The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

The everlasting fruition of God in Heaven, is the ultimate object. No man believeth in Christ as Christ, that believeth not in him for eternal life. As faith looks at Christ as the necessary means, and at the divine benignity as the fountain, and at his veracity as the foundation or formal object, and at the promise, as the true signification of his will; so doth it ultimately look at our salvation, (begun on earth, and perfected in Heaven) as the end, for which it looketh at the rest.

No wonder therefore if the holy Ghost here speaking of the Dignity and Power of faith, do principally insist on that part of its description, which is taken from this final object.

As Christ himself in his Humiliation was rejected by the Gentiles, and a stumbling stone to the Jews, despised and not esteemed, Isa. 53.2, 3. having made himself of no reputation, Phil. 2 7. So faith in Christ as incarnate and crucified, is despised and counted foolishness by the world. But as Christ in his glory, and the glory of believers, shall force them to an awful admiration; so faith it self as exercised on that glory, is more glorious in the eyes of all. Believers are never so reverenced by the world, as when they converse in Heaven, and the Spirit of Glory resteth on them, 1 Pet. 4.14.

As Christ himself in his Humiliation was rejected by the Gentiles, and a stumbling stone to the Jews, despised and not esteemed, Isa. 53.2, 3. having made himself of no reputation,