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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. It's no true glory, because it's not inward and substantial. It's not this glory of a man in his most substantial part, which is his soul. The soul of a man in Scripture language is called a mans glory, Gen. 49.6. unto their assembly, Let not my honour, or glory be united, that is, not my soul: If then a man hath the earthly glory of this world, this is not the honour of his soul, this is not solid, it's not in the noblest part of him: If rich and glorious apparel should be put upon a dead corpse, what glory were this to the corpse, it would not bring life and comeliness to the dead body? So it is here, let a wicked man have more earthly glory then a Solomon, yet he is but a dead corpse, he hath not that which should be the proper glory of a man, viz. the adorning of his soul: Hence grace is called glory, as you heard: So that nothing makes a man glorious but grace, this is the image of God in him. The Heathen could say, That an horse is not chosen by his trappings, and other rich accoutrements, but as he is naked in his own body; and certainly man much less is accounted glorious by body or wealth, but by his soul.
2. It's no true glory, because it's not inward and substantial. It's not this glory of a man in his most substantial part, which is his soul. The soul of a man in Scripture language is called a mans glory, Gen. 49.6. unto their assembly, Let not my honour, or glory be united, that is, not my soul: If then a man hath the earthly glory of this world, this is not the honour of his soul, this is not solid, it's not in the noblest part of him: If rich and glorious apparel should be put upon a dead corpse, what glory were this to the corpse, it would not bring life and comelinesse to the dead body? So it is here, let a wicked man have more earthly glory then a Solomon, yet he is but a dead corpse, he hath not that which should be the proper glory of a man, viz. the adorning of his soul: Hence grace is called glory, as you heard: So that nothing makes a man glorious but grace, this is the image of God in him. The Heathen could say, That an horse is not chosen by his trappings, and other rich accoutrements, but as he is naked in his own body; and certainly man much lesse is accounted glorious by body or wealth, but by his soul.