The Fountain of Life Opened

And indeed God the Father lost nothing by it, for there never was a more glorious manifestation made of the name of God to the World than was made in that work. Therefore it's said, Phil. 2.11. Speaking of one of the designs of Christs Exaltation, it was (saith the Apostle) That every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. O how is the Love of God to poor sinners illustriously, yea astonishingly displayed in Christs Exaltation. When to ⟨p. 541⟩show the Complacency and delight which he took in our recovery, he hath openly declared to the world that his exalting Christ to all that glory, such as no mere creature ever was or can be exalted to, was bestowed upon him as a reward for that work, that most grateful work of our Redemption, Phil. 2.9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, there is an Emphatical Pleonasmus in that word, our English is too flat to deliver out the elegance of the Original it is Super-Exaltation. ¹The Syriac renders it, he hath multiplied his Sublimity. The Arabic, he hath heightened him with an height. Justin, he hath famously exalted him. Higher he cannot raise him, a greater Argument of his high satisfaction and content in the recovery of poor sinners cannot be given. For this therefore God the Father shall have glory and honour ascribed to him in Heaven to all Eternity.

And indeed God the Father lost nothing by it, for there never was a more glorious manifestation made of the name of God to the World than was made in that work. Therefore it's said, Phil. 2.11. Speaking of one of the designs of Christs Exaltation, it was (saith the Apostle) That every Tongue should confess that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the Glory of God the Father. O how is the Love of God to poor sinners illustriously, yea astonishingly displayed in Christs Exaltation. When to ⟨p. 541⟩shew the Complacency and delight which he took in our recovery, he hath openly declared to the world that his exalting Christ to all that glory, such as no meer creature ever was or can be exalted to, was bestowed upon him as a reward for that work, that most grateful work of our Redemption,