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…

2. BY this Glory of Christ, I do not understand the Essential Glory of his Divine Nature; or his being absolutely in his own Person over all God blessed for ever: But the manifestation of this Glory in particular, after it had been veiled in this World under the Form of a Servant, belongs hereunto. The Divine Glory of Christ in his Person belongs not unto his Exaltation; but the Manifestation of it doth so. It was not given him by free Donation; but the Declaration of it unto the Church of Angels and Men after his Humiliation was so. He left it not whilst he was in this World; but the direct Evidence and Declaration of it he laid aside, until he was declared to be the Son of God with Power, by the Resurrection from the Dead.

2. BY this Glory of Christ, I do not understand the Essential Glory of his Divine Nature; or his being absolutely in his own Person over all God blessed for ever: But the manifestation of this Glory in particular, after it had been vailed in this World under the Form of a Servant, belongs hereunto. The Divine Glory of Christ in his Person belongs not unto his Exaltation; but the Manifestation of it doth so. It was not given him by free Donation; but the Declaration of it unto the Church of Angels and Men after his Humiliation was so. He left it not whilst he was in this World; but the direct Evidence and Declaration of it he laid aside, until he was declared to be the Son of God with Power, by the Resurrection from the Dead.

WHEN the Sun is under a total Eclipse, he loseth nothing of his Native, Beauty, Light, and Glory. He is still the same that he was from the beginning; a great Light to rule the Day. To us he appears as a dark useless Meteor: but when he comes by his course to free himself from the Lunar Interposition unto his proper Aspect towards us, he manifests again his Native Light and Glory. So was it with the Divine Nature of Christ as we have before declared. He veiled the Glory of it by the Interposition of the Flesh, or the Assumption of our Nature to be his own, with this Addition, that therein he took on him the Form of a Servant, of a Person of mean and low Degree. But this temporary Eclipse being past and over, it now shines forth in its Infinite Lustre and Beauty, which belongs unto the present Exaltation of his Person. And when those who beheld him here as a poor, sorrowful, persecuted Man, dying on the Cross cme to […]