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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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Doct. 6. Christ's resurrection came to pass by his own proper virtue and power.
Doct. 6. Christ's resurrection came to pass by his own proper vertue and power.
It is clear in the Text; I take it up again; and I have power of taking it up again. For this is the difference between Christ's resurrection, and that of others; that they rise again by the power of another, to wit, of Christ, as many, as are his: But Christ by his own power, as Lord of life and death, and therefore hath the disposing of both, as he sees good. Neither doth it make any thing against this truth, that it is often said, that God raised him again from the dead; and the Spirit of God. For the works of the Trinity from without are undivided, common to all the three Persons.
Reas. 1. Because what is thus attributed to God, is therefore also attributed to the Son together with the Father, and Holy Spirit, and is not taken from him, as is clear by our Text.
Reas. 2. When Christ is said to be raised by God, or the Spirit of God, then properly his humane nature is considered, as raised by Father, Son and Holy Spirit, though not always all three expressed; but now one, now another: But when he is said to have raised himself, his divine nature and person is spoken of and considered, as raising his assumed humane nature, together with the Father, and the Spirit.