in those last dayes] Esther 2:2. Mic. 4. 1. Acts 2:17. 1 Pet. 1. 20. See the Notes on Genesis 49:1. spoken] That is, fully and plainly. by] See vers. 1. Sonne] Deuteronomy 18:15. compared with Acts 3:22. and Acts 7:37. Matthew 17:5. John 1:18. That is, his naturall Sonne, coessentiall, or of the same essence with the Father, called therefore the onely begotten, John 1. 14. & 3. 16. for others are called the sonnes of God by grace and adoption. John 1:12. Romans 8:14. Galatians 4:6. appointed heir] That is, ordained Possessor, Lord, and Dispenser; which is not to be understood of that essentiall dominion, or Lordship, which he had common with the Father, and the holy Ghost, being God equall unto them; but of that oeconomicall, dispensed, or delegate dominion or Lordship, hwereunto he was foreordained before the foundations of the world, being appointed the Medatour of hte new Testament, and wherein he was actually constituted and placed, after that he had finished the work of mans redemption. Psalms 89:27. Matthew 28:28. Luke 24 26. John 5:27. Acts 2:36. Romans 14:9. Ephesians 1:20. Philippians 2:9-10, &c. Revelation 4:11. all things] Whether they belong to this life, or the life to come: so that whatsoever we want, we must seek in and through him. John 3. 35. & 13. 3. by whom] Proverbs 8:27-30. John 1:3. 1 Corinthians 8:7. Colossians 1:16. Hebrews 1:10. I is not as by as instrument or inferiour cause, but by him, as by his eternall wisdome, and by way of a conjoyned, cooperating and equal cause; so that by this particle [by] is meant onely and order of working; it is the Father by the Sonne; and not the inferioritie of causes. made] That is, created, as John 1:3. Colossians 1:16. the worlds] That is, the worlds continuation through its severall ages, and all things visible and invisible, measured by time, or whatsoever hath any duration or succession. Chap. 11. 3. Nehemiah 9:6.