on the Glory of Chrifl. 3 ~ BUT the moil: of thofe who at rh is day are cat"' led Chriftit~ns are fttangers unro· this duty : Our Lord Jefhs.Chrift tol9. the Pharifeei, that notWirh~, fianding all their boafting of the krtowledg of .God? they had n:ot heard his voice at an_p time~ nor fe~n his fl;tipe ·; that is as Mofes did.. 'They had nef real acc{tia,intance with hlm, t~ey had no' fpiritfi .. ~I view of his Glory ; an~ fo it ,is amongft out fdves. N"otwitliftanding the genetal . p·rofeffimi that is of the Knowledg of Clirift, they are but few who thus ~ehotd l1i.s Glory ; a:rid t13erefort'f few wtio are transformed intd his Image and Likenefs. SOME ineh, fpeak much df the' It1iltaiion Dj Chri(f, and fo'll'owmg of his Example ; and it were, -wen if we co·uld fee more of it really in effeCt. Eti t no ntah iliall ever become like unto him; hy bare Imitation of ·his actions; without that view or Int tii• tion of his' Glory Which alone is aceompm1ied with a t.ransfoxrming power t:o change them into the ·[aine image. .. . , . .· .. . .· . · THE triith is, the beft df us all are wofully oe.; tective in this duty, and many are difcouraged _from it becaufe a pretence of it in fome hath cl'eg~ n~rated into Superftition : But we are loth at any time ferioufly to engage in it, and come with at( Uhwilling kind of willingnefs, unto the exerdfe of our minds in it2 ' : THOUGHTS 6f this Glory of C,hr~{f are l~ high for us~ orj too' ha1·d for us, ft1ch as.we can no~ long:deiight in; we mrn away 'fromrh~m with a kind <>f wearin~fs; yet are they of the fame Nature in e-eneral with our beholding df1.tlie LGloFy of Clitift in Heaven, wherein ' there Jhall De n~?· D 1.. .wearJi; ..
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