129. Thus the equality of the Son to the
Father is established simply upon unity in the action of quickening,
since the Son so quickeneth as the Father doth. Acknowledge
therefore the eternity of His Life and Sovereignty. Again, our
likeness with the Son is discovered, and a certain unity with Him in
the flesh, Or “is
discovered to be a certain unity, etc.” because that, like
as the Son of God was quickened in the flesh i.e. in
respect of His Body of flesh and blood.
by the Father, so also is man quickened; for thus it is written, that
as God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, so we also, as men, are
quickened by the Son of God. Rom. iv. 24.