to theE P H E S I AN S. r. Becaufehechofehim to thatgra<e and union, 1Pet. 1. it. Chrift as Man ~ was prede11inated as well as we, and fo bathGod to be his God by predeftina- Serm. If; tion and fo by free Grace, as well as he iS ot<r God m that refpecl:; . ~ 2 . Becaufe God the Father made aCovenant with him. Look, as becaufe of ~hat Covenant with Abraham, t:!lc, he is termed the God of A!Jraham; Ijaac; and Jacob : fo in refped: of that Covena!lt made Wit~l Chrilt (which ":e h~ve fpecified 1{49·ch,thr~ugh?ut) where Chnft doth cal~ himMyGod,v.4~ o! which Covma 11 t as alfoGods bemgh11 God, 'Davsdwas his type, Pja1.8g. 26; l· Bec~ufe Go11 was his on!y refuge in all times of difirefs; Thus when hang• ingon the Crofs he cri~s out to him, My.God, 1I!Y God, Matt.27·46. compared with Pfa/;22.ver. t 1 2,h4•5· 4 Becaufe God. is the Author and immediately the Matter of c_hrifls 6/ejfod– nejS(as he is Man,) and therefore bleiTed be he as the God of Chnft , who hath 6/effidour Lord Chrill:forever and ever, as Pfal. 45· 2. whereupon in the 7th. ver{t it follows, .God, thy God, bath mtoillted rt.ee_ with the Otl of gladnej! above tbj fellows. The Pfalmifl fansfieth not himfelf to fay, God bath a– nointed thee ; but with an Emphalis, God, thy God: and thy God he is in relation to this effect and fruit of it, anointi11g thu with gladnefl; which ver. 2. is fynonymoully e:xprelfed, Godbath blejfod tbee fqr ever. And then a110intedby God, as Man, he was when glorified, Al1s 4· 27. And God tQ.us blelfed him by becoming himfelf his blelfednefs; which in the 16 'I'falm C~rift exults inver.2. My Soul, thou haft]aidunto the Lord, Thou art my Lord. And. ver.5, it follows,The Lord is the portion of mi1;.~ Inheritmtce: and v.6. I havr (fays he) a good!y heritage, that is, in having God to be my God and l!eritage toliveuptmforever. hr (as he further fpe'I~S io v.u.) in thy prefenq is fulnefi of joy, and at thy right hand art pleafures for evermore."';'he P[alm is ·made in Chrifts name, as the Apofile Al1s 2. '!nd he fpeaks it of his Huma~t nature exprelly in the g(hverfe, My fkfh (fays he) /hall refl in hope, namely this hope, by this my death, to be advanced to the right hmzd of God, ( whicl,1 alone that Man Chrift Jefus is, for as God he was alwaies at his Right hand) where thefe pleafures are : fo then God is his happinefs. Hence therefore when Chrift was rifen, and fpeaks of afcending, and was lhortly to afcend, theri it was he tails God his God, Joh.'Z.o, I a(cend to my God, that is, to him in whom my happinefs, I now am going to enjoy, conlifts. And therefore Job, 14.28.he told his Difciples, If ye loved me, you 14Jouldrejoyce that Igo to :wy Fa• ther: for I go to him, that is, able to make me happy, and is my immediate blelfednefs, F'or it follows, My Fatber is t.rtater than I (namely, as I am a Man,) and fo I am to be ble!Ied in him, the leP being blejfod of the greater. The Human nature, though glorified, is not blefi!:dnefs to itfelf (it is but finite in itfelf;) but God immediately is. Nor is that Human nature, though God dwells in it, the utmoft blelf~dnefs of 111; but God immediately alfo is:_yet as to our right thereunto, it is becaufe h~ is our God and his God firft. Thus his God, as Man. But whether the Father is termed theGod of Chrijl, as G:hri!l: is God, and fo in relation to his Divine nature, I will not debate it. ThHe are that read that paffageof t~e 45 P[alm thus, Oh God (as fpeaking to Chrift as God) tby God, lotermmghis Father, 'DeNs de 'Deo, God of Got!, is old: and the Father is 'Deus Gtgnens, the Son 'DeusGenitus, and 'De~u 'Dri is dearto thefe; the Father is the God of the Son, who is God. But I pafs it• . H. A11d the Father] This is out of queltion fpoken of Chrill, add is true of h1m, both M Godandalfo Man. r. ~sGod,: foheishis.f'on, hisownSo11, Rom.8.J2. andreciprocallythe.F~ther, ,J)~ '"'ine, huown Father, Joh.~. t8. and therefore equalwith God, as itiS emphatically .there faid (for theJews objected againft him, that .. ?ieJO M,. ¥"1' 7a,.e,a,, he (atd Go1WM kis own Father,(fo in the Greek) maktng himfelf equal wzth God.) All which do imply, that he was fuch a Son as was begotten of the fubftance and elfence of his Father, even as he that is faid ro be a mans own tta· turat Son, ufeth to be, and is thereby diftinguilh'd from tbeiradopted Children . and m that refped: alfo is Chrifi faid to be Go.ds only begotten .Son; and; .;,a; 'Dn vsvt, that Son of the living God, M,t.r6. I)· and fo difcriminated from all E other
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