b 'lhis God-Man, the great Gofpel-Miniſter, is more excelent than Angels, and fo muſt ſurpaſs all the Prophets. He 52c2me thus by being ſurely conſtituted and declared, as ordained by God's De- cree from Eternity, in eminence above them by actual inveſtiture on his Aſcenſion, Epheſ. 1. 20, 21. A more excellent Perſon he is beyond any compariſon for his Divine Nature, and in his Humane tranſcending the Angelical, on the account of the Hypoſtatical Uni- on, ſee ver, 6, 7 Theſe were Spirits likeft God, and called E1;- hims, or Gods, ver. 7. Pſal. 104. 4. being moſt pure, glorious, powerful, and heavenly Creatures, Mark x, 33%. and 13. 32. 2 Theſſ. 1.7. Of various ranks, orders and degrees, Epheſ. 1. 21. C91, 1. 16, uſed by Chriſt as his Miniſters in the delivering of hi3 Law on Mount S174 to /ſrael, chap. 2. 2. Afs 7,53. Ga. 3. 19, The meaſure of his Tranſcendency over theſe for Perſon, Office and Name, is infinitely beyond Expreſhon. & 1 his was his PCcu- liar, hereditary Lot, due to him by natural Right, as the Heir and Firft-born of God, juſtly acquired by him, and aftuafiy polſefſed of him, not as a meer Title but a Name deſcriptive of Ms l'erſon, CGi- ſtinguiſhing him from,and ſetting him above all others,God the Sor incarnate, Iſa, 7. 14. andyg. 6.. Lord over all Creatures in Heayen and in Earth, and under it, Phil. 2. 9g, 10,11. Not a fimpic Meſſenger, but a Son, Matth. 17. 5. Fob# 1. 18, the Redezmer, Juftifier, and Saviour of his People, Lute 1. 31, 32. He is a Per- ſon of Name, famous for Power, Glory and Diznicy, above al! others, Epheſ, 1. 21. Phil. 2.9, 10, 11. I Atz3:gaorter, Differen- cing from,and ſetting above all the Names of Angels tor Eminency z The Arch- Angel himſelf a Servant and Attendant on him, 1 Th-/}. 4. 16. His is moreditterencing and tranſcending in his kind than the Name of Angels is in their Kind; He is above whatever they can pretend to, and ſo a more exceilent Prophet than they, He hath in all Things, as well as Name, over them tie pre-Eminen- CY.
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m The Apoſtle here proves that Chrift hath a more excellent Name and Pre-eminency over Angels by Scripture-Textz owned by theſe Hebrews, He had the Namie of Son of God, and {vo had net Angels; for God the Father, who hath abſolute Power to give and ſtate all Excellency, never fail to any Angel, fo as to conftirute tim his Only Son by an Ordinance or Word of Power ; Sy2s he may file them, as Fob 2. 1. and 7ſal. 89. 6, As he doth Members cf Church, Gey, 6, 2. and Princes and Vaziftrates, Pj:1, $2, x, © always in the Plural Number as he dcth the Angels, Fob 25, 7, no- ting out theirPower, Place and Miniſtry, But S92 is tinvntar to Chriſt, and incommunicable to any other, » This is q0tca our of Pſa, 2. 7. Thou God=Man, Thou thy ſelf, Thou, and thor alone (that this was ſpoken of Chrift truly, and of Yauid only as a Type of him, the Spirit afferts, As 13. 24.) art my ora 5m, ty Ever-being Son, my Son by Nature, R977. 5. :
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