: Chap.t. Selfr. 8. JLoolttng unto 'jjefu.s. ,, B"aufe the mannes of his Kingdom after rhe judgment day·fh1ll be wholly chan~ed; he fhlll not Reign in the fame fafhion thll he did before; there's no need in h~aven of good Laws [ O ke::p m:n f~.o~ llarting inro wi~kcdnefs; the ord.er~ ~f this life are changed inro a new kind o! Government, and m that refpecl hers !Jtd to give ov<r the Kingdome. . . . . . 3· Becaufe he ceafoth to increafc hr; Dom1010n. In rhrs World Chnlt was ltrll gaining,morc fouls to his Krngdom by the Preachmg of hrs Word, and fo he fpread his Dominion further, and furrher; but when the Lord {hall have made up the num– ber of his Servagts to hismin'd , rhen he will end t!•IC World, and give up the King– dom, (i) he will ceafe ro enlarge his confines any more, he will be content with the number of his Subjtcb that he hath already. Here is the Seco11d thing, Chnlt prefents all his Commiffions to his Father, he gives up his Pridlly, Prophetical, and regal offices at his firfl entrance iota h:aven. . . . il· He prcfcnts himfdf unto Ius Father; not only . hrs offi;es, but Chnfr hrmfelf is pref<nted, and fubJe<'}ed unto God. Thts I take rt, IS rhe meanmg of the Apoille, when he faith, thenfh•ll the Son alfo be Subjrft u11to bim, that p.. t all thingr un- 1 Cor. 'l· 2 g, der him. The words axe myfticol, and therefore we had need to underltand them foberly, and according ro the Analogy of Fairh. The Arrianr hence infar'd, that the Son was not equal with t he F.rher, becaufe he that is fubjec51: mull needs be infcriour to him whofe Subjtc51: he is. Bur the i\nfwer is eat1e, Chrifi is confidered ei • ther as God, or as man, and Mediatour betwixt God and Man; Chrifl as God hath us fubjec51: to him, and is fubjcel: to none; bur C hriL! as man anrl Mediatour is tubject to his Father together with us. Some would have it, that Chrifi is fubje61: to his Father in refpec51: of his mythcal body, the Church; and that this only fhould be the meaning of the Apotlle, theufhaUthe Cburchbe fubjeft totbe F'ther; but I cannot affmt to this Expotirion. 1. Becaufc the Apofllo fpeaks exprdly of Chrifi and of his Kingdome. 2. Becaufc though Chrij! be fometimes in Scripture read for the Church, or lorth:bodyof Chrift, y<ttheSonas oppofed ro the Father 1s never fo read or uuderfiood. 3· 8ec1ufe we read, rhat he that is to be fubjecl:, mult fir it have all things fubjec51: to himfelf. Now tht Father doth not properly fubje61: or fubdue all things to rhe Church of C hri(l , but only unto Chritl, and therefore the Apofile fpeaks of Chritl's fubjeCI:ion to the l'ather ; In the fame way as Chrill delivers up the Kingdom to the Far her, is Chrill alfo to be fubje61: to his Father; but Chrifi deliv~rs up his Kingdom as man, and as medratour betwixt God and man; in theferefpeCI:s Chrift ( as we have heard) mufi Rergnno more, at that day his Mediatourfhip fhall crafe , and by confcquence in refpe61: of his Mediatourfhrp or in refpect of his humanity, he fhall that dJy be fubje61: to Ius t'ather. You will fay, is not, ond was nor Cnri!l always fubjoCl to his Father as man, or as media tour betwixt God and man? how then do we limit tl1is fubjeClion to that day? then (fairh the Apofllc ) f/J•/1 the Son bz fubjeft, I anfwer, this fubjeClion will be then, or at dut day more clearly mmifefled then ever it was before; then he mufl furrender his Kingdom to his Father in the fight of men and Angds; then. tu: llnll lay afide all his Offices in the view of all . fo that henceforth God fh•\1 not Reign by the humanity of c hrifl, but by himfelf; nor llnll we henceforth be fubject to God through a mediatour Chrifl, but immed•– ately to God himfelf; nor lllall Chritl himfelf rcigHover us asmediatour any more, for the very glory of his majetly fhall become fo r\lullrous, that all eyes fh1ll !ee how tranfcendenrl y eminent the Dciric of Chrifi is above all creatures, even above the humanity of Chritl himfelf. T hat a fuller view of Chrifi's fubjection fhall be at that day then ever before: we may illufirJte thus; by n>ght the Sun Reigns or rults over us, but by the Moon ; for the light of the Moon is borrowed from the San, though in the night we fte not any fubjedion of the Moori to the Sun at all : but fo foou as the Sun rifeth, prefcntly the Moon furceaferh its office of lightning others, and becomes fubj,ct to the Sun it fclf, not by a new fubjeClion, but by a declaration of its former fubjcc\ion, f;, that now all may fee wn at eminency of glory .and ltght the Sun hath both above the Stars, and ab(\ve the Moon 1 thus it is with God and Chrill, now it is God reigns over us , but only by Chrifi as Mediatour ; God's immediate Reign we difcern nor fo clearly for the frefent, but when the end !hall come, aud Chrii\ llull furceafe his Office of Mcdiatourffiip, thm !hall the glo– ry of Chrifl's Divinity appear more eminently; not only above all creatures, but above ·
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