A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

Answ. He is our Life as he is our Head; and it would be but a sorry Head that should only teach the Feet to go, or the Members to act and move, without communicating Strength unto ⟨p. 265⟩them, and to the whole Body. Christ, Brethren, is an Head of Influence; and in these spiritual Influences, or Life, that Strength which he communicates to us, doth consist in the killing of Sin: He loved his Church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of Water, that he might present it to ¹himself a glorious Church, not having Spot or Wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be Holy and without Blame. And if this was his End in his Death, be sure his Death shall perfectly effect this glorious Work in the End upon every Soul of his.

1. 1Eph. 5. 25, 26, 27.

Tenthly, and lastly, Glorification is also an Effect of the Death of Christ; it is the Fruit of his Suffering, it was by his own Blood he entered as our Head and Representative once into the Holy Place, having obtained Eternal Redemption for us. The Crown of ¹Glory is the Purchase of his Blood: and as sure as his Righteousness, his Holy Life and Obedience, and Meritorious Death carried him to the Father, and set him down at the right Hand of the Majesty on high; so will his Merits as certainly bring all the true Heirs to that Glory above, where the Fore-runner is for us already entered: For it became him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many Sons to Glory, to make the Captain of their Salvation perfect through Sufferings. First he brings those Sons into a State of Grace, as the Effects of his Death and Resurrection, and unto a State of Glory: And whom he justified, them also he