Of EleE!ion. ~ think with our felves when we Sm,or are tempted thereunto, Should one Called BooK IV. into Glory do this or this? . ~ 5· Into [HIS] Glory, For explanation; t. Whofe Glory this is? God's, and God the Fathers, in difhn<'lion from Chrifi's, as is evident, io that Jefus Chrift follows. 2. [ RJS Glory] although we arc the perfons who are to be glorified by it,as thofe words, Called us (!!c. import. The Particulars to be treoted on from hence are, t. That there is a glory ofGod the Father's, which we are called into; and what that is, and will be to us. 2. The glory which will arife therefrom to us, will be a glory revealed in us, and fo ours : Yet that it is His glory, rather than ours, and why it is fo tearmed , His , rather than our glory. ~. That the beftowiog this glory upon the Creature, is a pure ad: of Grace in him; and proceeds from him (as in refpe<'l of the donation of it) as he is a God of Graa, and of all Grace, and could proceed from no other motive or confideration elfe. · 4· Our being called into fuch a glory of his by grace, is an affured engage– ment on Gods part, and a fecurity to us, that God will carry us through to the poflellion of it, maugre all Temptations. And this is a corallary from all the three foregoing; and the Geneta! Scope of Peter. I. That it·is the glory of the Father, and eminently hu Glorv, there is this ·abundant evidence for it, that even the glory , Jefus Chrift hath, though it a!fo be in a moft proper fenfe his own glory, Luke 24. 26. o11g(Jt not ChnJ1 to h.~veJirffertd the('e thi1Jt·', and to enter illto his glory? yet it is his Farher's glory;· .thasMatth.16. 27.,Hejhall comeinhu Fathersglory. Whilft yet all the Angels are faid to be his Angels,as his proper right, aHd therefore his glory olfo; yet even he comes in his Father's glory, which yet agaiH, Chap. 25.~ '· is fa id to be his own alfo: And whm the So1l of Mcm {ball come i11 hu Glory, arzdall his holy A11gels with him, thm jhall he fit 1tpon the Tbro11e of his Glory,. But fo it is never fpoken of us; the meaning whereof is, that Chri!l's pcrfonal glory is fuch a glory, as it !hall be maniftfi at firft fight, that he isthe only Son of God, the natural Son of fo glorious a Father, and that it is his Father's glory that ihines .in him, communicated to him, that he is the fc– cond Perfon by Eternal Generation; alfo as Man, God the Father gave a glo– ry to him, as in John '7· 24. Fathtr, I wit/that they alfo whom thou hafl gzvm fm , be with "" whert 1rJm , that they may beholdmyglory which thou hafl givm me: For thou lovtdjl me brfore the fou~tdatiofl oj the World, Chrift ocknowledgeth. Who as he gives him to have Life i11 himfe!f, .7ohu 5· 26, For ao tht Father bath lzfe i11 himfe/f: So bath hegivm to the Son to have lzfe i11 hzm(etf. And fo hath he given him to have glory in himfe!f: And it is therefore tha r it is faid to be his alfo, whilfl it is but the Fathers : For after U– nion, it then becomes his own, and natural to himfelf, being the natural Son of God. The full effed:of all which you have io that fpeech of .'Johll, Chap. 1, ' 4· We behold hu Glory, the Glory M of the only btgolltn So1lof God: That is, as of the Son of fuch a father, who is originally the God of Glory, Ad:s 7· 2. Tht Father of Glory, Ephef 1, '7• Hu Father, who is .the Lord •f Glory , James 2. 1. at which very time, when they beheld that htsglory 1n hts trrwsfgt~ration , Peterfnys of it, 2 Epi/1. 16. We wert e;•t·Wll11ef{es of bzs J,1,zje{fy, For, ver(: ' 7· Ht receivedfrom God the Father ho11o11r mzd Glory, 'Whm there came j11ch n voice to himfrom the excellwtglory, ~c. [added, as a Branch, this firft Particular, what this Glory ol the Father's, as it is to be communicated to us; is, and how to be underfiood , as d,flm<'l from that of Chrifl's to us, and in us. For the opening of which, let us run over thefe Scrirturcs that follow, from one to the oth<.r. In 1Thr(S. z, r 2. 1t is fiiled both the U11gtfomandglory of God, as in r lation to us. Walk wor– th,, of God, who !J,1fhcalledm into hU ki11gdom tll1d glar)'· From thence go we to Epbrj: ;. 5· where you have the Kingdom of C!lrifl, and of God, ;nentwned
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