552 THE GLORY OF CHRIST AS GOD-MAN. our exalted Redeemer have moretranscendent power than angels or devils ? Why should it not be within the reach of his human will by methods of unknown influence to govern the winds and the waters, the earthly and the heavenly bodies, to subserve the the councils of his Father and his owngracious purposes towards his people ? Or if it should be doubted at present by any of my readers, whether Christ's own human power reaches to an immediate management of all these affairs at so prodigious distances, yet we may be assured, as I hinted before, it is not above the power of human nature, so exalted and sn nearly united to God, to give orders of this kind to the standing or fallen angels, which the divine nature has taken care shall be punctually and exactly ful- filled : and thus he shall reign till he has brought all his enemies under hisfeet : 1 Cor. xv. 24, 25. But a farther pursuit of this subject is reserved to the following section : I proceed now to the third instance of power and dignity to which the human nature of Christ is exalted. III. f° Christ as a man united to God is exalted to becomea Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel andforgive -, ness of sins ; Acts v.31. This scripture must certainly include; and chiefly regard the manhood of Christ, for it is that same, Jesus, saith St. Peter to the Jews, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree, that the Godof our fathers hath raisedup, and exalted to this dignity. Besides it is impossible that the divine nature should be really and properly exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, &c." for it would be buiniliation and not exaltation for the pure divine nature to accept Of these titles rindperform these offices even by way of depttation and vieegéreuoy to the Father, when it had supreme authority originally and' eternally in itself without any donation or deputation. It will be said here, " What can tire' manJesus do toward the t*ivhig repëntance and forgiveness ?" I would humbly enquire whether it were not his human na- ture sent forth his apostles when he was here on earth ? And is it not the same man- Jesus who sends his ministers abroad into the nations ih his present exalnitiiouinheaven ? Is it not still the man in 'whom godhead dwells ? Is' it not he who gives apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors add teachers to publish this doctrine of repenténce and forgiveness in his name ? Ile tÌiat ascended on high after he had deseendcd into the loiter parts of the earth? He that reeéived gips for men; Ps. viii. 18. and gavethese gifts unto men or thepe¿/u'ing the sa nts, for the work of" the ministry, andfor the edifying his body I pli. iv. s, iq. t nd though we may reasonably suppose the man Jesus con sidered alone has úót now, nor couldOver have sufficient power in
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