--- - ·---·-- -·-·- - · ----~--... --.--·--~ Cbap. 1.Sechw ~----·- 2. Fo~ hi; eik_nti11 diyin::: ~ l o ry, it is tlut glory whi~h Chri:t h1th as Cod: rht? h::: n:::vcr !.:ud a:1de, but as th::: Sunne 111 a <la rk gloo:ny d~1y . may nor fl.'lnd forth its b:::1mes, fo Chri!l: rh.;: Sun of ri;:;hteoufneiic in rh~ ti ·ne of his abode upon earth ( except •t little gli:npfe ondy in his tra.nsfi~uration) did nor fend forth hi~ glorious beames; but hereafter the body or hu1 1aniry of Ch,riil tl1all not hinder rhe breakin,; forth ofall his div ine glory. No fooner the Sonn::: fubject, and his mediatory o ffice difctm.sed, but ChriH, as God, will manifeil:ly put forrh hi s more immedi- ate glory to all his Saints. Behold, now we are tf:e fonnes of God, and it d?th m t yet appture, what we Jhallbe, but we lz.now J John S· ,, wl:en /;e Jhall t!ppc. 1r we jha!l be.Lilzg him, fo" we [hall fee him as he is. Mark i-r., wl c. ~ I: e. [hall appe~zr, at)afd after the refurrettiond'ay, we (hall fee him as f.e is, ( i.) we fballfee the very eflenttal- !2!Je.ft. glory of j:::fus Chri:H:. But wh,u is t~ effenrial glory ofChriit ?- I cannot anfwer, it is a quetlion not co be refolved by all the Anfw. men in the world; vve know lit.tle of the glory of Saints, ho1v fi1ould we, know any thing of the efiential g lory ofChriH:as God? The Scriptures fay that God f]ia~ to t..Mofes face to f qce, El(od. 33 . 11 yet God tells him tl:ou canrt mt fee my f ace, and he favours him · ~v. fofarre.as to tell hi:m the reafon,for tf.ere (hall no manfee my face and li-..e,. q. d. No man in this life, he muH: firfl: dye, and be changed,and th~n he fbal have.a peculiar revelation of rhe divine· maje!ly; then he fballfee him .u J:e h· ; bat how. that is, I can- nor reU ; come, let us quei1ion- this no furth er; furely. ir is a ·mercy th,1t this iflfinite glory is npt clifcovered tous; for as a •' weak eye is not able to behold the Sunne, or to fee.ir in rota, (as .the Schoolmen fpeak) in that wheele or cirde.wherein the Sunne dorh runne, but onely in rhe beames of i r ; no more can wefee Chri;t a.s God in hisglorious effence, or in his effentia l glory, 'but onely in the beames thereof, in-hisword and effe6ts; ifnow we know fo-little offpirits and fpiritua ls, Gh then how lirtle do we know of him who is the Farher of Spirits? ~ /hall fay no more therefore , let us he content to be igno~ant of rh:::fe rhiags, ti!Lwcz enter into the confines of ererntry. • ' .fJ.!!tft, But whether {hall this glorious ctfence, or effe ntial glory of Chriit be more feen, or manifelled, at, or afte r the day of judg- ment,than ever it was before?I anfwer. - - . . I
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