Chap.r.Se~.4 1--fJoking un11 1tfus. Book. IV. Part.4. 705 hu eyes were M a flame offire; and.hu feet .likJ unto.fine !J,.~Jfe M Phil. 3 2.1. if they burned in afurnAce, the glortfied bodtes of Satntswhu:h are fafbioned /if<! unto hi,~ g loriom body, are faid to fhine like fiars~ Dan.12.3. orlikethe Sun it (eife, Mat. I 3·43· 0 then bow glorious is the Sun of righteoufneJ!e, from ~hence all thofe funs and ftars, do borrow their light ? it is true, that from his refurred:ion until! his afcenGon, his body appeared not thus glorious to them that faw it, but whetbel'tbis glory was delayed and he was not poffdfed of it during his fourty dayes aboade upon the earth r or whether he fo far condefcended for his difci pies fake,_ asto keep in his glory, : that it might not dazle them, and therefore appeared fometimes in the forme of a gardiner, Joh.2o.rs. and . fometimes ira the forme of"' jlranger, I.uk.24. I 8: and fometimu JLohk· 10 · 1f;' ,. 1'. M k 6 d r · · h' £' u 14' 1 " '• in another J orme, ar . I .• I 2 • . an 10mettmes tn IS o~n 10nne, Ma: ~.I 6.u. in the fame forme wheretn he hved before he was cructfied, 'foh. 20,20,27? it is hard to determine. I am apt to think that in Joh so.to,~7. fome fort he might draw in the beames of hi~ glory, and yet that he was not entred into that fulnelfe ofglory as after his afcenGon. and fo fome expound thofe words of Chrift to UUary, touch m; 11ot for I am not Jet afcen4ed to my F ather,q.d.fix not thy thoughts fo much upon my prefent condition, for I am not yet attained to the h•gheft pitch of my exaltation, cor lhall I untill I afcmd unto my F.uher. . From this refurred:ion of ~hrift how are we informed, that V {e Chrift is the Son ofGod? thus Pa/41 fpeaks, he was declared to be Rom. 1 , 4 • the Son ofGod -with power, accordint to the Spirit ofholimJ!t by the re[11rrea.ionfrom thedead. And how are we informed that Chrift is Lord over all things that are ? for to thi.r end Cbr'ift both dyed, Rom 1 4•9• and rofe, tmd reviwd, that he might be Lord both of the dead i!!nd living. And ho~ are we informed that C!irift rofe again for us, as one that ftood m ftead and roome of all the Elect ? but now 'ri Chrift rifenfrom thedead, And become the firft·fruirs of them that 1 Cor.q .~o. fl cep. And how are we informed that by his refurredion we are - jull:i fied? whowa.·deliveredfor our ujfmce.r, andw.u raifod again Rom.. pf. f or our juftijlc~~tion: and that by his refurredion we are regenerated; for he bath begotten m ttg«ine unto a lively hope by there~ I P~t. ' ·l • furr.ectionof(efm Chriji from the deacJ,. ; And that by his refur• rect10n we are fanct 1fied ? for iU he w.u ·ntifed up from the d<>ad -by R.om, 6., 4 • the glory of hu Pathrr, ewn fo -we alfo fb ~11 ld W.l lk.JIJ ;;ewnef{e of life; X:~; x-.: and
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