ascendere fecit sursum simul cum seipso. The Cross was the first general Rendezvous in this world appointed for him and his members, where they were crucified in him and with him, as the Apostle often speaks. Christ told the Jews, If I be lifted up, Joh. 12. 32. (speaking of his death on the Cross, v. 33.) I will draw all to me: And here you see the reason of it, for in their lifting up him, they lift up all his with him, as hung to and adjoined with him in one body, in his body. This great and universal lodestone set in that steel of the Cross, having then gathered all these lesser magnetic bodies, pieces of himself, into himself; the virtue hereof will draw them all together in one again, as they come to exist in the world: They may be scattered, they may fall out, but as branches united in one root, though severed by winds and storms, and beaten one from and against another, yet the root holding them in a firm and indissoluble union, it brings them to a quiet order, and station again. And if the now scattered Jews must one day come together, and make one body again; because those dry bones (the Umbrae, the ghastly Shadows of them) were seen once to meet in Ezekiels vision: how much more shall the Elect coalesce in one New man, because they once met in him, that is, the body, and not the shadow? If those Jews must meet, that the prophecy, the vision might be fulfilled, these must much move, that the end of his death, and his hanging on the tree may be fulfilled, in whom all visions and promises have their Amen and accomplishment. As in his death, so in his resurrection also, they are considered as one body with him, Isay 26. 19. Together with my dead body they shall arise (says Christ) and both, in death and resurrection, one body, to the end they may be presented (together) in one body, all at last, Coloss. 1. 22. and in the mean time in the efficacy of these forehand meetings are they to be created into one new man, ⟨p. 54⟩v. 15. and that even [Greek or Hebrew], ONE individual man, Gal. 3. ult. not [Greek or Hebrew], one bulk, body, or thing only. This one new man, which they are to grow up into, answereth exactly to that one body, which was then gathered together, represented and met in him on the Cross, bearing the image of it, and wrought by the virtue of it.
ascendere fecit sursum simul cum seipso. The Crosse was the first generall Rendezvouz in this world appointed for him and his members, where they were crucified in him and with him, as the Apostle often speakes. Christ told the Jewes, If I be lifted up, Joh. 12. 32. (speaking of his death on the Crosse, v. 33.) I will draw all to me: And here you see the reason of it, for in their lifting up him, they lift up all his with him, as hung to and adjoyned with him in one body, in his body. This great and universall loadstone set in that steele of the Crosse, having then gathered all these lesser magneticke bodies, pieces of himselfe, into himselfe; the vertue hereof will draw them all together in one againe, as they come to exist in the world: They may be scattered, they may fall out, but as branches united in one root, though severed by winds and stormes, and beaten one from and against another, yet the root holding them in a firme and indissoluble union, it brings them to a quiet order, and station againe. And if the now scattered Jewes must one day come together, and make one body againe; because those dry bones (the Umbrae, the ghastly Shadowes of them) were seene once to meet in Ezekiels vision: how much more shall the Elect coalesce in one New man, because they once met in him, that is, the body, and not the shadow? If those Jewes must meet, that the prophecy, the vision might be fulfilled, these must much move, that the end of his death, and his hanging on the tree may be fulfilled, in whom all visions and promises have their Amen and accomplishment. As in his death, so in his resurrection also, they are considered as one body with him, Isay 26. 19. Together with my dead body they shall arise (sayes Christ) and both, in death and resurrection, one body, to the end they may be presented (together) in one body, all at last, Coloss. 1. 22. and in the meane time in the efficacy of these forehand meetings are they to be created into one new man, ⟨p. 54⟩v. 15. and that even 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ONE individuall man, Gal. 3. ult. not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, one bulke, body, or thing onely. This one new man, which they are to grow up into, answereth exactly to that one body, which was then gathered together, represented and met in him on the Crosse, bearing the image of it, and wrought by the vertue of it.
