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The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it
The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it by William Bates ...The soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
whether we consider him in the respect of an Object, that incomparably transcends all the created Glory of Heaven, or in the relation of our Head, on a double account; partly that because he was debased into the form of a Servant, and suffered all Indignities and Cruelties of Sinners for us, has received the Recompense of his Meritorious Sufferings, the triumph of his Victory, being glorified with the Father with the Glory he had before the ⟨p. 35⟩World was; and partly because every Member shall be conformed to him in his Glory; we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And all Felicity and Glory is comprised in that Promise. The sight of the Face of Moses when radiant, had no transforming efficacy; for the light of it was not in him as its source, but by derivation. But God is Light essentially, and the sight of his Perfections will be productive of his Likeness in us, so far as it may be in a restrained subject. When our Saviour was upon the holy Mount, and one vanishing Beam of Glory appeared in his Transfiguration, Peter was so transported at the sight, that he forgot the World and himself. How ravishing then will the sight of him be in his triumphant Majesty, when we shall be transfigured our selves?
whether we consider him in the respect of an Object, that incomparably transcends all the created Glory of Heaven, or in the relation of our Head, on a double account; partly that because he was debased into the form of a Servant, and suffered all Indignities and Cruelties of Sinners for us, has received the Recompence of his Meritorious Sufferings, the triumph of his Victory, being glorified with the Father with the Glory he had before the ⟨p. 35⟩World was; and partly because every Member shall be conformed to him in his Glory; we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. And all Felicity and Glory is compriz'd in that Promise. The sight of the Face of Moses when radiant, had no transforming efficacy; for the light of it was not in him as its source, but by derivation. But God is Light essentially, and the sight of his Perfections will be productive of his Likeness in us, so far as it may be in a restrained subject. When our Saviour was upon the holy Mount, and one vanishing Beam of Glory appear'd in his Transfiguration, Peter was so transported at the sight, that he forgot the World and himself. How ravishing then will the sight of him be in his triumphant Majesty, when we shall be transfigured our selves?