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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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2. To glorify is by real exhibition and vouchsafing of honour and glory to those who had it not already, and thus God glorifieth us, Whom he justifieth, he glorifieth, Rom. 8. 1 Joh. 2. Those that honour me, viz. by declaration or manifestation, God will honour by real exhibition; Now if we look on Christ as God, having the same honour with him, then when he prayeth God would glorify him, it must be only in manifestation, That whereas he had been in outward appearance the meanest of men, now God would manifest that he was the natural Son of God, But this is not all.
2. To glorifie is by reall exhibition and vouchsafing of honour and glory to those who had it not already, and thus God glorifieth us, Whom he justifieth, he glorifieth, Rom. 8. 1 Joh. 2. Those that honour me, viz. by declaration or manifestation, God will honour by reall exhibition; Now if we look on Christ as God, having the same honour with him, then when he praieth God would glorifie him, it must be only in manifestation, That whereas he had been in outward appearance the meanest of men, now God would manifest that he was the naturall Sonne of God, But this is not all.
In the next place, we may say Christ hath a twofold glory.
1. That which was essential and eternal, which he had from the beginning ⟨p. 25⟩