13. Christ's God and ours
Christ’s God and ours To come to the words. First, Christ saith, God was his God, and our God, because his God. In what sense is God Christ’s God? As mediator, as man, both in regard of his person and in regard of his office, God is Christ’s God every way. See Psa 22:9, which is a psalm of Christ, David being but a type of him in it: ’Thou art my God from my mother’s womb;’ and so God is Christ’s God in his particular person, from his mother’s womb.
(1.) For, first, God was Christ’s God when by his Holy Spirit he sanctified him in his mother’s womb, and brought him out into the world. Let the foolish disputes of friars, and dreams, and dotages of dunsical times go. ’But thou art my God from my mother’s womb.’ And (2.) He is Christ’s God, because he saved him from the massacre of the infants. Our Saviour Christ makes that prayer in Psalms 22., Mark 15:34, on the cross, ’My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’
(3.) God was Christ’s God in protecting of him in his young time, and afterward in going along with him still to his death; and in death, ’My God, my God’ still. He would own God to be his God still; when God had deserted him to his sense and feeling, yet ’My God’ still. So God was Christ’s God, as Christ was man. Take Christ as mediator, God is the God of Christ; for God the Father hath by his authority put on Christ whatsoever he hath. The Father hath sent him into the world; the Father ’sealed’ him; the Father sent him out as a propitiation for our sins; the Father hath declared him and ’anointed’ him; and all these terms of authority, whereby the Father hath shewed himself to be Christ’s God, even in his office of mediatorship. So in regard of the care of his person from his mother’s womb, and for ever; and in regard of his office as mediator he might well say, ’I go to my God.’ In regard of the intimate familiarity and acquaintance maintained even on the cross, he might say, ’My God.’ But the comfort of it lieth in the second clause, that as God is the God of Christ, so he is our God, because he is the God of Christ.