DISCOURSE III. 849 plain some scriptures that relate to the personof our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the well-known methods of speech in all nations and ages. But we would never chuse these interpreta- tions, where there is a more plain literal sense which is perfectly accommodated to the text. As this doctrine, so far as we have gone in explaining it, has given abundant light to many scriptures, there are also other texts which ifwe drop this doctrine we must leave under a heavy cloud still, among the asu1x and Svnodu the unsolvables and the things hard to be understood ; and we must still be daily waiting upon the Father of lights, until he shall give us further disco- veries of his own meaning in those passages of his holy word, which I think are made sufficiently plain in and by this scheine : We must wait until providence and grace shall join to furnish ns with a better clue than this to lead us into the mysterious glo- ries of the person of our blessed Redeemer, the more complete knowledge whereof is reserved to entertain saints and angels in the future ages of blessedness. There it is certain, if we shall be so happy as to accept of his gospel, we shall see him as he is, and behold him face to face ; then shadows shall flee away, and darkness vanish for ever, for in his light we shall see light. Amen. APPENDIX : Oa, " A short Abridgment of that excellent Discourse of the late Rev. Dr. Thomas Goodwin, on the Glories andRoyalties that belong to Jesus Christ considered as God-man, in his third Book of " his Knowledge of God the Father andhis Son Jesus Christ, page 85," in the second Volume of his Works. HAVING found occasion in several parts of the foregoing dis- course to cite some passages out of this learned and pious writer, who soars far higher than I dare to do in describing the glories due to the human nature of Christ Jesus, I thought it might be very entertaining to manyof my readers, as well as serviceable to the doctrine here proposed, to draw out an abridgment of that discourse which he wrote concerning the " Glories of Christ as God-man," no far as it relates to this doctrine. Hereby the pious reader will easily perceive, that the manner in which I have expounded many scriptures, is nobly patronized and sup- ported by this great author, whose name and memoryare ho- noured among evangelical writers, and continue in high esteem among many private christians of the present age; and whose special characterit is to have searched deep into the hidden trea- sures of the word of God, and drawn out thence many peculiar glories which belong to the person and offices of our blessed Sa- viour. Though I call this an " abridgment" of Dr. Goodwin's discourse, yet it is necessary I should tell the world that it may rather be called a " Collection of his Sentiments in his own Words ;" for I have never added or altered any words but where
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