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A68718	A key of heaven the Lords Prayer opened, and so applied, that a Christian may learne how to pray, and to procure all things which may make for the glorie of God, and the good of himselfe, and of his neighbour : containing likewise such doctrines of faith and godlines, as may be very usefull to all that desire to live godly in Christ Iesus.	Scudder, Henry, d. 1659?; Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1633 (1633)	STC 22122; ESTC S1717	241,855	822

Gods childe and Christs brother Mark 3.35 Hee that doth the will of God the same is my brother sister and mother saith Christ Sixtly God will heare their prayers Ioh 9.31 If any man will doe his will him he heareth And seventhly to such belongeth the salvation of God Psalm 50.23 Be ye intreated therefore by the mercies of God to give your selves both in bodies and soules to GOD. Prove what is that good Rom. 11.1.2 that acceptable and perfect will of God Thinke thus with thy selfe It is sufficient nay too much that I have spent the time past of my life according to the will of men and of the flesh in all manner of wickednesse but now that I am quickned and professe better things now that I am redeemed from my former conversation I will therefore strive and pray that I may live according to the holy will of him that hath redeemed me Thinke thus God will have his will fulfilled by me in obedience or hee will have it fulfilled upon mee in his just vengeance Let every man therfore use all meanes to know and doe the will of God And as much as in us lyeth we must cause others to know and to doe it We have Christs example who also speaking of mans duty saith Ioh. 13.17 If yee know these things happy are yee if yee doe them Now that wee may doe the will of God Meanes inabling men to do Gods will wee must first be ingrafted into Christ and must abide in him drawing grace and vertue from him by the exercise of our faith as the branch doth from the Vine Ioh. 15.5 then wee shall doe Gods will bringing forth much fruit in him Secondly we must deny our owne wisedome and our own will Pro. 3.5 Pro. 23.4 and we must not consult with flesh and bloud but with the word of God and the inward man in which dwelleth the Spirit of God Gen. 22.3 Thus Abraham became able to doe as hard a piece of service as any man can be put unto in offering his onely sonne Isaack the sonne of his hope Rom. 4.19.20.21 who as he beleeved in God in a thing impossible to reason without reasoning against it so did hee performe a commandement of killing his sonne in naturall reason seeming unnaturall unreasonable and impious this he did by resting onely upo the word of God to which he was obedient Heb. 11.19 Thirdly wee must doe our utmost that we may know the will of God else how can wee doe it to this end wee must heare reade and meditate on the holy Scriptures which have the power of God working with them to inlighten the minde with knowledge and to incline the will to obedience Fourthly pray unto God who onely can and will informe the understanding Phil. 2 13. and give both to will and to doe at his good pleasure Thus Paul prayed that the Colossians might be filled with the knowledge of his will Col. 1.9 and that they might walk worthy of the Lord in all well-pleasing David likewise prayed saying Ps 119 8● Quicken me after thy loving kindenesse so shall I keepe the testimony of thy mouth And the Church saith Cant 1.4 Draw mee and we will runne after thee If we will pray and seeke with all our might as we would for hid treasure Pro. 3.4 ● then shall we understand the feare of the Lord and then shall wee know Hol. 6.3 if we follow on to know the Lord. Then shall we also be able to doe the will of God Phil. 2.13 For he will worke all our workes for us and we shall be blessed in our deed Iames 1.25 As in heaven Observe here that the patterne of perfect obedience is taken from heaven whence we may collect Doct. 2 In heaven is all perfect obedience there is no failing there no not in the least circumstance 1 Cor. 13.12 Now I know but in part saith the Apostle but then that is when hee should come to heaven I shall know as I am knowne Peter speaking of the new heavens saith that therein dwelleth righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3.13 Reas 1 1 Cor. 6.9 For heauen is the holy place into which no unrighteous person can enter for when there were disobedient persons in heaven namely the divell and his Angels which kept not their first estate heaven did vomit them forth never to be burdened with them or the like againe In heaven there are no tempters Reas 2 for there are none but God Angels and the spirits of just men made perfect Heb. 12.23 therefore also no temptations unto sinne The thoughts of this will moderate griefe for those our Vse 1 friends which die in the Lord. For the place whitherto death hath made a passage for them is the heaven spoken of in the Doctrine which doth secure us that they are there where they are made perfect where they shal neither offend nor be offended Doth not the meditation Vse 2 hereof worke in Gods children not onely contentment but a longing to lay downe this tabernacle to be translated hence when the Lord shall please sith the exchange will be so happy It is but a parting with a sinfull miserable earth for this heaven wherein dwelleth perfect righteousnesse It is leaving mortality for life sinne for grace and misery for glory in that place where they shall neither bee actors nor beholders of sinne where there is no sinne either to infect or vexe them Vse 3 When we are wearied and almost fainting in our combat against sinne and this wicked world if we would but consider that ere long if we do hold out manfully a while this sinne and flesh shall annoy us no more For when death commeth it is the portall to this heaven spoken of in the text which death doth as certainely separate sinne from soule and body for ever as if doth the soule from the body for a while For our place is this heaven where are the Angels the patternes of our obedience and when we come there we shall be as the Angels Luke 20.36 and shall ever be with the Lord. As in heaven Here Christ doth send us to the best and perfect examples whence note In proposing examples for imitation Doct. 3 men must propose the best such as are perfect and heavenly The examples of Angels and those that be perfect must bee imitated of men on earth Therfore when Paul would have the Corinthians follow him it was with this condition as hee followed Christ or because he followed Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 In the following such examples Reas 1 men shall alwaies have cause to proceed on and grow better and better and shall still be going forward towards perfection for such examples are perfect Reas 2 When men looke upon these perfect copies the sight of how much they come short of what they should doe taketh downe pride which else would arise from the sense of what they haue done

must take those deeds for currant pay when they are but meere counterfeit stuffe if they trie their deeds by the touch of the directions before given Yet none so readie to upbraid God and hit him in the teeth as we speak with How good they are and what service they do him as these kinde of men who will challenge God like them in Isaiah Isa 58.3 Wherefore have we fasted and thou seest us not wherefore have we afflicted our soule and thou takest no knowledge No men presume that God should save them more than these They will say Lord Mat. 7.22 Lord have not we prophecied in thy Name and in thy Name cast out devils But he will answer I never knew you depart from me ye workers of iniquitie For actions which are good in the matter thereof yet do stinke and are very iniquitie in Gods account Isa 1.13 if they be not done aright For what is not done with a good conscience and in truth of heart is not done at all in Gods account for he looketh to the heart and manner how all things be performed Let it be every mans prayer Vse 2 and endevor to do good things well to fulfill Gods will in an heavenly manner viz. upon good ground with good conscience and good affections This is the heart life and verie soule of every good action And though there may happen to be some failings in the matter of what is done which also is not to bee allowed yet if the heart be upright in the manner God doth beare with much weaknesse and doth accept of truth and uprightnesse As in heaven The patterne of the right manner of doing Gods will is a perfect one taken from heaven Christ would have all men ayme at this whence note Doct. 5 Christians must ayme at perfection They must alwayes presse hard forward to attaine it Now the God of peace make you perfect to do his will saith the Apostle Hebr. 13.20 21. Let us go on unto perfection Heb. 6.1 Let us perfect holines in the feare of God saith he 2. Cor. 7.1 Naturall things do affect Reason and in their manner long after the perfection of themselves An infant is still growing in the wombe untill it come to a perfection Light bodies are not quiet if they be not above and in their place So that it may justly be doubted there is not truth of Christianity if there be not a desire and longing after perfection of Christianitie This blameth all that thinke Vse 1 they know enough and have made progresse farre enough in the race of Christianitie But what saith the Apostle 1. Cor. 9.24 Not all that runne receive the price If men fall back or stand at a stay they can never finish their course Wherefore hee would have others do as he did So run that they might obtaine and so fight that they might get the masterie and win the crowne Hee that puts his hand to the plough and looketh backe he is not apt for the kingdome of God Luke 9.62 Vse 2 Meanes of growing towards perfectiō The thoughts of heaven and of the patternes for imitation which are in heaven and the state of perfection in which we shall be when we come to heaven should be load-stones to draw us to heaven-ward and to perfection Be perfect saith Christ Mat. 5.48 as your heavenly Father is perfect in everie thing and everie way perfect The way to attaine this is first to convince the heart that we ought to bee perfect Phil. 3.12.13 then see with the Apostle that wee are not alreadie perfect Thirdly let us not look on what wee have done and what is behinde but on that which is before to bee done Fourthly 2. Cor. 7.1 be daily purging our selves from filthinesse of flesh and spirit and so perfect holinesse Fiftly that we may do all these be daily conversant in the reading hearing and meditation of the holy Scriptures for their end is 2. Tim. 3.17 to make the man of God perfect Lastly give al diligence and presse forward Phil. 3.14 as the Apostle did toward the marke and price of the high calling of God in Christ. Thus do and the rather because he that doth not ayme at perfection of degrees hath not the perfection of truth and of parts The fourth Petition Give us this day our daily bread Having dispatched