Preparing for preaching on the Ascension this Sunday I dug out my ‘Calvin’s Institutes’ which I shipped all the way from England and am about to ship all the way back, and which I have opened about three times in the last three years. Non-the-less, it’s good stuff:
Christ in whom the Father wills to be exalted and through whose hand he wills to reign, was received at God’s right hand. This is as if it were said that Christ was invested with Lordship over heaven and earth, and solemnly entered into possession of the government entrusted to him -and that he not only entered into possession once and for all, but continues in it, until he shall come down on judgement day… both heavenly and earthly creatures may look with admiration upon his majesty, be ruled by his hand, obey his nod, and submit to his power.
Institutes of the Christian Religion Book II Ch XVI 15
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