to the E PHE S I A N S. I told you likewife, that as it is ;i rich Inheritmrce, and. a glorious I1J!;ertta11ce, ~ fo it is Riches of Glory; you may joyri bot~ together if you wdl. For Rtch<S Ser. XXl. you know they arc .external thi_ngs, but the Saints mHtaven , Omnta ji1afocum ~ portant, their Riches are wttlun, mherent R.tch~s, therefore are glonous Rtdles, the which Glory importeth excellency and a fuperexcellency of all good thmgs; And then to add Riches to this Glory, which noterh Abundance, this overwhdnieth the mind of man; how can he look further? What is the riches of the (/!ory of his I11heritmtct. So i have done with that. Now I come to the Perfons wh<:llb this bdongeth to. Here are two Perfons mentioned. Fir!t it is faid to be Hi1 inherita11a, namely God's, Chril\'s, ., But Secondly, In the Sai11ts. · this little Pronoun here, dhq, which is put in one would think againfi the hair; for look elfe where, and he calleth it Our brhl!riltince, fo verj;4.- The e,:r1uOof ottr brhrritmtce: but when he would fer out Heaven to the uttermo!l it is' What u the riches of the Glory of hu itrhe~itancr, not of the S<1i11ts Nhtrit~ltce fo much, it is but in them; biit 'Hu l11herilaflce m the Saims. . I have read over all the Comments that I can meet with, (arid I think I have almofi all) and I do not find them iniifi at all upon this Particle, but I may truly fay of it that which they rcfufe is the Re!:d of this cor11er; it argueth the Gib• ry of He'av,en more than all the .words befi~es '..That it i~ His i1rheritmrce, take it either of God the Father (of whom I tlunk tt ts pnnctpally mearlt here; as I 1halllhew you by and by,) or take it of Chrifi; To lhew you in what feofes it may be calledHis iltheritarJce, and that all thefe fenfes argue to you what an infinite Glory it is. Firfi it is His illheritmice, becaufe. he is the Father of it; therefore (if you mark it) he prayeth to God the Father of Glory in th'e ,wbrds before, Hecal– leth him the Father of Glory, becaufe he as the Father, doth give and beflow this Inheritance, and theretore it is called His, His ihat be!!owed it ; for it is His originally you know rather than the Sons that inhcritetli, And you ihall fee how that mufl needs argue ari infinite Glory that the Sairits rhufi have, becaufe it is His iuheritdncr, his gift, and his as t!Je Father of Glory ( take that in too). Men give Inheritance~ according to their Efiates, you !hall know whether a man be rich or no when he dyeth, by his Inheritance he giveth. He is God thr } ;,_ ther of Glory, (o faith the 17th. vtrf. He is God the God of Glory, fo faith Afl. 7.2, H&is Chrifl the Lordof G!or;•, fo faith 1 Cor. 2. He is K111g of Glory, (o faith Pfal. 24. 7· If he will give an Inheritance, he will do it like himfelf; there• ft>re it mufl needs be a glorious Inheritance and a rich one, that which God mean· eth to give as a Father, . . I will give you a Scripture for it. It is Phi!. 4· .19· (I guoted it before, but it cometh in now full f~r our purpofe.) ~· God ( faith he) jhallJitpp!y a!J; •ottr need (or as the word rs, a!J your defire.r, the word figntfieth both) accordi1rg to hu riches itt Glory 6y Jefm Chrijf. What is the meaning of this? God( faith he) he is a tich God arid a glorious God! and he is a, Father of Glory (!o the 17th. vtrf. calleth htm here.) Now, farth he, he wtll not have thefe riches of Glorylyebyhim. Youlmow A6raham when he had no Son, faith he; Lord thou haftgi.vtntit.e thefe ~iches, 611t behold :o me t?oi' bafl givm rro feed, I have never aClul.d to rhnet.tt tt; therefore God gtveth l,iun l(aac upon whom he m•ght bcfiow Ius nches and mh.errtance: So God had all thefe riches of Glory lying by, he chofeth htm Sons to mhent, and when he befioweth an Inheritance upon them, it is according to that Glory of his, in proportion to his Riches that lye by him. Here is you fee Riches and Glory, and accordingly cloth he befiow an Inheritance rich and glorious. It is therefore called His inherittmte, and rh :s ar– gueth it to be great. Every man (you know) if he mean to give, will give according to his Efiate. If the Apoflle had fa id Our inhtritance, a~s we are poor creatures, what inheritance is ours I But1ie ddth fay His iub:ritmJce,he ar· gueth the greatnefs of it from his gift.I remember Alexander the Great when he had given a City to a mean man that asked it of him, he faid, I do not give ,, Nn Cz~ • .,
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