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Christs exaltation purchased by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meet together. Very useful I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weak. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Gray's-Inn, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.Christs exaltation purchast by humiliation Wherein you may see mercy and misery meete together. Very vsefull I. For instructing the ignorant. II. For comforting the weake. III. For confirming the strong. By R. Sibbs D.D. and preacher of Grayes-Inne, London. Published by T.G. and P.N.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes, 1639
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So he revived, that is more than to rise again, never again to lay down his life, as you have it excellently set down among other places, Revel. 1. 18. I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I live for ever more, amen, ⟨p. 134⟩and he seals it too, I have the keys of hell and of death, that is, the dominion of hell and death, for inde•• Christ is life it self, and life cannot dye, as God he could not dye, and therefore he took upon him that nature, wherein he might dye for us, and now having done that dispensation, that office, there is a perpetual influence of life, from the fountain of life, his Godhead, to his humanity, so he never dyes any more; then here follows the scope and end of all,
So hee revived, that is more than to rise againe, never againe to lay downe his life, as you have it excellently set downe among other places, Revel. 1. 18. I am he that liveth and was dead, and behold I live for ever more, amen, ⟨p. 134⟩and he seales it too, I have the keyes of hell and of death, that is, the dominion of hell and death, for inde•• •hrist is life it selfe, and life cannot dye, as God he could not dye, and therefore he tooke upon him that nature, wherein he might dye for us, and now having done that dispensation, that office, there is a perpetuall influence of life, from the fountaine of life, his Godhead, to his humanity, so he never dyes any more; then here followes the scope and end of all,
That he might be Lord of the dead and of the living.