• 83z , l3ooldV.Part.V. Looking~nto~eft~s. Cbap,I. Setf.3 Phil.:.9. with a crown ofgold on his head fitting on a throne, as if he had no other gefture in heaven but fitting .ftill-; which .Strpben con. tradicts,faying, I fee the heavens opened,and the Son bftrhm ftanding on the right. band ofGod. The words fitting orftandin,g are both metaphorical, and borrowed from the cuftome of Kir1gs, who place tbofe they honou~, n.nd to whom they com~THt the power of government at thetr ngl! t hand ; more parttcularly , this fitting at Go<!•. right hand implyes two thitJgs. r. His glorious cxaltatjon.i 2. The a dual adminiftration ~?f his Kingdome. I. Chri£1: is exalted, whereforeGod alfo hath highlJ exaltedh;m, and given him 4 name above e-very name, that.tit the n11me of [efus every k.nee jhall b&w ; this feffion is the fupreame dignity and glory given by tLe Father unto Chritl: after his afccnfion; this feffion is the peereleffe exaltation of the Mediatour in his Kingdome ofglory. _But how wasChri£1: exalted .P I anfwer, I. In regard ofbis divine nature; not really, or in it fe!fe. Impoffible it was that the divine nature fhould ' receive any intrinfeca1 improvement, or glory, becaufe a!.! fulneff~ of glory elfentially belonged unto tt ; but dec!aratonly, or by way ofmanifeftacion; fo it was that his divinity during the time of his humiliation lay hidden and over.fhadowed, as the light of a candle is hidden in a · darke and clofe lanterne; but now in his feffion tpat divinitie and glory which he had alwayes with his Father was fhewed forth and dedared, he wM declared to be the Son ofGod with power, both at his refurrection and .at his feffion. 2. In rc.:gard of his humane nature; and yet that mutt be underftood fobedy, for I cannot think that Chrifts humane nature was at all exalted in regard o(the grace of perfonal union, or in regard of the habitual perfections of his humane foul, becaule he poffeffed all thefe from thebeginning; but in regard ofthofe interceptions of {the bearol.SoftheGodhead, and divine glory; and in refpect of the rdhaints of that ienfe and fweetnefTe, and feeling operations of the beatified vif10n during his humiliation; in thefe refpeds Chrifr w~s exalted in hi$ !mmane nature, and had all the glory from tbe Deitie cqmmunicated_to it which poffibly in any way it was capableof. There was a t1me, when the office which Chri£1: undertook for us made him a man offorrows, but when he had finiihed that dtfpenfation, then he was filled with unmatchable · · · ·· glory
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