to theE P H E SI A N S. ond Powers that the 21thverfe menrioneth, but he acknowledgerh Chrifi tobe~ over him: nay, 'Davidwas his F•rher, that is more. Parents that are Kings, do Sermon nor call rhdr Cnildren Lords; but Clmfi had fuch a Prerogative by fttnng at XXXI. God's right hand, that he was the Lord of 'David. And the. Apofl.le Peter inter• ~ preteth it,ACI.z. fpeakmg of the exaltatiOn of Chnfl; Bemg (faith he,ver. 55·) 6y the right btwdof God exalted; and he quoterh 'Davtd tor tt too, The Lord Jaid tmto my Lord(fairh he)fit thou 011 my rtght ha11d, Now what faith he, v. 56! Therefou 1ft all the houfe of lfrae! know ajJuredly•, that God bath mude that fame .'le[tu whom J:'. have mmjied, 6oth .Lord and Chrifl. So that fitting at God's right hand,. IS Interpreted to be makmg of htmLord, andthat IS .evtdenr~ Jy held forth here 10 the Text;. for he faith, that he IS over PrniClpa!tttes mtd Powers, a11d Might tmd'DomtiJJo11, at~d whatjoevtr et(e t! 11tlmedtu Heaven or ;11 Earth and he harh them all under h1s feet, And to !liew forth the excellency of Chrifl: he faith, he is over all thefe, th~t is, as a Ruler, as a Lord over all thefe. My Brethren, What is the reaion the P?pe is called A11tichrijl? You cannot call Epifcopal Government Allttchrij/tau, m that fenfe the Pope ts called An– tichrijl. But the Pope is plainly called that great Antichrifl; and what is the reafon! Becaufe he doth ufurp the very fame Authority, the very imitation of it, which our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrifl hath in Heaven. For what is that which Chrifi is invefted with! It is to be over all Powers, and Prir.cipalities 1 and Dominions in rh's World, and the World to come; and to fit in Heaven, ad• vanced to God's right band, and to have all thefe under his feet, Now if you read 2 TbejJ. L 5, + you fhall find the defcription of that Man of Sin to be this; That ma11 of Sm (faith he,) the Sou of Perdition, }halt 6e revealed, who oppo– Jeth a11d exalteth himfe!f a6ove at! that is catled God, (that is, above Princi– palities and Powers, above Angels themfelves, for they have undertaken to com– mand Angels,) f'o that he as God, Jitteth i11 the Temple ol God, jbewi11g himfe!f th,;t he iJ God; taki1zg upo1J him the fame power, which our L01·d a11d Savtour .Je[tu Chris1 cbatlmgeth to himfelf. Others do take that which God hath given his Church to themfelves, and place Church Power 10 a Sttb;eCI It ought not to be in· and it may be faid they are A11ti-ChurchimJ, but not Allfichrif/ia11. Eut tl{is is that which makesthe Pope At~tichrift, that he alTumeth to himfelf (as far as pollibly he can,) direCtly, that power that Jefus Chrift himfelt is invefted withal. Then again in the Fourth place, God's calling Chrifl to fit at his right hand, importetli all thofe Abilites, all rhofe royal, glotious Endowments, which God filled the humane Nature with when he came tirfl to Heaven, to make him fit to be the Governom of all the World. That infinite Uifdom and Power that is in the humane Nature, and all other Prerogatives whereby he is able to manage the government of this World and the World that is to come, and to have all thole things run through his hands, which all Crean.res could not do, if the wit and power of them all were put together, that he is •blc ro weild this Seep• ter. This is a Fourth thing, which.ftttmg at God's right bandimporteth. This the Text ho_ldeth forth unto us; for, if you mark it, he doth not only fay, That God d1d fet lum at Ius nght hand ~sa Kmg doth advance his Favourite, or as he doth fet h1s Son tn illS Throne With him, give him the fame Authority himfclf hath, .whereas he doth not give ability; but the Text fpeaks of a 'Power that wrought In Chnfl when heJet htmat hu ow11 rtgbt baud, aPhyjicat Power as I may fo call It, wluch can be excrctfed and put forth in nothing but iri this. As when God fet up Saut to be King, he gave him not onlypower, but a ht,,rr to be a Kwg: fo God, as he gave JefiJs Chrifi power over all Might and Domi– nion, fo he bath given him aheart alfo. And, my Brethren, to take that ma.a ~hnft Jefus, that O.,penrer's Son, (as I may fo exprefs him, (peaking of him m lm meannefs and lownefs,) thatJorry m,m, as the Prophet fpcaks of him, and to hlllum with fuchWtfdom and Power as that he is fit to govern all the World, to have tl:e power of all the Doings in the World in his own hands, this is thxt Which God wrot(ght i11 Chrift, whett he raijed hm1 from the dead, a11d Jet him at hu ow;z 1'ight b.md. . G gg ~w
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