' jJrejmt State and Condition i~z Glmy. f~ 7 But there is jomewhat elfe propofed as the immediate ob– ject of the Faith of the Saints at prefent, as unto what they fhall enjoy upon their · departure out of this world. AI}d Scripture Revelations extend unto the fiate ofthings umo the end of the world,- and no -longer. · · Wherefore Heaven is now principally reprefented unto us as the place of the Refidence and Glory of Jefus Chrifl in the Adminiflration of his Ojjice; and our Bleffednefs to confifi in a participation thereot~ and communion w'ith him therein. · So hep~y~s_for all them who are given . him of his Father, that they may 6e where he is to behold his GloJy, Joh. I 7· 24. It is not the Ej{ential Glory of his Divine Perfon that he in- . tends, which is abfolutely the fame with that of the Father: But it is a Glory that is peculiarly his own ; a Glory which the Father hath given_him, becaufe he loved him. My Glory whic~ thou ga·vefl me, for thou lovec(Jl'me. Nor is it rrieerly the glorified frate _of h~s. H;umane Nature that he intendeth; as was befoi·e declared in the confidera.tion of the fifth verfe of this chapter, where he prayetl1 for this Glory. However this is not excluded. For unto all thofe that love him, it will be no finall portion of their bleffed refrefhment, to be– hold that individual Nature wherein he fuffered for them, undergoing all forts of reproaches, ·contempts and miferies, now unchangeably fiated in incornprehenftble Glory. But the -, Glory which God gives unto Chrifl, in the phrafe of the Scrip· . ture, principally is the Glory of his Exaltation in his Media· tory Ojjice. It is the All Power that is given him in Heaven and Earth; the Name that he bath above every Name, as he fits on the right hand of the Majefl:y on high. In the be– holding and contemplation hereor~ witl~ holy Joy and De: light, confifl:s no finall part of that Bieffednefs and Glory which the Saints above at prefent enjoy,anc! which all others of them 1J1all fo do who depart this lift before the con!um. S f 2 matlon
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