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Part II. tiedewftionandjujlificationcleered. loi
By thit cIiftin(5Hon imprinrcd upon the mind and memory,, a
nun may eaQly fee chc realbn why the death of Chriflis fom crimes
called a palTivc d( ath,and fom flimes an a(5^ivc death.
Yea bis mediatorial death may ucl be called a miraculous death, The d^th of
Mtar^ii
it was no lefs miracuk)S then theraifingof the dead body oiU^jirui '^;XL^;^^''
was:for when Chrift ^ cnt about to ra'fe the dead body of Laxuptm d.-Jth.
he did but cry out to La^rm with a loud voicc/ayingcowf /orr^;
andrff that very inft-MMt he e^metitt ofthe grave: Uhn 11.45. '" ^^^^
manners hen the jult appointed hour was come wherein the Father
fiad appointed the mediator to make his foul a faaifice for fin ,
he did but cry out to his Father with aloud voice, faying, Father
into thj hands I commend my fpirit ^
and^ that very itijlant he
hredthedoHt huftnt into the hands of Cod.
fhrifi djed not by decrees ({Mi\i Mr. Tijchols in his Day flar) 44
h*4 Sdints Jo: hts fenfes did not decay -,
no fan^s ofdeath took^hold
fifoK him-^ but in ferfeft fenfe, Patience, andObediercc both of
body and of foul, he by hU ir.fnitefo'iPer didvolnntarily refgn hi>
ffirit (m he W^i fraying) into the hands of his Father, Without any
trembling orfirug/ptg, or )X'ithttit any jhew offenfe of his fains.
And tAufiin laith thus : w^o tan fleef Taith he ; ^hen hi willy \
01 Chrifi dyedXi'henherfould who canla] aftdehiiCarnienty fo
as Chrifh layed ajide his flejb f who can leave his place, fo as Ch ifi ( .
left his life his life^^at not forced from him by any imfojedfuni-^
Jhment, but he did zolttntarilj render it uf to God su a Mediatorial
Sacrifice: in his life time he was often touched Vfith the j'e.ir 0/ vi
death, but by his firong crying mnto Godwithd^yly prayersand l
tears^ he obtained fovrer aga:nfh his naturalfear 0^ death before he
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came 10 make hii oblation-^ as I have expounded Fr/'. 5. 7- .
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And it is further evident tlut his death was miraculous, by the
fpecch ot the Centurion, for when he faw that Cl.ril"l did bur cry .^
out and eive up the Ghoft, at the famcinftant \\c faid, t-ulj thie
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manrwti the SoHofCod-^Marl^i'^.i^.
Again It is evident that his death was miraculous, bcc.ui'e at that
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inftjnt when he breathed out his fold into tl. ch.mds of God, the
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vail of the tern fie (^which typified his human nature^ rent it felf in
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t\^ain frvm the tcf to the bottom andat ; th.tt time alio the graves j
if the Saints did' open tbemfeitics, andnnny 0' the dead Saints did 1
Arife: Mdt. 27. 51. Thtfc mirades dcclai'd that now the true <
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