Secondly, In the next place let us see what is implied in Christ sitting at Gods right hand, with his enemies for his footstool. And if we attently consider, we shall find that it implies and imports divers great and weighty things in it. As,
First, It implies the Complement and Perfection of Christs work, that he came into the world about. After his work was ended, then he sat down and rested from those labours, Heb. 10.11.12. Every Priest standeth daily ministering, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices; which can never take away sins; but this man when he had once offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God. Here he assigns a double difference betwixt Christ and the Levitical Priests; they stand, which is the posture of Servants; he sits, which is the posture of a Lord. They stand daily, because their sacrifices cannot take away sin; he did his work fully, by one offering; and after that sits, or rests for ever in Heaven.1 And this (as accurate and judicious Dr. Reynolds observes) was excellently figured to us in the Ark. which was a lively Type of Jesus Christ, and particularly in this, it had rings by which it was carried up and down, till at last it rested in Solomons Temple, with glorious and Triumphal solemnity, Psal. 132, 8, 9. 2 Chron. 5.13. So Christ, while he was here on earth, being anointed with the Holy Ghost and wisdom, went about doing good, Act. 10.38. and having ceased from his works, did at last enter into his rest, Heb. 5.10. which is the heavenly Temple, Rev. 11.19.
⟨p. 579⟩Secondly, 2His sitting down at Gods right hand, notes the high content and satisfaction of God the Father in him, and in his work. The Lord said to my Lord sit thou at my right hand, the words are brought in as the words of the Father, welcoming Christ to Heaven; and (as it were) congratulating the happy accomplishment of his most difficult work. And it is as if he had said, O my Son, what shall be done for thee this day? thou hast finished a great work, and in all the parts of it acquitted thy self as an able and faithful servant to me; what honours shall I now bestow upon thee? the highest glory in Heaven, is not too high for thee; come, sit at my right hand. O how well is he pleased with Christ, and what he hath done!
Secondly, In the next place let us see what is implied in Christ sitting at Gods right hand, with his enemies for his footstool. And if we attently consider, we shall find that it implies and imports divers great and weighty things in it. As,
First, It implies the Complement and Perfection of Christs work, that he came into the world about. After his work was ended, then he sat down and rested from those labours, Heb. 10.11.12. Every Priest standeth daily ministring, and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices; which can never take away sins; but this man when he had once offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God. Here he assigns a double difference betwixt Christ and the Levitical Priests; they stand, which is the posture of Servants; he sits, which is the posture of a Lord. They stand daily, because their sacrifices cannot take away sin; he did his work fully, by one offering; and after that sits, or rests for ever in Heaven.1 And this (as accurate and judicious Dr. Reynolds observes) was excellently figured to us in the Ark. which was a lively Type of Jesus Christ, and particularly in this, it had rings by which it was carried up and down, till at last it rested in Solomons Temple, with glorious and Triumphal sollemnity, Psal. 132, 8, 9. 2 Chron. 5.13. So Christ, while he was here on earth, being anointed with the Holy Ghost and wisdom, went about doing good, Act. 10.38. and having ceased from his works, did at last enter into his rest, Heb. 5.10. which is the heavenly Temple, Rev. 11.19.
⟨p. 579⟩Secondly, 2His sitting down at Gods right hand, notes the high content and satisfaction of God the Fa•her in him, and in his work. The Lord said to my Lord sit thou at my right hand, the words are brought in as the words of the Father, welcoming Christ to Heaven; and (as it were) congratulating the happy accomplishment of his most difficult work. And it is as if he had said, O my Son, what shall be done for thee this day? thou hast finished a great work, and in all the parts of it acquitted thy self as an able and faithful servant to me; what honours shall I now bestow upon thee? the highest glory in Heaven, is not too high for thee; come, sit at my right hand. O how well is he pleased with Christ, and what he hath done!
- 1Dr. Edw. Reynolds in Psal. 110. p. 35, 36.
- 2Sedent quià labore quiescunt, & ab eo r•creunt se. G•n. 18 1. quo sensu quidam a•cipiunt quod de Christo dicitur. Sedere ad dextr•m Dei, (i. e.) in Coelis apud Deum in aeterna illa beatitudine quiescere à laboribus ac miseriis quibus sese ultro pro nobis subjecerat. Rav. in verbum sedere.
