Lord’s Day 19Questions 47–49
Reformed Church in America English, 1879
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Is not Christ then with us, even to the end of the world, as he hath promised?
Christ is very man and very God: with respect to his human nature, he is no more on earth (John 16;28): but with respect to his Godhead, majesty, grace and Spirit, he is at no time absent from us (Matt. 28;20).
But if his human nature is not present wherever his Godhead is, are then these two natures in Christ separated from one another?
Not at all: for since the Godhead is incomprehensible and omnipresent (Job 11;7-9), it must necessarily follow that the same is not limited with the human nature he assumed, and yet remains personally united to it (John 3;13).
Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension into heaven?
First, that he is our Advocate in the presence of his Father in heaven (Heb. 9;24): secondly, that we have our flesh in heaven, as a sure pledge that he, as the head, will also take up to himself, us, his members (John 14;2, 3): and thirdly, that he sends us his Spirit, as an earnest, by whose power we “seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, and not things on earth” (John 16;7).