A Body of Practical Divinity

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.

Branch 4. Though Jesus Christ is so highly exalted in Glory, yet he is not forgetful of us on Earth: some when they are raised to Places of Honour, forget their Friends; when the Chief Butler was restored to his Place at Court, then he forgot poor Joseph in Prison: But it is not so with Christ; though he be exalted to such Glory in Heaven, yet he is not unmindful of his Saints on Earth. Our High-Priest hath all the Names and Wants of his People written upon his Breast-plate: Art thou tempted? though Christ be in Glory he knows how to pity and succour thee, Heb. 4.15. We have not a high-priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmity. Dost thou mourn for sin? Christ though in a glorified State, he hears thy Sighs, bottles thy Tears.