Chap_ 19 . An .r xpolitionupon the Booke of JO B. Verf. 25. 351 fo full of luftre andglory,that as all fhall fee the man, fo all fhall fee the 7r die. Thus the ApofIle dcfcribes it (Tit.z. id..) Locking for the bfeffec h,pe, and the glorious appearing ofthegreat God,and cur Savior ?el-us Chri,I .It is laid ofAgrippa( Atls 25.z3.)thathe came to the judgement-fate and Bernice with great pompe ; wemay render the Text,thus, He came withgreat phantaflickne(s or afeftedvanity. When the Lord jefus Chiilì fhall come to his judgement - feate, it will be with great pompe indeed, but it thall be ferions as well as glorious pompe ; For he fhall 'corn e in the glory of his Father, with all his holy Angels. (Mark. 8. 38. ) Chrift fhall have a graine of Angels ; as the Arch-angel fhall give the fummons, or cite the world to appeare at the barre ( a Cor. t 5. 5z. ZThef. T. & 5.) fo there (hall be thoufand thonfands of Angels attending the Judge. He/hall come in the glory ofhis Father, with all his holy Angels. The firft coming-of Chria, was in the forme of a fervant ( Phil. 2. ) Yea the Prophet faith ( lfa. 53. 2. ) He had noforme norcomelinefe.. In his firft conning, he was followed by. FAbermen, or men of inferiour qualitie;but his fecond corning will be in the glory ofthe Father; his Glorywill be fuch, as the Fathers glory is ; and his followers fhall begreater thenthe greatest ofmen, and thefe not a few but many, even all his holy Angels. And 'tis but equal! that Judgement fhould be -put into the hand of theRedeemer, and that he fh,iuld come in all this glo- ry, when he comes to fit inJudgement becaufe he hath been judged, and condemned, becaufe he haih borne fhame and dif- honour, while himfelfe flood in Judgf ment. Chrift did not onely dye forage, but he was condemned to death as an evil! doer, there was not onely,paine in his death, but fhame ; He in this humbled himfelfe indeed, and which is more , He became obedient; and ( which is the lower obedience ) he became obe- dient unto death, a: d which is the loweft and rnoft ignomini- ous death, the death of the Crate. TheApi)flle makes this threefoldhumiliation, the ground of his t`:-reefo;d exaltation (Phil. 2.9,1o. )Wherefore god alfo hash hig sly exalted him, &c. He exalted him above the grave in bis relurrect on, above the earth in his afcenfion, above the heavens in bis fefl on atthe right hand of himtheFather,That at the nameof fe/eu every knee jhoastbore, both ofthings in heavers and things in earth;and things: under
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