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And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
Colossians 2:13

Christ’s resurrection was the sure pledge and meritorious cause of the Church’s regeneration. The whole body of the elect was “quickened together with Christ,” as well as raised up together with Him; that is, mystically quickened, as they were mystically raised, quickened in a mystical regeneration of soul, as well as raised up in a mystical regeneration of body. How wonderful is this, that every soul quickened into divine life in time is so because mystically quickened as a member of Christ when He was raised from the dead.

View the whole body of the elect as dead in sin. Then view them quickened, one by one, in all their countless multitude, during the whole stretch of time. Consider the power put forth in the regeneration of each individual. Then take a view of the quickening of the dead body of Christ, as prior to the resurrection, and the whole body of the elect mystically quickened together with Him.

Do you see no act of infinite power, and power in harmony with love and grace here? Where are the eyes of your faith, if you see not this? Where your admiring love, if you do not adore this act of love to the Church, as in union with her covenant Head? Was not that a mighty act of power and love which, at one moment, and by one and the same act, mystically quickened millions of souls which shall live forever in the presence of God?

To the reader…

Do you know yourself to be dead in trespasses, without strength to make yourself alive? Then this word is for you: “And you, being dead in your sins … hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.” Look then to the resurrection of Christ as the sure pledge of the life of His Church. When He was raised from the dead, the whole multitude of the elect was mystically quickened together with Him.

What power, and what love! Consider how much power is needed to make one dead soul alive, and then look at that countless multitude. Where are the eyes of your faith, if you do not see this? Do not let this wonder leave you cold, but let it bring you to worship. And if you still feel so much deadness in yourself, do not look at yourself, but at Him Who lives. What His power and love have begun will remain for ever.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl