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A90894	Christ exalted above all creatures by God his Father or A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. (At their solemne fast, observed the last day of the last month called February 1649.) By Vavasor Povvell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1651 (1651)	Wing P3081; Thomason E1332_4; ESTC R209110	26,418	99

suffering In this Exaltation there be also three particulars 1 His Coronation Thou crownedst him with glory and honour 2 His Institution Thou didst set him over the workes of thy hands 3 His Dominion which is universall Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet Note that Christs humiliation is set down comparatively but his exaltation is set down superlatively Thus much for the division of the words The Text explained now I come to the explanation of them and therein consider the nature of them and the meaning of them 1 In their nature they are an answer to the question in the sixt verse What is man that thou art mindefull of him or the sonne of man that thou visitest him 2 The meaning of the words is either literall or mysticall The literall meaning is this that God did at first make man Adam a little lower then the Angels The words in their literall sense applyed to Adam in respect of nature and mortality but hee crowned him with glory honour and dignity and put all the Creatures under him and made him as Soveraign Lord over them all Gen. 1.27 28. The mysticall and spiritual meaning of the words is this The words in their spirituall sense applyed to Christ That Jesus Christ as man or mediatour was made a little lower in respect of his humane nature and his state on earth and in a little while lower then the Angels But yet God the Father did exalt him above all creatures and gave him soveraignty and dominion over the works of his hands and did put all things under him and under his feet Q. But what doth that expression of putting all things under his feet signifie A. 1 It signifies a low subjection Luke 7.38 2 It signifies a through and perfect subjection as when people are overcome made slaves 1 Sam. 12.31 2 Kings 9.33 Q. Why are all things said to be put under Christs feet and yet wee doe not see them put under his feet A. They are virtually and potentially put under his feete but not actually and apparantly that is Christ is Lord and Soveraigne over all persons and things already by right though yet many doe oppose and withstand him and doe not submit subjugate themselves to him As David was the true anointed King of Israel when yet hee was persecuted and forced to flye for his life Having thus opened the words there arise these two main and speciall Observations or Doctrines from them That Christs way as man to exaltation Doct. 1. was by humiliation The Text holds forth this Doctrine clearly that he was first made lower then the Angels then set over or above them so it is said in the 110. Psalm the 7. vers That hee did drinke of the Brooke in the way that is he suffered death before he lifted up the head or was exalted Q. Wherein did the humiliation of Christ consist A. 1 In taking upon him the nature and forme of his own Creature man Heebeing in the form of God saith the Apostle thought it no robbery to be equall with God But made himselfe of no reputation and tooke upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men Heb. 2.16 And being found in the fashion of a man he humbled himself It is further said He took not on him the nature of Angells but he tooke on him the seede of Abraham or the nature of the seed of Abraham which was great humility for the Son of God to become the sonne of man and for the eternal Majesty to be cloathed with (d) Christs humane nature was subiect to hunger thirst weariednes c. humane frailty and mortality 2 Christs humiliation did consist in his subjection to mans miserable condition as to (e) 2 Cor. 5.21 become sinne and a (f) Gal. 3.13 curse for man-kind to come under his own law and to be judged by his own justice and liable to his owne wrath Oh what a low degree of humility was this for Christ to yield to (g) Act. 8.33 a death much more to the (h) Phil. 2.8 death of the Crosse which was so shamefull miserable and cursed 3 Christs humiliation did consist in his buriall and in (i) Isa 53.9 making his grave with the wicked For the Lord of Heaven to be covered with his owne earth and the God of glory to be coop'd up in a dark Cave must needs declare his great humility or humiliation Quest What was the nature of Christs humiliation or what kinde of humiliation was it A. 1 It was a voluntary humiliation in respect of himselfe For no man did move or perswade Christ hereunto neither did God his Father force him unto it But Christ testifies thus of himselfe (k) John 10.17 18. I lay downe my life No man taketh it from me but I lay it down of my selfe I have power to lay it down And in another place he saith to his (l) Heb. 10.9 Father I come to thy will O God 2 Christs humiliation was a necessary humiliation in respect of his Creatures that were to be reconciled and saved For if hee had not undergone that state of humiliation the whole Creation had perished and been lost for ever For as the Apostle m Heb. 8.3 said It was of necessity that Christ should have somewhat to offer So may wee say that it was of necessity that this man Christ did offer himself for there was no other fit to doe it 3 It was a grievous humiliation such a humiliation that there was never knowne on earth the like either before or since This did not only reach the body but the soule of Christ for hee cryed out in his (n) Mat. 26.38 Mar. 14.34 Agony My soule is exceeding sorrowfull There be 7 or 8 words in that 53. of Isa that sets out this humiliation of his As that he was despised rejected striken smitten afflicted oppressed bruised and tormented all distinct words and aggravating his humiliation and sufferings 4 Christs humiliation was an efficatious humiliation even upon the inanimate creatures for the Sunne was vail'd and ecclipsed and covered and hid his face the whole heavens mourned and put on sackcloath So that there was o Luke 23.44 darknesse over all the earth the earth did p Mat. 28.51 quake and the rockes did rent These senflesse things did expresse a kind of sympathy with their Creator in his great sufferings 5 Christs humiliation was an advantagious humiliation both to himselfe and to his Creatures To himselfe that hee came to have a body and Generation to honour and obey him To his Creatures a hat all of them have a benefit thereby for his humiliation was their exaltation his death their life and his condemnation their preservation and salvation Ob. But bad all the creatures some benefit by the humiliation sufferings of Christ Ans Yes doubtless all the Creatures in earth in heauen For

