·s38 Book.IV .Part.V. L6okingunto1efm. Chap.x.Sect.6 ----------------------------------------~ Angels 11nd Archangels. Before this was the grace ofunion conferred on Jefus, and fo he was adored before he fuffered; but after he had hHmbled himfelfe, and WM madr 6bedient unto death, pbi]. 1 , 8, 9 , even to the death of the cr~Jfe, then (yea ttnd therefore) qod highly IO)Ix, exttlted him, andgave him a 1Mme;wMch is 11bovc every name, that at the 'ZI{g.me of Jejm ever} k._nee jbould bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth,And thing.r under the carth,and that every tongue jba/l confef{e thAt 'frfm u Lord to the glory ofGed the Father. He was Lord before, in that he is the Son ofGod, but now he is Lord againe by venue of his humiliation and feffion at Gods right hand. Trouble not your felves with their objeCtion who fay, that ifadoration be due to Chrift as God and man, that then the humane nature is to be adored : the perfon adored is man, bu.t the humanity it felfe is not the proper object of that worlbip. There is a differenr:e betwixt the concrete and the abil:raa:; though the man Chri!l: be God, yet his manhood is not God, and by confequence not to be worfbipped with that worfbip which is properly and effentially divine. Certainly if adoration agree . to the humanity of Chrift, then-may his humanity help and [ave us, but the humanity of Chri!l: cannot he!p and fave us, becaufe omni.r actio eft fuppojiti, whereas tbe humane nature of Chrift is not fuppojit~tm, a fubGftence or perfonal being at all. 3. That he might intercede for his Saints. ?Vjw of the things Heb.S . 1 J~· '1fhich we have fpok.§n, thi.ru the{umme; wt h·zvefltch anhigh Prieft, who i.rJet on the right ht~nd Gf the-thnne ~f the Majefly i»the he~t.vcns, and a Minift. r cf the fanEluary, and of thetrue tabernacl~. which the Lord pitched and not men: he is fet on the right band ofGod as an high Prieft, or Miniller to intercede for us. ForM Chrifl i.r not entredinto the holy place madewith hands which are the figu>-es of the true, but into heaven it Jelfe now to appeare i11 the prefince ofGodform. Thisappearin~is an exprcffion borrowedfrom the cufrome ofhumane courts; for as in them when the Plantiffe or Defendant i~ called, their At turney appeareth in their names, fo when we are fummoned by the juflice of God to anfwer the • complaints which it preferreth againft us, we h.tve an Advocate J oh.t . t• with the F.abtr}e[u; Chriftthe rsgh.-e~us, and he il:andeth up, Es.od.1s. 9 ,IC ~and appeareth for us : or it may be tll!S tippearing hath a refpeCt: 1 !, u. co the manntr ofhigh Priefts. in the time of the law, for as they . u~
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