s R., (,6,7,8,9. Epif le to the HE BR E w s. ìo; theApoftie fpeaks in Allufion to the Primitivefignification of this word, a Cor. 4. 57. The other its Beauty and Glory; both Authority and Majefty. How Chrill was thus crowned, we have at large ¡hewedon the firtt Chapter. Secondly, This Soveraignty is attended with afkual Rule; Wherein ( t.)The Do- minion it felf is expreffed : and (a. )The Extent of it. Fitti, Thou madett him bate Dominion over the worksof thy bands : it l'wtJr,, madeft him to rule. iun-íe ass ,orbs appointed4i him in Authority over. He had actual Rule and Dominion given him uponhis Coronation. And Secondly, TheExtent of this Dominion is the Works of Gods hands. And leaft any from this indefinite Exprelfion fhouldthink this Rule li- mited,either to the things mentionedbefore by the PjàlmiJt, v.4.called the work ofGoole fingers, that is, theHeavens, the Moon and the Stars, or in the following Diflribution of thingshere below, intoSheep, Oxen, Fowls and Fill, v. 7, 8. that is, all the crea- tures here below, he adds an Amplification of it' inan univerfal Propofition, +áyrac *ívaes, he bothput all things without Exception in fubje6tion unto him ; and to ma- nifeft his abfolute and unlimited Power, with the unconditional fubjeétion of all things unto him, he adds that they are placed, , o.2ran .1W ,roNa, dm , under bis veryfeet. An Expreffion fetting forth a Dominion, every way unlimited and abfolute. Verfe VW. I: (+He Apoftle having recited the Teffimony which he intends tomake ufe of, pro- 1 ceeds in the eighth Verfe unto Tome fuch Explications of it , as may make it appear to be proper and fuited unto the End for which it is producedby him. And they are two ; the firft whereof refpefis the fenfe ofthe words which ex- prefstheExtent of this Dominion ; the latter an infianceof Come Perfonor Perfonr, un- towhom this Tellimony as thusexplained, cannot beapplied. For the Explication of the Objetlive Extent of the Rule and Dominion mentioned, he adds, For in that he bathmade all fubjetiunto bim, be bath left nothing that is not put under him. For whereas it might beobjet$ed, that there is nomention' in the Pfalm of the World to come whereof he treats ; he lets them know, that that cannot be ex- cepted; teeingthe Affertion'is univerfal and unlimited, that all things whatfoever are putunder him. it is true, our Aponte making ufe of this very Tellimony inanother place, t Cor. 15.27. adds there, that there is a manifeff Exception in reference unto him who fo put all thingsunder him; and it is evident that it is fo indeed; for the Pfalmiif treats not ofGod himfelf; butof thework! ofGod s and among them, faith the Apotile here; there lyes no Exception; they are all brought into Order under this Rule. And fo by this Tefiimony, thus explained , as neceffity requires it lhould be, he hathfully confirmed, that the World to come being one of the efpecial works of God, andnotput in fúbjedtion untoAngels, is made fubjetï unto man; which was that he undertook to demonftrate. Secondly, Todire this Tetimonyunto itsproper End, and tomake way for its Application unto him, who is efpecially intended therein ; he declares negatively unto whom it is not applicable; but nowwe fee not yet all things put under him. Man it was, concerning whom the wordsarefpoken; What is man? This mutt denote the na=- ture of man; and that either as it is in all.mánkind in general and every individual, or in fume efpecial and peculiar intlance, in one partaker of that nature. For the Firlt, He denyes thatthis can belong unto man in general, all, or any of them on that gene- ral account of being men ; And in this Negation; there are two Circumltances eonfiderable: Filed, Themanner ofhis afferting it by an appeal to common Experience ; we fee ; this is amatter whereofevery one may judge : We, allof usknow by, expert,' ence, that it isotherwife ; we need neither Tettimony nor Argument to iuftruf us herein. Our own condition, and that which webehold other men in, is futficient to informus. - And this is away whereby an appeal is made as it were to common fenfe and Experience, as we do in things that are molt plain and unqueflionable: Secondly, There is a limitationof this Experience, in the word yet; we feenot asyet.. And this doth not intimateacontrary fiate of- things for thefuture, but denyet; as to all the time that is pail. A long fpace of timetherehathbeen fince thegiving out ofthis Te- flimony, much longer fine theCreationof man, and all other things, andyet all this Y Y y 2 while, f 4
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