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V
ER.
6.
Ephefrans,Cháp,i.
7-9
containe all
of
them, both the
admiration
and
high efleem
of
it, when it
is
once
manifefied,
the
praifing
it
in
word,
and honouring
it
the
thankefgiving
which
is
molt worthily
yeelded
to
it.
Glory
of
God
is
fometime
tiled in
a
fingular
manner,
to
note
aglo-
rious
inflrument, comming immediately from
God,
and
made imme-
diatelyfor
God
;
man
is
the
image
and
glory
of
God:
Sometime
it
is
ufed in
an
acception more frequent, for
the glory
of
God which
is
in
us
who glorifie him,or the glory
of
God
in
himfelfe,who
is
glorified
of
us;
even
the
glorious being or
effence
of
God
;
Thus
it
is
uièd
here, and
Rom.g.that
he
might
thew his
glory to the
veffels
of
mercy,thatis,glori-
ous
nature
fo
merciful
and
gracious
:
So
z
Theft.
from the glory
of
his
power,that
is, his
glorious
effence
which
is
molt powerfull.
Thirdly,
for
his
grace;here we
miff}
know that S.Par;l
ufeth divers
words,which
lignifie
one
thing,but clothed
or putting on divers refpeets,aya,
,,xq içi,,ç,
wrie
>¢,AAcBp4afx,xde,:.Rem.s.
Love,
Bountifulneffe
,Mercy,Philanthropie,
Grace.
Now
all thefe are
the
fame thing
;
even
Love
hath thefe ends
;
What
love
is,
I neede not
f}tow
;
Bounnfulneffe
is
Love,
as
now
it
is
in
worke
beneficiall ; Mercy
is
Love,
as
now
it
helpeth the
miferable;
Philanthropie
is
love,
as
it
refpefleth mankinde
5
Grace
is
love,
as it
giveth good things freely,without defert,
to
make accepted
;
The
word
lignifieth
to
doe
a
favour, to follow one
with
fome reali favour now ex-
ecuted.T
he
fi,mme then
is
this.
All this
fpiciruall
biding
wherewith God hathbleffed
us,
is
tothis
end,
that
he
might
man;feft his
moll glorious
effence,
which
is
grace
it
felfe,and
that
to the intent we
might
admire it,efleeme it highly, honor
it,fet
it
forth
in
words,
yeeld thanks
to
it
;
which grace
of
his, before
all
worlds,
is
it
which now
in
the appointed time hath made
us
who
are
children
of
wrath,
accepted
and
followed with
many favours
in
his be-
loved Son our Saviour.
The
verfe
containeth
two
things.
a.
The
end
in
thefe words
;
For the
Prai
fe
ofthe
glory ofhis
grace.
z.
A defcription
of
Grace, from the
effe61,
which
is
fet
forth both
by
the
principal
caufe,God by
his
eternal! grace
;and minifleriall,
or fecondary,
God out
of
his
eternal!
grace,
in and
through
his
Chrift bath
made
us
accepted.
Firft
then,we obferve,that
all
he
did
from eternity intend
abourman,
bath no end but
his
own
glory:Hee madealithings
for
him eife,Prov.
t
6.4.
Aft
things
are
from him, throughhim,for him. Bring
my
(formes
goddaugh-
ters
every one, whom
I
have created
for
my
glory,
l
fä.43.6,7. The
reafon
is
plain,God who
is
wifdome it
Pelf
cannot work without
an end
:
A
wife
man will
doe nothing
butto
fome purpofe
:
That
which mull be Gods
end,why
he
maketh
al
things,muft be better then
all
thofe things which
ferve
unto
his end
; for
the
end
is
better then that which ferveth
forit,
as
the
body
is
better
then
foode
,
raiment
,
and
all
things which
ferve
for the
body. In the
third
place
it
is
plaine
that
nothing
is
better then
all
the
workes
of
God,
befide
God,nothing better then
every creature, but
the
Creator
:
Ifthen
he
mull
needs
have
an
end
why
he maketh
things,
and
Rom.s.
s
T;mg,s.
T,r.;.
tot",;
As
bedef:1"ik
;5
amic,W
ai-
C
ref
ßabeiefam
etrrdem