Chap.! . Seet.6. 1!.ooktug unto .'jjefug. power imperial o,;er every Creature ; that be.hath P.ower over the An~els is plain, both by the reverence they do him, and by then obedrence towards hrm,at tbt name of Jefm wtry k,.nee "'ufl bow ; good Angels, ahd evil Angels mull yield figns of fub– jdl:ion to Jefus Chrill; if the Sarnts lh•ll fudge the Angels, how much more lh>ll Clnill? Oh what power bath Chrill hirnfelf this way i and as for the excellencies 00 earth, they all receive theit power from Chrifi, and are at his difpofe; it is J efus Chrill that is Crowned .,;tb GlorJ andHonOMr, and all, things are put ~nder his fert Heb. .., t. 7 And hence it is that when the Apofile fpeaks of ChrJll s feflien at the roght hand of God, he tdls u~, he is/or above ..11 Principalities and Powers on earth, ant/. Migbu Eph.r.OI, anll CDominiolll in Heaven: yea, that AHgels and Autboritiu, and fowtrJ .re m..de I Pet. 3· 2:; fubjt{l untobiiJl, · ~. On our part many reafons may be given. As.--- 1. That he might be the Head of his Church, I mean, not head in a large fenfe; for one wko is in any kind before another ; for fo Ghrifi is the heail of Angels, and God is the head of Chrill ; and to ths we have fpoken before. But in a Arid- fcnfe, fi>r one thot is in a near and communi..tive fort conjoyQed with anolher, as the Head is conjojhed with the Body and Members; and fo is Chrill the head of his Church, Look as the King hatb a more intimate and amiable Superiority over the ~<en then ovu any other of his Subjects; fo is it here in Chrill our King, he is more amiably tempered, and more nearly alf,cted tG his Spoufe and QJ_een, the Church of God, then to any other whomfoever. Anclto this purpofe he fits at God's right hand, that having now f:.tlnefs of Gra" and Glory in himfelf, he might be ready to communi~ catc rh< fame to his Church who arc as the members of hi• body, that he might give them Grace here, an~ GIG>ry hereafter; when he !hall deliver up his Kiagd6m to his Father, and be all m all. 1 _ :l That he wight be the Object of divine adoration; then efp"ially it wu faid and•accomplifued, Let aiJ the .Angels of God Worfhlp him : aMd let all mtn honour Heb. r. 6. the SoM .s tboy hontur the Father. After Clui!l's Seffioo, Stepbtn looked up into Hea· Job. S• 23. ven, and faw the glory ofGod, and Jcfus 1\anding on Jhe right band of God, and then he Worfuiped 1 and c~lled upon God faying, Lord JefU. receive my [pirit: It is true, Aa. y. S9· that the ~;round of this divine adoration is thl Uniooof the two naturesofChrift, and therefore ·the M•g,i worfuiped him at his }lixth, and as foon as ever he camei11to the World the .Angels of God Worjhiped him; but becaufc br his Seffion at God's right Heb. r. o. hand, the Divine Nature was manifelled, and the Human Nature was exalted to that dignity and glory which it never had before, thertforc now efpecially, and from this time was the honour and dignity of Worlb.ipcOIJlmunicated to him as God anp man. And hence Divines ufually make this one- i11greaient of Chrill's fitting at the right hand of God, ~ii. That Chrill, God; and Man; is the object 0f divine adoration. h .. 0 it if a grtat thing, and admirable, and fuU of .,onrier, that the Man Chrift jhould /if~ r~bHotn. S• ab1ve at God' 1 right hand, and be adored of Angels and Archangels. Before this was'" 1 • d1e grace Qf Union conferred on Jefus, and fo he was adored before ho fmffcred; but after he bad b~tmbltd himfilf, and wa1 made obedient unto death, evm tflbe death of the Cro[s, theu (yea and thtrefore) Godbigh!Jiexalted him, andgavebintQ name, which Ph'J 8 . is above every n1me. that at the Name of Jefm every ~nee {h4ll bow, of things in He a~ 10 1 ;,~· ' 9• 'lltll, •m/tbingJ in Eorth, •ndtbingsunder the Earth, aud that every tonguejhaUcon~ ' fe[t that Jef'ut u Lord to tbeglory of God the Father, He was Lord before, io that heis the Son of God, but now he is Lord again by vertue of his humiliation and Seflien at God's right hand. Trouble not your fdves with their objection who fay, ·Th1t if adoration be due to Chrill as God and man, that then the human nature is to be adored: the perfon adored is man, but the humanity it felf is not the proper object of that Worfuip. Thereisadiffcrence betwixt thcconcretcand the abllract; though the man Chrifl be God, yet his manhood is not God,. and by confequencc not to be Worlhiped with that Worlliip' which is propuly and dfentially divine. Certainly, if adoration agree to the humanity of Chrill, then may his humanity hcip.and favc us, but the humanity of Chrifi can·not help and fave us, becaufe omnt. aa10 •ft [•ppo/iti, whereas the human nature of Chrifl is not [uppojitum, a fubfi!lancc or perf~al being at all. ,3; ~ha_t he might intercede for his Saints. Now of the things which ,.e bavefPo· Heb. 8. r, ~ k.!n, tbuH the (ummr; we b•v• Ji«h an high Priefl, wbo if[et on the right ha11dof 1ht1ilrolie of tbe Maj<)ly in the Heavens, and a Minifttrof tbt {anf.lu..y, andoftbe - , E c e •· ~~~!
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