·or Eletlion. Now th at Chril1 is the great Proprietary of this Glory,thc Scriptures are ex- .--..i'-./) prefs. In the Second of the Thef[zlommJJ, 2. 1 J, 14The Glory we are cal· Cbap. 10, led into, is exprefly termed, the Glory of Jefus Chrift himfclf; Bm we are 1/'"V"'v 6otmd togzverh.mks alwr')'.< to God for J'OU Buthrm, beloved ofthe L ord . 6ecaufe God bathfrom the 6egznn111g chojwyou to Sulvatio11, throt~gh SauClzftcatio1l of the Spzrzt rmd 6elzef ofthe truth, whernmto he c,11/ed )'Oft 6your Goj: pel, to the obtai11ing of the Glory ofour Lord]ejtu Chriff. Alfo John 1 7· 22. Chrift aifumes unto himfelf, both that the Glory he fl1all have, is his Glory ond that it is his gift alfo, as well his Fathers. Aud the Glory whrch thouga: veff me, I havegzvm them, that thry may bf one, evm a-J we arr one, And it is His upon many accounts. I Jhall content my (elfin this only, with thofo two Particulars I purfued in that firft Head. ~amely, r. That it his Glory as he is CHRIST our Head, the Natural Son of God, dwelling in our Nature ; and ·ro is communicated to us, as we are Mem– bers of, and a Spoufe unto him; and in that refpcct, he is thefirH, andgreat, and indeed, only Proprietary. 2. As J E S VS, or the Redeemer, as who hath purchafed it, and bought it for us. '· As Chriff, that is, as he is God-man, or Man pcrfonally united to the Son of God,fo it is ht4glor~ by a proper and foie right. Underfiand this thing aright; To Jn GodM wt are{een 6y him, to know God M Wf are loJOWll 6J htm, to lovr God M we are b.lovedof him: In a word, to fee the hlClof God immed~ately: T hefe things are above the natural due, either of Men or An– gels, by the Law or Covenant of their firl1 Creation; and fo they mall come to be ele{led or raifed up thereto by another Superiour,Right. This is evident by this; That if, fuppofe the Angels, the highel1 rank of meer Creatures, and created Inhabitants of the Heave~s (as for the place oftheir Station)had been created under this immediate [eei11g the face of God, it is certain then that they had never, nay they could nevtr have fain: I may fay, None tVfr faw theface of Godand died. And the ftate which the fain Angels had, was the fame which the Angels had by their firl1 Creation in common together: And that the good Angels fiood when the other fell , was becaufe they were raifed up unto a thee obove the Law of t~eir Cr"ation, or any Promifes that did be– long t hereto: And they are ·immutable, becaufe admitted into fuch a new fiate made maniteft tn them, and upon them at their ftanding, and that was by Gr<JCe and Ele[/io11, and not in their natural Covenant, Ele!Jion ( which glorious Prerogative, with difference from thofe tbat fell,is attributed to them, 1 Tim. ). 21.) broke forth, and was difcovered then upon them; as it is, and cloth at our Calling in and upon us. If therefore God be!\ows this Glory in an equitable way upon any meer Creatures, though never fo pure, it mu!\ be by fome other right than that of their Creation (fuppofe the be!\ ftate that Crea– tures cou!d be created under) Now what or whore right might this be? What Perfon might there be, or was there found, to whom thefe Privtledges afore– faid of k11owi11g God, aud enjoyi11g of him, M ill bim{el{ might11atum!Jy 6e– lo1lg unto, and of due belong, and whofe Interefi with God might be fuch, as lo obtain and procure, through his own perfonal interel1 io God, any meer Creatures pmicipation with him of thofe high Priviledges which hold purely of Grace? I Anfwer: Thefe belonged naturally and of due unto ,Chril1, and ro him, M C!mjl, that is, fuppofing him united to the Son of God, anJ-con– ftdering him a' the Man now made God's Fellow, by being made one Perfon with the Son of God: For otherw:fe, that this individual Man was untred un– to the Son ot God, that indeed was as meerly of Grace, as our Election is; but fuppofe him united once, and thereby we muft acknowledge him to have been raken up into the Privilcdoes and Prerogatives of one that was the N2tural Son of God: And thus, t~nugh a Creature , yet now in right and ~ues, he was advanced above the rights of any mecr Creature, by the Law of tts Crea– tion. And take we him as Chri(l Gngly in his Perfon of God-man, there muft be this difference in his Pri viledges, above what is any way the. natural i:iue by Creation to any meer Creature whatever; and that therefore, 1f any of them be
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