2. That phrase of delivering up the Kingdom to the Father, may be understood of the manner of Christs regiment by his Ministers, Ordinances, and other like means: all things being accomplished by these, for which they were ordained, they shall cease; and in this respect be said to be delivered up to God.
3. All enemies being subdued Christ hath no occasion of using authority over them. There is no fear of their rising against him.
4. As for this phrase, The Son also himself shall be subject; It is to be taken in regard of his humane nature and office of mediation, in which respect he is subject to the Father.
If hereupon it be objected, that in these respects Christ was always subject to the Father; I answer:
That the excellency of his Deity being till then as it were clouded under the vale of his flesh and of his Office, it did not so conspicuously, fully, and perfectly appear, as at the end of the world it shall: This subjection then is to be taken comparatively, in reference to that infinite difference which then shall be manifested betwixt the divine and humane nature of God.
When the Son of God assumed humane nature to the unity of his divine nature, the Word was made flesh Joh. 1. 14. and God was manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. 4. 16. Now though it pleased the deity to make it self in a manner visible in that flesh Joh. 14. 9, yet was the flesh as a veil obscuring the surpassing brightness of the Deity: And although by divine words and works uttered and done in this flesh, by enduring that heavy burden which was laid on it for our sins by the resurrection of it from the dead, by the ascension of it into heaven, and by the high exaltation of it at the right hand of God, the Deity did by degrees more and more brightly and clearly show it self forth, yet still the flesh remained as a veil and a cloud. But when the enemies of all sorts shall be subdued, then will the Deity of the Son so brightly and conspicuously show it self as the humanity shall be no veil unto it, but rather it shall appear to be infinitely inferior to it, and in this respect subject unto it; so as the humane nature of Christ shall not lose any dignity which it had before; but the divine nature shall more clearly manifest it self in it self, and (as we speak) in its own likeness:
2. That phrase of delivering up the Kingdom to the Father, may be understood of the manner of Christs regiment by his Ministers, Ordinances, and other like means: all things being accomplished by these, for which they were ordained, they shall cease; and in this respect be said to be delivered up to God.
3. All enemies being subdued Christ hath no occasion of using authority over them. There is no fear of their rising against him.
4. As for this phrase, The Sonne also himself shall be subject; It is to be taken in regard of his humane nature and office of mediation, in which respect he is subject to the Father.
If hereupon it be objected, that in these respects Christ was alwaies subject to the Father; I answer:
That the excellency of his Deity being till then as it were clouded under the vale of his flesh and of his Office, it did not so conspicuously, fully, and perfectly appear, as at the end of the world it shall: This subjection then is to be taken comparatively, in reference to that infinite difference which then shall be manifested betwixt the divine and humane nature of God.
When the Sonne of God assumed humane nature to the unity of his divine nature, the Word was made flesh Joh. 1. 14. and God was manifested in the flesh, 1 Tim. 4. 16. Now though it pleased the deity to make it self in a manner visible in that flesh Ioh. 14. 9, yet was the flesh as a veil obscuring the surpassing brightnesse of the Deity: And although by divine words and works uttered and done in this flesh, by enduring that heavy burthen which was laid on it for our sinnes by the resurrection of it from the dead, by the ascention of it into heaven, and by the high exaltation of it at the right hand of God, the Deity did by degrees more and more brightly and clearly shew it self forth, yet still the flesh remained as a veil and a cloud. But when the enemies of all sorts shall be subdued, then will the Deity of the Son so brightly and conspicuously shew it self as the humanity shall be no veil unto it, but rather it shall appear to be infinitely inferiour to it, and in this respect subject unto it; so as the humane nature of Christ shall not lose any dignity which it had before; but the divine nature shall more clearly manifest it self in it self, and (as we speak) in its own likenesse:
