A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

PART I.

I WOULD take notice, first, of those things by which Christ was put into a capacity for accomplishing the end of his purchase. They are two things, viz. his resurrection, and his ascension. As we observed before, the incarnation of Christ was necessary in order to Christ's being in a near capacity for the purchase of redemption▪ so the […] and ascension of Christ were requisite in order to his accomplishing the […] of his purchase.

I WOULD take notice, first, of those things by which Christ was put into a capacity for accomplishing the end of his purchase. They are two things, viz. his resurrection, and his ascension. As we observed before, the incarnation of Christ was necessary in order to Christ's being in a near capacity for the purchase of redemption▪ so the 〈…〉 and ascension of Christ were requisite in order to his acc••plishing the 〈…〉 of his purchase.

I. His resurrection. It was necessary in order to Christ's obtaining the end and effect of his purchase of redemption, that he should rise from the dead. For God the Father had committed the whole affair of redemption, not only the purchasing of it, but the bestowing of the blessings purchased, to his Son, that he should not only purchase it as priest, but actually bring it about as king; and that he should do this as God man. For God the Father would have nothing to do with fallen man in a way of mercy but by a mediator. But in order that Christ might carry on the work of redemption, and accomplish the success of his own purpose as God man, it was necessary that he should be alive, and so that he should rise from the dead. Therefore Chris, after he had finished this purchase by death, and by continuing for a time under the power of death, rises from the dead, to fulfil the end of his purchase, and himself to bring about that for which he died: For this matter God the Father had committed unto him, that he might, as Lord of all, manage all to his own purposes: