Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

IN Answer unto this Mystical Type, the great High-priest of the Church, our Lord Jesus Christ, being to enter into the Holy Place not made with hands, did by the glorious Prayer Recorded in this Chapter, influenced from the Blood of his Sacrifice, fill the Heavens above, the glorious Place of God's Residence, with a clou• of ⟨p. 2⟩Incense, or the sweet perfume of his Blessed Intercession, typed by the incense offered by the High-priest of old. By the same Eternal Fi•e wherewith he offered himself a bloody Sacrifice to make Atonement for Sin, he kindled in his most Holy Soul those desires for the Application of all its Benefits unto his Church, which are here expressed, and wherein his Intercession doth consist.

IT is only one passage in the Verse above named, that at present I design an enquiry into. And this is the subject matter of what the Lord Christ here desires in the behalf of those given him by the Father; namely, That they may behold his glory.

IT is evident, That in this Prayer the Lord Christ hath respect unto his own Glory, and the manifestation of it, which he had in the entrance asked of the Father, ver. 4, 5. But in this place he hath not so much respect unto it as his own, as unto the Advantage, Benefit, Satisfaction and Blessedness of his Disciples, in the beholding of it. For these things were the end of all that Mediatory Glory which was given unto him. So Joseph charged his Brethren, when he had revealed himself unto them, that they should tell his Father of all his Glory in Egypt, Gen. 45. 13. This he did, not for an Ostentation of his own Glory, but for the Satisfaction which he knew his Father would take in the Knowledge of it. And such a manifestation of his Glory unto his Disciples doth the Lord Christ here desire, as might fill them with Blessed Satisfaction for evermore.