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  IF ONE DIED FOR ALL THEN ARE ALL DEAD
  by Edward Taylor
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Summary: Christ's death is a substitution for humanity's death,
demonstrating God's love and power to redeem humanity.

Topics: "Christ's Sacrifice", "Spiritual Death"
Scripture References: Romans 6:8, Romans 8:2, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55, 2 Corinthians 5:14

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Edward Taylor delves into the profound love and sacrifice of Jesus
Christ as described in 2 Corinthians 5:14, reflecting on the concept of
dying with Christ and being freed from the power of death through His
redemptive work. Taylor contemplates the depth of Christ's death and how
it becomes the cause of our own spiritual death, leading to a profound
unity with Him. He emphasizes the transformative power of grace,
portraying death as a conquered enemy that holds no terror for
believers, but rather a mere shadow on their journey to eternal joy.

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Meditation on 2 Cor. 5:14 by Edward Taylor

Oh! Good, Good, Good, my Lord. What more Love yet.

Thou dy for meet What, am I dead in thee?

What did Deaths arrow shot at me thee hit?

Didst slip between that flying shaft and mee?

Didst make thyselfe Deaths marke shot at for nice?

So that her Shaft shall fly no far than thee?

Di'dst dy for mee indeed, and in thy Death

Take in thy Dying thus my death the Cause?

And lay I dying in thy Dying breath,

According to Graces Redemption Laws?

If one did dy for all, it needs must bee

That all did dy in one, and from death free.

Infinities fierce firy arrow red

Shot from the splendid Bow of justice bright

Did smite thee down, for thine. Thou art their head.

They di'de in thee. Their death did on thee light.

They di'de their Death in thee, thy Death is theirs.

Hence thine is mine, thy death my trespass clears.

How sweet is this: my Death lies buried

Within thy Grave, my Lord, deep under ground,

It is unskin'd, as Carrion rotten Dead:

For Grace's hand gave Death its deadly wound.

Deaths no such terrour on th'Saints blesst Coast.

Its but a harmless Shade: No walking Ghost.

The Painter lies: the Bellfrey Pillars weare

A false Effigies now of Death, alasl

With empty Eyeholes, Butter teeth, bones bare

And spraggling arms, having an Hour Glass

In one grim paw. Th'other a Spade doth hold

To shew deaths frightfull region under mould.

Whereas its Sting is gone: its life is lost.

Though unto Christless ones it is most Grim

Its but a Shade to Saints whose path it Crosst,

Or Shell or Washen face, in which she sings

Their Bodies in her lap a Lollaboy

And sends their Souls to sing their Masters joy.

Lord let me finde Sin, Curse and Death that doe

Belong to me ly slain too in thy Grave.

And let thy law my clearing hence bestow

And from these things let me acquittance have.

The Law suffic'de: and I discharg'd, Hence sing

Thy praise I will over Deaths Death, and Sin.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/edward-taylor/if-one-died-for-all-then-are-all-dead/
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