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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

and those he deceived But so much for the exaltation of Christ as Mediator Fifthly Jesus Christ is exalted in his Generation above all others for who saith the Prophet shall declare his Generation That is though Christ be killed yet who shall or can be able to tell the number of his Progeny and Posterity and the Branches that shall grow out of this Stem and Root Note that there is a double Generation belonging to Christ and a double booke wherein this two-fold Geneneration is recorded 1 His naturall Generation shewing from whom he came according to the flesh This Matthew calls Mat. 1.1 The Booke of the Generation of Jesus Christ c. According to his Fleshly Generation he was of the Bloud Royall and next to the Crowne if he had claimed it as some conceive and why should Herod command him whilst he was but yet a Childe to be killed but that he feared he that was next Heire would have put him besides the Crowne 2 His Spirituall Generation or his Off-springe who are his blessed Seed called 1 Per. 2.61 Rev 13 8. 21.27 A royall Generation a Generation of Kings Princes and Priests whose names are written in the Lambs book of life Sixtly and lastly Jesus Christ is exalted above all in Dominion and Government and of this his Dominion Government and Kingdome the Scriptures doe amply testifie and clearly speake Esa 6.9 22.21 For as Ioseph who was a Type of him was Governour in all the Land of Aegypt so Christ governes all the Nations of the earth Psal 105.22 Psal 67.4 22.28 And as God sent Ioseph into Aegypt to teach the Princes of Aegypt so hath God sent his Sonne Jesus into the world to teach and rule the Princes of the earth Be wise therefore ye Princes and obedient to him ye Iudges of the earth You may more particularly consider this Kingdome of Christ as being divided into three parts A Coelestiall A Spirituall and A Terrestriall 1 For the Coelestiall or heavenly part I desire you to turne to two speciall places which speake thereof 2 Tim. 4.18 Luk. 22.16 many more I might name but I intend not to insist upon that part yet be not unmindfull that there is a Crowne and a Kingdome prepared for those that love Christ Jam. 1.12 2.5 and that waite for his appearance 2 For the Spirituall part of his Kingdome which concerns us to know here observe these soure things 1 The word of the Kingdome which is sometimes called the Gospel Mar. 4.23 Mat. 13.11 and sometimes the Mysteries of the Kingdome of Heaven the Gospel is the Law by which Christ doth rule and governe the Subjects of his Kingdome 2 There be the Keepers of the Kingdome which is Skil Mat. 16.19 and power to open the Gospel and to open and shut the doore of the Church of Christ according to his will the keyes that were committed to Peter was nothing else I suppose but a Cal and power as the first Minister to preach the Gospel unto the Gentiles 3 There be the Subjects of this Kingdome Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.7 Act 11.26 and those are called in the New Testament Beleevers Saints Christians the redeemed and called of God 1 Cor. 1.24 Rom. 16.16 or Churches of Saints all which words imply that they must be in Christ and have grace who are members and subjects of this Kingdome and not all the riffe-raffe as we speake of the world 4 There be Officers belonging to this spirituall part of the Kingdome which the King of Glory hath left and appointed as Apostles Evangelists Prophets Pastors Teachers and the like Ephes 4.11 5 And lastly there is the seate of this spirituall Kingdome the subjects of this Kingdome are seated and placed in the heart of their Soveraigne and Saviour Jesus Christ Cant. 8.6 As Paul said of the Philippians Phil. 1.7 that he had them in his heart so may Christ say much more of his Members that he hath them in his heart and that he hath borne them from Eternity This Kingdome especially the Word of it is also seated in the hearts of Beleevers as Christ said The Kingdome of God is within you Luk. 17.21 So the Apostle saith The Kingdome of God was in the Romans in righteousnesse peace Rom. 14.17 and joy of the Holy Ghost Thus having ended the second part of Christs Kingdome I now come to the last part which is Christ reigning on Earth and over the World there are severall things disputable herein as 1 Whether Christ shall come and reigne in his owne Person and humane Nature upon the earth and 2 If he doth reigne who shall reigne with him whether all the Saints or whether those only that suffered under Antichrist or whether the people of the Iewes only But in regard these questions are controverted we 'l come to those things which are without controversie concerning this point and they are four 1 That Iesus Christ hath a right to all the Kingdoms of the world as it is said in the 1 Cor. 10 chapter The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof and in Psal 72.8 He shall have dominion from sea to sea c. One speciall place besides that I conceive is applicable to Christ it is in the 21. of Ezekiel 27. verse I will overturne overturne overturne it and it shall be no more untill he come whose right it is and I will give it him Here are three overturnings answerable to the three parts of the City in the Revelation and all these overturnings are to bring Christ the right Heire to his possession 2 The Lord hath power to dispose of the Kingdomes of the earth to whomsoever he pleaseth as it is said in the 4th of Daniel the 17. vers That the most high is in the Kingdome of men and he giveth it to whomsoever he will So in the fifth of Daniel 21. and in Psal 75.7 God is the Iudge he putteth down one and setteth up another And who can or dare say to the Lord What dost thou 3 Jesus Christ accounts no men so worthy and so fit to rule his Kingdome under him as his Saints therefore he makes promise thereof to them And the Kingdome and Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven Dan. 7.27 shall be given unto the Saints of the most high c. and know you not saith the Apostle Paul that the Saints shall judge the world And Christ said unto his Apostles though poore Fishermen Ye shall sit upon twelve Thrones i Cor. 6. i 2 judging the twelve Tribes of Israel You know among men if a man be exalted to Honour Office or place he will preferre his owne friends and Servants especially if they be fit men and can manage those places even so doth Christ who findes places for his people and fits them for those places and indeed none are so fit to manage any worke as the Saints for they

