The Institution of Christian Religion

not that our faith being upholden by his death should waver, but that the power of God which keepeth us under faith, doth principally show it self in the resurrection. Therefore let us remember, that so oft as mention is made of his death only, there is also comprehended that which properly belongeth to his resurrection: and like figure of comprehension is there in the word Resurrection, as oft as it is used severally without speaking of his death, so that it draweth with it that which peculiarly pertaineth to his death. But for as much as by rising again he obtained the crown of conquest, so that there should be both resurrection and life:¹ therefore Paul doth for good cause affirm that faith is destroyed, and the Gospel is become vain and deceitful, if the resu••••tion of Christ be not fastened in our hearts. Therefore in another place, after he had gloried in the death of Christ against all the errors of damnation,² to amplify the same he saith further: Yea the same He which died, is risen up again and now standeth a Mediator for us in the presence of God. Furthermore as we have before declared, that upon the partaking of his cross hangeth the mortification of our flesh: so is it to be understanded, that by his resurrection we obtain an other commodity which answereth that mortification. For (saith the Apostle) we are therefore grafted into the likeness of his death,³ that being partakers of his resurrection, we may walk in newness of life. Therefore in an other place: as he gathereth an argument of this that we are dead together with Christ,⁴ to prove that we ought to mortify our members upon earth: likewise also, because we are risen up with Christ, he gathereth thereupon that we ought to seek for those things that are above,⁵ and not those that are upon the earth. By which words we are not only exhorted to be raised up after the ⟨image 181⟩example of Christ, to follow a newness of life. But we are taught that it is wrought by his power that we are regenerate into righteousness. We obtain also a third fruit of his resurrection that we are, as by an earnest delivered us, assured of our own resurrection, of which we know that his resurrection is a most certain argument. Whereof he disputeth more at large in the .xv. chapter of his first Epistle to the Corinthians.