Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…

The first Consideration is this, The glory of the humane nature of Jesus Christ in Heaven, is the reward of his Passion here on earth. In respect of the divine nature, and as Jesus Christ was the second Person in Trinity, the glory which the Lord Jesus now possesseth at his Fathers right hand, was the glory which he had with the Father from before the foundation of the world: ¹but as to the assumption of the humane nature, it was glory given him by the Father. Christ had a twofold right to the Kingdom of glory, sc. natural and constitutive; natural, as he was the only begotten Son of God, and so of the same nature and essence with the Father from all eternity, and so whatever power and glory was essentially the Fathers, was essentially the Sons also. But then besides that, ²Jesus Christ had also a constitutive right, or, a right by donation, as he ⟨p. 20⟩was appointed and made heir of all things; now this constitutive glory (as I say) was the fruit and, reward of his sufferings, ³Because he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the Cross, Therefore hath God highly exalted him, and given him a name above all names, &c. Because and Therefore; the exaltation of his humane nature was the merit and compensation of his humiliation and abasement. Now then, if we would make an estimate of the glory of Christ now at his Fathers right hand, we cannot find out a more proper medium, than to make a serious and (if it were possible) a thorough search and enquiry into his abasement and humiliation. And certainly if there had been nothing else in it, but his incarnation, or the assumption of our flesh, it had been an infinite abasement to the Son of God; so deep an abasement, as it had been blasphemy for men or Angels to have sought for, or so much as to have thought of. Such a wish in the standing Angels (Oh that God would give his own essential, eternally begotten Son, to take the humane nature upon him, and therein to recover lost man) would have been a presumption (without doubt) which, no less than the first ambition of the Apostate Angels (probably conceived only in thought) might have justly merited their ejection also out of Heaven.