568 Chap. 4o. t/InExpofition upon4tbe Book of o s. Verf.ao, Gloria eft Clara Grace, which is ourbelt fuit on earth, is fometimes called glory can laude noti- (2 Cor. 3. t8.) !Ve are changedfromglory toglory, as by the Spi- tia.fsmbrof. rit of the Lord that is ft om grace tograce, Mans firft change -11ï i Notat a jpendorem &g is from fin tograce, his fecond is from grace to grace, or from claritatcm,qu.c one degreeof grace to another.Grace is glory begun,and glory is e, fcerepoteft °race perfecged. Now, as glory is mans belt fuit, fo glory is, as a hnfumat Ìmay fay, Gods belt fuir. He is, as the god of allgrace (r Pete eianem I o.) fo the God o allglory for all glory is tobe given unto pudfpeÌatore S . f g y i a y ip. him, and his glory will he not give to any other. The glory of ftus,guad om- God is twofold. Firlt, Efl".ential and internal, for everunchange- nia agar ably abiding in himfelf ; indeed the very Effence of- God isgin- ÆOSfe'tCdS' ry. Of this we read (Exod. 33. 18.) Iwill makeall mygoodnefs Deusnon ha- P a f a before thee, Iwill proclaim the name of the Lord be f ore thee s bot ircunda tl,m decorem, andwill begracious towhom Iwill be gracious, and will (hewmer- quaftfuperad. cy to whom IwillPhewmercy ; this kind of glory I will ¡hew thee, ditumepee ef- but thou cant not fee my face and live, that is, my effentiat ejntia eooss glory. ipfa decorof. Secondly, There is a providential or external glory of God ; d>quits. the manifeltationsof God in his greatnefs, goodnefs and power, are his glory. Thus'çis faid at the dedication of Solomon, Tem- pie (1 King. 8. IL) The glory of the Lord filled the houfe of the Lord ; that is, therewasa glorious andwonderful manifeftation ofthe pretenceof the Lord in his Soule. Whatever God mani- fefts of himfelf, whether his power, or his goodnefs, or his mer- cy, or his grace, or his patience, or his juflice, is hisglory. The Lord oftenarrayeth himfelf with thefe glories; that is,hedeclares both by his word and by his works, that he is powerful, good, merciful, gracious, patientand juft towards the children of mee. The Scripture callethGod thegloryof hispeople (Pfal. > o6.zo.) that is, it is the glory of any people , or that which they fhould glory in, that God is known to them, or that they are owned by God. But the idolatrizingjest changed theirglory into thefimili- rude of an Ox that eateth graft ; that is, theychanged God, who was their glory, and in whom they fhouldhavegloried, into the form of an in-glorious beaft, while they either worfhippedthe image of abeet,or their God in that image. And it is confiderable, that the Apoftle (Rom. 1.23 ) at loft alluding to(as the reference in our Bible intimates) if not quo- ting that placelift mentioned in the Pfarm, whilfr he fpeaks ofthe idola-
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