t8·:) lviecli tations and Difcf)urfer l.1is Glory. Unto whorn is it not a matter of reJoycing, that with the fame e.yes wherewith they fee rhe ,tokens and figns of him in the Sacrament of the Supper, they {hall behold himfelf immediarely~in his own perfon.But principally ,as we {hall fee im~ediately, this viflon is -intelleHual.It is riot therefore the meer Humane Nature ofChrifr,that is the object ofit,but his Divine Per (on as that nature . filbfi11:erh therein. \N'hat is that perfection which we {hall have ( for that ?vhich is perfeEf muff come and do a2vay that 1viJich is in part) in the comprehenfion of the hypoffatical Union, I underftand not; bur this l know, that in the immedW.te beholding of t{1e Perfcm of Cbrifr, we {hall fee a glory in it a thoufand times above what here we can conceive. The excellencies of li1finire Wifaom, Love and ' Power therein, wm be continually before us. And all the glories of the Perfon of Chrift, which we have before weak1y and faintly enquired into, will be in our fight for evermore. HENCE the ground and caufe of our Bleffedn~fs is, that n·e ftall be ever with tbe Lord, I Thef.. . 4· I 7· As himfelfprays, that 7ve ma_y be 1vith . him 'lvpere he is,' to behold his glory: Here we havefome dark views of it, we cannot perfeCtly behold it, unril we are ?Pitb him where he is. Thereon our fight of him wil~ be direct,intuitive, and conftant. , THE.RE is a glory, there will be fo fubjettively in us in the beholding of this glory of Chrift, VJhich is at prefent incomprehenfible. For it rloth rtat yet appear _ ?vhat we our Jelvts jhall be, I-Joh. 3· 2: · \Nho can declare what a glory it will be in us to behold this Glory of Chtiit? And how excellent then is that glory of C:hrift it felf? '1 HIS ..
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