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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

them that are low is that he may glorifie himselfe the more Therefore be not vexed at Gods dealings for he saith he will come upon Princes as upon morter and as the potter treadeth the clay Esa 41.25 I come to the last Question which is How God doth bring all creatures under his Son 1 By the rod of his mouth or the Gospell which is the power of God Psa 110.2 Rom. 1.16 Rev. 1.16 and the sword of God by which the Lord doth bring downe many to the obedience of Christ as the Apostle speakes 2 Cor. 10.4 5. 2 By the rod of his hand Psa 29. or as the Prophet David calls it an iron rod by which he will break and dash in peices his Enemys like a potters vessel They that will not bow by the sweet and gracious words of Christ must be broken by the heavy blows and strokes of Christ and where the kindnesse and goodnesse of Christ will not take place there his wrath and indignation must and will take place Thus having cleared the Doctrine let me begge your patience a little to apply it 1 Vse The first use then is an use of Exhortation and that is two-fold the first exhortation is unto sinners and it is of great concernement to you To submit unto the Lord Jesus First by kissing Christ is meant obeying him so the word is taken 1 Sam. 10.1 Kisse the Son least he be angry and so ye perish from the right way Psal 2.12 there are many of you here this day that stand in neede of Christ who yet have not stooped and bowed to him I beseech you for to incite your hearts to consider these motives 1 Because Christ hath conquered the whole World and it can be no lesse then Rebellion and Treason in you to resist or disobey him 2 He is your right and lawfull King and will you like the Iewes refuse your King 3 Because Christs yoke is very easie as he saith himselfe for encouragement unto men Mat. 11.29 30. Take my yoke for it is easie and my burden for it is light 4 If you submit unto Christ he will free you from all tyranny and slavery you are now under he will deliver you from Sathan and sinne who now rule over you 5 Because Christ will have no Successor to call you to an account for your disobedience and loyalty to him for he shall abide a King for ever and you shall never change your Lord for he is the last Monarch and of his Kingdome there shall be no end 6 Because that all the love and mercy which the Lord hath revealed to you and bestowed on you they are to bring you to obedience unto him O consider what mercies God hath heaped upon you he hath given you Houses Lands Children Servants Honours pleasure and dominion and he hath made your enemies to stoop to you O now what doth the Lord expect from you but that you should submit unto his Son The second exhortation is unto you all Secondly If God hath exalted Christ then doe you also exalt him There is not a more blessed work to be done now the worke of Redemption is done then this You should exalt Christ 1 Because God the Father hath exalted him what will you not be like unto God Est 6.6 What shall be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour said Ahashuerus to Haman If a man knew what such a one deserved and though Mordecay was his enemy yet he must have a hand in advancing him Oh! but then what shall become of the man whom the King of Heaven delights to honour and to exalt 2 It is the worke of Angels day by day to exalt Christ and if those Creatures who are a thousand times more glorious excellent and perfect then we are fal downe and cast their Crownes before the Throne Rev 5.12 7.12 saying Worthy is the Lambe that was slaine to receive power and riches and wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing how much more willing and ready should we be for Christ hath done more for us men then for them 3 You have been the cause of humbling Iesus Christ for by and for your transgressions he was brought from his Throne and the glory which he enjoyed with his Father to suffer reproach shame sorrow and the cursedst death that was and will you not be a meanes what in you lyes to exalt and honour him whom you have so much abased 4 You should exalt Christ because that is the way for you to be exalted know this assuredly that that which humbled and abased your Saviour will never exalt and honour you Sinne was that though but yours and imputed to him which abased him and can you conceive that it will exalt you Oh no! Righteousnesse exalteth a Nation saith Solomon and God promised That whosoever would honour him should be honoured by him 1 Sam. 2.30 2 Use The second use is an use of examination to try whether we honour Christ yea or no and whether we exalt our selves or him There be severall Scriptures that shew how men exalted themselves as in Dan. 11.14 The robbers of Gods people are said to exalt themselves So it is said of Adonijah That he exalted himselfe saying I wil be King 1 King 1.5 Also Ephraim exalted himself Hos 13.1 And God complained by Hosea cha 11. ver 7. That none would exalt him Now that I may a little discover this SELFE-EXALTATION and the Lord discover it unto you and the plagues of your owne hearts from the highest to the lowest This wicked Selfe comes to be Indited and Arraigned before you this day as an Enemy and Traytor to the Crowne and dignity of Jesus Christ as a destroyer of Nations and as a Murderer of Soules and Bodies and as the universall Disease which hath infected all sorts of men For to finde out this Malefactor it is needfull that we make strict enquiry search and for that end we wil begin at home or with the Ministers who I feare are not only possest with this enemy but out of them it goes forth into all the Land and from them it hath its originall and rise therefore I thinke in my conscience that we Ministers are to confesse this sinne and to take shame to our selves for it And that we may doe so let us consider how we are guilty hereof I shall hint out some particulars 1 We are guilty of Selfe in our preaching when wee preach our selves and not Jesus Christ contrary to the opinion and practice of the Apostle who saith We preach not our selves but Jesus Christ the Lord 2 Cor. 4.5 Obj. But you will say how and when is that Answ When we preach humane Learning or the wisdome of the world in the stead and roome of the pure Gospel and Word of Christ or else when we mix and mingle both together contrary to the Scriptures which say 1 Cor. 2.4 That our preaching should

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