The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

4. He must be God, because otherwise he could not have subdued, and overcome all his and our Enemies: What mere Man is able to wrestle with, and overcome Satan, and all the Powers of Darkness? Or how could he have prevailed against Death?¹ Overcome and have subdued Death? I will ransom them from the Power of the Grave: I will redeem them from Death: O Death, I will be thy Plague; O Grave, I will be thy Destruction. And hence Christ says, Destroy this Temple, ²and in three Days I will raise it up again. This he could not have done except he had been the Eternal God. Now this is sometimes attributed to the whole Trinity, sometimes to the Father, sometimes to the Holy Ghost, so it is sometimes attributed to Jesus Christ, which shows, that the three Persons are all but one and the same God.

4. He must be God, because otherwise he could not have subdued, and overcome all his and our Enemies: What meer Man is able to wrestle with, and overcome Satan, and all the Powers of Darkness? Or how could he have prevailed against Death?¹ Overcome and have subdued Death? I will ransom them from the Power of the Grave: I will redeem them from Death: O Death, I will be thy Plague; O Grave, I will be thy Destruction. And hence Christ says, Destroy this Temple, ²awd in three Days I will raise it up again. This he could not have done except he had been the Eternal God. Now this is sometimes attributed to the whole Trinity, sometimes to the Father, sometimes to the Holy Ghost, so it is sometimes attributed to Jesus Christ, which shews, that the three Persons are all but one and the same God.

1. 1Hos. 13.14
2. 2Joh. 2.19.