The Fountain of Life Opened

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 ⟨p. 541⟩show the Complacency and delight which he took in our recovery, he hath openly declared to the world that his exalting Christ to all that glory, such as no mere creature ever was or can be exalted to, was bestowed upon him as a reward for that work, that most grateful work of our Redemption, Phil. 2.9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, there is an Emphatical Pleonasmus in that word, our English is too flat to deliver out the elegance of the Original it is Super-Exaltation. ¹