have,and what they had under the.Old Teftamenr Heaven doth more excelJ the Gofpe1-Stare, than that State doth,the Law. \Vherefore, if they did fo pray, fo long for, fo defire the removal of their fhadows and vails, thatthey might fee what we now fee, that they might fo behold the Glory ' of Chrift, as we may behold it in the light of the , Gofpet; howmuch more fhould we, if we have ·~ the fame faith with them, the fame love, (which neither will, nor can be fatisfied without perfeCt fi·uition) long and pray for the removal of all weaknefs , of all darknefs and interpofition, that we may come unto that immediate beholding of his Glory, which he fo earnefily prayed, thac we might be ,~rought unto ! TO fum up briefly what bath been fp6ken. There are three things to be confidered concerning the Glory of Chrifr, three degrees in its manifeftation; The Shadow, the perfect Image, and the Subfiance it felf. Thofe unoer the Law bad only the jhadow of it, and of the things thac belong unto it, they had not the perfeEl Image of them, Heb. I o. I. Under the Gofpel we have the perfeEl Image, which they had not ; or a dear cornpleat revelation and declaration of it prefent1ngit unto us as in aglafs: But the enjoyment of there things in their Subffance is referred for Heaven ; we muft be 'JJJhere he is, that we may behold his Glory. Now there is a greater difference and diftance between the real fubftance of any thing, and the moft perfect image of it, than there is between the moft perfect im~ge, and the loweft fhadow of the fame thing. If ~then they longed to be fi:eed from their ftate of ~ypes and Q 1. fha.
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