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A18567	The exaltation of the kingdome and priesthood of Christ In certaine sermons vpon the 110. Psalme: preached in the Cathedrall Church and city of Worcester, in the time of Christmasse: anno Domini: 1596. By Rob. Abbot, doctor of Diuinitie, sometime felow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford.	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1601 (1601)	STC 51; ESTC S115231	83,503	102

that day when as the angell brought that gracious and blessed tidings from heauen e Luc. 2.10 Behold I bring you glad tidings of great ioy that shall be to all people that this day there is borne vnto you in the citie of Dauid a Sauiour which is Christ the Lorde This Psalme written of Christour Lord and not appliable to any other Of this Sauiour Christ the Lord was this Psalme written by way of Prophecie which for the performance of this solemnity I haue chosen to entreate of which although the Iewes of later times haue gone about to wrest to another meaning yet is so approoued and vndoubted a prophecie of Christ that the Pharisees durst not dense it when a Math. 22. ●● 4● being apposed and demaunded by our Samour how it should be seeing Christ is the sonne of Dauid that Dauid notwithstanding should call him Lord saying The Lord said vnto my Lord they could not answer him a word whereas the answere had been very easie and readie if they could haue denied this Psalme to be meant of Christ But they knew it could not be otherwise vnderstood and it was commonly taken amongst them to be a prophecie of their Messias according to the verie euidence of the text it selfe which cannot be fitted to any other but onely to Christ our Sauiour the sonne of God For whereas some of them sithence haue construed all these things as spoken in the name of the people of Iudah concerning Dauid their king the text it selfe refuseth that construction when in those words sit thou at my right hand it mentioneth an honour done to him of whom it speaketh greater then can be fitted to the angels and therefore much lesse to be applied vnto Dauid Againe that which is spoken in the fourth verse of the Priesthood cannot be vnderstood of Dauid who was indeed a king but neuer had any thing spoken as touching the Priesthood to appertaine vnto him and of whom it cannot be conceiued how it should be saied Thou art a priest for euer c. Yea there is nothing here spoken whereof we may see in Dauid anie more but some little shadow in comparison of that that hath come to passe in Iesus Christ The diuision and parts of this Psa●me 3 Vnderstanding it therefore of him to whom onely it can properly belong we may see many notable lessons conteined heerein of the kingdome and priesthood of Christ of his mightie power and successe in the gathering and gouerning of his Church of the condition and qualitie of his people of his dreadfull reuengement and wrath to be brought vpon all them that resist his kingdome and gouernment We may for orders sake diuide the whole Psalm into three parts the one concerning the kingdome of Christ in the three first verses the other concerning his priesthood in the fourth verse the third concerning his power and victorie and triumph ouer his enimies Three things to be obserued in the kingdome of Christ. from the fourth verse to the ende Againe in the first concerning the kingdome of Christ three points may obserued First the inuesting of him into his kingdome in the first verse In the second verse the meanes and maner how this kingdome is erected and established In the third verse the qualitie and continuall supply of the subiects of this kingdome 4. The inuesting of Christ into this glorious kingdome is by the word of his heauenly father The Lord saied vnto my Lord. Wherein is vttered the euerlasting decree and purpose of God for the exaltation of Iesus Christ to this excellent glorie to sit at the right hand of God Gods saying is the manifesting of his euerlasting purpose For whatsoeuer God doth or will do he hath before saied it with himselfe in his secret and vnsearchable counsell before the foundations of the worlde were laide Now we are heere to distinguish him that saieth from him to whom it is saied the one termed the Lord The Lord God the father my Lord God the sonne the other my Lord to import by the one that is the Lord God the father by the other that is my Lord the sonne Iesus Christ who according to the a Rom. 1.3 flesh was made of the seed of Dauid and in that respect was the sonne of Dauid but yet called by Dauid himselfe my Lord that we may vnderstand that he is somewhat more then that that he was borne of Dauid For by being Dauids sonne he was but onely man but somewhat there is further for which Dauid speaking of him calleth him Lord teaching vs thereby to acknowledge him to bee the sonne of God But when speaking of God the Father My Lord why in speciall maner spoken of Christ he calleth him the Lord and speaking of God the Sonne he calleth him my Lord as thereby to import some more speciall and neerer bond and respect betwixt the sonne and vs he doth it not to barre vs from calling God the father our Lord also but thereby giueth vs occasion to consider that all that communion and felowship which wee haue with God the father thereby we are his people and he is the Lord our God ariseth from the sonne and standeth in the sonne so that no otherwise can we call God our Lord and our God but as with Thomas we can first saie vnto Iesus Christ b Ioh. 20.28 Thou art my Lord and my God For whosoeuer is excluded from the sonne is excluded also from the father c 1. Ioh. 2.23 Whosoeuer denieth the sonne saieth Saint Iohn the same hath not the father And the sonne himselfe telleth vs d Ioh. 14.6 God no otherwise good and mercifull vnto vs but in his sonne Iesus Christ. I am the way the truth and the life No man commeth vnto the father but by me God is good gracious full of mercy and compassion full of bountie and kindenesse but the fountaine of all this goodnes is stopped and shut vp against vs but as it is opened vnto vs in the sonne of God Whereby we may conceiue how little good they haue reaped by their speculations concerning God that haue liued without the knowledge and faith of Iesus Christ They haue caried great credite and reputation of wisedome and learning in the world and haue beene accounted diuine men and indeed haue vttered many excellent and woorthie sentences concerning the diuine nature his wisedome and power his iustice and mercy and our dutie and deuotion towards him But they spake onely as it were by hearesay and those sentences were but onely weake and languishing imaginations the authors whereof sought rather to gaine glorie vnto themselues by speaking of God then to glorifie God of whom they spake Albeit howsoeuer they spake them and how farre soeuer they apprehended what they spake yet what comfort of conscience receiued they thereby what peace towards God what perswasion of Gods loue towards them what assurance of the forgiuenesse of sinnes what were