the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, has quickened together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved) and has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4-6.
Christ being our head, who are his members, are together with him dead, buried, raised up, and seated in heavenly places; for he is the new Adam, and has done all these things as our representative in our stead, and for our good. Thus have I suffered in thee, O my glorious head, for all my sins already. I am discharged, I have no punishment to fear any more. Thou hast fully answered the charge against me, satisfied the infinite justice of God for me; and it is impossible with his equity and love, to require a double payment of my debts. Consequently I die no more, since thou canst die no more; nay I live already, and have my place with thee eternally in heaven, since the head can, and will never part, even with the weakest of his members, but influence and draw it after him wherever he goes.
O Lord we praise thee for thy Son,
Who joined our nature to his own;
Adam the second, from the dust,
Raises the ruins of the first.
By the rebellion of one man
Through all his seed the mischief ran:
And by one man’s obedience now
Are all his seed made righteous too.
When sin did reign and death abound,
There have the sons of Adam found
Abounding life; there glorious grace
Reigns through the Lord our righteousness.
