to the E PHE S I AN S. But the proper feat and place of Chriil is at God's right hand, I fee the~ HertWIJS ope~ud (faith he,) mtdthe So1J of M ,w f/andmg 01l the rtght ha11d of &rmo1J God. , . . XXxl. Therefore fiill the Scripture cal!etn us to look up to Clmll as fittmg at God's ~ ri ht hand in the Heavens. The Lutherans would have hun e~ery where even as M~n which is t•) mantatn that opm10n ollus boddy prcfence m the bread you eat · th~ Sacrament, which is a mighty grofs abfurdity, for fo he lhould be as much 1 ~ the Bread ycu eat every d1y, as in that of the Sacrament; and accordingly ~hey further make his Afccnfion into Heaven a mer~ Metaphor, they fay he did not remove his place locally, whereas the Text fattn exprelly they faw !urn Afcend up into HeaveP, . . . . . . That the fitting of Chnil at Gods nght hand IS mHeaven,and that that IS the place appointed for him. I wiii give you but.one S'cripture for it, I therefore ,1 uote it becaufe I w1li open it a httle unto you, 1t IS A/Js 2. H· When he would prove that thofe words in Pfr•l. I 6. At thy rigbt ha!ld are plea{t1res (or ever more &c. were not meant of 'David, what expreiiion doth he ufe? FOr 'David ( faitl 1 he,) i< 1101 a(cmded iuto the Heavens, bttt h~Jaith himfelf, the Lordfaid tti/To my Lordfit tho11, &c. My Brethren, V avidwas afcended into Heaven,for !:is Soul was there. How then doth this argument hold? The truth is, he put– teth afcenfion into Heaven to be all one with fitting at God's right hand, becaufe that Heaven is the place where God bath appointed to manilelt his glory and the glory of Chriil, and t for= Mark 16. 1g. it is expre/ly faid he w.as received up into Heaven and fat o e l'lght hand of God; fo m 1 Pet. 3· 22. Hets go1t imo lleavm, and is ott the right ha11d of God. I could gi.ve you multitudes ofplaces for it. It is a wild Opinion of the Lttthera11S, that would have Heaven alfo every where as Chriil is every where. But the Apofile telleth us plainly, I Thef. I. 1 o, that we expel] and wait for Chrifl from Heaven. If Chriil were every where, and Heaven every where, how could we expect to mat him itt the Air, when he fhall defcend from Heaven, as the Apofile faith, I Thef.j, 15. '7· fpeaking ofthe Air as a diilinCl: place from Heaven. So you have all thefe Five things opened that belong to this part of the 2oth. verfe. Firil, what <IS meant by' fitting 011 God's right hand. Secon~ly, who it was that ralfed h1m, God the Father. Th~rdly, the fubject that was thus exal– ted, both confidered as God and Man. Fourthly, the time when it was begun, it was when he afcemled into Heaven, after his R.efurrection. Fifthly, the place where, it is in Heaven, ]!l HeavnJ!y places. I will now make a little entrance into the ~r. verfe, fo much indeed as /hall give a light into it. . . . . . F.1r above a/J PrmCJp.11Jttts, and Power, cmd Mtght, a11d'Domi1Jion, and every 11ame, &c. Here he exprelfeth more really what he had faid in the other fpeech more figu– ratively, there he exprelfeth the d1gmty of Chnil by littmg on God's right hand here he fpeaks more ploinly, far above all Prillcipa!ttieJ, &c. ' There are two general heads of this verfe. Here is Firil, the eminence of Chriil's Exaltation,and Secondly the univerfality of H. The eminency of it is fet forth two ways. , Firil, For the intention, the hight of it as it is perfona! in him, it is not only above, but far above all Prittcipalil)•, a11dPoUJer, a11d M1ght, mtd 'Domi· wou,&c. . Secondly, It is expreil by the lownefs of the fubjection of all things to him he "Jewabove, for 11/J thittgs are tmder hi<{'eet. 1 Then there is the univerfality of it, he inilanceth in the chiefeil things that arem this World and m the World to come, in Might and Dominion, in Princi– paht.es and Powers, and 10 every name that is named, not only in this World but alfo in that which is to come. ' Firfi, -··
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