The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

But had he no glory at all, before he had finished his sufferings? Indeed during the time of his humiliation, which was all his life long, whilst he bare the infirmity of our natures, and the punishment due to the same, the great happiness belonging to him, was smothered in some sort, that it did not so appear, neither was the ⟨p. 313⟩time for the full manifesting thereof yet come: Howbeit, even then he did not obscurely make overture of it many ways: For first, in that weakness of his flesh, he gave so lively tokens of his glory, that the ^fApostle feareth not to say even then, When he was manifested in the flesh, he was justified in the Spirit. And ^gPETER calleth him a man approved of God, by the excellent Deeds, and miracles, and signs which God had done by him. Which, as ^hJohn noteth, were to manifest his glory. In regard whereof he saith, ⁱWe saw his glory, as the glory of the only begotten Son of God. But yet sometimes more gloriously then at other, he was pleased in an extraordinary manner to reveal it, as in his Transfiguring upon the Mount, when ^khis face shined as the Sun, and his garments were made white as the light: In his ^lwhipping of the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple: In his ^mcausing of them that came to apprehend him, only by the power of his Word, to fall unto the ground, &c. yea, in the very midst of all his sufferings, and even upon the Cross it self, how did his glory shine? taking upon him to ⁿdispose of Paradise, the kingdom of heaven, at his pleasure, and making heaven and earth, the living, and the dead, to work together for the celebrating of his greatness. When the Sun ashamed of their doings