on the Glr-'ry ojCh1·i{t. THIS immediate tight of Chrift, is that which all the Saints of Goq in this life-do br~atbe and pant after. Hence ai·e they willing to b~ diffolved, or defire to depart, that they mu_;• be 1vith Chrifo, which is beft for them, Phil. I. 2 j. They chufe to be abfontfrom the borly and prefent ?J.Jith the Lord, 2 Cor. S'· 8. Qr th(,lt they may enjoy the inexpreffibly longed for fight of Chrift in his glory. Thole who do not fo long for it, whofe foufs , and minds are not frequently vifired with earneft defiresafter it, unto whom the thoughts of it are not their relief in Trouble, an~ their chiefeft joy, are carnal, blind, and cannot fee a,far ojj: He that is truly fpiritual, entertains and refrefheth himfelf with l oughts hereof continually. 2. IT will be fo from that Vifive Power or fa. culty of beholding the Glory of Cbtift, which we fhall then receive. Without this we cannot fee him as he Is. When he was 'transfigured i11- the M ount, and had on his humane nature fome reftex:ons of his Divine Glory , his Di(ciples that were with him, were rather amazed, -than refrefhed by it. Mat. I 7· 4· Tbey faw h~s glory, but fpake thereon they knew not wha_t, Luk. 9· ~ o, 33. . And the reafon hereof was becaufe no man in this !if~ can have a Vifive Power, "either )piritual, or corporeal, direfdy and immediately to behold the real Glory of Chrift. . SHOULD_ the Lord Jefus appear n.ow to any of' us in his MaJefty and Glory, it would not be unto our edi fi cation nor confolation. For we are not meet nor able, by the . Power of any Light or Grace that we have received, or can receive, to, h.~ar tb~ in1mediate appearance and repre(entati · · N 3 . . or~
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