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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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SECT. V.
Again, it is a Notion of Truth, That the Church of Christ is beautiful and glorious. There are many Prophesies and Predictions concerning it, that so it should be; and there are sundry descriptions given of it as such. Its Relation unto Christ, with his Love unto it, and valuation of it, do require that it should be so glorious; yea his great Design towards it, was to make it so to be, Eph. 5.25, 26, 27. This therefore all do agree in who profess Christian Religion; but what that Glory is, and wherein it doth consist, whence it is, and is said to be glorious, is not agreed upon.
The Scripture indeed plainly declares this Glory to be Spiritual and internal, that it consists in its Union unto Christ, his presence with it, the communication of his quickening Spirit unto it, the clothing of it with his Righteousness, in its Sanctification and Purification from the defilement of Sin, with its fruitfulness in Obedience unto the praise of God. Add hereunto the Celebration of Divine Worship in it, with its Rule and Order, according to the Commandments of Christ, and we have the Substance of this Glory.
The Scripture indeed plainly declares this Glory to be Spiritual and internal, that it consists in its Union unto Christ, his presence with it, the communication of his quickning Spirit unto it, the cloathing of it with his Righteousness, in its Sanctification and Purification from the defilement of Sin, with its fruitfulness in Obedience unto the praise of God. Add hereunto the Celebration of Divine Worship in it, with its Rule and Order, according to the Cmmandments of Christ, and we have the Substance of this Glory.