The Fountain of Life Opened

Moreover, God the Father stood engaged in a solemn Covenant to reward him for his deep humiliation, with a most glorious and illustrious advancement, Isa. 49.5, 6, 7. And how God (as it became him) made this good to Christ, the Apostle very clearly expresses it, Phil. 2.9.

Yea, Justice required it should be so. For how could our surety be detained in the prison of the Grave, when the debt for which he was imprisoned was by him fully discharged, so that the Law of God must acknowledge it self to be fully satisfied in all its claims and demands. His Resurrection from the dead was therefore but his discharge or acquittance upon full payment. Which could not in Justice be denied him.

Yea, Justice required it should be so. For how could our surety be detained in the prison of the Grave, when the debt for which he was imprisoned was by him fully discharged, so that the Law of God must acknowledge it self to be fully satisfied in all its claims and demands. His Resurrection from the dead was therefore but his discharge or acquittance upon full payment. Which could not in Justice be denyed him.

And indeed God the Father lost nothing by it, for there never was a more glorious manifestation made of the name of God to the World than was made in that work. Therefore it's said, Phil. 2.11. Speaking of one of the designs of Christs Exaltation, it was (saith the Apostle) That every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. O how is the Love of God to poor sinners illustriously, yea astonishingly displayed in Christs Exaltation. When to