c *Hadmowous, So diminiſhed, as it ſuppoſed the Subje@ to bÞ in 3 higher Condition before : this no man ever was, but the Maj: C#v:/7 Feſus, ſee Philip. 2. 7, 8. d Begyy 71 may refer to his Conditions and to the duration of it, He was lower 4 little, in his Nature be- ing a Man and Servant, in his Condition Suffering and Dy1ng 3 yet this was but for 1ittl? while, being about thirty three Years the Form of a Servant, and three days in the Grave, Fh-/. 4+ 9+ ſo he was leſſer than the Angels in the Pſalm filed EDITS God's Son, Pſal. 97. 7. to whom he is here comparet ; thovgi it be a Truth he is leſſer than God in the human Nature, e An Allunon ro the'Crowning of Kings at their Inauguration, {0 God viſhly rook him up to Heaven, ſet him dowr. on his Right- Hard on 14S | RTNE, and conferred on him the highe? RoyalDijgnity, Honour 00G v1ys chovgh the Hebrews diſelieemed him, Epheſe 1. £1, and 4. 5, 10: ind Phil, 2, g. f His Infiitutien to his Mecitory SCVETTIENS and Dominion, as the Suprenie Lord of all that GOd mage 3 Fi.
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g The impartial righteous Fehovah the Father, is the Relation in the Trinity, ſpoken of in the Relative Thou, throughout theſe Ver- ſes, He is God's King; for his Perſonal worth and excellencies pre- ferred before Principalities and Powers,and every Name; before all Perſons, Thinos, and Places, the World to come as well as this; all Angels as well as Men all Creatures where-ever inHeaven,Earth, Sea, or Hell, are under his Soveraign Dominion, they all lie at his Feet, to diſpoſe of as he pleaſeth ; they are all (et in Subjeftion to him by the Ordination of his Father ; ſee Pſa). 8. 3, 7, 8. 1 C'#7, 15.24, t029, Epheſ. 1, 20, 21, 22. Philip. 2. 9, 10. Col. 2. 10. Accoriing to the Eaſtern Cuſtom, as Subjedts lie proftrate at the Feet of their Soveraign; ſodoall Creatures to him who is Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, as Exod. 11. 8, See the Margent, 1/2. 49. 23. they bow down and werſhip him as their own Lord :; But as beirg under his Feet, fignifies the utmoſt Subjefion of them to him, and his Triumph over them, it eſpecially refers to his Enemies, Sns, Devils, Sinners, and Death, as Foſhua a Type of him did, Foſh. 10, 22, 24. ſhewing thereby what God would do with all the reſt. Al- lufive tothis is, //4, 51. 23. eſpecially to all the Enemies of his Son, as Pſal. 110, 1. and 1 Cor. 15. 25, 26, As to bis Church, it is his Body, and though diftant from him, as Creatures, and ſo Worſhip- ping and Honouring of him with the Ele& Angels, yet being his
aeen £00, ſhe loves and honoureth him as a Wife, P/alm 45. 9, 11. Ephe/. 1.22, 23, and 5. 23, 24. ſhe hath her SubjeQtion as well as her Diznity ; ſhe is not a Peer to him before Marriage : But as Earftern Emperors Marry Slaves born or captivated, becauſe they acknowledge no King greater than they,or equal to them ; ſo Chriſt takes Sinners and makes them his Body, his Church, his Queen,who though forCondition are under his-Feet, vet he ſo dearly loves them, that he takes them thence, and ſets them at his Right Hand, þ If nothing is left unſubjected, then Angels and the World to come are ſuabje&ed to him; and it is evident they are ſo, by their miniſtring to him at his Conception, Birth, Danger from Herod, Temptations by the Devil, at his entrance on his Miniſtry, at his Paſſion, at his Reſurregion, Aſcenſion, and fince his Seſſion on his Throne,obey- ing his Commands, and performing his Errands, Pſa}, 8,8. z tis evident to our Senſe and Experience, that though he hath obtained the Soveraign Dominion over all on his Aſcenſion, yet he hath
not exerted his Puwer in utterly ſubjetting and triumphing over his Enemies at preſent, nor in reducing all his own People to Sub- je&ion to him, yet this ſhall be gradually done in every Age, com- neatly when he ſhall come to be glorified in his Saints, to puniſh his Enemies with everlaſting DeftruRion, 1 Cor. 15, 24, 26. 2Theſ. I. 7, 8, 9, 10, Rev. 20. I1, 15. ; 9 But we ſee Jeſus, who was made a little lower 10c, by. then the Angels k, + for the ſuffering of Death, * 24,2.23. Crowned with Glory and Honour 1, that he by the Grace m of God ſhould taſte #» Death for every
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+ This ſecond Ap7lication of the Pſalmiſts words, demonſtrates Feſus the Goſpel-Prophet to be the Man or Adam intended by the Spirit there; and his Humilation and Exaltation to be the matter aſſerted ofhim ; ſee v. 7. 1 The Reaſon or End of his Diminution, in Teſpett of Angels, for a little while z and of the neceſſity of his being Man, was, That he might be Crucified and Dye, Ph!l, 2. 7,8,to 12. and thereby merit for himſelf a Crown of Honour and Glory, This was given him for his giving himſelf to he a Sacrifice for Sin, and by hisown Blood to expiate it, m The principle determining, which was God's good Pleaſure ; he alone out of his free Love and
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l Favour to Sinners, ordered this, as Fobn 3. 16. 1 Fohn 4. 9. There- fore the Hebrews had no reaſon of being offended with him as they n were, 1 Cor, 1. 23, # A Metaphor to expreſs to dye as 4 Sacrifice, : making ſatisfaftion w Divine Juſtice, and expiating Sins, 1/2, 53. ; | 1©, All his Sufferinzs in Body and Soul, which were many and bit- r | ter, are here intended, and their Completion by Death, Marth. 26. } | 39, 42. intimating by his rafte ofthis deadly Cup, his ſipping of it, 1 but not being ſwallowed by it : And it isa Metaphor allufive to the