Looking unto:fefr~s. Cbap.t .Sed.8 glory with e;.;ceedingjoy. The word fignifies.lcaping, fpringing exalting joy: 0 what fpringing, leaping, exalting is in heavca: when Chrift takes the hand of his bride, and gives her into the hand of his Father; q. d. 0 my Father, fee what a number! have brought home to thee; thou knoweft what I have done, and what 1 have fuffered, and what offices 1 have gone thrvugh, to bring thefe hither; and now my Medtatourfhip is done I refign all my charge to thee againe; fee what a goodly troo'pe, what a noble army I have brought thee home, why all thefe are mine, and all mine are thine, and all thine are mine, and I am Joh•J7•Io,u.gforifiedinthrm; allthofeth~t thou gaveft me, I havek._ept, and none ofthem u loft ; fee here IS Adam, and Abel , and N oah, and S em, and every Saint from the beginning to the end of the world, the nuptial between them and me is fulemnized, and whither - ibould I leade them but to my Fathers houfe, and into my Fathers prefence? I have :~!ready pronounced them bleffed, and t he glwy which thou gaveft me, I havegiv en them, tbllt they may be Joh.17· 12 ,t3. one, ev en tt.S vrutreOJjf, I in t hem, tznd thou in me, that they m.. q be madeper(ert in one. Here take them from mine hands, now give them a welcome into glory, and let them k!tow that thou ha fl lo7.!ed them, '"'thou ha(f loved me. . 2 . He prefents all his commiffions to his Father, as he is a Medi atour (at leaft bydeftination) tromall eternitie; were no t the Saints chofen in Chrift before the foundation of the w•r!:l.? then Eph· I ·4. was be a Mediatour in the bufineffe of Election, and then was he 8 predefiinated to be a Mediatour of reconci lia tion. I n>M fet up Prov. · ~ 3· from everl"-fting, ( i.) I was appoynted and defigned to be a Mediatour from all eternitie. Howfoever hewas a Mediatour vi rtually and inchoatively from the fall of Ad(/m; then did he undertake that great n~gotiation of reconciling God to man, and man to God; and actually be was a Medta tm1 r after his ircarnation ; for thenwas he manifefi ed in the fleib , then was he manifefted to be what before he was, t ben did he act that • part vifibly upon earth, which before he bad acted fecret ly and invifibly in heaven; then he entred upon the work of his aCt ive and patlive obedience ; then he difcharged his · Prophetical and Priefily office here on earth, which having done, rben he enrred upon hisKingly adrn iniftration in heaven. Now as to this work Joh.6. :7. he wasc:~ lledby God (himhathGGdthehtberfea/ed; it p!eafed - the
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