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SERM.
IV.)
CHRIST EXALTED
AND
THE
SPIRIT
GIVEN.-
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He
changes
their
sinful
natures,
he makes them
the
chil-
dren
of
God, and pardons
all
their
iniquities.
Nor
Both
his
kingdom
reach
only,
to his own
church,
who
are
his
willing
and
joyful
subjects,
but it extends over
the whole
world
the rebellious and
infidel
nations are under
his
reign and
controul. His lordship
not
only
includes all
mankind
but it reaches
Over
angels
and
devils,
over
all
the regions
and the
inhabitants
of
heaven,
earth and hell:
"
All
things
are
put into
his
hands,
and
placed
under
his
dominion;
he
is
Lord
of all;
Mat.
xxviii.
18.
Acts
x.
-36.
He doth not
reign
only in Sion as
heretofore,
and
as
King of
the
Jewish nation, but
"
the
heathens
are
now made
his
inheritance, and the utmost ends
of
the
earth
his
possession
;"
Ps.
ii.
8,
9.
Not
only bis own
followers
and
friends are
under
his
government, but
every
creature
is
made
subject
to him
:
"
His
people
are
his
willing subjects in this day
of
his
power,
and
his
enemies
shall
be
made
his
footstool. Angels,
principalities and
power
are
put under
him as his
ministering servants,"
for the purposes
of
his
government over the church
and
.
the world;
Ps.
cx.
1
s.
Eph.
i.
20.
Heb.
i.
4.
Rev.
iii.
1.
And yet
further
;
he
is
not
only
the
appointed
Heir
and Lord
of
all,
but
he
is
constituted
the
final
Judge
of
the living and the
dead
:
He
who
stood once
at
the
bar
of
Pilate
and the high-
priest
as
.
a transgressor, bath
a
throne*
of
judgment preparing for
him,
and
the
high-
priest and
Pilate
shall be
arraigned there
:
All
the tribes
of
the
earth
shall
be
gathered together
before
him,
and
shall receive
their eternal sentence
from
his
mouth.
.iWat.
xxv. 31,
32, 34,
41.
"
God the
Father
hath ap
pointed
a day wherein he will:judge
the
world in
righte
ousness,
by
that
man whom he
bath ordained, and has
given assurance
of
it
to all
men
by
raising
him from
the
dead."
Acts
'xvii.
31.
"
The Father
judgeth
no
man,
but bath committed
all
judgment into
the hands
of
his
Son,
and
hath
given
him
authority
to execute
j-
udgment,
because he
is
the
Son
of
Man."
John
v.
22.
27.
IV.
Our
blessed
Saviour must have
a
most extensive
knowledge
and power
to
execute this
vast
authority,
and
to fulfil
this glorious
trust.
Let
us
first
consider
his
extensive
knowledge.
He
has
not only
the kingdoms
of
nature and
grace com-
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