41. We have a sufficient and sacred guarantee for
this belief in the authority of the Apostle. Through the
Dispensation, and within time, the Lord Jesus Christ, the firstfruits
of them that sleep, is to be subjected, that God may be all in all, and
this subjection is not the debasement of His divinity, but the
promotion of His assumed nature, for He Who is God and Man is now
altogether God. But some may think that, when we say He was both
glorified in the body whilst reigning in the body, and is hereafter to
be subjected that God may be all in all, our belief finds no support
for itself in the Gospels nor yet in the Epistles. We will,
therefore, produce testimony of our faith, not only from the words of
the Apostle, but also from our Lord’s mouth. We will shew
that Christ said first with His own lips what He afterwards said by the
mouth of Paul.