do SERMONS upon Serm.6. were any Men in the World. Let us not look for our Happinefs in this World ; our Comforts do not depend upon the (tending of it ; when the World is no more, you may be happy. Doa. 4. The chiefPoint which I (hall handle is ; That Chri in the Oeconomy or penfation of Grace, was reduced to fuch an exigence, that he needeth to pray to be glorified. Father, glorify thou me with thy felf, with the Glory which I had with thee before the World tear. It is a matter of weighty Confideration, that Chrift Ihould pray his. Father to be- ftow on him the Glory which he wanted. ;But how could. Chrift wantGlory, who was God-Man in one Perron ? To clear this, I (hall a little (fate both his Humiliation, and his Exaltation. I. How far be humbled himfelf, and wanted Glory. What was indeed the utmoft.of his Humiliation. .. .. Here I mall (hew, Firfi, ,Whit Glory he retained in the midit of it. Secondly, What he wanted. Certainly, tho in his outward appearance he had no form and comelinefi in him, yet inwardly he was the fairefi of Men ; Ifa. 53. 2. compared with Pfal. 45. 2. Firfl, What Glory he was poffefied of at the prefent. Chrift had a double Glory ; the Glory of his Perfon, and the Glory of his Office. r. The Glory of his Perron. There was the Union of the two Natures; He did not lore his God - head, tho he took Flem, he was (till the eternal Son of the Father, The Brightnefs of No Glory, and the exprefi Image of his Perfon : Heb.. t. 3. John a. 14. The Word was made Flefh, and dwelt among us, ioxrivraw, he pitched his Tent, And we beheld his Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father. He was hill co-equal with his Father 5 the fulnefs of the God -head dwelt in him ; his Flem was taken into the Fel- lowmip of the Divine Nature, as loon as it began to have a Being in the Womb of the Virgin, the higheft Dignity a Creature is capable of. The Perfon of the Son was truly communicated to the Nature of Man, and the Nature of Man truly communicated to the Perron of the Son : He that was the Son of Man, was truly the Son of God ;and he . that was the Son of God,was truly the Son of Man : And by virtue of this Union there was a Communion higher than all other Communions; the fulnefs of Grace was fubje- ftively and inherently in his. Human Nature, He was anointed with the Oil of Gladnefs above his Fellows, Pfal. 45.7. And he is raid, John 3.34. to receive the Spirit without mea isre, both for the Effence and Virtue of it, to all Effehts and Purpofes, for himfelf and others: So that there needed nothing to be added to his full Happinefs. Chrift was Comprehenfor, he perfe&ly knew upon Earth, what we mall know in Heaven, and was perfehtly Holy, and perfe&ly Good. 2. The Glory of his Office was to be Mediator between God and Man: An Office of fo high a Nature, that it could be performed by none but him, who was God and Man in the fame Perron. For he that would be Mediator, was to be Prophet, Prieft and King. As a Prophet, he was to be Arbiter, to take knowledg of the Caufe and Quarrel depending between them ; and as an Internuncius, and Legate, to propound and ex- pound the Conditions of Peace, that are to be concluded upon. As he was a Prieft, he was to be an Intercelr, to make Interpellation for the Party offending; and then to be a Fidejuur, or Surety, making CatisfaCtion to the Party offended for him. As he was a King, having all Power both in Heaven and Earth, he was to keep and prefent the Church of God fo reconciled in the Rate of Grace,and to tread down all Enemies there- of. Here is a great deal of Glory far above any Creature. . Secondly, What he wanted, that he mouldpray to be glorified. The Glory of his Perfon and Officewas yet but imperfect. t. Of his Perfon, in both Natures. It is Paid, Phil.2.7. He made himfelf of no Reputa- tion, and tool¿. upon him the form of a Servant, and was made in the likenefi of Man, errivr`áty iau nb,- he made himfelf empty and void, not limply and abfolutely, for thenhe would ceafe to be himfelf, and then he would ceafe to be God ; but Oeconomically and Dilpenfatively, vailing and covering his God:head under the Cloud of his Flem, the Beams of his Divinity, as it were, wholly laid afide, only now and then it broke out
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