The divine life in three treatises

And here a very great truth appeareth, which very many overlook, that the exaltation of the person of the Redeemer, and ⟨p. 92⟩the glory that God will have in him, is a higher and more principal part of Gods intent in the sending of him to be Incarnate and Redeem us, then the glorifying of man, and of God by us. Christ will be more glorious then men or Angels, and therefore will more glorify God; and God will eternally take more complacency in him then in men or Angels; And therefore (though in several respects) He is for us, and the means of our felicity; and we are for him, and the means of his glory (as the Head is for the Body, and the Body for the Head) yet we are more for Christ as a means to his glory, then he for us: I mean he is the more excellent principal end. [For to this end Christ both dyed, rose and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living] Rom. 14. 9. [who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name, which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, both of things in heaven and things in earth and under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father] Phil. 2. 6. to 12. Rev. 5. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. [And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many Angels round about the Throne, and the beasts, and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands: saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing: And every creature which is in Heaven, and on Earth, and under the Earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, honour, glory and power be unto him that sitteth on the Throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.] So Rev. 15. 3, 4