ASSURANCE OF A PERFECT GLORIFICATION OF EVERY BELIEVER
"Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."
Christ did not only rise for Himself, but for His members, and their justification, Romans 4:25, and therefore for their resurrection ; for there is no reason death, the punishment, should remain, if guilt, the meritorious cause of it, be removed. He rose for our justification declaratively, i.e. His resurrection was a declaration of our fundamental justification, BECAUSE JUSTICE WAS THEREBY DECLARED TO BE SATISFIED, which would else have shut us in the grave, and locked the chains of death for ever upon us.
It is by this, the first step of his
entrance into glory, WE HAVE AN ASSURANCE that the graves shall open,
bodies stand up, and death be swallowed up in victory. HENCE ARISETH AN
ASSURANCE OF A PERFECT GLORIFICATION OF EVERY BELIEVER. The heavens
receive him till, and therefore in order to, 'the restitution of all
things,' Acts 3:21, the full restoration of all things into due
order, AND THEREFORE A FULL FREEDOM OF THE REGENERATE MAN FROM SIN AND
MISERY.
-preacher Stephen Charnock
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