b The Adminiftration of this King in bis Kingdom is ſyicatyto +. his Throne and Scepter, it isall Goodneſs. For he fo loved Righre. ouſneſs and hated Iniquity (being Righteous and Holy in himſelf in Life and Death, expiating Sin, and ſanifying Believers.) $g that he a&ts as to both of theſe properly from himſelf, perfeAty ang forever. © It may be a reaſon why he ſo loved Righteouſnef; be. ing anointed, or of his UpQion, becauſe he loved the one, and hz. ted the other ; therefore God the Sor is the Perſon to whom the F1- ther ſpeaketh this, d God the Father, his God in reſpe& of the Humane Nature, Luke 1, 35. formed by him, Gal 4. 4. As Media- tor between God and Sinners, Fobn 20. 17. The Head of the Church, in covenant with God, his great Goſpel-Minifter, e $g his Father anointed him with the Holy Ghoſt,and with Power,Fuby 3. 34+ As 10, 38. And thereby as endowed, ſo exalted him aboye all Kings and Prophets who were literally anointed, and aboye at Angels having Divine Power and Authority ſupercminent to a1 communicated to him, enjoying the beft and higheft Joy in all his Tranſactions with the Father tor us, and which may perfe& Joy in us, Fohn I5, 11, and 17,13. f The Coheirs of his Kingdom, he. yond whatever God communicated to-Saints or Angels; he hai not the ſpirit by meaſure, Fohn 3. 34. What others enjoy, it is from his fulneſs, Fohn 1, 16, Luke 4. 18, 19, 21.
10 And, Thou Lord g in tae beginning, þ haſt laid the foundation of the Earth, and the Heavens are the works of thine hands z -
g This conneiye Particle joyns this to the former Proof, tha Chriſt hada more excellent Name than Angels, even har of Gut That he was God, he proyed out of Pal. 45. 6,7. He ſeconds it in this and the two following Verſes, which he quotes of 7:1, 102, 25, 26, 27. The firength of which lieth thus 3 He who was F-t- vah, and the great Creator of the World, is God ; ſuch is Chrif the great Goſpel Prophet. This is evident in the Prayer reeorde( in the Pſalm made to him, compared with the Spirit's Teftimony, v. 8. the very works appropriated to Febovah there, are ih: acknowledged works of God the Son, as Redemption, Pl, 102,20, 21, Vocation of the Gentiles, ver. 15, 18, 22, b In the beginnir: of Time, when that came to be the meaſure and limit of things, as Gen.i.1, Before there were any ſuch Creatures as Angels, he was Febovab, Fohn1,1. And then manifeſted himſelf to be F-þouah, The Enemies of Chriſt's Deity ſay, that the Name F-bovah is n93 in the Verſe of the Pſalm quoted by the Spirit : yet Thou, the Ree lative uſed in all thoſe Verſes, refers to Gol, the Antecedent prayed to In ver, 24, and to Febovah, the Name given him, in ver. 1, 12, I5, 16,18, 19, 21,22, of that Pſalm ; all importing one and tliz lame Perſon, And it is well known that xg2:G>, Lord, doth emi- nently decipher the Redeemer in the New Teftament ; he is notag Inſtrument of Fehovah to create by, but the Fountain of all Being, Jehovah bimſelf, i By Founding the Earth, and the Heavens being the Work of thy Hands, is meant, the whole Work of Creation throughout the ſpace of ſix Days ; He was the true, full, ſole and (elf cauſality of the Earth's Being, and all Creatures in it 5 and of the Heavens, and all Beings which are in them : He was the greas Archite@ and Founder of them all 5 they were his peculiar Work- manſhip, Poſſeſſion and Dominion, 1 Cor. $, 6, compare Fob 1.2. C01. 1.16, If the Heavens were the Works of his Hands and all in them, then he was the Creator of Angels, and therefore muſh be for Perſon, Name, and Office, more excellent than they,
11 * They ſhallperiſh k, but thou remaineſt /: and
they all ſhall wax old as doth a Garment #7.
& The Heavens themſelves inftanced in, as containing the moſt excellent part of the Creation (ſuch as the Gentile Philoſophy eſteemed incorruptible) are mutable, as by the various Changes,not only in the Airy part of it, but in the AXtherial, doth appear ; tbe glorious Lights in it have their ſpots and cruſts, as the Sun it (els, both.increafing and diminiſhing upon them, and ſo as to their pre- ſent, natural Frame, are changeable, periſhable, and ditiolvable, Iſa, 51.6, Matth, 24. 35+ 0 But the Son Fehovah is unchangeadble, hath a ftedfaſt Being, ſuch as never loſeth its ſtate, no Term is | for the ending of him, His immutability proves his Deity. Ke- maineſt is an Expreſſion of preſent time, denoting conſtant abiding He was before, in, and after all Ages immutable, Lam. 5. 19. Che 13. 8, Feſus Chriſt, the ſame yeſterday, this day, and for ev m The Antiquation of a Garment is a Metaphor borrowed, to ſhew the corruptibility of the Heavens: A Garment wears and decayeth with uſe in a tra of Time, it changeth its Faſhion, is anotuer thing as to its Matter and Form z ſo will the Heavens, as to t2cir Form and Face decay, they are gradually coming to an end as £0 what they are now, 2 Per. 3.7, 10. That which decayeth aid nag old, is ready to yaniſh away ; fo theſe Heavens do, 5-4/#
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2 TI&e:Boaauy is an upper Garment, Cloak, or Coat, whici a an puts on, or caſts off at his pleaſure ; when it is of no more ule Jt 1s folded up and laid by : So the great Goſpel-M niſter, God the _ incarnaze, ſhall roll up the natural Heavens, when uſclcls, and jay them by, o By him they ſhall be altered, and made more zloriw!'s by new modelling them, changing of them into a better Stare, 44,
This natural Dominion over all things remaineth tor ever,Col.1.16.; E Another Enſign of his Royal Dominion and Kingdom is hs; Ireprer, Which is bis Spiris put QUL 12 bis Goyernment of the World,
34. 4, and 65.17, and 66, 22, compare 2 Per. 3. IC, 12 15s p ihe 1dentity of this Perſon is oppoſed to the Changeablcue's of excellent Creatures, and ſheweth him $0 be what ke is ATE £7
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