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…

BUT the most of those who at this day are called Christians are strangers unto this duty: Our Lord Jesus Christ told the Pharisees, that notwithstanding all their boasting of the knowledge of God, they had not heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape; that is as Moses did. They had no real acquaintance with him, they had no spiritual view of his Glory; and so it is amongst our selves. Notwithstanding the general profession that is of the Knowledge of Christ, they are but few who thus behold his Glory; and therefore few who are transformed into his Image and Likeness.

SOME Men speak much of the Imitation of Christ, and following of his Example; and it were well if we could see more of it really in effect. But no Man shall ever become like unto him, by bare Imitation of his Actions, without that view or ignition of his Glory which alone is accompanied ⟨p. 30⟩with a transforming power to change them into the same image.

SOME Men speak much of the Imitation of Christ, and following of his Example; and it were well if we could see more of it really in effect. But no Man shall ever become like unto him, by bare Imitation of his Actions, without that view or i••ition of his Glory which alone is accompanied ⟨p. 30⟩with a transforming power to change them into the same image.

THE Truth is, the best of us all are woefully defective in this Duty, and many are discouraged from it, because a Pretence of it in some hath degenerated into Superstition: But we are loth at any time seriously to engage in it, and come with an unwilling kind of Willingness, unto the Exercise of our Minds in it.