578 THE GLORY OF CHRIST AS GOD -MAN. little lowér than the angelsfor the su1,Ì'ering of death crowned with glory and honour. And again, the elders about the throne said, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches ; Rev. v. 12. Though it was given to the man Jesus Christ, because the fulness of the godhead dwelt in him Col. ii. 9. He adds,also, at verse 11.. " Seeing the Father thus ex- alted the humanity of Christ, since he united the Logos to the human nature what hinders that this exaltation should be said, to be to the glory of the Father, from whom he received even the divine nature,?" I might cite several other testimonies from Dr. Whitby's Annotations, and every learned reader knows that in those Annotations he is zealous upon all occasions to oppose the Ariandoctrine. As the fathers suppose this exaltation to the government and judgment of the world to belong to the human nature of Christ, so the school men are zealous for the communication of such a most extensive knowledge to the man Christ Jesus, as renders him capable of these offices; and yet the school-men are well known to be as zealous defenders of the divinity of our blessed Saviour as any christian writers whatsoever. The Lutherans are as hearty believers that Christ is true God, and that they suppose his human nature to be advanced now in glory to an universal knowledge of all things in heaven and in earth, and that by union with his deity ; so that he has a sort of omnipresence and omniscience. If you consult the remonstrant divines, they have the same opinion of the matter ; see Limborch's Theology in Latin, book v. chap. xviii. 00 Though we 'have excluded all creatures from being the object of divine worship, yet this must not exclude our Lord Jesus Christ the Mediator ; for though as lie is man he is . a creature, yet by means of his mediatory office he is so highly exalted above all creatures, that religious honour must be given him as Lord of alb And in section xiii. if it be objected, that omniscience and omnipotence are required in order to render any being adorable, I answer, not essential and absolute omnipotence and omniscience, but so much as is necessary to know all the thoughts and prayers of the worshippers, and to supplyall their necessities ; but we have shewn that both these belong to Jesus Christ as mediator." Yet this author is a hearty defender ofthe blessed doctrine of the Trinity according to the common senti- ments of christianity, as appears in book iii. chapter xvii. A very ingenious gentleman of the church of England, who has discoursed of the " future state, and the progressive know- ledge of the saints there," page 46, writes thus ; " Our Lord Jesus Christ remains a true man in his glorified state, and yet certainly his presence is much more extensive than when he
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