56S THE GLORY OF CHRIST AS GOD-MAN. from his dwelling in glory to the remotest distances of our world, to execute his Father's counsels of judgment or mercy ? It is not impossible so far as I can judge, that the soul of Christ in its glorified sate may have as much command over our heavens and our earth and all things contained in them, as our souls in the present state have over, our own limbs and muscles to move them at pleasure. Let us remember that it is now found out and agreed in the new philosophy of Sir IsaacNewton, that the distances aie pro- digious to which the powerful influence of the sun reaches in the centre of our planetary system. It is the sun who holds and restrains all the planets tbeir several orbits, and keeps in those vast bodies of Jupiter and Saturn in their constant revolutions ;_ one at the distance of 424 millions, and the other at the distance of 777 millions of miles ; besides all the other influences it has upon every thing that may live and grow in those planetary worlds. It is the sun who reduces the long wanderings of the comets back again near to himself fromdistances more immensely great than those of Saturn and Jupiter : And why may not the human nature of our Lord Jesus Christ both in soul and body have a dominion given him by the Father, larger than the sum in the firmament ! Why may not the Son of God be endet- ed with an immediate consciousness and agency to a far greater distance ? Thus if we conceive of the human soul of Christ, either in the amazing extent of its own native powers or in the additional acquirements of a glorified state, we see reason to believe that its capacities are far above our old usual conceptions, and may be raised and exalted to a degree of knowledge, power and glory suitable and equal to hisoperations and offices, so far as they are attributed to his human nature in the word of God ? But I pro- ceed further. IV. But if the -)u1 of Christ considered singly in its native power, or even in its glorified state, be not capable of such ex- tensive knowledge and influence, yet considered in its personal union with the divine nature, its capacities must be enlarged to an unknown degree. And though it is my judgment, that ab- stracted from his godhead the man Jesus could not fulfil and sus- tain all the sacred offices and honours of the Messiah, yet united to his divine nature he may thereby become in a sense sufficient for all this work. It may be enquired here, what influence this personal union with the godhead can have upon a human mind, to enlarge its knowledge and intellectual faculties, and its eflictive powers to so amazing an extent ? In answer to this, we.must all confess that the doctrine of unions is one of the most unknown and unsearchable difficulties
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