412 H o may we have fittable conceptions Serm, t?, Beati fecal Vifion,& that the Angels that fell rev: r had fight it all, for if they had, they could not have fallen. But what they talk of of at the good Angels meriting that Beatifical Vifion of God in the fecord or third infant of their Creation, is Popifh foppery ; Divines unani. moufly attribute their íiation and ftability in holinefs to Jefus Chrift We may upon good grounds alfo attribute toJefusCI:rifl their first ad- mifüon into the prefence,Gghr,enjoym r,t of God, their ¡late of fuper. natural bleffcdr.efs. Pardon this digreflìon ; it is to make the way clear for the dernonftraticn in hand,viz. That the Angels' before they had a fight of God, or of t hemfelves in Chi ift, macy of them waxed proud ar.d fell; the fame pride that ruined fem.?. might have ruined all; but after they bads. f ght of God i,, aria, how humble were they ? chat Vifion fpokenof, ffa.6. r,z. was manifcftly an appearance of the glory of Cod in Jefus Chri{}, I fatty the Lord "¡pox his Throne, high <,td lifted up,cmd hid Train filled the Temple; what the cartiage of the Sera - phims was towards God in this his appearance is cspreft, Each one had fix wings twain they did fly ; notingtheir ready exec.tionof Gods Commands : with twain they did cover their faces ; noting their natural impotency in themfelves to behold the furpasfing brightnefs of Divine Glory ; with twain they covered their feet as humbled in the fenfe and ihame of their own Creature imperfection in compai ifon of the infi- nite purity and holinefs of God. Thus, when Mofes had had a fight of the glory of God in Chrift, He made hafte, he bowed hid head toward the earth and worshipped. Exod. 34.8. Quickly is the foul humbled at the manifeftations of God in Chrifi. In Chrift we have Peen God humbling, emptying, leffening, dishonouring himfelf for us, Phil.z.5,6,7. Who can be proud that bath had a true fight of God humbled for him ? By the manifeffations of God in Chrift are begotten the deepeft foul humiliations for fir; Zach. r 2.10. They Jhall look on Me whom they have pierced, and they fha11 mourn for him --- and they ,Mall be in bitterneefs for him-- T his great forrow was not for the piercing of the Huma- nity of Christ barely considered ; but for piercing God in Ghrift, though the Godhead was not in the leaft pa.fíive; therefore that blond which was flied is called, The blood of God, Aar 20.28. and that perfon who was pierced called, The Lord of glory, a Cer.z.S.Sins againft the manifefiations of the Love, Mercy,C;race,Cornpalíions,Goodnefs, and Glory of God in Chrift beget the deepeft humiliation of foul in all our Confeffions. 3, Abraham had fuch Conceptions of God as did reprefenthim gracious
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