~ BooK IV. ~ Of EleElion, CHAP. X. The Engagement on Cbrifts part for our prefervation, thatari(ethfrom his lntereft in that Glory, weareby him called into. That it is his Glory, M he is our Head, and COf!ImUnicated to us only, M we are his Members, and therefore He is the ftrfl, and Grand Proprietary ofit. This Glory is above the natural dues ofCreation, and therefore we muft be rais'd up in– to it by another foperiour right. The Glory ofthe im– mediate vijion of God, WM only the natural due, and right ofChrift God-man. We have our right to it, and the participation ofit, only hy virtue ofour relation to Cbrift; M it is his Glory, he is engaged to bring us to it , and maintain us in it. Tbis Glory is his, becaufe he bought it with a price; and he would lofe his pur– chafe, if we did not come at lafl to the enjoyment of it. He bath ta~n Pojfej]ion of this Glory [Dr ur, ancl therefore wiU ta~ effeBual care , that we be not de– frauded of it. His Glory is enlarged, and greatned by the bringing us to Glory, whom he bath tbut ea!. led unto it ; and therefore fince his own lnterep is fo much concerned, he. wiU fo!ficiently Iooft to it, to preferve, and bring us Jafo to Heaven. I PET E R V. 1o. Who bath Called w.; INTO GLO RT BT JES VS CHRIST. THe Concernment ofChri!l in thisPJrticular i• fo great, that we may b~ Cure ofhim, rhat he will do the utrno!l to bring us into, and (oto keep us until the ACtual PolTeilion ofthis Glory. I. It is Chrill hi< Own Glory, which we are to be brought into; and it is efpecia lly Glory to him to keep us for it; and upon feveralaccounts, the Te>t only fpeal<s of.his Glory, as being the Fathers, who hath Called us i 1llo hi! Glory; but other Scriptures do as expreOy term our Glory, the Gloryof Chrill, by whom we are Called into it; and therefore it full well concerneth him to bring us into ir, for elfe he thould lofe fo much of his own Glory, as would accrew to him, inw, andby 111, Now
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