Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the son of God unfolded

But put case also, that the life of any other singular man might be equivalent to all the lives of whole mankind: yet the laying down of that life would not be sufficient to do the deed, unless he that had power to lay it down, had power likewise to take it up again. For to be detained always in that prison, ^rfrom whence there is no coming out, before the payment of the uttermost farthing; is to lie always under execution, and so to disannul quite the plea of that full payment of the debt wherein our surety stood engaged for us. And therefore the Apostle upon that ground doth rightly conclude; that ⟨p. 36⟩^sif Christ be not raised, our faith is vain, we are yet in our sins; and consequently, that as he must be^t delivered to death for our offences, so he must be raised again for our justification.

But put case also, that the life of any other singular man might be equivalent to all the lives of whole mankinde: yet the laying down of that life would not be sufficient to doe the deed, unlesse he that had power to lay it down, had power likewise to take it up again. For to be detained alwayes in that prison, ^rfrom whence there is no comming out, before the payment of the uttermost farthing; is to lie alwaies under execution, and so to disanull quite the plea of that full paymēt of the debt wherein our surety stood engaged for us. And therefore the Apostle upon that ground doth rightly conclude; that ⟨p. 36⟩^sif Christ be not raised, our faith is vaine, we are yet in our sinnes; and consequently, that as he must be^t delivered to death for our offences, so he must be raised again for our justification.

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