to the E PH E S I A N S. Now It being his due the firilday, what doch Chriil? He layeth alide all his W lory ;akes the form of a Servant, voluntarily doth it to honour his Father. Sermon ~ha;honourdoth his Father do to him for it when he cometh to Heaven? Have XXxi. you obfcured your glory faith he, withdrawn it tor m:r fake? I will do as much ~ tor you I will commit all Judgment to you, I Will not be feen, the eyes and thought's ofall Creature.s lhall be next upon you; The Father judgeth no man, 6ut hath committed all;udgmmt umo the Sutt, Joh~ 5· 22. that 1s, V1fibly to execute it, So that God did as it were give up rh~ Kmgdom, as 'Duvid did to So. lumoi 1 while he was alive, Becaufe th~t he gl?qfied God 10 fuffenn~ lumfelf to be madeobedienttothedeath, therefore It was)uil1cefor God to glor!fie !um hkewife, by withdrawmgh1mfelt from the alfam of the World, that 1s, 10 refpeCI: of vifible execuuog of tt. . . . . And Jefus Chrifl had tll!Sm lus eye when he was to dte upon the Crofs, he fuf• [ered for it, (as Ifa1d 1n the lail dtfcourfe,) Toufb,lllfee ( faah he,) the S011 of Manfitting on the rrght ha11d of power, A11dfor thejoy that WM {et before him, he endured the Crof•, dejpijing thefb,,me, andiJ Jet dowJJ at the right handof the Throne of God. Heb. 12. 2. He had this honour of his in his eye, and therefore as his reward th~ Father gave it )lim, and it was comly the Father Jhould give it him· andbecaufethathe, whi)ehewasherebelow, was made lower than the Ang~ls much lower, a little ll)wer for the time, but much lower otherwife, therefo~e God bath fet him above the Angels: And becaufe while he was here he fuffered himfelf to be infulted on by Sat~n, to have power on his Body to hur– ry it up and down, and when he came to dte, fatth he, The Prince of this World cometh, bttt he jhalt fi11d 11othmg "J me; yet come he d1d, therefore now he is exalted far above all Principalities and Power.,&c, And it was his due to have ir, it was his reward, it is but his condign reward, and it is yet a reward, therefore given by the Father, Thirdly, The next thing in the Text that is mentioned is, who it is that is here exalted. lt is him, whom? Chrifl:, Some would refirain this exaltation of Chrifl:'s fitting at Gods right hand, only to the Humane Nature. For fay they, as he was the Son of God limply conlidered, he did always tit at God's right hand. But the miflake lieth in this. It is true, take him as he is Son of God, he hath, · an equal power with the Father from l:verlafl:ing, but that power is never expreft by fitting at God's right.band, for then the Holy Ghoil Jhould be faid to tit it God's right hand as well as God the Son, which is never faid. But the fitting at God's right hand doth imply that power,that is committed to him as Mediator, both God and Man, that is, as he is the Son of God, clothed with man's Nature exalted now in Heaven; fo that what is attributed to the one is attributed to th~ other by communication of properties, as we fay that God and Man died, though sqe Manhood only did die, yet it is attributed to the whole, it is called the blood of God, and we fay God-Man rofe, though his Body only rofe, yet it is attribu– ted to the whole, Tottu Chnflu•, though not Totum Chrtffi, Whole Chriil rofe and whole Chriil fitteth at God's right hand, he exalted him , though not the whole of Chrifl. I will not inlifl: longer on this. There is only a Scripture or two I will give why not only the Manhood is faid thus to be exalted,but the Godhead too as conli– dered joyned with the Manhood. The. Firfl:, that his Godhead is thus exalted, ., I mean that the Son of God IS exalted, 1s that Pfa/, 110. 1. The Lord {aid unto "'Y Lord, fit thou. e§c. Now he wa• 'David's Lord only as he was Son of God,' J mean that the founda~ion of his being Lor~ is laid in that; therefere He6, r, 1 ~· The Apoille proverh htm to be God from thts, becaufe he was bidden to lit down on God's right hand, To which ofallthe A1Jge/J {aid he at at')' time {it o>J my right hJd, tmtil I make, e§c. But tmto the Son ht (aith, Thy Throne, 0 God, i1 for ever and ever, e!ic. And then tt belongerh to him likewife as Man, that you have a clear place for, Job. 5. And our Saviour putteth it in on purpofc. Saith he, ·~ verfe 22. AllJudgment u committed unto the Son; and lefl that we that know htm to be both God and Man thouId take this to be fpoken of him in regard of his Godhead, as he was fecond perfon only, he telleth us plainly verfe 27. He bath grvtt; hrm aNthority to exmttrjudgmmt al[o, 6tcaufe he is the Son of Ma11. So du'
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