the handling of the three first Petitions which did more immediately concerne God wee are now come to the other three which do more especially concerne man which are also meanes to enable a man to glorifie God by doing his will These petitions following concerne man in a double respect First in respect of the outward man for sustaining the bodie and life of nature in this fourth petition Secondly in respect of the inward man and good of the soule also scil the life of grace the hindrance whereof is sinne concerning which the Lord directeth his disciples to deprecate and pray against two things First the guilt and damnation of sinne praying for justification in the fifth Petition Secondly against the power dominion of sinne praying for sanctification in the sixt and last Petition Request for to have a comfortable naturall life and being upon earth doth follow immediately upon the request of doing Gods will on earth for the dead cannot praise God And if a man be not gathered into Christs kingdome before death there is no hope Isa 38.18.19 For there is no worke nor device nor knowledge in the grave Eccles 9.10 Wherefore because no man can doe the will of God on earth except God give him a comfortable life upon earth this petition followeth next the other in a most holy order This petition is placed before the other two which concerne the estate of the soule and of the life of grace not in order of prioritie of dignitie as if the temporall estate of the body were more needfull or more excellent than the eternall life of the soule for this latter is farre more excellent but because in order of nature the naturall life is before the spiritual and a man must have a being in nature before he can have a being in grace and a comfortable naturall life is both the fitter subject for the life of grace and fitter instrument by which grace worketh and doth the will of God upon earth therefore it is first prayed for Besides it is usuall in Scripture that the thing which is least to be insisted upon is placed first in order before that which sometimes is more excellent that having finished the lesse worthy subject in few words it might dwell more largely upon that subject which was most worthy As the histories of Iaphet and cursed Cham Gen. 10. are set before that of blessed Shem Gen. 36. and after Isaacks death the storie of prophane Esau i● for this cause set before that of Iacob Gen. 37. So our Saviour in one petition and in few

feet Is not the stomack benefited by cooking of meat for the rest of the members of the body We are members one of another This doing of good to our brethren is but lending to the Lord Pro. 19.17 and he will repay with advantage It is sowing in Gods ground 2. Cor. 9.6 which will recompence him that soweth with increase of an hundred fold at the harvest This is to make bagges which will hold Luk. 12.33 and to lay up treasure in heaven and to lay up in store for themselves a good foundation And we shall heare well of this another day 1. Tim. 6.19 when Christ Iesus at the day of judgement shall say Mat. 25.34.35.36 Come ye blessed of my Father inherite the kingdome prepared for you for I was an hungred and ye gave mee meat I was thirstie and ye gave me drinke I was a stranger and ye tooke me in naked and yee clothed me I was sicke and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me Wherefore let us all do what in us lyeth to procure the welfare of our brethren Vse 4 The afflicted servants of God may reape much comfort from hence in all their bodily distresses for the whole familie of God on earth doth pray for them Wherefore God is well acquainted with their case and will assuredly help them in the best time If the prayers of one Isaac could take away barrennesse from Rebecca Gen 25.21 and the supplications of one Eliah who was also a man of infirmities a● Iam. 5.17.18 well as other holy men could remove a dearth and famine what cannot the fervent prayers of so many faithfull do which cry to their common Father day and night for them I know a discouraged heart by the sleights of Satan will sometimes turne this hony into gall saying If God did love me and if I were his childe sith I my selfe have prayed and as you say the Saints on earth do daily pray my crosse would have beene removed but my affliction abideth therefore sure I am not Gods childe I answer thou mayest be the childe of God he may love thee and may heare both thy owne and others prayers for thee and yet the affliction may still remaine For God never promised removall of crosses from his children but conditionally namely if it be good for him that is under the crosse to be delivered then he never faileth to deliver him but if it be good for him to be afflicted it shall remaine still Againe God hath no where told us the time when he will deliver his he knoweth the best times which he will never over-passe But let it be granted that thou never while thou livest have this or that particular crosse removed yet God heareth thee and them and your and their prayers are heard and returne not emptie For they do procure some measure of patience i● thee and contentment to sabmit thy self to thy Fathers correction They do also cause that the paines and crosses of the bodie and outward man shall turne to the good of the soal● 2. Cor. 4.16 and of the inward man to the renewing of it daily All things shall worke together for good Rom. 8.28 and God will assuredly give a good issue out of it in life or at death This day that is for this present day here therefore wee must observe The desires of temporall things are to be confined to the present day Our Saviour saith Take no Doct. 5 thought for the morrow Matth. 