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A68805	The principles of Christian practice Containing the institution of a Christian man, in twelve heads of doctrine: which are set downe in the next side. By Thomas Taylor D.D. and late pastor of Aldermanbury London. Perfected by himselfe before his decease.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1635 (1635)	STC 23849; ESTC S118277	210,265	656

Father for his glorification because hee had glorified him on earth Joh. 17. 4. 5. 2. All glory is due unto him as the sonne of man by the donation of his Father Mat. 28. 18. All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth So as it is Christs owne glory as the sonne of man as that is a mans owne which is given him Therefore in Mat. 25. 31. the phrase is changed Christ challengeth it to bee his owne glory when the sonne of man commeth in his glory But yet in speaking of himselfe as on the one hand he advanceth that great majestie hee shall appeare in so on the other he forgetteth not to referre all that glory to his Father which may bee a glasse held before our eyes that when wee speake of our selves or any endowment or gift belonging to our selves wee so speake of it and so use it as still our eye be fixed on Gods glory from whom and for whom wee have received it When Christ shall appeare in such glory as never creature was capable of nor can be then shall ●e most of all advance the glorie of his Father But contrarily when God most honours some men they most forget his honour so they may advance themselves they litle care how his glory bee troden under foot Happie is that man who is so faithfull in these small things as that the Lord shall be then occasioned to trust him with much But wherein shall this glorie appeare Partly in his person partly in ●is office both for preparation execution 1. In his person he shall be advanced above all the glory of all ●he Judges and Princes of the earth whether wee consider his divine nature or humane For the former hee shall bee manifest to be the mighty God for howsoever hee shall exercise his judiciary power visibly and appeare the sonne of man yet shall hee be mightily declared to be the Sonne of God in that the personall union of his two natures shall shine out as the Sunne in his strength which before was vailed and obscured And for his humane nature he shall be therein exalted in glorie as the head of his Church that even his glorious body shall carrie such majestie with it and be seene in such admirable brightnesse as that the sunne which dazelleth our eyes can scarce resemble it For if the just shall shine in the glory which shall obscure the Sunne in the Firmament how shall their justifier shine in glory And if his Attendants shall be so glorious as no man is able to behold the glory of the least of them what and how glorious must he be who shall so farre surpasse them all put together as the Sunne doth the lesser starres in brightnesse 2. If we consider his high office we shall behold him as the just Judge of all the world clothed with all the robes of glory and majestie such as shall well suit with the throne of his glory and such as shall fit him to the great worke in hand How glorious and magnificent was the giving of the Law and how solemne the preparation the earth shooke the mountaines trembled the Lord came downe in fire and out of thundrings lightnings and a thicke cloud sounded his trumpet so lowd as all the people trembled and shooke and afterward a terrible voice was heard of six hundred thousand men beside women and children yea in such glory appeared the Lord on mount Sinai that Moses himselfe said I quake and feare But when the Lord Jesus shall shew himselfe from heaven to judge the transgression of that law his glory shall not onely shake mount Sinai but the whole frame of heaven and earth all to pieces when fire shall not compasse one mountaine but the whole world shall be set on a light fire when the last trumpet shall sound and not onely the living shall heare it as then but the dead and all that are in the graves when the Lord of glory with one shout shall not raise one man as Lazarus but all that ever have beene dead from the first man to the last which hee shall finde standing on the earth But to behold more specially the particular robes and rayes of glory wherewith the Judge is prepared to the judgment 1. He shall come armed with an infinite power and dominion over all creatures which shall be acknowledged by them all the Angels shall all observe and attend it the heavens and earth and all elements shall bee dissolved by it the dead bodies of men shall be raised by it and called out of the graves the sea the bellies of beasts in all corners of the world the voice of the Son of God shall be heard of all in the graves and obeyed none shall be able to resist it 2. Hee shall come furnished with a glorious and unconceivable Omniscience to which nothing shall be hid or covered he shall reveale all counsels of hearts and all secret contrivances never so long hid All things are naked to him with whom we have to doe for to him the day and darknesse are alike there can be no concealment of things from this allfeeing Judge 3. Hee shall come covered with divine justice as a robe which shall confound all the enemies of his glory Jer. 2. 16. as a theefe is ashamed when he is taken in the manner so shall all wicked doers And there is no avoiding no deluding or perverting the justice neither the processe or finall sentence unlesse any mans power or policie were above his 4. Hee shall come prepared with glorious evidence and testimonie against all wicked men for their conviction that they shall not be able to implead the justice of the Judge or judgment For First hee shall have evidence and witnesse in their owne consciences which shall then accuse them to the Judge and their owne confessions shall be as a thousand witnesses Therefore saith Augustine Doest thou feare the last judgment rectifie thy conscience and all shall be well Secondly hee shall command the creatures and elements abused by their sinnes to give in evidence against them Job 20. 27. The heavens shall reveale their wickednesse and the earth shall rise up against them all creatures shall serve their Lord. Thirdly the good Angels whom they have in their kinde grieved and driven away from them by their sin shall witnesse against them And the wicked Angels who were first in tempting shall then bee first in accusing and first in tormenting Fourthly the Scriptures of God against which they have sinned yea the word of mercy the offer of mercies their abuse of mercies the resisting of means of grace and mercy all shall witnesse against them not so much to informe the Judge as to convince themselves and promote justice Fiftly all their sinnes shall witnesse against their authours and patrones Every iniquitie hath his secret and still voice saith Gregory

