3. The Son of Man is invested with this high Office as the Reward of his Sufferings. We must distinguish between the essential and economical Power of Christ. The Son of God, considered in his Divine Nature, has an original Power of Judgment equal with the Father; but considered as Mediator, has a Power by delegation. In the quality of the Son of Man, he is inferior in Dignity to the Father. The Apostle declares this in that scale of Subordination, of the Creatures to Believers, and of Believers to Christ, and of Christ to God. All things are yours, and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. ⟨p. 156⟩And observing the beautiful Order that arises from the superiority and dependence between Things, he saith, The Head of every Man is Christ, and the Head of the Woman is the Man, and the Head of Christ is God. Now this Power by Commission was conferred upon him as the Reward of his Sufferings. The Apostle expressly declares it, that Christ being in the Form of God, and without any usurpation truly equal to him in Divine Perfections and Majesty, humbled himself, and became obedient to the Death of the Cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a Name above every Name: that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow, of Things in Heaven, and Things in Earth, and Things under the Earth; and that every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. His victorious Sufferings are the Titles to his Triumphs; his being so ignominiously depressed and condemned by Men, is the just reason of his advancement to judg the World.
3. The Son of Man is invested with this high Office as the Reward of his Sufferings. We must distinguish between the essential and oeconomical Power of Christ. The Son of God, considered in his Divine Nature, has an original Power of Judgment equal with the Father; but considered as Mediator, has a Power by delegation. In the quality of the Son of Man, he is inferior in Dignity to the Father. The Apostle declares this in that scale of Subordination, of the Creatures to Believers, and of Believers to Christ, and of Christ to God. All things are yours, and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. ⟨p. 156⟩And observing the beautiful Order that arises from the superiority and dependance between Things, he saith, The Head of every Man is Christ, and the Head of the Woman is the Man, and the Head of Christ is God. Now this Power by Commission was conferr'd upon him as the Reward of his Sufferings. The Apostle expresly declares it, that Christ being in the Form of God, and without any usurpation truly equal to him in Divine Perfections and Majesty, humbled himself, and became obedient to the Death of the Cross. Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a Name above every Name: that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow, of Things in Heaven, and Things in Earth, and Things under the Earth; and that every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. His victorious Sufferings are the Titles to his Triumphs; his being so ignominiously depress'd and condemn'd by Men, is the just reason of his advancement to judg the World.
