"Here," saith
the angel, "you seek a Saviour, and none will content you but he,
even the same that was crucified: well, you shall have him, but he
is not here." Why, where is he then? "He is risen from the dead."
But are you sure it is the same that we look for? "Yea, it is the
same that was crucified." But where shall we find him? Why, "he
goeth before you into Galilee, where he used to be in his lifetime,
before he was crucified. And that you might be sure of it there to
find him, know that he is an angel of God that has told you."
THE GLORIFICATION OF CHRIST.
For God to adorn his Son with all this glory in his ascension, thus
to make him ride conqueror up into the clouds, thus to go up with
sound of trumpet, with shout of angels and with songs of praises,
and let me add, to be accompanied also with those that rose from the
dead after his resurrection, who were the very price of his
blood--this does greatly demonstrate that Jesus Christ, by what he
has done has paid a full price to God for the souls of sinners, and
obtained eternal redemption for them: he had not else rode thus in
triumph to heaven.
Consider those glorious circumstances that accompany his approach to
the gates of the everlasting habitation. The everlasting gates are
set, yea, bid stand open: "Be ye open, ye everlasting doors, and the
King of glory shall come in.
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