on the Glory of Chrijl. 12 3 tuhen be would immediately aCt ip that Nature. And indeed after the fall, there is nothing fpo- ~en of God in th~ Old Te.ftament, nothing of his Inftitntions, nothing of the way and manner of dealin~ whh the Church, but what hath refpeQ: Unto th~ future Incarn~tion of Chrift.J And it had been abftud tp bring in God under perpe · n1al Anthropopathies, as grieving, repenting, being ~mgry, well-pl~afed, and the like , were it not put that the Divine Per(on intended,was to take on him the Nature wherein filch Affections do dwell. 4· IT was- reprefented in Pr~phetical Vifions. So the Apoftle affirms that the Vifion which lfaiab bad of him, w~ when he Jaw his Glory, Job. 1 2 .• 4· And it was a bleifed Reprefentation thereof. For l1is Divine Perfon being exalted on a Throne of Glory, his Train filleq the Temple. The whole Train · of his Glorious Grace filled the Temple _of his body. Th~s is the true Tabernacle which God pitched, and not man. The Temple which was - deftroy'd and which he rai fed again in three days, wherein dwelt the,fulnefS of the Godhead . Col. 1. 9· · This Glory, was now prefenred unto tlle . view of Ifaiah, (:bap 6. I, 2, 3· which filled him · with Dread and Aftoniihment. But ·from thence ~e was relieved, by an aCt of the Miniftry of that Glorions one, taking away his Iniquity by a coal from the Altar~ which typified the purifying efli.. ~acy of his Sacrifice. This was food for . tbe . Sou!s of Believers, in thefe and on the like occa- -. fions, did the wl1ole Church lift up theirvoice ' ~ n that Holy Cry, Make haft our Beloved, and b~ 1 thqu like to a Roe, or to a yovmg Hart on tbe .J11ou~f(li1't of Spic~s. OF
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