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

Secondly, For Truth: ^eHe, only He, one with his Father, and of the same nature and essence, hath evidenced him, and made him visible, who before was hidden under the shadows and Ceremonies of the Law. The Apostle to the Corinths, handling the same Argument, hath in effect the same Metaphor, 2. Cor. 3. 13, 14, 18. In the Old Testament, a veil or covering kept away the clear Light, that their eyes were rather dazzled, then able to look into the bottom of Moses Ministry. But now, in these times of the Gospel, wherein we behold the Glory of the Lord, in his Son manifested in the flesh, as in a Glass or Mirror, the beams of his Glory reflecting, leave an Image or print behind them, to make us also glorious by a secondary kind of Glory. Hereunto it maketh, that the state of the Church under the ⟨p. 390⟩Messiah, hath the name of The ^fKingdom of Heaven, because therein shineth the brightness of heavenly glory: first, in the person of Christ and the blessings upon him; then, in the good things which he bestoweth upon his Church. All which are called heavenly things, Heb. 8. 5 and 9. 23. Not shadows or figures of heavenly things to come, but themselves the true heavenly things, which those under the Law were Types and Samplers of.

Secondly, For Truth: ^eHe, onely Hee, one with his Father, and of the same nature and essence, hath euidenced him, and made him visible, who before was hidden vnder the shaddowes and Ceremonies of the Law. The Apostle to the Corinths, handling the same Argument, hath in effect the same Metaphore, 2. Cor. 3. 13, 14, 18. In the Old Testament, a vayle or couering kept away the cleer Light, that their eyes were rather dazeled, then able to looke into the bottome of Moses Ministery. But now, in these times of the Gospell, wherein wee behold the Glorie of the Lord, in his Sonne manifested in the flesh, as in a Glasse or Mirrour, the beames of his Glorie reflecting, leaue an Image or print behind them, to make vs also glorious by a secondarie kind of Glorie. Hereunto it maketh, that the state of the Church vnder the