...that Christ had a nature distinct from his manhood, that he was truly God, as one with the Father ; that he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it again ; and that by so doing he proved himself to be the Son of God, in that sense, which the Jews deemed blasphemy...

...life-giving Spirit, — contrasted with the ™> in tne first man wh° was " from the earth, earthly." As he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it again, so has he the power of raising to a spiritual existence all who live through him. As the same Apostle...

...he bore the heavy load, yea, he triumphed gloriously, for he conquered when he fell. He told them " he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again," which he actually put in practice on the third morn ; for he rose from the dead, shouting...

...xii. 27), bare record intentionally to his glory (John xi. 4, 40), but unwittingly that it was He who had power to lay down his life and power to take it up again. It was the universal belief amongst the Jews, that the Messiah would manifest himself at...

...Divine nature only, he called Paul 1 But what need I stay my reader here '! Had not Christ, as Mediator, power to lay down his life, and power to take it again 1 John, 10 : 17, 18. Had he not, as Mediator, all power in heaven nnd earth to institute ordinances...

...Heb. ii. 14. So here is the love of God in giving his Son, who tasted death for all men, who said, ' he had power to lay down his life ; and power to take it up again.' And they that say Christ did not taste death for every man, are the sect-makers and sectaries...

...life of his own accord, in order to shew that he had a power which no created being can ever possess, power to lay down his life, and power to take it again. He laid it down that he might be Lord of the quick and the dead. He laid it down that death, as well...

...the Scriptures represent him as having performed, cannot surely be accounted heresy. Although Christ had power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again, yet in innumerable passages of Scripture God is said to have raised him up from the dead...

...God. He wrought a miracle on the paralytic, to prove that he had power to forgive sins. He declared that he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it again. He foretold that the general resurrection was to be the act of his own cc 2 omnipotence in union with...

...sin and slaying death. He only was free when in the regions of death and captivity, because he only had power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again, for us. He therefore was the victor and the victim, and therefore the victor, because the...