only doe their worke in a right manner and to a right end Fourthly and lastly the Scriptures declare that Christ shall reigne in the world and in the Nations of the world To instance in a few in the second of Daniel the 44. verse The God of heaven will set up a Kingdome which shal never be destroyed which shal stand for ever And this Kingdome which is called the stone hewne out of the Mountaine shal destroy and breake in peeces all the remaining powers of the other foure Monarchies So in the 11. of the Revelation 15. vers The Kingdomes of this world shal become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ And else-where it is said His Dominion shal be from Sea to Sea and that he should have the utmost parts of the earth for his possession And in Esaiah the second and Micha the fourth there are promises that his Kingdome called the Mountaine of the Lord should be set upon the top of the Mountaines Surely these and many more Scriptures have somewhat of speciall concernment in them that relate to this Kingdome of Christ Obj. But you will say Iesus Christ himselfe when he was on earth denyed and resused an earthly Kingdome Joh. 18.36 for he saith My Kingdome is not of this world Answ T is true that Christ did then deny and refuse an earthly Kingdom for then was his comming in his humiliation rather then in his exaltation and to purchase a Kingdome rather then to possesse it The time when Christ spake those words was at his departure out of the world It is more then probable that Christ will come in great power and glory as the Jewes did expect him to call and redeeme them Mar. 24.30 Luk. 21.2 Mark 13.26 Zach. 12.10 Rev. 1.7 but he told the Jewes elsewhere and at another time That they should see him and say Blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord Luk. 13.35 Let us take heed that we doe not over-looke Christs exalted state on earth as the Iewes did formerly his state of Humiliation but I doe observe that many people in these dayes doe stumble at three things 1 That the Saints should rule and governe the world but is there not all the reason in the world they should seeing that the world is upheld for their sakes also that they have been Sufferers in times past and are Conquerers of some parts of it at present and doth not Christ promise that he that over commeth and keepeth his works unto the end to him will be give power over the Nations Rev. 2.26 Object But some will say The weapons of the Saints anciently were faith teares prayers and patience and they did then rather choose afflictions and persecutions then make resistance and seek to reign over others Answ It s true that faith teares prayers c. are the best weapons and with these the Saints doe cheifly warre But yet it is as true that the Saints may lawfully fight for wee read that they are to have a two edged sword in their hands Psa 149.6 as well as the high prayses of God in their mouthes and in another place we read that they that lead into captivity meaning the Roman party should be led into captivity themselves But you will say by whom Rev. 13.10 Surely by the Army of the Lamb who are called and chosen Rev. 17.14 and faithfull There is a Generation of new upstart Courtiers that would beg the Saints for fooles and deale with them as Ziba did with Mephibosheth and by false wayes get what appertaines unto them out of their hands Or as a cunning fellow that would come to a rich man and tell him it is hard for him to go to heaven with all that riches and this he doth that he may dispossesse him of his riches that so he himselfe may have them but I hope the Saints are more wise then to be cheated out of their rights and priviledges by a generation of men who would have Saints to be their slaves who are themselves slaves to Satan 2 Some stumble at present proceedings and at the dealings of God in these dayes Saying we have neither precept nor example for what we do I will not speake particularly and largely to this point yet I would stirre up and provoke people to look upon the hand of God which is so evidently and eminently exalted lifted up though as the Prophet said of some They will not see but yet they shalsee and shal be ashamed But let us peruse a few Scriptures instead of many that might be produced that justifie this to be no other then the hand of God in the 110 Psal 5. verse The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through Kings in the day of his wrath So it is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in gentibus So in the 149. Psal 7 and 8. verses there judgement is said to be executed in the Nation and thein Kings to bee bound with chaines and their Nobles with fetters of iron So in Rev. 19.18 The foules of the aire were called to eate the flesh of Kings of Captaines and of mighty men c. So in Isay it is prophesied That Kings should shut their mouthes and bow before Christ and his Church What are all these Scriptures to be understood allegorically No sure it is more then probable that in the same manner as Christs great and wicked enemies opposed him and destroyed his people they shall be opposed and destroyed 3 Many stumble at this That meane men are exalted and the great and noble ones laid aside and not made use of But if the Scriptures be searched and considered this will not appeare any new or strange thing In the 21 of Ezek. 26. Thus saith the Lord God remove the diadem and take off the Crowne this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high So in Dan. 4.17 The most high said Nebuckhadnezar ruleth in the King dome of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men Also in Psa 113.7 8. God is said to raise up the poore out of the dust and to lift the needy out of the dunghill that hee may set them up with Princes Is this so strange unto men what have we not examples enough to wipe off this aspersion What were Moses Josuah Gideon Jephtha Saul David and many others were they not mean men and not tramed up or educated either for Civil or Military imployment who would have thought a Thresher as Gideon was a Keeper of his fathers Asses as Saul was or a poor Sheepheard as David was should be sit to lead rule such a people and Nation as Israel was Let us not then looke so much upon men for the Lord seeth not as man 1 Sam. 1. 6 7. for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart And the reason why God exalts