's particular person, of Peter, or Paul, or John, for then there should have been distinct persons, one person should have died, and another rise ; but he took our nature into his person. So that the same person that did die was God, though he died in our nature, that he might be a public person. So we must consider Christ sanctifying our nature, that he might fit and sanctify all our persons.
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But did the Spirit of life do nothing else but sanctif}' and enrich the human nature of Christ with grace ?
4. Yes. For the Spirit of Hfe in Christ did sanctify him /or his sacrifice, as he saith, John xvii. 19, in that blessed prayer, ' I sanctify myself for them.' It prepared him for his death, and made him a fit sacrifice. When he entered upon his calling, he had more of the Spirit : the Spirit of life, as it were, was increased. For it is no heresy to think, that the gifts of Christ, for the manifestation of them, were increased. For in every state he was in, he was perfect ; and when he set upon,his ofiice, and was bap- tized, he was fuller of the Holy Ghost : as it were, there was a fuller mani- festation than before, when he did not set upon his ofiice openly.
5. In his death, what did the Spirit of life then ? It supported him in his venj death ; for there was an union of the Spirit. When there was a sepa- ration of his soul and body, there was not a separation of the union. That which gave dignity, and strength, and value, and worth to his death, it was the Spirit. Though there was a suspending of the comfort a while, yet there was no separation of the union. But I speak no more of that, being not especially meant here.
6. But especially in his resurrection (which we are now to think of by reason of the day, and it is not amiss to take all occasions), especially then, the Spirit of life that had sanctified Christ, and quickened him, and enriched his nature, and supported him, and done all, that Spirit of life quickened the dead body of Christ. * And he was mightily declared to be the Son of God by the Spirit of sanctification, by his resurrection from the dead,' Kom. i. 4. The Spirit of life raised him from the dead, and put an end to all that misery that he had undergone before for our sakes. For until his resurrection, there was, as it were, some conflict with some enemies of Christ, either with Satan, or the world, or with death itself. He lay under death three days. Until Christ's body was raised, our enemies were not overcome. God's wrath was not fully satisfied. It was not declared to be satisfied at least. For he being our surety, till he came out of the grave, we could not know that our sins were satisfied for. But now, when the Spirit of life in Christ comes, and quickens that body of his in the grave, and so doth justify us, as it is, Rom. iv. 25, ' He died for our sins, and rose again for our justification : ' that is, by the Spirit of life in Christ quickening his dead body, he declared that we are fully discharged from our sins, because he was fully discharged from our sins ; being our surety, he shewed by his resurrection that he was fully discharged from all that he took upon him. WTien a man comes out of prison that is a surety, his very coming out of prison shews that he hath a full discharge of all the debt he undertook to pay. So the Spirit of life, raising Christ's body the third day, manifestly declared that the debt he took on him was fully dis- charged. And so as he died for sin, to satisfy God's justice for them, so he rose again for our justification, to shew that he had a full discharge for all.
Now, since the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath quickened his body, the soul may make a bold demand to God, as it is in 1 Pet. iii. 16. It may make that demand, Eom. viii. 33, ' Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect ? It is Christ that died, nay rather, that is risen again,' and ascended into heaven, and makes intercession for us. ' Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's people ? it is God that justifieth, who shall condemn ?' Our sins ? Christ hath taken our sins upon him, and satisfied divine justice for them ; and by the Spirit of life hath quick- ened that dead body of his, that was surety for us himself. We may well