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Partly, that the Statute of Heaven may not be broken, ¹wherein it is appointed for all men once to dye. It was a Statute Law, past in the Parliament of Heaven, Gen. 2.17. In the day that thou eatest, thou shalt surely dye; Heb. in dying thou shalt dye.

1. 1Heb. 9.27. [Greek or Hebrew] decreed.Heb. 9.27. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 decreed.

Christ himself, as man, submitted himself to this Statute, and so must all the Sons and Daughters of Adam; they must dye, either literally, or analogically; Death makes a change in some, and this change is a death in others: a death to mortality, and a death to corruption.

Partly, that hereby they may also be made partakers of the Resurrection. Our Saviour's prediction of the Resurrection, comprehends all the Saints of God; and the living Saints, at that day, can by no other means be counted the Children of the Resurrection, than as they are begotten again, as it were by this mysterious and ineffable change; ¹whence (possibly) it is called the Regeneration; because all the Elect of God shall then begin to live their new, perfect life, all over, in their bodies and Souls; both the quick and the dead.