6.34 Who is sure to live untill to Reason 1 morrow may not the soule be taken away this night Luk. 12.20 God will have his children Reason 2 live by faith as well for the preservation of their bodies as for the salvation of their soules He will trie hereby whether they that say they depend upon him for the greater will trust him in the lesse God liketh to see and heare Reason 3 his children oft in his presence he hath therefore so ordered it that their necessarie occasions shall bring them before him day by day God looketh for new acknowledgement Reason 4 of his gifts everie day therefore will have that they shall have cause thereof by new gifts from him every day Reason 5 Because it is best for man that his maintenance should be in Gods custodie to be called for every day For if a man had his provision for many dayes in his own power God should cast off his care of him either he would lavish it out too fast or theeves might steale it or vermine devoure it or it might fennew and grow unfit for use and then he might starve But now that the Lord hath undertaken to maintaine us if any thing happen to that which man thought should have been his maintenance God will make it good he holdeth it best that his servants should have their food and other things needfull sweet and wholsome daily as they have need This reproveth all carking Vse 1 and caring for what shal I have hereafter and how shal I live and what shall become of mine another day when yet they cannot say but they have enough for this day Some are so fearefull and so full of vexing care that their hearts never have rest untill they can say they have much goods layd up for many yeares Luk. 12. ●0 and then are never a whit the better for it The true disciples of Christ are subject through weaknesse of faith to fall into this fault but they must be chidden out of it and must be warned of the mischiefes that attend this fearfulnesse and distrust in God for what they shall have hereafter It taketh away all sense and comfort of what they have in present it provoketh God to give over providing for them and to leave them to themselves to learne to know how little all their carking without God can availe them And if he suffer them to thrive in their course that they reserve much for time to come this overplus of estate thus gotten wil breed nothing but pride and trust in riches and many noysome lusts Even as the Manna Exod. 16.20 which contrary to the commandment of God was reserved to the morrow did breed wormes Provision thus gotten will stinke and putrifie and do the owner more harme than good when the rust thereof shall witnesse against them Iam. 5. that they have heaped up treasures together against the last dayes Vse 2 Hath any man convenient provision for the present then let him learne to be content 1. Tim. 6.8 and let him depend on God for the morrow Let us care onely for one thing which is everie day to do our Fathers works which he hath given us to do in our generall and particular calling and wee may assure our selves that such a Father will make provision for such children who if they need any thing they may make their requests knowne to him with thankes for what they have had

to his justice he knowing that no person in the Godhead was capable as God onely to performe any act of satisfaction to God knowing likewise that no meere creature could be of all-sufficient power and worthinesse to satisfie his justice or to stand as a Mediator betweene God and man they being at enmitie by reason of sinne He therefore in his infinite wisedome and of his rich and free grace did ordaine his onely begotten Sonne the second person in Trinity now Iesus Christ our Lord by whom he made man and all things else and in whom all things consist that he should become man by assuming into the person of his dietie the very nature of man consisting of bodie and soule to subsist in the dietie by a personall union being to be verie God and very man in one person who being thus qualified to be a Mediatour Rom. 5.17 18 19. 1. Cor. 15.45 he ordained him to be a second Adam as a common root and to stand as a suerty in the stead of all those whom he co-ordained should be ingrafted into him and which should be made members of him and be saved by him Wherefore he together ordained that with mans nature he should assume the guilt of sinne Isa 53.4 2. Cor. 5.21 Rom. 8.3 and to be accounted as a sinner and by God himself to be proceeded against as against a notorious sinner For which cause hee was to be accursed not only by being made subject to humane infirmities but to be arraigned condemned and withall to have the fiercenesse of the wrath of God due to sinners poured out and executed upon him And that hee should dye the accursed death that by death he might expiate sinne and through death hee might overcome death and destroy him that had the power of death Heb. 2.14 even mans greatest enemie which is the devill All this our Saviour took upon him and perfectly fulfilled Philip. 