CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

1. That it is a glory in the hand of God, to dispose and give to him whom he pleaseth; You see Christ himself beggeth for this at Gods hand: None can violently invade this glory or break into those heavenly mansions whether God will or no, all heavenly glory is with God, who is therefore called the God of glory, ¹or glorious; not only because he is glorious in himself, but because he is the bountiful author and dispenser of all glory, as the Sun is the Fountain of all light, so then it's not in the power of any earthly Potentate to make men thus glorious; Though Ahasuerus could make Haman and Mordecai outwardly glorious, yet for this heavenly glory the greatest powers of the world need it from God as well as the poorest beggar.

1. That it is a glory in the hand of God, to dispose and give to him whom he pleaseth; You see Christ himself beggeth for this at Gods hand: None can violently invade this glory or break into those heavenly mansions whether God will or no, all heavenly glory is with God, who is therefore called the God of glory, ¹or glorious; not only because he is glorious in himself, but because he is the bountifull authour and dispenser of all glory, as the Sunne is the Fountain of all light, so then it's not in the power of any earthly Potentate to make men thus glorious; Though Ahashuerus could make Haman and Mordecai outwardly glorious, yet for this heavenly glory the greatest powers of the world need it from God as well as the poorest beggar.

1. 11. It is in the hands of God.

¹2. It is a glory with God, because he is the object of this glory; In him it is that we have all our happiness and glory; Even in this life we are forbidden to glory in riches, in honours and greatness, but let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he knoweth God,