A53678:2055
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…
A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ...
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1680
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2. The Person of Christ as to his Divine Nature, was always on the Throne, and is uncapable of the Exaltation here mentioned, of sitting down at the right hand of it. Although he came down from Heaven, though he descended into the lower parts of the Earth, although he was exposed unto all miseries, was obedient unto death, the death of the Cross, wherein God redeemed his Church with his own blood, yet did he all this in the humane nature that he assumed; his Divine Person can no more really leave the Throne of Majesty, than cease to be. So he saith of himself, No man hath ascended up to Heaven, but he that came down from Heaven, even the Son of man which is in Heaven, John 3. 13. His Ascension into Heaven in this place, which preceded the actual Ascension of his humane Nature, is nothing but his admission into the knowledge of heavenly things, of all the secrets of the counsel of God, see John 1. 18. Matth. 11. 27. For it is of the knowledge of heavenly mysteries, that he is there discoursing with Nicodemus. In his Incarnation, he came down from Heaven, assuming a Nature upon the earth, the highest condescension of God. And whereas the actings of his power on the earth is often called his coming down from Heaven, Gen. 18. 21. Isa. 64. 1. How much more may this infinite condescension of the second Person in assuming our Nature be so called. But yet he was still in Heaven; the Son of man which is in Heaven. In his Divine Nature he was still on the Throne of Majesty. For this being an inseparable property of Divine Authority, he could never really forego it. Then
3. It is the Humane Nature of Christ, or Christ in his Humane Nature, or with respect unto it, that is capable of this real Exaltation, by a real addition of Glory. It is not the manifestation of his Glory with respect unto his Humane Nature, but the real Collation of Glory on him after his Ascension, that is intended. This the whole Scripture testifieth unto, namely, a real communication of Glory unto Christ by the Father after his Ascension which he had not before. See