...for the sheep." In the next place, it is to be recollected, that during his ministry, he intimated that " he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it again;" that he frequently predicted, in explicit and confident terms, that he would return from - the grave...

...from God's blessed word, that he gave himself a willing victim for human guilt ! He told his disciples he had power to lay down his life, and power to take it again ; and he did lay down his life for us, or, in other words, died, that we might live ! And not a creature...

...observed the order of their commanders, were stricken with astonishment, and became as dead. Our Lord, who had power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again, re-assumes his body, which, though it hath tasted death, yet had not seen corruption, and...

...with no capacity of living or dying except as it was given him from above. Christ as the Son of God had power " to lay down His life," and power " to take it again," 1 being Almighty in Himself, and " far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion,...

...unwilling ; nor comes to the altar as Isaac did, not knowing where the lamb was for a burnt offering. He had power to lay down his life, and power to take it up again. Not merely was he given, although this was true, but he gave himself. And it was not merely...

...animals, of course, to set forth both these things : none but he who had "life in himself" could have power to lay down his life, and power to take it again ; ana, therefore, the two goats are provided to make up one offering, both together exhibiting him...

...thought it a thing incredible that " God should raise the dead." Were it true that " life is in the Son," that he had power to lay down his life " and power to take it up again ? " If it were true that the hour had now come, in the which they that were in their graves...

...appeared once in the end of the world to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Christ, as mediator, had power to lay down his life and power to take it up again. He had power on earth to forgive the sinner, and to do many wonderful works. Are we, my reader,...

...particulars, and through the whole duration of the Cross; but was entire choice also His ? Had He indeed " power to lay down" His life, "and power to take it again?" His last word in agony, together with its circumstances, affords an answer. At the moment of His Death...

...to Calvary, from thence to the Sepulchre ; in vain the soldiers watched or the stone was sealed, for He had power to lay down his life, and power to take it again. He rose triumphant. 0 my dear friend," said he, " the battle is fought, the victory is won. I shall...