VzR, 00718,0. .44fleto the HEERE%VS. i9 was made fora little while lower than the Angels ; which he thews the reafon of, and thence takes occafon todifcourfe of his Death and Sufferings, according to the me- thod before declared ; and then, he was crowned With GloryandDignity, all things be- ing made fubjeCt unto him ; fromall whichit appears, that it is he; and not Angels, untowhom the world to come is put in fubjeftion. This is the Pies of the Apoliles Difcourfe, wherein are many things difficult andbard to be underftood, which muff be particularly contidered. Theftrft Verfe, aswas Paid, layes down the principal Affertiou in a Negative Propofr_ Sion. The world to comeis not made febjelï unto Angels. One Proof hereof is included M the words themfelves. For that Expretiion, be bath notpat in fubjettion ; is the lime , with our Apofile, as,it is no wherewritten or recorded in the Scripture; Th:re is no Tefti- monyofdt. God is no where faid to have done it, See Chap. t. 5. with the Expof- don of it.And there Negative Arguments from the Authorityof the Old Tefiament, He esteemed in this matter, cogent and fuflicient. In the Propofition it felt, ( t. ) The Subjets ofit, the Worldto come, with ( 2. ) Its limitation,whereof we treat ; and (3. ) ThePredicate, negatively expreffed, is not put fubjession to Angels, are to be considered. TheSubjed of thePropofition is , the World to come : N17 O7ty. The Wen, Heavens and New Earth ( ótnepatrn,) which God promifed to create, Ifa. 65.17. Chap. 66. zz. which refers untö TIVon 'e'; the dajes of the Meriah. The latter Jews fometimes call it, piny p51y, thefuture' world ; though ufually by that ex- prellion , they intend the World of future blip.. But the world here intended is no other but the promifed [fate of the Church under the Gape!. This with the War- ¡hip ofGod therein, with efpecial Relation unto the M iab, the Author and Mediator of it, adminiftring its heavenly things before the ThroneofGrace , thereby rendring it ffiritual and heavenly, and diverfe from the [late of the Worfhipof the Old Tefta- ment whichwas worldly and carnal; was the World to come,that the Jews looked for, and which in this place is intended by the Apoftle. This we mutt farther confirm, as the foundation of theenfuing Expofition. That this then is the intendment of the Apoftle ; appeareth, Fir[t, From the limitatiönánnexéd ; ai; ñs ran;ïµs_r, concerning Which We treat. This is the world whereof he treats with the Hebrews in this Epithet namely, theGoflel- Stateof the.Church ; the Worship whereof he had in the words immediately fore- going preflèd them unto theöbfervation of: And not only fo, but deferibed it alto, by that Statewherein the miraculous Gifts of theHolyGboll were given and enjoyed. And, the mention of them, in the words directly preceding, is that defcription of the World to come, whichthe Apoftle in there words refers unto, concerning which we "leak And the Tradition of this New World, or the Rçllauration of all things un- der the Meliiah, was one ofthe principal Reports of Truth received among the Jews, which theApofile preffeth them withall. Some fuppofe that t,ar iaet, we peak, is put for 6A£AÚaau£r; we have floken; and would haveit refer unto Ch.1.6. But what the Apoftle there intendethby the World, we have futficiently evinced and declared. The World there by an ufual Syntelodoche is put for thehabitable earth; the rd igue, which the Son ofGod made and came un- to, John 1. s t. Here a certain ftate and conditionofthings in the world, about which be treated with the Hebrews, is intended. Betides they who would thus change the woad, (Grotius, Creflius, Schlictingiuc ) by the world, Chap. r. 6. underftand Heaven it felf, the flare of Glory, which is not here mulledon by the Apofle : For, Secondly, He treats of that whichwas already done in the crowning of Jefus with Glory andHonor,as the words followingdomanife[f. This crowningof him wasupon his Attention, aswe have before,proved at large. Then, wasnot theRate of Glorymade fub- jeQ unto him, becaufe it was not then,nor isyet in being. And therefore they who turn, wef¢eak, into,we have beforefloken, are forced alto to pervert the following words, and to interpret;be bathmade all thingsfubjetiunto bim,he hath purpofed or decreed foto do ; both without caufeor mafon. The World whereof the Apofile treats was immedi- ately made fubje h to Jefus; thatis, the Church. of the New Teflament, when God anointed himKing upon his holy Hill ofSion ; and therefore in the Pfalm is there men- tion madeof thole other parts of the Creation to be joyned in this fubje8tion, that have noRelation unto Heaven. Thirdly, The Apoftle doth not treat diretïly any where in this Epiltle concerning X x Heaven,
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