The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

Thirdly, he rose at the rising of the Sun, to show that he was the true Sun of righteousness, that was now rising to enlighten the new and Christian world, after the long night of darkness and legal shadows, and that he had brought life and immortality to light, 2▪ Tim. 1. 10.

Thirdly, hee rose at the rising of the Sunne, to shew that he was the true Sunne of righteousnesse, that was now rising to enlighten the new and Christian world, after the long night of darknesse and legall shadowes, and that hee had brought life and immortality to light, 2▪ Tim. 1. 10.

For the fourth point (to wit) how Christ rose, divers things are to be answered: first, that he rose by his own power, He raised himself up from the dead, Joh. 2. 19. and 10. 18. and 5. 25. for though other Scriptures attribute resurrection to God the Father & the Holy Ghost, yet that hinders not the truth of this assertion; for in the works ad extra, all the Trinity work, but yet in their order; God the Father, by the Son, through the Holy Ghost, raised the dead body of Christ. Secondly, he rose by a way that never man rose, and not as other men have risen, or shall rise, by a way peculiar to himself, viz. as the Lord of Life, as the first borne of the Dead, ⟨p. 457⟩as the first fruits of them that sleep, Rev. 1. 5. 1 Cor. 15. 20. 23. not as a private person, but as a public person, as our head and surety. He saw no corruption in the Grave, as other dead bodies do; and he rose to immortal life, never to dye again, whereas Lazarus, and others that were raised, were raised but to a mortal life, they were to dye again, he was the first tha ever rose to eternal life. Thirdly, he rose in the same body that was dead and buried,