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SERMON IV.
THE EXALTATION
OF.
CHRIST
TO
HIS KINGDOM, AND HIS SENDING
DOWN
THE
HOLY
SPIRIT.
Aces
ü. 33.
Therefore
being by the right-hand of God exalted,, and having received
of the Father
the promise
of the Holy
Ghost,
he
hath
shed forth
this,
which ye
now see
and hear.
IT
was
a strange amazement
that
seized
the 'hearts
of
the multitude who came up to
Jerusalem at
the
days
of
Pentecost,
when
they
heard the apostle speak
só
many
new
languages
:
The Jews and the
gentiless
of
various
nations were
struck
with one
general surprize, when they
found fishermen, and
persons
of
no learning,.
declare in
every
tongue the wonderful works
of God
and
his
grace
And
while
they
were
busy
in
their enquiries
into
the
cause
of
this
great
event,
Peter
standing up
with
the
eleven, lift
up
his voice, as
their
speaker, and beginning
with the prophecy
of
Joel concerning
the pouring
out
of
the
Spirit upon
all
flesh,
preaches
to
them the
life
and death, and
resurrection
of
Christ,
and
assures
them,
that
these miraculous
gifts
descended upon the apostles
from
that Jesus
whom
the Jews
had crucified and slain
:
"
But
we
are
witnesses,
says he,
that
God
has
raised him
from
the dead
;
and
being
exalted
by
the
right
-hand,
or
power
of
God, he has shed
forth these wondrou's gifts
of
the
Holy Ghost,
which
the
Father
had promised
him,
and of
which
your
own eyes
and ears
are present
wit-
nesses."
The
two
great
subjects
of
my
appointed
discourse,
are
evidently
contained. in this text, viz.
The exaltation
of
Christ
to
his
kingdom,
and
his
pouring
down
of the
Holy Spirit.
In
pursuit
of
the
first
of
these,
I
shall
shew
you
wherein consists
the
exaltation
of
Christ,
and
what
are
the several parts
of
it;
and
here
I
might take
notice,
I.
That at
his
ascension to heaven
there
was
a glorious
change
passed
upon
his
body
to
make it
fit
for
the
hea-
venly
state
:
For though Christ
was
raised
from
the dead,