A Body of Practical Divinity

2. Use of Comfort: Branch 1. Christ being so highly exalted, hath Ennobled our Nature, he hath crowned it with Glory, and lifted it up above Angels and Archangels: Though Christ as he was Man, was made a little lower than the Angels, Heb. 2.9. yet as the Humane Nature is united to the Divine, and is at God's right Hand, so the Humane Nature is above the Angels. And if God hath so Dignified our Humane Nature, what a shame is it that we should debase it. God hath exalted the Humane Nature above the Angels, and the Drunkard abaseth the Humane Nature below the Beasts.

Branch 2. Christ being exalted at God's right hand, the Key of Government is laid upon his shoulders; he governs all the Affairs of the World for his own Glory. Do you think when Christ is so highly advanced, and hath all Power in Heaven and Earth in his hand, he will not take care of his Elect? and turn the most astonishing Providences to the good of his Church? In a Clock the Wheels move cross one to another, but all make the Clock strike: so Christ being at his Father's right hand, he will make the most cross Providences tend to the Salvation of his Church.

Branch 3. Christ being at God's right hand, we may be assured he hath now finished the Work of Man's Redemption, Heb. 10.12. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sate down on the right hand of God. If Christ had not fully expiated Sin, and satisfied God's Law, he had not sate down at God's right hand, but had still lain in the Grave; but now he is exalted to Glory. This is an evident Token he hath done and suffered all that was required of him for the working out our Redemption.