A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

3. What sort of Power it is that this emblematical expression, signifies to belong to him?

1. Who it is that claims the Power here spoken of?. Where the Enquiry is not so much concerning the Person that makes this claim; which all the foregoing context puts out of question to be our Lord Christ. But touching the special notion and capacity wherein he claims it, and according ⟨p. 4⟩whereto it must be understood to belong to him.

And whereas he is described by very distinct Titles, and Attributes, promiscuously interwoven in the preceding verses of the chapter, viz. that sometimes he is introduced speaking in the stile of a God; as ver. 8. I am Alpha, and Omega, the beginning, and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. And again, v 11. I am Alpha, and Omega. But that sometimes he is represented in the form of a Man ▪ and accordingly described even from head to foot, and said to appear in the Vision that exhibits him, as one like the Son of Man, that we might certainly understand him so to be, verse 13, 14, 15, 16. And such things said of him as are incident to a Mortal Man, the shedding of ⟨p. 5⟩his Blood, verse 5. and that he was dead, verse 18. former part. Yea and expressions of this different import intermingled, that we might know it was the same Person that was continuedly spoken of under these so vastly different Characters, as, I am the first and the last; I am he that liveth and was dead, verse 17, 18. We may thereupon very reasonably conclude that he is not here to be conceived under the one notion or the other, neither as God, nor as Man, separately or exclusively of each other; but as both together, as [Greek or Hebrew], as God-man, under which conjunct notion, he receives, and sustains the Office of our Redeemer, and Mediator between God, and Man