2.4.  **  Because  he  hath  appointed  a  day,  in  the
which  he  will  judge  the  world  in  righteousness,  by
that  man  whom  he  hath  ordained ;  whereof  he  hath
given  assurance  unto  all  men,  in  that  he  hath
raised  him  from  the  dead,"  Acts  xvii.  31.  "  And
declared  to  be  the  Son  of  God,  with  power,  ac-
cording to  the  spirit  of  holiness,  by  the  resurrec*
tion  from  the  dead,"'  Rom;  i.  4*  -

This  Insurrection  of  Christ  fh>)»  the  dead  <an
be  no  other  than  sweet  to  all  true  believers,  and
that  on  a  threefold  afcexjunt

1.  As  it  is  God*  the  Father's  actual  discharge
tb  Christ,  the  public  head  and  representative  of
God's  elect;  and  to  them,  in  him,  from  that  sin  of
theirs  which  he,  as  their  surety,  stood  charged
with ;  and  from  the  whole  of  that  debt  wlirch  he
undertook  to  pay  for  them.
'  Aar  Christ's  active  and  passive  obedience  was  the
full  payment  of  believers'  debts  to  God,  so  God's
raising  him  from  death  was  God's  .actual  discharge


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to  his  Scdd,  and,  in  him,  to  all  elect  believers ;  to
assure  (hem  that  the  debt  which  Christ  his  Son  un«»
dertook  to  pay  for  them  is  now  fully  paid  and  ssr
tisfied:  witness  his  actual  release  and  discharge
from  the  prison  of  the  grave,  where  Christ,  as  un^
dertaker  and  surety  for  God  s  elect,  was  detained
until  the  justice  of  hi6  Father  said,  '  It  is  enough :
I  am  now  satisfied  to  the  full ;  every  iota  and  tittle
pf  the  law  is  by  him  perfectly  obey^,  both  ac*
ti vely  and  passively.  I  have  no  more  to  lay  to  his,
or  the  elect's  pharge,  for  whom  he  became  a  surety.
