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SERVI.
IV.]
CHRIST EXALTED
AND
THE
SPIRIT
GIVEN.
55'
pondent
power
?
It
would
be
but
a splendid title, and
a.
mere
shadow
of
kingship.
But
Jesus
our King has
uni-
versal royalty,
and has power to
support
it.
He
must
not
sit like
a
shining cypher
on the
throne of
government,
nor
on the
tribunal of
Judgment;
Rev. v.
6.
"
The
Lamb
who
had been slain
appears
in
the midst
of
the
throne,
with seven
horns and
seven eyes, which
are
the seven spirits
of God
sent
forth into
all the
earth."
Whether
this
denotes the
seven
chief
angels,
which
are
prime ministers
in
the
court of
heaven, employed
by
our
exalted
Saviour,
or whether
the
number "
seven"
signi-
fies
a
perfection
of
knowledge and power, described
by
eyes
and horns
;
still
it must
imply,
either
such
outward
mediums
of
power
and
knowledge, or such
inward ca-
pacities,
as the Son
of
God
is
furnished
with,
in
order
to govern the ends
of
the
earth,
and
execute
his
Father's
decrees.
The
sun
and
moon
with all
their
attendant
lights,
the earth,
air,
and
sea,
with
all
their
millions
of
living
inhabitants;
nature=
and
time,
with
all
their
wheels
and
motions,
are
put under
his
controul
:
all
move on-
ward in
their constant
courses
by
his word;
and they
"shall
stop
at
his
command, and
finish
their last 'period:
Then
shall
he call to
the
graves
to give
up their dead,
.
the
graves shall
obey the
Son
of
man,
and the dead shall
arise in millions
at
his call
;
John
v.
25.
And indeed,
without
such all
-
commanding power,
which
can
subdue
all things to himself, how
can
he
execute the
office
of
being
"
Head over
all
things for the good
of
his
church
?"
How can
he
fulfil
his
Father's decrees? How
is
it
pos-
sible he
should
transact
the
important
affairs
of
the
last
day,
that
he
should
judge
the intelligent creation,
that
he should reward
his
friends
and favourites
in
the
hea-
vens,
and send
his
implacable
enemies
to
the second
death
?
I
do
not
presume
here
to
impute
or ascribe
all
these things to
the
human
nature-of Christ
as
the
agent
*
:
* Yet
if
I should
have ascribed
all this
tó
the human nature
of Christ,
considered
as
united to
godhead,
that
great
man Dr. Thomas Goodwin
would
abundantly support and vindicate
me, in
his
discourse
"
of
the
Glories and Royalties of Christ
as
God-man
;" vol,
II.
in.fólio,,
where
he
exalts the knowledge and power of
the
man-Jesus
Christ,
in
many
pages
together
to
far
higher
degrees.
Someofhis
expressions are such
as
these
s
"There
is
a
wisdom
in
Christ's human nature, which
is so
high
in
imita-
tion
of the attribute.
of wisdom in
God,
as
no mere
creature
could
reach
to
or
attain. Christ's human nature
now glorified, knows all
that God
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