But again, in Matt. 28:  3-7, there is an angel as before bearing witness of the resurrection of Jesus.  “His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.  And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.  And the angel answered and said unto them,” the women who came to seek Jesus, “Fear you not; but let them that seek to keep the Lord in his grave fear if they will, for you have no ground of fear who seek the Jesus that was crucified:  he is not here, he is risen; he cannot be here, in body, and risen too:  if you will not believe me, come, see where the Lord lay.  And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee, there shall you see him.”  But shall we be sure of it?  “Yea,” saith the angel; “lo, it is I that have told you.”  See how plainly this scripture also doth testify of Christ’s resurrection.  “Here,” saith the angel, “you seek a Saviour, and none will content you but he, even the same that was crucified:  well, you shall have him, but he is not here.”  Why, where is he then?  “He is risen from the dead.”  But are you sure it is the same that we look for?  “Yea, it is the same that was crucified.”  But where shall we find him?  Why, “he goeth before you into Galilee, where he used to be in his lifetime, before he was crucified.  And that you might be sure of it there to find him, know that he is an angel of God that has told you.”

The glorification of Christ.

For God to adorn his Son with all this glory in his ascension, thus to make him ride conqueror up into the clouds, thus to go up with sound of trumpet, with shout of angels and with songs of praises, and let me add, to be accompanied also with those that rose from the dead after his resurrection, who were the very price of his blood—­this does greatly demonstrate that Jesus Christ, by what he has done has paid a full price to God for the souls of sinners, and obtained eternal redemption for them:  he had not else rode thus in triumph to heaven.

Consider those glorious circumstances that accompany his approach to the gates of the everlasting habitation.  The everlasting gates are set, yea, bid stand open:  “Be ye open, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.”  The King of glory is Jesus Christ, and the words are a prophecy of his glorious ascending into the heavens, when he went up as the High-priest of the church, to carry the price of his blood into the holiest of all.

The offices of Christ.

Christ as a Saviour is not divided.  He that hath him not in all, shall have him in none at all of his offices in a saving manner.

Christ an intercessor.

Study the priesthood, the high-priesthood of Jesus Christ, both the first and second part of it.  The first part was that when he offered up himself without the gate, when he bore our sins in his own body on the tree.