pre.ftnt State and Condition in Glory. 33r from his cuct;ward conclition, but, principally fr.om the dark– nefs which was on their minds, whereby they were difen· abled to difc~rn the glory of fpiritual things; notwithfiand– ing which, fome then in the Light of Faith faw his Glory, as the Glory of tbe on[y begotten of the Father, full of Grace and iruth: So now the Pail is removed, and the (larknefs wholly taken a\vay from the minds of the Saints ; he is in the Glory of his Graces altogether lovely and deiirable. And although the Grace -vyhich is m Believers, be of the fc'lme na.– ture with that which is in-ehrifi Jefus, and 1hall be changed, into Glory, after the likenefs of his, yet is it, and alwaies i11all be incompreheniibly ihort ofwhatdwells in him. And herei,n alfo cloth his Glory gradually excel that of all other creatures whatever. But we muil: here · draw a J7ail over what yet remains. For it doth not yet appear what we our felves ihall be. Much lefs is it evident what are, and what wil~ be the Glories of the Head above all the members ; even then when we ihall be made like unto him. But it mufl: be temembred, that where– as at the entrance of this Difcourfe we fo propofed the con- . fideration of the prefent fiate of the Lord Chrifl: in Heaven, as that which :lhould have an end at the confummation of all things : What hath been fpoken concerning the Glory of his · Humane Nature in it felf, is not of that kind, but what abid– eth unto eternity. All the things mentioned abide in him arid unto him for evermore. · The fecond thing to be .coniidered in the prefent ft:ate and -condition ofChrifr, is his · Mediatory Exaltation. And two things with refpefr thereunto may be enquired into. (r.) The wqy ~fhis entrance .into that flate above. (2.) !he jfate it felf, with the Glory of it. · · I. The way of hiJ entrance into the exercifc of his Media– tory Office in Heaven, is exprefTed, I iim. 3. r 6. He was Vv received I,
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