4 so Book IV. Uoolttng unto ']Jefu.s. Chap. t. ~ect. 4. God'> heart for us, and now he is drawing out the riches of love from God tiis F~he; Phil-1- '9· and laying them in bank for us, which made the Apolllc fay, My God [hall fupply all )'ot~r. med acc.ording to hu riche_s in tlory by Ch~ift Jefm.. Tflirdly, he fends down his ,JJ· Sp1m to conv~nce us that Chnft sr~ghteoufncfs IS ours: mdeed rhe n:eans of procuring tlus was the hfe and death of ~hnft, bnt t.he means of applymg th1s righreoufnefs are thole following ads of Ch~·1ft s Refurredwn, Afcenfion, Sefiion, Imerceffion, <:;:'-c. lly his Death he obtained n&hteoufn~fs for us, but by his Afcenfion he applies righte. oufnefs to us, now1t" that m efpenal mannerhe convmceth us of riglneoulnefs, Be· cat<[e he ugone to hu Father, and we jba/1 fee htmnomore. Pfal.u8.,~. Fxod.,5.6. pf,\.89.1 ;. Ifa. 48.13. Phil.2•.1'• 5. That he might receive his Kingdom over us in the place arpoinred for it . look as Kings are crowned in the chief Cities of their Kingdoms, and keep their refldence in their Palaces near unto them, fo it was decent that our Saviour fi10uld be crowned in Heaven, and there fit down at God's right hand· which immediately follows after his Afcenlion, to which we now come. ' SECT. IV. Of God's right hand, andof Chrift's Seffionthm. 2, fOr th~Stfiion of Chrill at God's right hand, which is a confequent following af. · ter ~~~ afcen~on mto Heaven, I llJall examine. I. What is God's right 1 1 and ? z. What IS lt to In there? 3' Accord1ng to what nature doth Chrifl fit there ? 4· Why is it tha~ he fits at rhe right hand of God his Father in glory? · l. What is thi> right band of God? I anfwer, I. Negatively, it is not any cor. poral righthandofGod; if wefpeak properly,Godhathneitherright hand, nor Jeti: hand i for God is not a body, but a Spirit or fpidtual fubftance. 2. Politively the right hand of God is the Majelly, Dignity, Dominion, Power, and Glory of God. The right hand of the Lord i• exalted, the right hand of the Lord dothvaliantly.--– Thy right hand, 0 Lord, i• becomeJ;loriotff in power, thy right hand, 0 Lord, hath dafoed in pims the enemy_. Thou hall am1ghty arm~ fitrong u thy hand, and high u thy r;ght hand.- --M<ne hJnd hath llftdthe foundations of the earth, and "'Y right hand hath JPifnned the heavens. I know f<ilme of our Divines make this right hand of God ;fome– thing inferiour to God5 own Power, but others fpeak of it as every way equal and I know no abfurdiry to follow on it. ' 2 •• What is it to lit at the right hand of God ? I anfwer, it is not any corporal Seffi– on at God's righ~ hand, as fome picture h!m with a Crow~of ~old o~ his head lining on a Throne, as 1f he had no other gefture mHeaven but ftttmg fuU; wh1ch 'Stephen con– tradicts; faying, I fee the heavens opened, and thl Son of man ftanding on the right hand of God. The words fitting or ftanding are both metaphorical. and borrowed from the cufl:om of Kings, who place thofe they honour, and to whom they commit the power of gover.nment, at their right hand; more particularly, this fitting at God's tight hand implies two things. I. His glorious exaltation. 2. The actual adminillration of his Kingdom. · I. Chrift is exalted, Whetefore God t<lfo hlfth highly exaltedhim, andgiven him a name abO'Ue every name, that at the name of Jefm every l:,.nee jhalt bow; this Seffion is the fu.. preme dignity and glory given by the Father unto Chrift after hi> Afcenfion ; this Sef. fion is the peerlefs exaltation of rbe Mediator in his Kingdom of glory. But how was Chrifl exalted? I a'nfwer, t. In regard of his Divine nature; not really, orinit Celf. impoffible it was that the Divine nature fhould receive any intrinfecal improve– ment, or glory, becaufe at! fulnefs of glory·dfentiaUy bdonged unto it; but decla. ratory, or by way of manifcll:ation ; fo it was that hi~ Divinity, durin.g t~e time of his humiliation, lay hidden and over.fhadowed, as the hght of a candle 1s h1dden in a: darlcand clofe laQthorn ; but now in his Setlion that Divinity and glory which he had alwayes with his Father was ll1ewed forth and declared, He was declared to be the Son af God .with power both at his Refurre'dion and at his Seffion. 2. In regard of his hum.a~e nature;' and yet that mufl be ~nderftood foberly , for I cannot thi.nk that Chnfl s humane nature was at all exalted In regard of the grace of perfonal umon, or in regard of the habitual perfection> of his humane foul, becaufe he polfelfed all rh& from ' the beginning. but in regard of tbofe interceptions of the beams of the ' · Godhead,
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