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A18567	The exaltation of the kingdome and priesthood of Christ In certaine sermons vpon the 110. Psalme: preached in the Cathedrall Church and city of Worcester, in the time of Christmasse: anno Domini: 1596. By Rob. Abbot, doctor of Diuinitie, sometime felow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford.	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1601 (1601)	STC 51; ESTC S115231	83,503	102

those infirmities and weakenesses those afflictions and indignities that we haue spoken of are matters not beseeming or befitting the glorie of God and and we will answere with Tertullian a Tertul. cont Marcio lib. 2. Totum Dei mei penes vos dedecus sacramentum est humanae salutis All that you account the reproch and disgrace of our God is the sacrament or mysterie of mans saluation It is for mans behoofe whatsoeuer he vndertooke vnwoorthie of himselfe b Hilar. de Trinis lib. 2. Humilitas eius nostra nobilitas est contumelia eius honor noster est saith Hilarie The humbling of him is the ennobling of vs his reproch is our honour This is the foundation whereupon we builde our selues to heauen in this humiliation and weakenesse of Iesus Christ are conteined the infinite riches of grace and life What was the occasion of Christs abasing and bumbling of himselfe 7 But what was it in man that caused the sonne of God to take vpon him this disgraced and dispised state It was namely the sinne of man Woonderest thou that such indignitie should befall vnto the sonne of God Remember thy selfe humble thy selfe before the Lord and say It was my sinne that caused the Lord of glorie to take vpon him reproch and shame There could not be found in heauen or earth any other expiation of my sinne but that the sonne of God must demeane himselfe to suffer things vnwoorthy of God to make attonement betwixt God and me And when thou art come so far goe on yet and say Shall I cherish sinne in me that brought all this wrong vpon the sonne of God Shall I thinke lightly of that iniquity and vncleanesse which was so great with God that nothing could satisfie for it but the bloud of his onely begotten sonne Shall I bestow my life and daies in vanity and vnrighteousnesse which I vnderstand was so deerly bought to he halowed vnto God Thus I say we should bethinke our selues and with such meditations busie our selues this solemne tune which now we see specially in the greatest houses not without great sinne wholy in a manner destinated to excesse of vanity and folly of wild and vnbrideled behauiour as if we rather kept the prophane and licentious festiualls of Bacchus and Apollo then a wholy remembrance of Iesus Christ 8 Hitherto we haue seene the humbling of Dauids Lord now let vs see his exaltation and glory The exaltation of Christ to sit at the right hand of God For vnto him thus humbled God the father is brought in saying sit thou at my right hand c. Whereby is signified the lifting vp of the man Christ to the participation and felowship of the maiesty and glory of God and to all height of dignity power primacy ouer all creatures both in heauen and earth The sequel of humiliation and glorie both in Christ and and vs. In which consequence of humility and glory in the person of Iesus Christ we see what our way must be to that heauenly glory and blisse which we desire For we must be made a Rom. 8.29 like vnto the image of the sonne of God not onely in the end but also in the meanes and way that leadeth thereunto We must be humbled with him that with him we may be exalted we must b 2. Tim. 2.11.12 suffer with him that we may raigne with him we must die with him that we may liue with him we must c Heb. 13.13 with him be partakers of reproch that with him we may be partakers of glory we must with him beare the crosse and crowne of thornes that with him we may weare the crowne of euerlasting life If we refuse his company in the one he will exclude vs from being partners with him in the other As it is said of Christ the head d Luc. 24.26 These things ought Christ to suffer and so to enter into his glory so it is said of vs that are the body e Act. 14.22 By many tribulations we must enter into the kingdome of God As Christ was f Heb. 2.10 consecrated the prince of our saluation through afflictions so our g 2. Cor. 1.6 saluation is wrought in enduring the sufferings of like afflictions But there is comfort of these tribulations and sufferings for that they conteine the hope and assurance of so blessed reward inasmuch as therein h Rom. 5.2.3 we reioice vnder the hope of the glory of God And therefore as Christ i Heb. 12.2 for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse and despised the shame so must we looking vnto him as the author and finisher of our faith with willing mindes when the Lord will beare the k 2. Cor. 4.17 momentary and light affliction of this time as which bringeth an excellent and an eternall waight of glory whilest we looke not vpon the temporall things which are seen but vpon the things eternall which are not seen 9 The reward of glory that is here assigned vnto Iesus Christ hauing now gone through all his sufferings and accomplished the worke and seruice of our redemption is to sit at the right hand of God The fulfilling whereof Saint Marke declareth telling vs that after his resurrection hauing spoken vnto his disciples a Mar. 16.19 he was receiued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God Which is an honour peculiar vnto the sonne of God The highest angels are not high enough to bee partakers of this glorie for b Heb. 1.13 to which of all the angels hath he saide at anie time sit thou at my right hand c. Now this phrase of speech borowed from humane and ciuill vse What is signified by Christs sitting at the right hand of God attributeth vnto Iesus Christ an excellencie both of maiestie and power Maiestie imported first in the very terme of sitting Which is not used is properly to determine any certaine position or gesture of bodie but figuratiuely to note an eminencie of dignitie and honour For to persons of maiestie and honour it belongeth to sit when others stande that are of inferiour place And thus is it oftentimes vsed in the Scripture as touching God himselfe and namely of many places to alleage one Dan. 7. where it is said that c Dan. 7.9.10 the thrones being set vp the Auncient of daies did sit thousand thousāds ministred vnto him ten thousand thousands stood before him Thus the honor which Iesus Christ shall do vnto his saints we finde expressed also by this terme of sitting d Apoc. 3.21 To him that ouercommeth will I grant to sit with me in my throne c. But Christ is not said onely to sit but to sit at the right of God which is neuer affirmed of the saints Now the right hand according to vse of nature signifieth power and strength according to ciuill vse it importeth preheminence and honour The right parts naturally are the nimbler

