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Secondly, He doth not only assert the Possibility, but the Impossibility of his final Continuance under the Power of Death. The Grave ⟨p. 96⟩that grasps and retains all other Mortals, was not able to detain him who hath Immortality and Life dwelling in himself: It was not possible he should be holden of it, therefore God hath raised him up, loosing the Pains of Death. Whom God raised up: Here is the Efficient Cause of Christ's Resurrection, in the concurrent Action of the whole Trinity; for all that God doth out of himself, is ascribed to all the Three Persons. Sometimes it is ascribed to the Father, ¹as the Apostle speaks; The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied the Holy One, and the Just, desiring a Murderer; and killed the Prince of Life, whom God hath raised from the Dead. Sometimes it is ascribed to the Son, who by the infinite Power of his Divinity, raised up his Humane Nature from the ⟨p. 97⟩Grave: So our Saviour himself tells us, I lay down my Life of my self: ²I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. The same may be collected of the Holy Ghost, from the Words of the Apostle; ³If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the Dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the Dead, shall also quicken your mortal Bodies by his Spirit. Now if the Spirit of God can quicken our Bodies, the same Spirit also can quicken the Body of Christ, since it is the same Spirit that quickens both the Head, and the Members.

Secondly, He doth not only assert the Possibility, but the Impossibility of his final Continuance under the Power of Death. The Grave ⟨p. 96⟩that grasps and retains all other Mortals, was not able to detain him who hath Immortality and Life dwelling in himself: It was not possible he should be holden of it, therefore God hath raised him up, loosing the Pains of Death. Whom God raised up: Here is the Efficient Cause of Christ's Resurrection, in the concurrent Action of the whole Trinity; for all that God doth out of himself, is ascribed to all the Three Persons. Sometimes it is ascribed to the Father,