The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

2. The intellectual glory, That which perfected Spirits shall eternally please themselves to behold, calls for our more especial consideration. This is the glory that excelleth hyperbolical glory (as that expression imports) such,¹ as in comparison whereof, the other is said to be no glory: ²as the Apostle speaks, comparing the glory of the Legal, with that of the Evangelical dispensation, where the former was, we must remember, chiefly a sensible glory, the glory that shone upon Mount Sinai, the latter a purely spiritual glory; and surely if the mere preludes of this ⟨p. 35⟩glory, The primordia, the beginnings of it, The glory—yet shining but through a glass (as he there also speaks of this glory) were so hyperbolically glorious, what will it be in its highest exaltation in its perfected state? The Apostle cannot speak of that, but with hyperbole upon hyperbole in the next chapter,³ as though he would heap up words as high as heaven to reach it,⁴ and give a just account of it.

2. The intellectuall glory, That which perfected Spirits shall eternally please themselves to behold, calls for our more especial consideration. This is the glory that excelleth hyperbollical glory (as that expression imports) such,¹ as in comparison whereof, the other is said to be no glory: ²as the Apostle speaks, comparing the glory of the Legal, with that of the Evangelical dispensation, where the former was, we must remember, chiefly a sensible glory, the glory that shone upon Mount Sinai, the latter a purely spiritual glory; and surely if the meer preludes of this ⟨p. 35⟩glory, The primordia, the beginnings of it, The glory—yet shining but through a glass (as he there also speaks of this glory) were so hyperbollically glorious, what will it be in its highest exaltation in its perfected state? The Apostle cannot speak of that, but with hyperbole upon hyperbole in the next chapter,