1. By Christs Exaltation, he is delivered from that suffering estate which our sins brought him into: he is hereby set free from that state of humiliation, which he was in for our sins: vengeance had taken hold of Christ as our surety, the justice of God seized him, he was apprehended as one liable to the Law, and God took vengeance on him, and soured out wrath on him; but now by his Exaltation, he is set at liberty: justice has dismissed him, God has done exacting any more punishment on him, which is a clear evidence that he is wholly discharged of that guilt that was upon him: Christ subjected himself to the wrath of God, and God punished him as much as he pleased, Christ bore the curse, till God laid it was enough, In his resurrection God opened the prison door, and let him out; God sent an Officer to deliver him from his grave, Mat. 28. 2. The angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door. Gods delivering of Christ, evidenceth the satisfaction that he has received by his sufferings: if Christ were not risen, it would be an argument that sins were not satisfied for, 1 Cor. 15.17. If Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins: but his resurrection shows, that Gods demands are answered; and therefore when Christ was raised from the dead, he is said to be justified: God gave him a legal acquittance ⟨p. 89⟩and discharge from that guilt which he had taken upon him, 1 Tim. 3.16. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, the Apostle Peter expresses it thus: he was quickened in the spirit, 1 Pet: 3.18: so that when he was quickened, he was justified; Christ could never have been delivered out of the hands of Justice, if he had not paid the uttermost farthing. Hence we are said to have a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ, 1 Pet. 1.3. God has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead: this consideration is a means by Gods blessing to beget a lively hope in us: the ground of our hope is the resurrection of Christ; it might better be rendered a living hope: the same word is rendered living, 1 Pet. 2.4. this is such an hope as will abide and continue, the hope that is built upon the foundation, will never fail; other hopes may dye away, but this is a living hope, a parallel Scripture to this is, 1 Pet. 3.18.
1. By Christs Exaltation, he is delivered from that suffering estate which our sins brought him into: he is hereby set free from that state of humiliation, which he was in for our sins: vengeance had taken hold of Christ as our surety, the justice of God seized him, he was apprehended as one liable to the Law, and God took vengeance on him, and soured out wrath on him; but now by his Exaltation, he is set at liberty: justice has dismissed him, God has done exacting any more punishment on him, which is a clear evidence that he is wholly discharged of that guilt that was upon him: Christ subjected himself to the wrath of God, and God punished him as much as he pleased, Christ bore the curse, till God laid it was enough, In his resurrection God opened the prison door, and let him out; God sent an Officer to deliver him from his grave, Mat. 28. 2. The angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door. Gods delivering of Christ, evidenceth the satisfaction that he has received by his sufferings: if Christ were not risen, it would be an argument that sins were not satisfied for, 1 Cor. 15.17. If Christ be not risen, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins: but his resurrection shews, that Gods demands are answered; and therefore when Christ was raised from the dead, he is said to be justified: God gave him a legal acquittance ⟨p. 89⟩and discharge from that guilt which he had taken upon him, 1 Tim. 3.16. God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, the Apostle Peter expresses it thus: he was quickned in the spirit, 1 Pet: 3.18: so that when he was quickned, he was justified; Christ could never have been delivered out of the hands of Justice, if he had not paid the uttermost farthing. Hence we are said to have a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ, 1 Pet. 1.3. God has begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead: this consideration is a means by Gods blessing to beget a lively hope in us: the ground of our hope is the resurrection of Christ; it might better be rendred a living hope: the same word is rendred living, 1 Pet. 2.4. this is such an hope as will abide and continue, the hope that is built upon the foundation, will never fail; other hopes may dye away, but this is a living hope, a parallel Scripture to this is,
