The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

Again, secondly, death had no power over Christ, Rom. 6. 9. Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him. The Lord Christ indeed was once seized upon by death, he was once under the power of a temporal death; but he being once raised from death; death now never can reach Christ any more. In this also must all Gods people be like unto Christ: Indeed it is true, once death and damnation had dominion over us, we were under the guilt and sentence of condemnation, as Christ was once under death, but as Christ once being delivered from death, death never after had dominion over him; ⟨p. 97⟩so all that are the people of God, being by Christ delivered from the sentence of damnation, it shall never come to have dominion over them. Once they were under the power of sin to damnation, but now by Christ they are delivered from it, death hath no more dominion over them; howsoever a bodily death prevaileth so far as to part body and soul for a while, yet not so as to expose them to damnation. To the end therefore that there may be a proportion between the root, and the branches, between the head, and the members, between the elder brother, and the rest of the brethren, between Christ and the people of God, hence it cometh of necessity, that sin must not have dominion over any of Gods people.

Again, secondly, death had no power over Christ, Rom. 6. 9. Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more, death hath no more dominion over him. The Lord Christ indeed was once seized upon by death, he was once under the power of a temporall death; but he being once raised from death; death now never can reach Christ any more. In this also must all Gods people be like unto Christ: Indeed it is true, once death and damnation had dominion over us, we were under the guilt and sentence of condemnation, as Christ was once under death, but as Christ once being delivered from death, death never after had dominion over him; ⟨p. 97⟩so all that are the people of God, being by Christ delivered from the sentence of damnation, it shall never come to have dominion over them. Once they were under the power of sin to damnation, but now by Christ they are delivered from it, death hath no more dominion over them; howsoever a bodily death prevaileth so far as to part body and soul for a while, yet not so as to expose them to damnation. To the end therefore that there may be a proportion between the root, and the branches, between the head, and the members, between the elder brother, and the rest of the brethren, between Christ and the people of God, hence it cometh of necessitie, that sin must not have dominion over any of Gods people.