The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

This power which is given to the human nature of Christ is supreme--
”all power in heaven and in earth;" it is all-comprehending, involving
every kind of power throughout the universe. It is a true omnipotence. To
have all power, implies that the power shall be everywhere--but the power
is not separable from presence of some kind. If the Saviour is almighty
everywhere, He must exercise that omnipotence directly in His own
person, or through a secondary agency--but as His person is a divine one,
He needs no secondary agency, the very same person that is mighty to all
things is present to be mighty. Yet, as if no conjecture, however direct or
irresistible, might be the ground of our hope, Ie closes His glorious address
to His disciples with the words: “Lo! I am with you always, even unto the
end of the world." He who uttered the promise fulfils it, but He who uttered
it was man as well as God--and in fulfilling it, He fulfilled it as man as well
as God. So irresistible is the necessity for this view, that writers who are
not of the Lutheran Church have acknowledged it. Alford, for example,
commenting on the words, Matt. xxviii. 20: "Lo! I lam with you," says, "I,"
in the fullest sense: "not the divine presence, as distinguished from the
humanity of Christ. His humanity is with us likewise. The presence of the
Spirit is the effect of the presence of Christ." But inference is hardly
necessary. The power of omnipresence is a part of all power.
In Matt. xi. 27, Christ defines the sphere of His possession. He has
"all things" without exception; He indicates the manner in which they are
derived: "All things are delivered unto me," possessing them from eternity
as God, I have received them in time as man; He marks the person of the
recipient: "All things are delivered unto me," the one divine-human
person, whose natures form one inseparable person; He draws the
inference: "Come," therefore, "unto me,"--the inseparably divine and
human--"ALL ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
This one person, inseparably human and divine, calls to Him the sorrowing
of every place and of every time, and promises in His own person, man as
well as God, everywhere and evermore to give them rest. And there