to theE P H E S I A N S. word of a King is there is power? andwhere ~he Word of God is th~re is power;~ it had the greatnefs of Power gomgwHh Jt, t.Je rxceedmg grMtnefs of power, Srr;no11 even the fame th.Jt raiftd h1m up from the deacl. ~ Further for the p!1rafe too, As it noteth out Chrill's fitting at God's Right hand, it is nor a proper phrafe of fpeech, it is bur a Metaphor, but a Simi– litude ro exprefs that height of Glory to us that Jefus Chnfl hat!J Hi Heaven with God, by what is done by Kings here on Earth to thofe whom they w!ll honour, It is but a Metaphoncal fpeech, that 1s clear by thts, becaufe you know God properly hath no hand, no_r Rrght hand; and tf God have no Rtght hand then Chrifi's fitting at Gods Rrght hand mufl needs be a SJmJhtudc hke· wile,' for they ar~ Relatives, if the one be n.ot real, the other cannot be. That Chrifi hath All. things under ~"feet, ( whtch rs another phrafe ufed in the 22thverfe ) it is but a Metaphoncal fpeecb ; thofe who are below one, in– finitely below one, are faid to be under their feet: fo is it faid here, that both Chrifl fitteth at God) Right hand, and that he hathAII things under his feet. So that now, to gather what pofiure of his body Jefus Chrifl hath in Heaven, or what pofiure he fhall have when he cometh to Judgment; though it is ex– prefi by fitting, and fit tin,~ at :;od's right hmzd, and at the R1ght hand of Power yet this phrafc wlll not mfalhbly determrne what lh<tll be the pofiure of his Body. Rather, if I would deliver what out of other Scriptures feem to be more clearly held forth about it, it would feem to be flanding rather than.fitting; if you rake it in its proper fenfc, as he is a Man, fimzding is the properefi pofiure of a man. I know not well what to fay to that in AHs 7·H· where it is faid, that Ste– phm looked11p into HraveJJ mld j{1w th~ Glory of God,. and Jef;u Jianding at the right haJJd of God. It feemeth to be a Y1fion of hrs Eye elevated fuper– naturally, fuch as Paul bad when he was convened, when Chrifl from Heaven fpake to him; Lafl of all (faith he) he WM [ee11 of mr. Therefore his bodily F11ce did ll1ine, becaufe he faw him with his bodily Eyes.· And they faw a re– prefentative Glory of God; for you 1hall find that likewife in the Old Tefiament and in the New, there wa.s a ()lace to reprefent the prefence of God, as 1 Ki11g. 8, 10, and L11k. 2. g. Jt JS fa1d, the Glory of Godfbone routid about the She– pherds, Now the like reprefentation Stephm had, when he faw Heaven opened, I fer thr HMvens opnud(faith he,) and the So11 of ma11 jimzding 011 the right ha11d ·' of God; he feemeth to fpeak clearly of what he faw, and the manner of it. l -. do not know what to fay to this place; Sure it was not a feeing of him by Faith only, fuch as is fpoken of Hrb. 2, g. 1Fe fte .7eftu crowned with glory 1111d ho11o11r; this is more. There is only this that may be faid of it, that it was fuch a kind of Vilion as was prefented to .!oh11 in the Rrvelatimt; HeJinv t1 Thro11e, and he Jaw a Lam/, fiai1z, fo Rev.).6. and Ch<~p. I.I'l.. r;. He j:zw 11 m.m th.zt had a Sword come out of hu mouth, his feet likewztofille Brafs, 1111d his Co.ttlltf11mJce WtM as the Stm thatfoineth i11 his {lrength,~c. He fpeaks of Chrifl; for faith IJe,verfe '7· Hr(aidtmtome, I amthrfir.Ji 1111d thrlafl, I am he thatliveth and was dead. This was but a Vilion; now the like it may be was this of Ste– phens only: And as thofe Vilions in the Revelation were but fuited to the pre– fent occafion, fo this Vifinn was but fu ited to the prefent condition Sttvmwas in; he was to futfcr for Chnfi, and he feeth Chrifl fi.lfld as bcin<T ready to help him. ' '" But however we may learn this from it, which is to the point in hand, tbar thefe words jittit~ganrJ Jiancling being ufed thus promifcuofly, the HolyGhofi varymg the phrafe; that therefore the word Sitti11g is not to be underfiood of the natural pofiure of Ills body, he would not vnry the phrofe fo of fianding and fitting, and being at the Right hand of God, if it were taken properly and firrctly, . If therefore (to come to the thing it felf, for I have done with the phrafe) a be meant bywayof Stmilitude, I Jhall open this Similitude, what it is, thus: You
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