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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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2. Its Glory consists in that constant respect which it hath unto each Divine Person, as unto their peculiar work and actings for the salvation of the Church; so it is described, Eph. 2.18. Through him (that is, the Son as Mediator) we have our access by one Spirit unto the Father. This is the immediate Glory of Evangelical Worship, comprehensive of all the Graces and Privileges of the Gospel. And to suppose that the Glory of it doth consist in any thing but the Light, Graces and Privileges which it doth it self exhibit, is a vain Imagination: It will not borrow Glory from the Invention of men; we shall therefore a little consider it as it is here represented by the Apostle.
2. Its Glory consists in that constant respect which it hath unto each Divine Person, as unto their peculiar work and actings for the salvation of the Church; so it is described, Eph. 2.18. Through him (that is, the Son as Mediator) we have our access by one Spirit unto the Father. This is the immediate Glory of Evangelical Worship, comprehensive of all the Graces and Priviledges of the Gospel. And to suppose that the Glory of it doth consist in any thing but the Light, Graces and Privileges which it doth it self exhibit, is a vain Imagination: It will not borrow Glory from the Invention of men; we shall therefore a little consider it as it is here represented by the Apostle.
1. The Ultimate Object of it, under this consideration, is God as the Father; we have an access therein unto the Father. And this Consideration in our worship of God as a Father, relating unto the whole dispensation of his Love and Grace, by Christ Jesus, as he is God, and our God, his Father, and our Father, is peculiar unto Gospel-worship, and contains a signal part of its glory. We do not only worship God as a Father; so the very Heathens had a Notion that he was a Father of all things; but we worship him, who is the Father, and as he is so, both in relation to the eternal Generation of the Son, and the communication of Grace by him unto us, as our Father; so no man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him,