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into the riches, the honours, and the happiness of unspeak-
able, eternal felicity, and crushed for evermore sin, death,
and hell under his feet.
2. This blessedness implies the full satisfaction and joy
of His heart arising from the knowledge of perfectly
finishing the great work given to Him by His Father, and of ■
securing the everlasting salvation of the objects of His
eternal, electing love. Christ's heart was much set upon
this in heaven before the foundation of the world. And
when He tabernacled in this world it was His meat and
drink to do the will of Him that sent Him, and to finish
His work. Now, the perfect knowledge and assurance
which Christ hath in heaven of this work being perfectly
and forever completed — the Father glorified, and the eternal
salvation of His people secured — fills His heart with that
comfort, joy, and satisfaction which He, the Son of God,
only knows and enjoys. " Therefore God hath blessed Thee
for ever." " He shall see of the travail of His soul, and be
satisfied."
3. This blessedness implies His nearness to God in
heaven. The man Christ Jesus in the heavenly world is
"near to God — at His right hand : there He is exalted and
honoured above all the redeemed of God there, and above
all the holy angels of heaven. Christ, being fairer than the
children of men, when He entered into heaven, did not take
up His place among the fair and lovely ones redeemed from
the earth before the throne, or among the bright angels,
around the throne : no, He made His way through all the
shining and blessed inhabitants before and around the
throne to the throne itself. There God the Father, "the
Ancient of days," welcomed and embraced Him j there He
enjoys nearness and communion, fellowship with the Father
unspeakably above all the creatures of God in heaven. To
Christ, at the right hand of the Father, particularly refers
the words of the Psalmist — " In Thy presence is fulness of
joy: at Thy right hand are pleasures for evermore" (I salm
xvi. 11). "Therefore God hath blessed Thee for ever.'^
Consider for a moment Christ's low and sorrowful state on
eartli ! He was born in a stable, and laid in a manger.
" Though the foxes had holes, and the birds of the air had
nests, the Son of Man had no place where to lay His head."