Of 1:/e[Jion: ~93 tioned apart arid diO.inct; No Idolater h.1th_mzy iuberita11ce in the Kil-;j;dum <[ ~ cbnfl tmdof God. And to lhew that the I' ather hath a Glory and Kingdom , Cha p 6. . as in relation unto us, and emmcntly ond d;O.mctly [Hu] you find them both ~ fet om as fuch, even two diflinct Kingdom> or Glories lucce11ivcly one to the other, that all men might lirO. acknowledge the Son, os em:nmtl) l]~; ,ing in h ,s glory, and then the Father rn Ius, and we, the Calkd ones, p1rtakcrs of eacn of them, in 1 Cor. 1 )· 24, 28. where, as for the glory that Chrifl fb!l come in at the Day of Judgment(ofwhich you have heard that he th"n comes in hi> Father's glory) it is laid of lt, that after ChnO..fl1all have cxercifcd , or appeared in that his Kingdom and Glory, that then he fl1all de!tvtr it up rmto God, evm the F.ttba; tbat God may be a/J i11 a!J, both in Chr,f\ and his Saints for ever, iliining in, and to the Saints ;n a far more excelling glory then that he had fbined to them through tbe Perfon of ChriO., or his dtfpenGltions: I do not lay then he cloth in the Perfon of Chrifl himfelf, but then to M, either af(>rc the Day of Judgment, or in and by, during the Day of Judgment. And this is the ultimate glory and manifeftation of God himfelf unto the Saints, and thererore the highcO., furpa/Iing all the foregoing, a> God's lafl works ufe to do: And though the Saints flJall enjoy ir by ChriO. (as the T Lxt here hath it) yet it is, as to the difpcnfatirn it felf, immediate from the Fa rher, when God fiJ,,//6e all in all both in CllriO. and U>; and ·is by Peter, in his fecond EpiO.. 1. t 7· fliled as I take ir) the excellfllt glory; F. or be •·ewved from God the FuberhorwtJrtmdgt.ry, whenthaecame fucha voice to htmfrom the exce!Jent glory, t!!c. For if you obferve tt, that glory out of which, and from which (he dwelling in it) the vorce came, is attributed to the Father; for he it was that uttered, Thu my well-6elove4 Son,t!!c. All Glory import> the goodnef; of a thing, as riling to an excellency, as the Slln we fay is glorious, but this is a glory excelling, that iurpafTetll all glory; andyet while he utter– ed it of him, the Man .1ef'u appeared, as he ili11l do in Im glory : 13ut that which the Father will mamfeO. himfelf in, is, aGlory far excelling that which appeared in ChriO., then glorified, below, to be difcovered one day in the htgheO. Heavens to us, bevond what that of Cbrr O.'s will be to us; I do not fay then, is in and to Chrirl himfelf communicat ·d, but then is by him unto us, And unto this Kingdom of th• Father it is, that Chrift in his ilil words when his Kingdom i< given up, a_t the Jhuuing up of the Day of Judgmenr, invites us to the po!Te/Iion of, Matt h. 2). 34· The11 /h.~/1 the K u g (,zy unto them 011 hi< right btlnd, come ye b!e!Jed of my F.~ther, inberit the Kmgdom prepartd for yott from the formdatto11 of the World. Where, in the very place he mentions, he means to erect and exercifc that laO. Kingdom ofhis un– to Eterniry, and wherein he will manifeO. and difplay , that his glory ulti– mately, in that he'faysoF it, that it was prepared from the fomzd,ltl011 of tbe World. That very place (which lfaiah Giles the high and holy place, -J(,ti. 57 . ')· which he bath dwelt in lince the Creation) was the firO. work he did create, Gen. J . r. and fo at the very firO. foundation of the World: So his bringing the Saints into it, and therein polfe/Iing them of his immediate glory; is the !all, or T~ f-'ha, in execution, and therefOre his heart was, and is from lidt to Iail, fo intent upon this ultimate Act and Scene: But though the pbce be of his creating, and but a created glory, yet the glory he meuncth to di(– play therein, is his own immediate glory, Godfh.z/J be all i11 all.And whereas it had been before commun icated to us by other things,as in the Man _7e(iu,~c.he will,belides that of Chri1l.'s, (whofe glory fl1all flill fl1ine) now unveil his own glory immediately,which 0Jall therefore be all in all. and in f!ead of all; Rev.2z. 2l• /111d tbe Ctty baduo tJeed of the Sun, tJeither of tbe Moon to/hine iu zt: for t he f!.lury of God did !igbtm it, and the Lamb ir the Ltgbt thereof. In com– parifoo unto which glory of the Fathers, that glory, fl1ioiog in the Man Je(zu, il1all be but •JX"', the Lamp, as the word is ; but God the Father is the light of it, Rev. 22. )· Andtbeujh.~/1 be 110 11ight there, a1td they tJeed uo Cmtd!r, mitherlightofthe Stm; fortbe Lord God givelb tbmd1.zht, 11nd tbry jh.z/1 •·etgfl for ever attd ever. Yet ChriO. himfelf, the Man 1e(i<f, fays ot him– fell, when he proclaims his own comiog, Rev. 22. 16. I 7e(iu hrzve [er1t m111e A11ge! to te(ltfi'e rmtoyouthefe tbings i11the Churches. I am tbt Root, and tbe
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