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SEEM.
IV.]
CHRIST EXALTED
AND
THE
SPIRIT
GIVEN.
59
John
xvi, 22.
Is
he
exalted
to power and dominion,
to
a
crown
and
a
throne,
and to
royal honours
?
His
follow-
ers
also
must have
a crown
of
life
and
righteousness, they
shall
sit upon thrones
to
judge
the tribes
of
Israel, they
.
shall have
power over
the nations,
and
share according
to
their measure and capacity
in
the
honours of an ex-
alted
Saviour. Rev.
ii.
10,
26.
and
iii.
21.
Mat.
xix.
28. Fix the
eye
of
your faith
on
a
glorified
Jesus, and
behold
there a
pattern of
your
own
joys and glories;
such
honour
have all his
saints
;
Ps.
cxlix.
9. But again
JI
say,
remember
that
your
character and your share
is
far inferior
to
his;
you
are
but
members,
he
is
the head
:
You
are but sinners
saved,
he
is
the Saviour and without
sin
:
You
are
but adopted
children, he
is
the original
Soo: You are but creatures made
in
time, he
is
the
Son
of God
before
the creation
:
" In
the
beginning
he was
with
God, and
he was
God;" John
i.
1.
"
In
all
things
be must have the' pre- eminence
;"
Cal.
i.
18.
Remark IV. Is Christ exalted,
"
then
he
can
secure
to himself and
to his
people, whatsoever
honours
or
blessiDgs his
humiliation
has
purchased,
for
himself
or
for
them."
He
offered
up himself
a sacrifice
for the
sins
of
men,
and
thereby,
according
to
the
ancient covenant
with
his
Father,
he
procured
a seat
of
glory
and
power,
at
his
right-hand
for himself,
and
eternal
salvation for all
his people.
He
is
risen from the dead,
he
is
possessed
of
these promised powers, he can
vindicate
his own ho
-.
nours,
and insure grace and
glory, and all
the
'blessings
of
the
purchased salvation to
all
his
people.
Remark V.
Is
Christ exalted
to the
kingdom;
then
"
the plots
of
all
his
enemies
in
earth
and hell
against
his church are
but
vain devices."
His
enemies must
submit
to him
or perish before
him.
When God
has
set
his Son
Jesus
as
"
king
on his
holy
hill Zion
;"
Ps.
ii.
1
-12.
and
"
given him
the heathen for
his
dominion;"
it
is
but
a
vain
and fruitless rage,
that
the
princes or peo-
ple can
discover
against
his kingdom.
Let
the
kings
of
the
earth
be wise,"
let
them
"
serve the
Lord
with
fear," and
bow
before
him,
or
he
shall crush them
"
with
a rod
of
iron,
and
dash them
as a
potter's
vessel."
Tho
church
of
Christ
may
rejoice
in
her
lowest
estate, having
such
a
Ruler and
such
a Saviour on
high.
He
will
never
forget
nor
forsake
her interests,
till
he has fulfilled
all