Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

II. For explication, the following particulars may serve to give some view of the nature and transactions of that great day.

First, God shall judge the world by Jesus Christ. He will judge the world in righteousness, by that Man whom he hath ordained, Acts xvii. 31. The Psalmist tells us, that God is judge himself, Psal. I. 6. ⟨p. 271⟩The holy blessed Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is Judge, in effect of ju•• at authority, dominion, and power: but the Son incarnate is the Judge, in respect of dispensation, and special exercise […] power. The judgment shall be exercised or performed […] as the Royal Mediator; for he has a delegated power of judgment from the Father, as his servant, his King, whom he hath set upon the holy hill of Zion, (Psal. ii 6.) and to whom he hath com••• all judgment, John v. 22. This is a part of the Mediator's exaltation, given him, in consequence of his voluntary humiliation, Philip ii. 8, 9, 10. He humbled himself, and become obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God hath also highly exalted him, and given him a name, which is above every name, (i.e.) power and authority over all, to wit) That at (or in) the name of Jesus (not, the name of Jesus; that is not the name above every name, being common to others, as to Justus, Col. iv. 11. and Joshua, Heb iv. 8) every knee shall how. The which is explained by the Apostle himself, of standing before the judgment-seat of Christ,