The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

2. By Christs Exaltation, he is rewarded for his sufferings: God presently upon his sufferings took him up into heaven, and bountifully rewarded him for his undertaking: some seem loth to grant that Christ did merit for himself, but there is no danger in affirming that according to compact, God did gloriously recompense Christ for his Obedience and sufferings for us; the primary design of Christs undertaking, was to merit for us: but it was every way suitable, that this service of his should be rewarded, 2 Phil. 8.9. he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, the death of the cross, wherefore also God hath highly exalted him: God took wonderful contentment in it, that Christ would lay down his life for us; that is the intendment of that expression, therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, John 10.17. God did highly approve of it, and took a complacency in it, and in Christ by reason of it; and manifested his approbation by rewarding it: Christ has a glorious reward in heaven: and this is an evidence that he has gone through his undertaking: that he has not failed in the work that God committed to him.

2. By Christs Exaltation, he is rewarded for his sufferings: God presently upon his sufferings took him up into heaven, and bountifully rewarded him for his undertaking: some seem loth to grant that Christ did merit for himself, but there is no danger in affirming that according to compact, God did gloriously recompence Christ for his Obedience and sufferings for us; the primary design of Christs undertaking, was to merit for us: but it was every way suitable, that this service of his should be rewarded, 2 Phil. 8.9. he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, the death of the cross, wherefore also God hath highly exalted him: God took wonderful contentment in it, that Christ would lay down his life for us; that is the intendment of that expression, therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, John 10.17. God did highly approve of it, and took a complacency in it, and in Christ by reason of it; and manifested his approbation by rewarding it: Christ has a glorious reward in heaven: and this is an evidence that he has gone thorow his undertaking: that he has not failed in the work that God committed to him.