Of Elet1ion. ~theOfj-(pril:g of David, tmd_the .brigbt mJdmor11ing Stnr. But the morning BooK IV. Star, although the brightefl, yet Qod the Father himfelf is the Sun and foas V""'V""".. the morning Star is the Prodromra, or fore-runner of the Sun, thus 'is Chrif\'~ Kingdom ot God's, though he !hall f\illlhin~ with the Father in that perfonal glory, which he ever did : But the Father's glory is the glory that excelleth tven whilll thrill himfelf appeared in glofy, as Pettr !tiles it, 2 Epill. 1, I 7 : For lu reaivtd from Godthe Fatl:er ho~our and glory, C!Jr. .. . , And in this Kingdom of the Father's it is, that the Bodies of, the Saints !hall lhine with fuch an extraordinary brightnefs, that. had yet lhined w~m· derfully afore, during the Dal' of Judgment, and .~ere fpiritual Bodies • ratfed 10 po~er rmdglory at thetr Refurred:ton; _yet thiS glory of Go,J lhining through thetr Souls,breaks forth. from thetr Bodtes, and caufeth them to lhine. as the Sun in the Kcngdom of thetr Father;Mat.ll·4l·ThmjhaC the rtghteouo. jbi1uforth iJS the Sm1, 111 the Kwgdom of the:r Father, ~c. Lthe11] points to a fpecial time. Obferve, it is the Kingdom of the Father that is fpoken of and that as it takes place after the Judgment, as the Verfe afore !hews; fo; it is after the Saints fee the wicked call into Hell, vtr{e 42, My purpofe is not to fer lorth the greatr.efs of ultimate Glory , which the Angels them· felvcs know not, nor could their Tongues utter; Chrill only is as yet pof– felfed of it, the Lord of Glory, and it i< hid with Chrifl in God; noy can this Glory otherwife be fer out than by a comparative made with the glory that preceeds it, afore and at th; D•y of Judgment. This I mull forbear, for this is extravnfal to the dired: fcope of !he Text, · II. I come therefore unto the fecond Particular I propofed, which is more proper to the Text; which hath two Branches. 1. That it is Hu Glory, not ours, though we are the Perfons glorified there. by. 2. Why, or in what farther re(ped:s, the glory to come, is lliled Hi< glory, rather than exprelfed by our be1ng glorified by it. For the firll, It is not barely to denote, that God, the Father of all Glory, is the original of that glory to us, or (as the Apoflle lays) that ]halt 6e rt· vealed i11 tU; but that indeed we are but rece,ved and admitted into it, and · glorified by our being fo called into his Glory, as here : And alfo in r. T!J,ff. 2. n. Rtceivrd ittto the glory of God. Rom. 1$. 7· We are but as Strangers ad· mitred into the enjoyment and ufe of anothers Propriety. The like tenure o'r Specchisufedwhentheycome to polfefs it, Matth, 2).J2. Entrr thou il.to thy Majltr;s j oy·, not ours; we did but enter upon his Ground and Propriety, ns I may fo fpeak. Secondly, Why, or in what refped:itis Hi&glory, not ours. 1. We are wholly poor empty Creatures, asVelfelscall into his Ocean of Glory, wh ich he fills with the riches of hi& ow11 glory, as the Apoflle fpeaks, Rom. 9· 22.) at the Day of Judgment---'Dum Chrifli regna maue6tmt, in the height of Chrifl's Kingdom; it is rather faid, that he is wonderfully glorified, than the Saints in him;. 2 ThejJ.r.g,IO. Who/hall 6t f<mijhedwith t· verlafling drFrufliot: from the prefena of the Lord, attd from the glory of hu powtr: whm lu fhrzll come to bt g!oriftd itt hU Saillls, a11d to 6e admi· red in all thrm that 6eluve,C!ic. It is rather Chrill's glory in them,than theirs. So the new ,7erufaltm is faid to have the glory of God, Rev. 2 I. I 1. rather than a glory of its own. As the Stars glory is that of the Sun rather thnn that of Scars, that have no fuch light in them, God's glory appears by this, viz. how glorious he can ma!.e Creatures. Ill. The third general Head was, That the bellowing of this Ultimate Glory, wherein God is all in all, the Donation of it is from God , as the God of grace, and not at all by Works: And when I fay Works, I mean not only to exclude the Works of Regenerate Men lir.ce the fall, but even Adam< Works in the !late of Holincfs: And the reafon is undeniable ; becaufe the Ultimate Glory we have been [peaking of 1 liethin an immediate Commt.tni· cation , Participation, and lnjoyment of God htmfelf: Coheirs w1th Chrtf1, tl!Jd
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