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Here is then the figure of heaven: it is glory, therefore excellent: yea, substantial glory, more excellent: yea, a Crown of glory, most excellent. It is a Kingdom, and ⟨p. 316⟩Immobile regnum, a kingdom that cannot be moved. It is an Inheritance, and an immortal inheritance; all excellent. It is excellent, and a Glory; yea, The excellent glory. What wouldst thou have? Is any thing better than life? Is any life better than a life of glory? Is any glory better than a kingdom of glory? Is any kingdom surer than the Kingdom of Heaven? Yet this Kingdom, this Life, this Glory, this excellent Glory, is prepared for us. The Lord hath prepared this excellent glory for us; the Lord prepare us for this excellent glory!

Here is then the figure of heaven: it is glory, therefore excellent: yea, substantiall glory, more excellent: yea, a Crowne of glory, most excellent. It is a Kingdome, and ⟨p. 316⟩Immobile regnum, a kingdome that cannot be moved. It is an Inheritance, and ann immortall inheritance; all excellent. It is excellent, and a Glory; yea, The excellent glory. What wouldst thou have? Is any thing better than life? Is any life better than a life of glory? Is any glory better than a kingdome of glory? Is any kindom surer than the Kingdome of Heaven? Yet this Kingdome, this Life, this Glory, this excellent Glory, is prepared for us. The Lord hath prepared this excellent glory for us; the Lord prepare us for this excellent glory!

This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.] This is the last general Circumstance of the Verse; the matter and substance of the Testimony from the Father. This; the word shows him to be that Messiah, long before prophesied, presently after the fall promised, ere the world was purposed, and now manifested. This, singularly; not another, but this is He. My Son, consubstantially, because begotten of mine own substance. Originally mine, by union of nature: though in him other be made mine also, by adoption of grace. Beloved, Eternaliter; not in time accepted, b before all beginning begotten. In whom I am well pleased, and never was offended: all other men were the children of wrath, I could not be pleased with them: but in thi Son I rest. He pleaseth the Father by himself, all other only by him. Here is Propriatas Personae, unitas naturae, Dignitas gratiae, Foelicitas meriti; This is, there is the Propriety of Person: My Son, there is the unity of nature: Beloved son, there is the Dignity of grace: In whom I am well pleased, there is the Felicity of merit. In him well pleased; in all with him, in none without him: in Himself without all, before all, above all. Here is the Testimony; This is my beloved Son, &c. For methods salt we observe in this heavenly voice three notes: Distinctionem Personae. This is my Sonne. Dilectionem Distincti. My Beloved Sonne. Sufficientiam Dilecti. In whom I am well pleased.