122 Meditations and Difcourfes ~nd Admiration, what Raptures of Joy, what folemn and divine Complacency, what ardency of Atfetl:ion,and Diligence in Attendance unto the ;means of enjoying ~ommunion with him, this difcovery of the Glory of Chrift wrought in the fouls of them that did believe, is Emphatically ex# preffed in that difcourfe. A few days, a few hours fpent in the fi·ame charatl:erifed in it, is a Bleffednefs e~celli~g all the tr~afures of tlie~arth; and if we, whofe Revelations of the fame Glory do far exceed theirs , thould be found to come fhqrt of them inArdency of Affection unto Chrift, ;and continual holy Admiration ofhis excellencies, we fha11 one day be jqgged uq\Yorthy to have .received them: ' · '· · · · 3· IT was fo reprefented an9 made known under the Old Teftament i11 his perfcnal Appearances on various occafions unto feveral Eminent Perfans, Leaders of the Church ih their Generations. This he did as a Pradudium to his Incarna·rion. · He w.as as yet God only; but app~ared in the affi.l:- ined fhape of a man, to fignifie what h~ would be. He did not create an humane Nature, and rl.; nite it unto himfdf for fuch a feafon ; only by his - Divine Power he acted the Shape of a man corn- . pofed of what e/Etherial Subflance he pleafeq, - immediately to be diffolveo.So he appeared to Abraham, ·to .J-acvb, to 1Hqfes, to .Jcjhuai) and others, as· I have at large elfewhGre proved and confirmed. And hereon alfo, becaufe he was .the Divine Perfon who dwelt iq, and dealt with the Church, unper tbe Oid Tefi:ament fr9m firft to laft, in fQ doing he conftanrly affumes unto himfdf hun:am (!,-1'jjeclions, to intimate that,a/eafon would come ·when ·
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