on {)f the Gl(}ry Chrifl. ~43 ~. AS unto the manner of its Operation, it is gradual, and doth nor at once transform liS into the lmage of Chrift. Yea, the degrees of its progrefs therein, are unto us for the mol1: pan imperceptible. It requires much fpiritual \Vifliom and Obfervation to obtain an experience of them in our own Souls. TiJe im1Ja1·d man iJ ~·enoJ;ecl d"~" by_day, whileft we behold rhefe invifibie things, 2 Cor. 4· I 6, r 7, I 8 ; but how? even as the w twarcl man decays by age, which is by infenfible Degrees and Alterations. Such is the 1 ra7z~forma .. tion which we have by Faith in its prefen't: view of the Glory of Chrift.' And according to our expe-. rience of its efh~acy herein, is our evidence of its. truth and realty -in the beholding of him. No man can have the Ieaft gronnd of affurance that he bath feen Chrift and his Glory by faith, with.. I ont fome eff'e8s of it in changing him into his l,kenefs. For as on the tench of bis Garment by the \Voman in the Gof'oel, venue \-\'ent out lrom · him to heal her infi;miry: So npon this view of Faith, an influence of tranif'or-rning power will proceed from Chrift untb the ~onl. 2. AS unto the e,....;tnt it is bnt partial. It doth not bring this work unto perfection. The change wrought by it, is indeed great and glorious; or as the Apofi:le fpeaks, it is from G!M_')' to Glor)', in a progrefs of glorious Grace: But abfolute per_feClion is re!erved for Vifion. As unto Divine \Norfhip, perftHion was 110t by the Lmv. It did many things preparatory unto the R~velation of tbe VV!ll of God concerning it; bnt it made nothint.. perfeEl: ~o abfolute pe!feClion in Holine(s, and the Reftoration of the.Image God, is not by the R 2. Gofpel,
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