...take notice, that our Saviour tells us himfelf, in the Tenth of St. John and the Eighteenth Verfe, I have power to lay down my Life, and I have power to take it again. • And Reafon tells us the fame Thing : For, becaufe he made the Worlds, and becaufe all things...

...Man underwent Death, yet he was rais'd again by the fole Power of the Godhead j which made him fay, / have power to. lay down my Life, and I have power to take it tip again : which no mere Man could ever fay or do. 2. Chrift's Refurreftion was exactly in that Way...

...true ; and, that he hath spoken to l>s by Jesus Christ: then, by that declaration of Christ, "I hare power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again*," the Godliead of Christ is necessarily established. For in what respect shall we suppose he...

...that, in the ftri&eft fenfe, was his property : for fo he fays in the i8th verfe of this chapter, *' I have power to lay down my life, and I " have power to take it up again." He had an eftate of his own, (fb to fpeak), an original, and therefore an abfolute, right to...

..." But Scripture also abundantly testifies, that he rose from the dead. "I have power," said Jesus, "to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again." He who is tlte life, permitted his enemies to destroy the temple of his body. But on the third...

...being the. afloat clear and undeniable exertion of divine power ; for none but a God could" say, " I have " power to lay down my life, and I have power " to take it again-" and also as being the least liable to any suspicion of fraud and imposture, when it had been...

...humiliation. He thus proved the truth of the words which he had formerly uttered to the Jews — " I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again." In the Collect for the day, we refer to the fact of the resurrection ; and to the important...

...commend my spirit ;" which was so ordained by the divine counsel to prove what he had before asserted, " I have power to lay down my life and I have power to take it again ;-j-" and likewise to accomplish two very singular predictions concerning his death : for, when...

...case of Christ it assumes the form of a law or commandment. Christ himself gives this view of it, " I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again: This commandment have I received of my Father." John x. 18. The sufferings of Jesus were a complete...

...-.I... or /» ••'.•• • : '-'..I ' •&'!. \\ . .1. ...i. > ..... I : '% . ; . XLI. GAL. ii JESUS CHRIST, WHOM GOD THE FATHER RAISED FROM THE...JOHN, x. 1 8. I HAVE POWER TO LAY DOWN MY LIFE, AND 1 HAVE POWER TO TAKE IT UP. TN thefe paflages, and in others of the fame kind, there is a variation...