Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

4. HITHERTO darkness in general covered the Earth, and gross darkness the people, as unto the knowledge of God; only there was a twilight in the Church. The day did not yet dawn, the shadows did not flee away, nor the day-star shine in the hearts of men. But when the Son of Righteousness did arise in his strength and beauty, when the Son of God appeared in the flesh, and in the discharge of his Office; God himself, as unto his Being, and manner of Existence in three distinct persons, with all the glorious properties of the Divine Nature, were illustriously manifested unto them that did believe, and the light of the knowledge of them dispelled all the shadows that were in the Church, and shone into the darkness which was in the world, so as that none continued ignorant of God, but those who would not see; See Job 1. 5, 15, 17, 18. 2 Cor. 4. 3, 4.

HEREIN is the Lord Christ glorious. And this is that which I shall now speak unto; namely, How we may behold the glory of Christ in the Representation and Revelation that is made of God and his glory, in his Person and Office, unto all that do believe. For it is not so much the declaration of the nature of the things themselves, wherein the glory of Christ doth consist, as our way and duty, in the beholding of them, which at present is designed.

HE calls unto us, saying, Behold me, look unto me, and be saved, Isa. 45. 2. What is it that we see in Christ? What do we behold in him? He asketh that Question concerning his Church, What will ye see in the ⟨p. 22⟩