CHRIST SET FORTH
Section Four :: Chapter Three
Showing what evidence also Christ’s sitting at God’s right hand, having been our Surety, affords to our faith for justification.
2. Now then, in the next place for his being or sitting at God’s right hand, which is the second particular to be spoken of. As soon as Christ was carried into heaven, look, as all the angels fell down and worshipped him, so his Father welcomed him, with the highest grace that ever yet was shown. The words which he then spoke we have recorded in Psalm 110, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” You may by the way observe, for the illustration of this, how upon all the several parts of performance of his office, either God is brought in speaking to Christ, or Christ to his Father. Thus when he chose him first to be our Mediator, he takes an oath, “Thou art a Priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.” Again, when Christ came to take upon him our nature, the words he spoke are recorded, “Lo, I come to do your will, a body hast thou fitted me,” so Hebrews 10:5 out of Psalm 40. Likewise, when he hung upon the cross, his words unto God are recorded, Psalm 22:1, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” In like manner, when he rose again, God’s words used then to him are recorded, “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee,” Psalm 2:7 (which place is expounded of the resurrection in Acts 13:33). Which is as much as if he had said, You never appeared like my Son until now; for whereas I chose a Son to be glorified with power and majesty, hitherto you have appeared only as “a son of man” (Enosh, sorry man); hitherto you have been made sin, and a curse; not like my Son, but has appeared “in the likeness of sinful flesh,” and of “a servant,” all besmeared with blood. Therefore this is the first day wherein I make account “I have begotten thee;” even now, when you first begin to appear out of that sinful hue and likeness of sinful flesh: now I own you for my Son indeed. And in him he owned us all thus at his resurrection. And then last of all, when he comes into heaven, the first word God speaks to him is, Son, “sit thou at my right hand;” you have done all my work, and now I will do yours…; (he gives him a Quietus est) rest here, “Sit here, until I make all your enemies your footstool.”
And now what say you, are you satisfied yet, that God is satisfied for your sins? What superabundant evidence must this Christ’s sitting at God’s right hand give to a doubting heart? It argues, first, that Christ, for his part, has perfectly done his work, and that there is no more left for him to do by way of satisfaction: this the word sitting implies. Secondly, it argues that God is as fully satisfied on his part: this his sitting at God’s right hand implies.
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