137. There is just
one place, in which Stephen hath said that he saw the Lord Jesus
standing at the right hand of God. Acts vii. 55. Learn now the import of these
words, that you may not use them to raise a question upon. Why
(you would ask) do we read every where else of the Son as sitting at
the right hand of God, but in one place of His standing? He sits
as Judge of quick and
dead;
He stands as His people’s Advocate. He stood, then, as a
Priest, whilst He was offering to His Father the sacrifice of a good
martyr; He stood, as the Umpire, to bestow, as it were, upon a good
wrestler the prize of so mighty a contest.