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the .Excellency
of Chrift,
up
unto
heaven to
take
poffeflion
there,
and
on
purpofe
to
prepare Manfions for
them
againft
their
coming
:
Thus
wonderful
was
Chrift in
his
Afcention.'
Chrii
fttirg
at
the
right
hand of
the
Father.
And
in heaven
Chrift
firs
at
the
right
hand of
the
Father,
thereby
declaring
that
God the
Father
was
well-
pleafed
with
all
that
bee hath
done ,
becaufe
hee
fees
him at,
his
right
hand; after Chrift
had
made
an end of all
his
work,hee
is
faid
to
fit
down, in
Heb.
Io. i
z. This
man
after
hee
had
ejfered
one
facrific.e
for
fins
for
ever,
fate
down on
the,
right
hand of
God
;
hee had done
his
work, and
God the Father
approves
of him,and
fo
honors him
in fetting
him
at
his
right
hand,
and
there
gives
unto
him
all
power
to rule together
with
himfelf,
as
you
heard in
his
Kingly
Offices,
and
there
hee
is
to
make
Interceffion
continually
for
his
Elea,
and
hath
that
weight
of
glory
put
upon
him
that
is
poifible
for
humane nature
to
have
put
upon him
,
that
is
the
meaning
of fitting
at.
the
right hand of God
;
thefe four
things
are
meant
by
it.
Firfl,
When
bee carne
to
heaven,
God
the
Father,
that
bee
might acknowledge that
his
Son
had
fully done
the
work
that
hee
was
fent
into the world
about
,
hee Both
ho-
nour
him
by
fetting
him
at
his
right hand.
Secondly
Hee
gives
unto
him
all Authority and
Power
tia[th
2.8.
18.
to
Reign together with himfelf.
Thirdly
,
There
bee
is as
the High
Prieti
to
make Inter-
ceflion
for
his
Saints
-,
to bee
their Advocate continually
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Father to mare Intercetlon
for
them.
And,
then fourthly
,
It
is
to fignife
that
Chrift hath
the
highetl degree of
glory,
that
it
is
podible for humane
nature
to
bee
capable of
;
Therefore
you
mull
not undert
}and
the
righthand'of
God in
a
corporeal
way. , as
if
Cod
had
right hand
or
left
,
but fitting
fo
in thole
four
refpeas
as
1
áve
named
:
And
all thefe
irtake Chtilk
a
wonderful
Re-
deemer,
Hcb.q.z
S..