p6 Of Elef:lion. '"""-":....;"' be made Partakers thereof, it muft be by means and virtue of him, and their Bc•oX 1 V. relation to him. 1..4' '~ Now his rig_ht, as a natural due, rofe thus, T hat the only begotten natural Son oF God was in the bofom of the Father, and faw and knew God immedi· ately ana in himfelt' elfentially, and thereby it came to pafs by the Perfonal u. n•on, that there fhould be an anfwerable capacity in Ch.rif\'s Human Nature, fo to know God, as no meer Creature by Creation could : For otherwife, then had. not been between mcer Creatures, by the Law of their Creation, and him by the Law of this high Union, any difference as to their Priviledgcs: Where: as now this high Priviledge and Glory becameo natural right of that Man u– nited to this Son of God; and fo John •· t 8. we find it, No ma11 bath {een God at arry 1tme; I be o11ly begotltl So11, which i< i11 tiH bofom of the Father he bflth declared btm. To have God himfelf to be our Inheritance, as imme: oiatcly to be enjoyed by us, is the height of Glory, we are called unto (as I ll1ewed ;) Now this anfeth to us but at the fecond hand, and upon a new rela. rion both to God, and unto the Perfon of the Son of God, namely, of a rela– tion as Soils to God, by union and marriage with this natural Son of God, as an Head and Husband. And thus iris originally only the right of Chrif\; and ours (fuppofe us (if you could) tbe pure!\ Creatures that ever God did or could make) but by a borrowed participation: That like as the Wtfe is admit· ted into a Jointure out ofthe Husbands origina!Ef\ate,and into all forts ofrights and comlorrs with the Husba nd, which fhe enjoys in a lower degree,and fecun.· darily ; [o we at fecond hand are received into the fame Glory with Cllrlf\, Two or three Scriptures confirm this. The fi•fl, R.om. 8. •7· And if Cbildrm, thm Heirs; Heirs of God, and ']u)'llt-lmrs with Chrifl. Obferve it, for God himfelf as immediately enjoy· ed, to be the Inheritance of the Creatures,this is originally Chrif\'s right, and becomes ours by virtue of beingCoheirs witb Chrifl. 2, Anfwerably you find in the t6th Pfalm(A 'Pfalm,faith Pettr, AE1s 2. ~)· made foofChnf\, as of no other )this is made Chrif\'s Prerogative originally, Verfe 5.The Lord i4the portion of mi11e lnberitmtcr, rwd of my Cttp: thotl main· taiueffmylot,Verf.tt.Thottwilt}hew methepathof Ltfe: ill thy prefmceu julnefsofjoJ•)Il tll)'rigbt hand there are ple,1{ttres for evermore, It was Chrift brought up that way ofenjoying God, with jttlne(s of pleaft<res at hi4right hand. And as it is a 11ewWuY as to ftnners,Heb. 10. 2o.fo to the Creation ofGod, A thirc)Scripturc is R om. I)· 7• Whereforn ·ect1Vf)'DttDrJe mwtber,IU Chrifl alfo recnved m, to the glory of God. Where this Glory of God is made ori· gioally and naturally his Propriety, which he might have kept and received'to ltir:•fc l•·. And if it •ris faid [He received w] fecondarily, namcly,asbrought in by his right unto it, ours ts a derived, his the original natural right• .And upon this account (as His) he is engaged to ':lainrai~ us .in it, and bnng us to ir, as much asan Husband ts concerned to mamtam Ius Wtves Ef\ate in all things fllitable to his own condition, fo far as lhe is any way capable; ei– ther her Jointure made out of his own Ef\ate and natural Inheriunce, and fet– led upon her by him!d t- by Marriage, or her Houot~r, and honottrable Ef/ate, as i< feen by the Marriage of a Q!)ecn unto a King. Thus by Cbrijl, M Chnf/, we are crzUed 1111tD GlorJ; and thus deeply is he concerned in our Glory, and fo in his bringing us into it, Secondly, Confider him as 1e(tu a Redamer, or Purchafcr ofthis Glory,•nd upon that account alfo it IS. his Glory: For, Quod emis pojfis di6tre jurr tuum, "hat a man buys or purchafcth, is by ju(\ rigll[ the Purchafers, and whofe he will plea(c to give it to. As l lh~wed, Chri(\ bought our Calling, our whole rime olrer, ond all our Temptariors, ~c. and with the f,.me price he purchafed this Glorv , as the end and ilfue of all, fo as he loferh his purch•fe, the laf\ ulri· mate Bargain in and oi that purchafe, if we flwuld not arrive at theenjoyment of it, even as was urged concerning all the lormcr, Ephef. r. 14, Which is thee mJtf/ of om· lnhrritance, mtttltbe redemptio>t of tbe. purcbafed pof!ef!i· otJ, 111110 tbe praife of his Glory. Look os he 1n Ius Perfon ts termed Jejm and · Chrijl,
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