Of EM/ion. parts here below, a prece of Heaven would come down to fupply rt, and make~ it up. So may I fay, m tillS Cafe, whrch IS but a fuppofiuon, though ~hcu c,,,p. 6. lbouldll have lcfs Grace than what rs ~ecelfary to keep thee, ( if yould could~ fuppo fe he fl1ould h.ve llrnted h>mklt ,. ~f bellowrng but a mcafure of Grace in rh is World, rn an ordrnary way , wluch yet he barb not, ) he would rather fpcnd upon. rhdlocl; of Gl ,ry tofuppl.y thee with Grace.·to keep thee, than that thou lbould'll mifs of all the whole fubllance of Glory. , . ,) VSES. ~· .. . Do the Scriptures (peak at this rate, that we are Received into Glory, when we are Called into a perfect right unto Glory. Oh that we Could live at any proportionable rate, . , , . 1. In the comfort of it and actual e;cpectatians thereof ; this the holy Apo•. !lie and Primitive Chrillians did , after the Holy Ghofl came on them, as a Comforter breathed, and had theirlife in this air. , Let us but go to the fir£\ Verfe of this very Chapt'r , wherein my Text is; you may there over•. hear our Apoflle Peter rhus [peaking of, or rather, entitling himfe!f, I, who amPartaker of the Glory tb,,t fha/16e revealed, When Perfons of Birth or Qgality write Superfcriptions of .themfelves, they ufe·to add their fpecial Ti– tles; and our Apo!\le writes hirrtfelfa P•rraker of the Glory that is to come;. and jobrt doth the like, Rtv. 1.g.And in my Text in the yth Vtrjt,Pffercall~ all his Brethren to the Faith ond Comfort of that, which was as really true of them all , as of himfelf, The God of a!tGraet bath called tu into Glory;botl1 me nnd you alike: Are ye Called? ye.are .all partakers of Eternal Glory, even, as I. He bath it up again in Chqp. 2. Verf. r, l• In the firll Verjdw fpeaks this of all Saints, that rhey havr rretived l1keprttioU< Faith witb #< .Apojlles ; :iod at the third Verfe, that God bath Called U< to Glory. . Oh how infinitely is this beyond the fir(\ thoughts of our.aims., that we in our fir(\ Converfion had, our Primitive aims, as I may fo call them; the aims of us poor Souls that live in this !a!l Age of the Wm ld, As if we were, as . Paulfpeaks of himfeff, 6om otJt of dtJe timt, iri Cornparifon unto thofe fir£\ Chriflians. Alas! What do we groan and figh after all our days , and cannot (o much as obtain the fenfe thereof, even a.Iter no higher matter in our Addre(. fes to God tlian we <;lid in our firft Converfion. Oh ! T hmks the Soul , if I could have but my $ins forgiven once; (which therefore .7ohll comforts Babes with) {John t. i2. I wnte unto ) 'Oil ChJtdrt1J, 6ecau(e ; •ottr Sws are jor– givm you; He (peaks tbus u·mo rhein, bccaufe this is >he chiefe(\ thing they are trfually intent upon; but whil!l we h•ve thefe low thoughts and purfuJts, and at our Calling we have not ufually much higher, ,Lo, our God , the God of ai! ,Grace, bath at the fame time had in his thoughts an E!lating us into E– ternal G!ory, and will in time !hew thee greater things than thcfe, offorgive· nefs , and being made more holy , and ihe like; he hath Called thee in.to· Glory. 2. If at prefent we be Coiled into the right ofthe Glory of G<Jd, how ihould we walk , and be holy i11 atJ manntr of hot1 Collvtrfation m1d Godh11e(S; look– ing for, and haflning to t he Polfeflion of this Glory, as our Peter.o!fo ur~ethr, 2. Ephe{.5. u , r2.And'Paut alfo upon this very intendnient, I Thef{. 2. n ., That ye wo11ld walk worthy of God, who bath catltd J'OtJto hJS Kmgdvm of Glory: It is not to walk worthy of the Gofpel only, he is exhorting them un– to,but which is higher, that they ihould walk worthy of God who h a b called 1JS mto his Gto>')'. They haveunder tranflated the word into the Glory of God, When our Saviour Ohrifl was entre9 into a flare of Glory upon his Refurrecri• on , ( although , not ofcended, or polfe(\ of it, you read wi rh what a diffe.! rencc he conv~rfed from what himfelfhad dooe before: And fl10nld not we,ir! fome Conformity,appear to thofe whom our Peter (peaks of in·his fir(\ Epiflle, Ch.>p. r. Verj. r4, r; . .As obedient Children, 1101 fa/hio11i11g yor"; (r!vts arcord·, ing to rour fom;er L11(/s in )'OilY lgnorcmce; 6tlf as he which bath CrJtled )'011 is I-lolj, Jo bt ye I-lolj ill all Malmtr of Co1rver[atiou, And !lilllct u• P kJ ± ihin~
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