Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

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, came to see him ⟨p. 92⟩in all the infinite increated Glories of the Divine Nature, manifesting themselves in his Person, it could not but fill their Souls with Transcendent Joy and Admiration. And this is one reason of his Prayer for them whilst he was on the Earth, that they might be where he is to behold his Glory. For he knew what ineffable Satisfaction it would be unto them for evermore.

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 vailed 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, came to see him ⟨p. 92⟩in all the infinite increated Glories of the Divine Nature, manifesting themselves in his Person, it could not but fill their Souls with Transcendent Joy and Admiration. And this is one reason of his Prayer for them whilst he was on the Earth, that they might be where he is to behold his Glory. For he knew what ineffable Satisfaction it would be unto them for evermore.