An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Secondly, Christ being thus exalted as Head of the Church, all Church-power is radically and fatally seated in him. So that the power to make ¹Church-officers, doth not arise originally from the people, as (they say) civil power doth, and is therefore called [Greek or Hebrew], on humane ordinance, but it cometh from the Lord Christ. Hence Matth. 28. 18, 19. when Christ had said, All power is given me in heaven and earth, then from this power, he appoints them, to go teach and baptize. Thus in another place he saith, John 20. 21, 22, 23. As my Father hath sent me, so I send you, whosoever sins ye remit, &c. From his Mediatorship ye see, he giveth the Keys of Government to his Officers. This also in a lively manner is affirmed, Ephes. 4. 10, 11. where Christs ascension is spoken of, and his glorious exaltation, That he might fill all things, that is, appoint all things in his Church, whereupon he enumerateth all Offices, and showeth that they have all their Commission from Christ, and that both, the ordinary, as well as the extraordinary.

Secondly, Christ being thus exalted as Head of the Church, all Church-power is radically and f••tally seated in him. So that the power to make ¹Church-officers, doth not arise originally from the people, as (they say) civil power doth, and is therefore called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, on humane ordinance, but it cometh from the Lord Christ. Hence Matth. 28. 18, 19. when Christ had said, All power is given me in heaven and earth, then from this power, he appoints them, to go teach and baptize. Thus in another place he saith, John 20. 21, 22, 23. As my Father hath sent me, so I send you, whosoever sinnes ye remit, &c. From his Mediatorship ye see, he giveth the Keys of Government to his Officers. This also in a lively manner is affirmed,