of life the graue the putting off of mortalitie and corruption To be short b Esa 11.9 There shall be nothing to hurt or to destroie in all the mountaine of the Lordes holinesse c Ioh. 10.28 nothing to pull the sheepe of Christ out of his handes but d Rom. 8.28 all things worke togither for good and for the best to them that loue God And why so Because all the enimies of Christ that is to say all our enimies are become his footestoole and in him a footestoole vnto vs. And thus shall Christes enimies serue for his vse for the vse of his Church vntill the daie come that that which is heere prophecied shall be perfectly fulfilled when all the enimies of Christ nowe alreadie ouercome shall be vtterly destroied and abolished when there shall be none to tempt vs none to trouble vs when sinne shall bee quite done awaie when e Reuel 20.10.14 the diuell and the beast and the false prophet and death and hell shall bee cast into the lake of fire that burneth for euer when f Reu. 7.16.17 20.4 God shall wipe awaie all teares from the eies of his when they shall hunger no more thirst no more when the sunne and heate shall no more light vpon them and there shall be no more death nor sorow nor crying nor any more paine but g 1. Cor. 15.28 God shall be all in all 15 To conclude h Psal 74.3 God will for euer destroy euerie enimie that doth euill to his sanctuarie all tyrants persecutors oppugners of his Church Howsoeuer they seeme to haue power in their handes euen at their owne will yet Christ sitteth aboue them at the right hand of God they shall be made his footestoole confusion shall be their portion as in al ages God hath shewed and will shew vnto the end and specially in the end as remaineth further to bee spoken at the ende of this Psalme God the father graunt vnto vs for his welbeloued sonne Iesus Christ his sake the grace of his holie spirit whereby through the knowledge of his holie word we may framed to the obedience of his holy will that wee may serue him faithfully and truely according to his commandement the whole course of this life that when it shall please him to take vs out of this mortall life we may be made partakers of that eternall life and blessednes which he hath promised in the world to come through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. To God the father God the sonne and God the holie Ghost be all honour glorie praise dominion might maiestie and power both nowe and for euermore Amen The second Sermon the same day in the afternoone Verse 2. The Lord shall send the rod or scepter of thy power out of Sion be thou a ruler or beare thou rule in the middest of thine enimies IN the former Sermon wee haue seene the sonne of Dauid installed and enthroned to the seate and maiestie of his kingdome In this second verse is set foorth the meanes whereby and the maner how this kingdome is founded and established Foure things to be obserued in the second verse First therefore we are to obserue from hence what it is whereby the subiects of this kingdome are gathered vnto Iesus Christ and gouerned vnder him which is the rod or scepter of his power Secondly from whence this scepter proceedeth the Lord shal send it Thirdly whence it hath his gooing foorth out of Sion Fourthly what successe and worke it hath he thereby beareth rule in the middest of his enimies 2 Now we see Christ heere brought in imperiall maner bearing his scepter in his hand for the scepter is one of the ensignes of princely maiestie The scepter an ensigne of princely maiestie Monarches and kings are woont to weare in their hand a rod or scepter in token of soueraigne and roiall authoritie and thereby to import that they in respect of whom they are kings are vnder their power and subiect to their stroke Thus therefore Iesus Christ whom God hath exalted and lifted vp to bee the Monarch and Lord of the whole worlde and hath assigned vnto him all power both in heauen and earth is saide to haue his scepter whereby hee doth exercise and declare his power for the building vp and gouerning of his Church Which scepter is called in the Psalme a Psal 45.6 the scepter of his kingdome whereby namely he exerciseth and administreth his kingdome And that we may vnderstand what this scepter is it is called also b Esa 11.4 the scepter or rod of his mouth which in the same place and elsewhere is termed also c ibib 2. Thess 2.8 the breath of his lips the breath of his mouth Now what is it that proceedeth from the mouth and is formed with the breath but only the word The word of Christ therefore is the Scepter of his kingdome The Scepter of Christ is his word The word of of Christ why called the Scepter of his power And it is here called the Scepter of his power because therein appeareth his might and power working great and wonderfull things beyond the opinion and expectation of the world Which we may obserue both in the course and passage that this word hath had through the world and in the speciall effects and works that it hath wrought and doth worke in this passage The power of Christ appearing in the passage of his word through the world 3 We see how in the beginning it went forth as the Sunne no power could hinder the going of it It was put into the mouthes not of Philosophers and Oratours but poore fishermen and tentmakers and toulegatherers and by their hand being men of no commendation to the world subdued more nations to the kingdome of Christ then sword and battell could euer bring in subiection vnto the great Empire of Rome The world did striue against it and it ouercame the world the Scepters of Princes strooke at it to beate it downe and Princes scepters gaue it way whether they would or not They bound the preachers of it but it selfe was as the winde which cannot be bound nor stayed from his course Neither policie nor strength could hinder it but that it ouerthrew their customes cast downe their idols stopped the mouthes of their oracles and wrested from their deuils a confession of the power of God and so went on with victory and triumph till it had set vp the kingdome of Christ in the vtmost coastes and borders of the earth And haue not our own eies men and brethren seene the experience hereof in these latter times when Emperors and Princes and Popes and Prelates and the multitude of the world labored to put out the the light of the Gospell beginning againe to shine amidst the darkenes of Popery and by all their labour could auaile nothing They had countenance and counsell and strength they persecuted the professers of