Ambrose - BT200 A42 1658

Chap. I .Seet. 10. Louking NntuJe[f#. Book.V. 1093 I beleeve it will. Some tell us of feveral periods wherein vlnfw. the glory of Chriflis flill more and more leen · as, 1. In this life Dr.tA~nejlry r · · b D 'd r k 'h· r If • r. J CommLmLon we may 1tle It m part, t us .fVt 1·pea s-of tm•e , wq lou with God , ihirfltth for tbee1mJ fi 'fhlo>~geth for 1 hee,tll f~:et/;y po<J:er &thy gh• r1,.u·l have [ten thtt in the Sanllu.1r];but this fi-ght is-very d1m, 1 Ccr. 13·H· l\?e fee onelJ l'I O. I!I IU through ag;laj[e dt~r41J, The fecond period is betwixt our diffolution and rcfunedion ; and then flull we fee the e!Tential glory of Chrifl: more immediately. and fully, our creeping apprehenfion of God fhalhhen be eleva-ted , and> our difiance from God ~a ! then be tbortned,and all the riddles of grace and of J efus Chrifi fhall then he opened. This fight is fo great that if a foul fhould come from heavrn to declare it, neither could thlt foul cxprctfe it, nor we unaerfland it ; we read of La::. arm, whofc: foul Cbrifl returned into his body, whom much people of the Jews came purpofely co fee, that they might hear fiories of til<: ocher world, but not a word from him of any fuch matter;. Paul's rapture m3y fatisfie with "Cor.u.q. the reafon of it, he heard there ct.ppwrct. pnp.a.ra., wordlef{t worelt, fuch words as could not poffibly be repeated on earth, and yet )Ill this is but the fecond fiep to the full vifion of Cbrifis effential g·lory. The third period is at the refumtlion, and dUring the t1me of the !aft Judgment, And then we !hall fee more Of hiS glory j C ~Amero affirms , that' tU no CNriojirie to [ 111 , thAt tht S11iHts And Angell in Heaven had a new glory by the exhibition of Chrjfi , the great myftery of the incanwion being thtrthJ- bttter k.,~tor~n; and we may as fafe.ly affirm that the Saints fhall have a new glory , by new vifions of the glory of Chri.fi a.t the day of refurrection ; they fhall then fee the folemnicie of heavens glory carried on by C!uift in his glorious aaings;and all that ever the foul faw before in being with Chrift i~ea ven till the refurrettion, fuall be f wallowed.up with the fight of this glory ofCh.rift at the refurrection.day.The I all pu•iod is after the refurreaioq,& that flu! continue eveR to al eternitie, now all the manifdhtions of Chrifts glory before this are but asa few green eares.rubb'd in out hands-,fo that the ful crop, or the f.ul harvefi is yet behind.But this is thac,(which as we told. you before) we cannot tell, though we bad the tongues of men & Angels.Thus far of the firft point,what iuhe glory ofChrifi. 2.. How thall the Saints behold chis glory ? 1 anfwer, Zzzzz.z 3 A.&

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