who for avoyding the crosse perill have rejected him and the profession of his Gospell eternall perdition but to the godly who have persisted in the constant confession of his Name according to their workes life eternall This application of these words to the former matter is the true connexion of them wherein consider five things 1. The person that must come the Sonne of man 2. The action of comming shall come 3. The manner of comming in the glory of his Father 4. His attendants with his Angells 5. The end of comming to give to every man according to his deeds For the first The person that must come is the Sonne of man which title is used in the Scripture either commonly or singularly In the former sense for any common man borne of another Job 25. 6. How much more the Son of man which is but a worme In the latter it is taken for the eternall Sonne of God being made man Matt. 8. 20. the Sonne of man hath not where to lay his head For by the sonne of man is meant here whole Christ by an ordinary figure whereby that which belongeth to one nature is ascribed to the whole person so in Mat. 9. 6. the sonne of man hath power to remit sinnes which power agrees not to Christ as the son of man or in respect of his humane nature but in respect of the eternall Person as hee is God for who can forgive sinnes but God onely Beside Christ while hee was in the world said that the sonne of man came downe from heaven is in heaven which then could not be in regard of his humane nature but of his divine Nay by this title our Text must needes understand whole Christ God and man the Sonne of God and the Sonne of man for though his speech expresse him the Sonne of man yet the action here refeired unto him to be the just Judge of all the world proclaims him to be the Son of God and hee is indeed the Sonne of man but comming in the glory of his Father Quest. But why doth Christ ordinarily speaking of himselfe call himselfe the sonne of man he might have said the Sonne of God shall come in the glory of his Father which might seeme to have added more weight to his words Answ. Yet he useth the other title 1. In respect of himselfe To note that hee was a true man being not onely a man but the sonne of man that borne man having flesh and blood no where else but from man And herein this second Adam was opposed to the first who was a man but not the sonne of man for hee was the Sonne of God by creation Luke 3. 38. The first Adam was framed of the earth and so was made a man but not the Sonne of man the second Adam tooke flesh of the Virgin and so was not onely man but the Sonne of man also Againe it implies that he was a weake and fraile man as the Hebrew phrase soundeth Psal. 8. 5. Lord what is man or the sonne of man that thou shouldest respect him being so base and vile Esay 51. 12. Who art thou that fearest a mortall man or the sonne of man that is a weake and fraile creature And hereto serves that distinction among the Hebrewes of filii viri and filii hominis Beni●sh noteth men in excellencie eminencie dignitie and authoritie Beni-adam obscure persons and men of common and low condition In the same sense Ezekiel because he was astonied and throwne downe by a glorious vision Chap. 1. was so often afterward called sonne of man and bid to stand up on his feet As if the Lord had said Ezeki cl I know thou art a sonne of man a weake man not able to behold the brightnesse of such Majestie but gather thy selfe bee of good cheare and stand on thy feet And thus Christ the sonne of man takes on him our frailties and weaknesses undertook an abject low and base condition and appeared in the forme of a servant in his nativitie life and death in all our basenesse like unto us sinne onely excepted Yea and more in this very phrase hee impropriateth our miserie to himself that as all sons of men are base and miserable yet of all sons of men none was ever so abased as hee was no sorrow was ever like his no not all the misery of all sonnes of men was comparable to his and therefore hee doth after a sort appropriate this title to himselfe 2. In respect of his hearers and mens judgement who commonly esteemed him no other and rose no higher in their judgement of him than of a meere man though perhaps a great and holy man He would tender the weaknesse of his hearers for scarce the Disciples themselves after a great while could come to acknowledge the Majesty of the Sonne of God in this sonne of man and therefore he speakes of himselfe as they are able to conceive him more intending their instruction than his owne reputation 3. In respect of the argument For the manner of Scripture in speaking of the last judgement is to use this phrase above other 1. because this was appropriated to Messiah by Daniel chap. 7. 13. to which Christ undoubtedly had reference I beheld and there came as a sonne of man in the clouds of heaven 2. To shew that as he shewed himselfe in the nature of man to be judged on earth so hee would shew himselfe in a visible manner a Judge from heaven for it is meete that the Judge of all should be seene of all In regard of which manner of judging the Sonne onely shall judge although the Father and the holy Ghost judge also but after another manner Ob. Christ was as a sonne of man Dan. 7. and Revel 14. 14. I saw upon the cloulds one sitting as the sonne of man therefore Christ is not but onely like the sonne of man So Phil. 2. 7. He tooke upon him the forme of a servant and was made like a man Answ. For the two former places Christ was seene figuratively in vision When Daniel saw his vision he was not yet the son of man but was to be born be in time the son of man And after he was incarnate ascended being by S. John seene in vision hee is said to bee 〈◊〉 the sonne of man for that he was not seene of either in substance but in figure onely For the place in the Philippians well answers M. Calvin Saint Paul speakes not of the essence of his humane nature but of his state hee came a true man but in a lowly state and condition even the base condition of a servant Note here how our Lord doth willingly acknowledge the humilitie and basenesse of his humanitie speaketh lowly of himself in such an argument as wherein hee shall shew his greatest glory He might have stiled himselfe the Sonne of God as hee was not onely as God by eternall generation