2.8 being obedient even to the death of the crosse upon which he made that one oblation by the merit and efficacie whereof Ephes 2 15 hee slew the enmity and made the attonement between God and us having obtained eternall redemption for us Heb. 9.12 and became the author of eternall salvation unto all them that obey him Heb. 5.9 perfecting for ever them that are sanctified in that by the power of his dietie he conquered and rose from the death Act. 2.24 it being unpossible that he should be holden of it Heb. 8.1 and is set downe on the right hand of the throne of majestie in the heavens Heb. 7.25 ever living to make intercession for them Thus you see the first of those requisites which go before remission of sinnes namely satisfaction of Gods justice by the merit of those things which Christ Iesus did and suffered in mans stead Hee sheading his bloud as he himselfe saith for many for the remission of sinnes Mat. 2● 28 The worth and efficacie of this satisfaction made and redemption purchase● by the precious bloud of Christ was greater than onely to merit at Gods hands that now his justice being satisfied he might forgive sinnes and save men if he would upon any such possible condition as hee should please to appoint and accept for Christ by his death resurrection and intercession deserved and procured that God should actually forgive Iob. 17.19 1. Thes 5.9 10. and also give grace and eternall life to all those to whom Christ was ordained to bee an head and a Saviour Act 3.31 even to all those whō from before the beginning of the world Ioh. 17 2. God gave unto Christ and were ordained to beleeve in Christ and that should be united to him by his Spirit A second thing required before that a mans sinnes shall be forgiven Rom. 10. ● 10. is beleefe and faith in Christ Iesus For faith is the condition of the new Covenant published in the Gospell Ioh. 6.29 and i● is the bond of our spirituall union with Christ on our part and is the meane and instrument whereby wee receive Christ and do relie upon him Ioh. 1.12 and whereby we do apply him with all his merits and benefits unto our selves unto our salvation Ioh. 6.35 This the Scriptures do hold so usefull and necessarie that they ascribe our justification by forgivenesse of our sinnes unto it Rom 5.1 God accounting our faith as he did Abrahams Ro 4.3 5. unto righteousnesse But how is our faith accounted for righteousnesse not as it is a gracious qualitie inherent in us and a part of our sanctification but as it hath relation to Christ who is our righteousnesse and is the sole object of our faith unto justification for which cause we hold against the Papists that we are justified by faith onely Of this it is that all both Prophets Christ himselfe Ioh. 3 16. Act. 10.43 and all the Apostles have witnessed namely that through Christs name whosoever beleeveth in him shall receive forgivenesse of sinnes By faith in Christ I meane such a faith as is a sound a lively and an effectuall faith such a faith as hath faith in the Law unto conviction of sinne and unto penitence for sinne going before it and a faith in the precepts both of the Gospell and of the Law unto repentance of sinne and holinesse of life concurring with and following after it This condition of beleeving which doth qualifie a man for and which doth interest a man into the benefit of Christs redemption is not left as Adams standing or falling was in the hands of a mans free will for so there might have beene a possibilitie that all Christs sufferings might have been in vaine and none might have beene saved namely if none would beleeve But Christ dyed and rose againe not onely to satisfie Gods justice in the behalfe of all which were to be saved but also to give them faith that they might indeed be saved For it is apparant by the Scripture that the end why Christ dyed and gave himselfe a ransome for many was not Mat. 10.28 that onely hee might satisfie Gods justice in which satisfaction mans redemption doth virtually consist but that also God by him might give faith unto all which were ordained to eternall life Act. 13.47.48 by which their redemption and salvation purchased with Christs bloud might actually in the time appointed by God exist and take effect in them For faith is one of those blessings wherewith God blesseth Eph. 1.3.4.15 in and through Christ all whom he chose in him before the foundation of the world It was not enough for mans redemption and salvation Heb. 10.14.15.16.17 that Christ by his once offering of himselfe should onely beginne to save man but by the same he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Wherefore the promise of the new covenant is as the holy Ghost witnesseth that hee will put his lawes in their hearts and

continue from the fall till after the day of judgement For Iesus Christ having beene faithfull and powerfull as Mediatour in executing that authority which was put upon him Heb. 3.2 Mat. 25 4● Rom 8.21 and that to the saving of all the elect receiving thē into the state of glory and into the possession of the kingdome of heaven and also to the subduing of all enemies executing upon them the vengeance of hell fire and delivering the creature from the bondage of corruption there shall then be no more need of such a mediate kinde of government Wherefore Christ shall deliver up this kinde of government unto God the Father who for ever afterwards with the Son and holy Ghost shall governe all things immediately communicating unto the man Christ as head of his whole body all glory Iob. 17.24.26 and happinesse of which glorie by reason of that eternall and spirituall union which each member hath with the head the whole body shall partake for evermore Col 3.4 1 Ioh. 3.2 Phili 3.21 Vnto this immediate government the Sonne himselfe shall be subject together with the rest of his members that is his government as