A65285:979
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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4. God hath exalted Christ in his Session at God's right hand, Mark 16.19. After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. Eph. 1.20. He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand, far above all principality, and power, and every name that is named.
Quest. What is meant by Christ's sitting at God's right hand?
Resp. To speak properly, God hath no right Hand or left, for being a Spirit, he is void of all bodily parts; but it is a borrowed Speech, a Metaphor taken from the manner of Kings, who were wont to advance their Favourites next to their own Persons, and set them at their right Hand: Solomon caused a Seat to be set for the Queen his Mother, and placed her at his right hand, 2 Kin. 2.19. So for Christ to sit at the right Hand of God, is to be in the next place to God the Father in Dignity and Honour. The Humane Nature of Christ being personally united to the Divine, is now set down in a Royal Throne in Heaven, and adored even of Angels.