32 Apoftle teftifies, r Cor. 2. 14. But t_he mcaneft Believer \Vho lives i!l the exercife of Faith, may have an underftandmg of them fo far as is needful unto his Love and Obedience. The Sum of the whole is this ; if you would behold the Glory of Chrift, as the great means of your Sanctification a:nd Confolation, as the only preparation for the beholding of his Glory in Eternal Bleffednefs, Confider what of God is made known and ·tepre[ented unto you in him,wherein God purpofed and defigned to glorifie himfelfin him:Now this is all that may be known of God in a faving manner~ efpecially his Wtfdom, his Love, his Good· i1efs, Grace and Mercy, wheteon the life of our fouls doth depend; And the Lord Chrift being appointed the only way_and means hereof, how exceeding glorious muft he be in the eyes of them that do believe ! THESE things being ptemifed, I fhall clofe· . this firft Confideration of that Glory of Chrift 'JJJhich w·e behold by faith in this 'JPOrfd, With fotne fuch Obfervations , as may excite us unto the PraG:ife of this great duty. and Improvement of this great Priviledg ; the greateit which on this fide Heaven we can be made Partakers of. THERE ate fome who regard not thefe things at all, but rather defpife them. They never en.: tertairi any ferious thoughts of obtain in~ a View of the Glory of God in Chrift, which is ~o be unbelievers. They look on him as a Teacher that came forth from God to t:eveal his \ViH, . and to teach us his \.Vorfhip; and fo indeed he was : But this tbey fay was the foie u[e of his perf;n in R/fs · 1 Jgiort
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