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Gd ? ip, 1. Chih was thefirſt that roſeagain by his own Power and Vertue. 2. Hu wi the fiift who roſe again, and died no more. Sol 4
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{\'*o7), 21 For * ſince by man came death g, * by man came 30 the reſurretion of the dead h. |
; Since by one man, v:2. Adam (who is alſo ſtiled the $92 of God, " Lake 3. 38, becauſ? he had neither Father nor Mother ) caine man's {ubjection to mortality, [icknefles, and death here, and eternal death ndrviſery in another World; it pleaſed God that by one, who though 12 was the Erernal only begotten Son of God, yet was alſo made Mſn, and was fleſh of our fleſh. + The RefurreCtion of thoſe that re believers, and afleepin Chriſt, ſhould come, Hc5. 2. 14.
22 For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chriſt ſhall a! > made alive z.
i As in the fiſt Adam, all men that were in him, became ſub - j2& both to Zemporal death, and all the afflictions and nuſcries of
mnners of natural death, or attendants upon it; and allo ro that
G in Chrift, thar 3s, through the Merits of tis Death, and through his Refurr-ion, all that ate in him, being choſen in him, given ro
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this Life, which are ſo many little deaths, Roz. 8. 36. and fore- |
ternal acarh which is the conſequent of the guilt of fin, Rom. 6.23. |
and all his Inftrumenrs : this ke proverth & om 1h.o vor bs of the Plct- miſt. Pfal. "lo. 2. ihe termwunti/ doth not fone the det-rminati on of Chris Kingdom then though his m+Ji:-ory Kingdom 0:1 Earth will then be derermined, Fic hill Gi reign, burnor as row inthe midſt of his Enemies, ard in the ex-r5! the Conqueſt and ſubguing of r!;ea. -e p L ; -
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cauſing of a RefurreQtion from the Dead. So that the Apoilie —— vech the RefurreQtion from the neceilicy of Chritt's reigning, unr-! | all his Enemies b2 deſtroy2d, of which Dearth js one : yy for it keeps the Bodies of rhe M=:mberz of Chriſt tom their Union with thet; Souls, and with Chriſt, who 15 the Head oiſthe whole Bcliever, rh: Body as well as the Soul,
27 * For he hath pur all ch:ngs under his feet r ; But when he ſaith all things are put under 4:7, 7 :s mani- teſt that he is excepred, which did put all chinss under him s.
r The Apoſtle referrerh to P/al. 8. 6.-whzre the P(almift xdoreth God for the Privileges given man in his Creation; amongſt which ; this 15 one, That God hath par aJlthings under his feer ; the Pſalmiſ#
afterwards expounds that univerſal Particle, zr. 7, 8. by Ml Sheep and Oxen. yea and ths Beaſ? of the Field, the Fowls of the Air, and ths Fi ſhes of the Sea Bur that that Pſalm, or ſome paſlages at leaſt, in ir, | are to be underſtood of Chriſt, appeareth from Heb. 2.6, 7, 8. where the Penman applieth itto him, as doth the Apoſilehete; under who's: freer all things are pur in a much larger ſents, and therefore the Ap5- | {He expounds the Aihrmative, H:b. 2.8. by a Negative, He Ucf+ 1:2 thing that u not put under him. Lat lit men of perverſe mind; ſhould conclude, Tharthen the Father alio is pit wider Chrift, tlic Apoſtle add-th ; That - when he fauk, He 44ch proc af things ws! v
his Feet, the Father himf-3t, who 15 the Perton that pur all cthins: v
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| der him, 15 not to be included. 25 And when all chings ſhall be {ubdued unto him, * then ſhall tne Son alio himſelt be ſabje& unco him
him, and by Faith implanted into him, are not only tpiritually made
Ye railed from the Dead unto Eternal Lite. doth not prove the general Reſurre&ion ( being only intended of RBelizvers, that are Members of Chriſt ) yer it doth not oppote it. Pur thar the a here mentioned js no more than a/! Believers, ap peareth not only from the term in Chriſt in this verſe, bur from the whole following Diſcourſe ; which is only concerning the Reſur- reFion of Believers to life, not that of the wicked to eternal con- lemnarion.
22 But every man in his own order, Chriſt *the firſt: fruits &, afterward they that are Chriſts, at his com- ing /, |
k In his own order, either with refpe&@ to T:me, or Dignity, leſt any ſhould ſay, It Chriſt's Reſurre&ion be the cauſe of the Reſur-
::&ion of Believers, then why did not all the Saints that were in the (raves, rife with Chriſt ? The Apoſtle ſaith, God had appointed an
thar put all things under him, that God may be al!
alive (bing pated from Death ro Lite, 1 Job 3. 14. ) but ſhall | IN all &, But though this Text j
£ The Sons SubjeRion to Þ's Father, which is mentioned in thi; place, doth no where prove his in-quality of Eliznce, or Power with his Father; it only lignifterh whac waz ſpoken betore, tha Chriit ſhouid deliver up his Mediatory Kingdom to his Father ; to mani-
dons in the Name of bis Father, and by his Power and Authority ; and that as he was Man, he was tubject co his Father. Suppolz (taith Pares) aKing ſhould have on? only yon, whom he thoujd take into a Partnerſhip with him in his Maje/fzand Kingdom ; but yet io, that the King thould {till have the Prebeminence of a Father, the Son only thz Dignity ofa Sen 1n fuch Power and Authority, after which this King having ſome vubjezctts rilen up in Rebellion againſt him, ſhould ſend his Son with Armies and Authority againſt them, he ſhould diſpatch the work, and ar his return yield up his: Commiſſion ro his Father, ver fl reraining the ſame Nature ke had, and Au- thority with which his Father had beforecloathed him, as a Partner