BookV. Looking unio:fefm. Chap.• I .SeCt. I o· and after time, even from everlafting to everlafling iffueth from the Godhead ; I iliall fpeak to both thefe, that we may rather take a view of Chrifl in thofc: g!oryes (as we are able) wherein he will appeare to his Saints as their all in all to all eternity. I. For his humane glory, that is eitherin regard of his foul . or body ; for his foul, Chriil: was from the firfi inil:ant of his con: ception full ofglory, becaufeeven then he received grace, not by meafure, as we do, but as comprehenfor, he had the cleare v.ifion ofGod, even as the Amgels of heaven, which arofe from that nypoftatical union of two natures at his firft conception. Jt is true, that by the fpeciat difpenfation of God the fulneffe of joy. accompanying that glory was wi_thheld from Chrift in the time of his l'aiTlon, and the redundancy of glory from his foul unto h1!! body was . totally~eferred untill the exaltation of Chrifi. but Chrifi no fooner exalted, and fet on the right hand ofGod' but immediately the interruption of joy in his foul, .. and the in: ·· terception of glory from his foul to his body, was altogether removed. Then it was that his foul was filled with all joy, folace, pteafure, · which could poffibly flow from the fight ofan o.bjeC\: fo infinitely plea11ng, as is the effence, majeity, .and glory ofGod. And then it was that his body was replenilbed with as , much glory as was proportionable unto the moft vail: ·capacity of any creature; not orily his foul, but his body is a glorious . creature ; it is G'C<II'-" Tiif d'o~»>, a body ofglory, that is a moft glo· rious body in it felf. And the fpring of glory unto others, L\lk, 14,26. ought not Chrift to have [ujfered thefe things, andfo to enter into his glory? it is called hio glory, as if it were appropriated unt6 him as the moft eminent fubjeC\:, and principal efficient of glory; as if he had the monopoly of glory : all the glory in heaven is in fome fort hu glory. . Surely Chrifts ·m~mhood_is exalted unto an higher degree of glory, than the moft glorious Saint or Artgel ever was, or ilia!l be ; princi palityes, powers, mights, and domi· nions fall lbort of hi5 glory. But fome objet\:, that the mediatory office of Chrift {hall wholly ceafe, and that the body and foul of Chrift fhall then be annihilatfd . Ipdeed this was the opinion of Eutichn, that the humanena· ture of Chrift fuould be ~:hanged or converted inro the divine; · ·· and .
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