hee was man and Mediatour betweene God and man being at an end he as man and as head of the Church shall with his whole bodie be subject Not but that he as man was alwayes as inferiour so likewise subject to God but while with the second person in the deity the humanity did as a Viceroy governe all things having the same government with the Godhead he is not said to bee subject but when this government shall be laid downe then this subjection shall be manifest In this immediate government God shall be all in all that is God shall no longer communicate himselfe to his elect in Christ in part and by the mediation of his Sonne and by his ordinances and ministry of man as formerly he did in the state and kingdome of grace upon earth but then hee shall communicate himselfe wholly and by himselfe immediately Revel 21.22.23 For as there shall bee then no need of Sunne nor Moone or any other naturall meanes to sustaine mans bodie in a naturall being so there shall bee no need of Temple that is of any ministrie of the Word and Sacraments to sustaine body and soule in a spirituall and glorious being but God shall be all in all his presence and goodnesse will immediately supply all For sinne being perfectly abolished the creature is capable of a direct and immediate communion with God his creator hee pleasing immediately to communicate to man of his holinesse and of his glory But this delivering up of the kingdome to the Father Quest and to be himselfe subject doth not this diminish the glorie of our blessed Saviour causing it to be lesse after the day of judgement than it was before when all rule and all authority was upon him I answer by no meanes Answ as shall appeare if this mystery of the kingdome bee rightly understood For as God the Father could and did give all the aforementioned authority and kingdome to the Sonne without any the least diminution of the glorie and soveraigntie of the first person in Trinitie so can and will God the Sonne deliver up the same government and kingdome againe to the Father without any the least diminution of the glory and soveraigntie of the second person in Trinitie or without any disparagement or lessening of the glorie of his humanitie For God the Father so gave all authoritie to the Sonne that yet he retained it all to himselfe as God to whom kingdome and power is essentiall and inseparable For whatsoever the Father hath that same wholly he giveth to the Sonne Ioh. 5.17.19.20.26 and yet retaineth that wholly to himself The Father was King still and Lord of all notwithstanding the giving of all power to the Sonne did not take off any power and authoritie from the Father but did onely varie the manner of administration of one and the same authoritie Christ before hee was deputed to this his office of absolute authoritie over all as Mediatour was equall to the Father yet was not made above the Father by vertue of what was given him for 1. Cor. 25.27 he was alwayes excepted that put all things under him so when Christ shall have delivered up the kingdome and all that authoritie which was given him hee shall remaine no lesse equall to the Father For as his essence could not by acceptance of his office admit of any alteration of his authoritie to the greater so his essentiall authoritie and government over all as he is God cannot by the rendering up againe the same office and mediatorie dispensation admit of any alteration of his authoritie to the lesse By this it is plaine that Christ in respect of his deitie looseth no authoritie by this deliverie up of the kingdome to the Father Quest But how will it appeare that the humanity of Christ in state of subjection shall not be lesse glorious than it was before in state of dominion Answ It shall appeare thus First the humanitie of Christ was in the same subjection while it was in state of dominion as it shall bee when that dominion shall be rendred up namely inferiour to the Father as touching the manhood therefore the humanitie receiveth no disparagement by this subjection more in this latter state than in the former He is said in this latter state to be subject that is onely subject and not governing the world as before then hee was subject in one respect but King and governor in another which latter onely is taken away by reddition of the kingdome Secondly though Christ hath given up the kingdome no more to governe as God and man as a Mediatour yet as God he shall still governe though Christ as he is man and as he is a part of his Church shall bee subject yet the manhood of Christ shall still subsist in the Godhead of the Sonne and the fulnesse of his Godhead shall for ever dwell in the manhood Col. 2.9 by reason of the personall union in which respect though the manhood shall not participate in the worke of governing yet it shall participate in the honour and glorie thereof because the Godhead and the manhood make but one Person Thirdly Christ as man remaineth the head of the whole Church which is his bodie establishing them in state of perfect holines and glory through the immediate communion which by him they have with God by reason of that spirituall and inseparable union which they hold with him And it can bee no abatement of glory or content to him to give up such a manner of government which though it was honourable yet it was with a kinde of burthen and care so long as he did not give it up untill he had finished all which belonged to that his Kingly Office in saving all his subjects and destroying all his enemies for the honour