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| Christ’s Cross and Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and Sitting Down at the Right Hand of God, are Images of the Christian Life.
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53.—Christ’s Cross and Burial, Resurrection, Ascension, and
Sitting Down at the Right Hand of God, are Images of the Christian
Life.
All the events, then, of Christ’s
crucifixion, of His burial, of His
resurrection the third day, of His ascension into heaven, of His
sitting down at the right hand of the Father, were so ordered, that
the life which the Christian leads here might be modelled upon
them, not merely in a mystical sense, but in reality. For in
reference to His crucifixion it is said: “They that are
Christ’s have crucified the flesh, with the affections and
lusts.”1179
And in
reference to His burial: “We are buried with Him by baptism into
death.”1180
In
reference to His resurrection: “That, like as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should
walk in newness of life.”1181
And in reference to His ascension
into heaven and sitting down at the right hand of the Father: “If
ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection
on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and
your life is hid with Christ in God.”1182
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