CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. Another particular of his glory, is to make all things subject to him; whatsoever dignities or principalities there are, that all should acknowledge and bow to him; This is the Sun to which all the Stars do their obeisance; This is the name that God gave him above all Names, that every knee, every creature should submit to him, Phil. 2. By name is not meant bowing the knee at the name of it, that was never heard of till many years after Christ in the Church, but by name according to Scripture custom is meant Christ himself; Even as the Name of God is God himself, glorious, manifested, believed on, and every way exalted; Now this subjection all give to him as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, is twofold, in some it is voluntary and willing, Psa. 110. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, Christ doth by his glorious power change and alter their natures, whereby they are full of love and cheerfulness in taking him to be their Lord and King; They do readily obey his commands, so that the glory of Christ is magnified by all his Children; But then there is a necessitated and forced submission, such whom he is said to rule with a rod of iron, and the devils who are under the earth, they by constraint submit unto him.

2. Another particular of his glory, is to make all things subject to him; whatsoever dignities or principalities there are, that all should acknowledge and bow to him; This is the Sunne to which all the Stars do their obeisance; This is the name that God gave him above all Names, that every knee, every creature should submit to him, Phil. 2. By name is not meant bowing the knee at the name of it, that was never heard of till many years after Christ in the Church, but by name according to Scripture custome is meant Christ himself; Even as the Name of God is God himself, glorious, manifested, beleeved on, and every way exalted; Now this subjection all give to him as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, is twofold, in some it is voluntary and willing, Psa. 110. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, Christ doth by his glorious power change and alter their natures, whereby they are full of love and chearfulness in taking him to be their Lord and King; They do readily obey his commands, so that the glory of Christ is magnified by all his Children; But then there is a necessitated and forced submission, such whom he is said to rule with a rod of iron, and the devils who are under the earth, they by constraint submit unto him.