-~ c 2 Po1Ver communicated to tlJe Office ofChrift for thou art the _fl1me, and t!JJ' ) ·ears f{lil not. That Power is required unto his Kingly Office,_ whereby he created ·all things in the beginning; and 1hall change them all as a man folds up a vefiure, in the End. Omnipotency accompanied with Eternity and Immutability, are required hereunto. It is a vain Imagination to fuppofe that this Power can .re– fide in a meer Creature however glorified and exalted. All _ effential Divine Properties are. concurren~ with it; and infe– parable from it. And where are the Properties of God, there is the Nature of God-; for his · Being and his Properties are one and the fame. If the Lord Chrifi as King, of the Church be only a rneer man, and be as fuch only to be confidered, however he may be exalted and glorified, however he may be endowed with Honour,Dignity and Authority,yet he cannot put forth or aCt any real Ph)'Jical Power immediately and directly, but where he is prefent. But this is in Heaven only; for the E-leavens mufl recei-ve him until the time ofthe Rejlitution of all things, AEls 3· 2.!· And hereon his Rule and Power would be the greatefl: difadvantage unto the Church that could befall it. For fuppofe it immediately under the Rule of God even the Father; his Omnipotency and Omniprefence, his Omnifci– ence and Infinite 'Vifdom, whereby he could be alwaies pre– fent with every one of them, know all their wants, and give immediate Relief acc9rding to the Counfel of his Will, was a fiable Foundation for Faith to refr upon, and an ever– lafting fpring of Confolation. But now whereas all Power, all Judgment, all R.ule is committed unto the Son, and the Father cloth nC?thing towards the Church but in and by him, if he have not the fame Divine Power and Properties with him , the Foundation of the Churches Faith is caft-down, and the fpring of its Confolation utterly fropped ~lp. I can-
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