God is said to (q) Col. 1.20 reconcile all things unto himselfe by him i. e. Christ whether they be things on earth or things in Heaven The Angels they were stablished confirmed in their state and stations They that shall be saved were perfectly (r) 2 Cor. 5.19 Rom. 5.9 justified and reconciled by his death Those that perish had their (Å¿) Joh. 1.9 Luk. 9.56 naturall lives and the enjoyment of the Creatures here on earth by vertue of his death also the (t) Rom. 8 1 19.20 1 22. whole creation that now groaneth by reason of its bondage caused by the sinne of man shall be restored unto a glorious liberty which would never have beene had not Christ suffered Having thus briefly opened the first Doctrine I will shew you one Use only that you are to make of it and so I will come to the second Observation The Use is to exhort you to make Christ your example pattern Was he humbled before he was exalted did hee stoop to goe through this low door to his honour then learn of him this Lesson of all other Lessons for hee would have you learn it Learn of me saith he for I am meeke and lowly or meeke and humb e as the [v] Translated humble in Jam. 4.6 Greek hath it If you would be high then begin low as a builder that intends to build a great and stately Edifice hee doth first digge the foundation low Solomon (u) Prov. 15.33 saith that before honour is humility And in another place that (w) Pro. 22.4 honour is the reward of humlity Those that would looke after honour let them come by it as Mordecai came by his honour he first puts on on sack-cloath and fasted and mourned and then waited at Ahashuerus gate till he was called to honour he did not sue nor seeke for it but made it his businesse to honour God and to help the poore people of God and so hee was content to take his turn and to come to honour after God was honoured and when his people were advanced There is an excellent (x) Isa 37.31 promise made to the remnant of Judah which I shall allude to That they should take roote downeward and bring fruit upward As those trees whose boughes and branches grow and spread most doe take deepest root and spread in the earth most So those that are most exalted and advanced they are first humbled and afflicted for where humility is not before honour there will bee a humbling and abasing after honour I beseech you now you are come together to humble your souls labour to be humbled for this is one maine end why wee now are met together let 's take heede then lest wee depart with unhumbled hearts And that you may be humbled looke upon Jesus Christ for there are 2. speciall sights of Christ that do tend much to humble men The first is the sight of his misery or the sight of him in his answerable low and suffering condition (y) Rev. 1.7 They shall see him whom they have pierced And what followes All the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him The 2d sight is the sight of his glory or of him in his glory When Isaiah had seen this he cries out (z) Isa 6.5 Woe is me for I have sten the King the Lord of hosts And this sight was a sight of him in his (a) Vers 3. glory as appeares in the third verse These two sights of Christ my Text represents to you viz. a sight of him in his humiliation and a sight of his exaltation But I come to the 2d Doctrine Doct. 2. God the Father hath exalted his Sonne Christ above all creatures and ha h put and will put all persons and things under him This Doctrine flows naturally from the words and this God foretold by his Prophet in the Old Testament saying Behold my b i.e. Christ see Isa 42.1 53.11 servant shall deale prudently he shall be exalted and c Isa 52.13 extolled and be very high This also the Apostle confirms That Christ is d Col. 1.17 18. before all things and that among all hee hath the pre-eminence And in another (e) 1 Cor. 15 27. place that he i. e. God hath put all things under him But for the further proof of this I will come to Particulars and there be three particulars in the Doctrine to be proved 1 That God the Father hath exalted his Sonne Christ above all creatures 2 That hee hath put all persons and things already under him institutively virtually c. 3 That hee will put all persons and things under him really and actually For the first that God the Father hath exalted his Sonne Christ above all creatures appears as by severall Scriptures so by two undeniable reasons 1 In that hee hath put him to sit upon his owne right hand 2 Reason-To prove that God hath exalted Christ above all creatures which is the highest dignity power soveraignty and glory that he could give and which he hath not given to any creature besides and this exaltation Christ did not assume of himselfe but the Father said unto him f Ps 110.1 Sit thou on my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy foot-stoole Yea note this that the Scriptures mention this his being on Gods right hand obove g Ps 110.1 Mat. 22.44 26.64 Mar. 14.62 Lu. 16.19 20.42 22.69 Act 2.34 7.55 56. Heb. 1.13 8.1 12 2. 10.12 Rom. 8 34. Col. 3.1 twelve times as sometimes on the right hand of his power and sometimes on the right hand of the throne of God When Bathsheba Solomons mother came to him hee had no way to shew his respect more to her then by h 1 Kings 2.10 causing a seat to be set for her that shee might sit on his right hand And amongst us you know that to set one upon our right hand is to prefer him and to have the right hand of fellowship was an i Gal. 1.9 honour among the Apostles Obj. But are none copartners with Christ in this honour and doth hee alone sit on Gods right hand Ans There is none but hee that sits upon the right hand of the Father It is true in deed that the Queen or the Church is said to k Psal 45.9 sit on the Kings or on Christs right hand also hereafter the Saints shall bee upon his right hand But this prerogative is peculiar to Jesus Christ alone who is not only said to sit upon his Fathers right hand but is also l Exod. 15.16 called the right hand of God and the m Psal 80.17 man of his right hand 2 A second Reason to prove that God hath exalted his Son Christ above all Creatures Reas 2 is Because he hath appointed the chiefest Creatures to worship him and serve him as the Angels God commanded them to worship him n