Christ Set Forth

Now then in the 2.¹ place,² I am to show that this his justification, and pronouncing him without sin, thus done at his Resurrection, was done to him as the First-fruits, and as to a Common person bearing our persons, & so, in our names. From whence will necessarily follow, as the Conclusion of all, That the persons of all the elect Believers, have been justified before God in Christ, as their Head, at, or from the time of his Resurrection; and so that Act of Justification to have been so firmly past, as it cannot be revoked for ever.

Now then in the 2.¹ place,² I am to shew that this his justification, and pronouncing him without sin, thus done at his Resurrection, was done to him as the First-fruits, and as to a Common person bearing our persons, & so, in our names. From whence wil necessarily follow, as the Conclusion of all, That the persons of all the elect Beleevers, have beene justified before God in Christ, as their Head, at, or from the time of his Resurrection; and so that Act of Justification to have beene so firmly past, as it cannot be revoked for ever.

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2. 22. That Believers were all justified in Christ his justification, as a Common person representing them.2. That Beleevers were all justified in Christ his justification, as a Common person representing them.

Now this is proved,¹ first, by the very same reason or respect that he was said to be the first-fruits of them that sleep, as representing the rest in his Resurrection, (which I showed at large in the former Chap. upon the same ground he is to be so looked at also in this his Justification pronounced upon him at his Resurrection, even as the first-fruits also of them that are justified. And so in the same sense, & by the same reason that we are said to be risen with Christ, in his Resurrection; we must also be said to be justified with him, in this his justification, at his Resurrection. And indeed,