Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

3. All those that rose again before Christ arose only by special dispensation, to lay down their bodies once more when God should see fit, and rose only as private and single persons, but Christ rose as a public person. His Resurrection is the cause and pattern of ours, for head and members do not rise by a different power, he rose ato gain show the virtue that should quicken our mortal bodies, and raise them at length.

3. All those that rose again before Christ arose onely by special dispensation, to lay down their bodies once more when God should see fit, and rose only as private and single persons, but Christ rose as a publick person. His Resurrection is the cause and pattern of ours, for head and members do not rise by a different power, he rose ato gain shew the vertue that should quicken our mortal bodies, and raise them at length.

2. The second objection is concerning the raising of the wicked, Christ cannot be the first-born or the first-fruits to them, they belong not to his mystical body, the first-born implieth a relation to the rest of the Family, and offering of the first-fruits did not sanctify the Tares, the Cockle or the Darnel, or the Weeds that grow amongst the ⟨p. 149⟩Corn, but only the Corn it self. I answer,

2. The second objection is concerning the raising of the wicked, Christ cannot be the first-born or the first-fruits to them, they belong not to his mystical body, the first-born implyeth a relation to the rest of the Family, and offering of the first-fruits did not sanctifie the Tares, the Cockle or the Darnel, or the Weeds that grow amongst the ⟨p. 149⟩Corn, but only the Corn it self. I answer,