Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

AND it will do so the more, in that it gives a glorious Representation of his Divine Nature also. For that any mere Creature should thus be an Head of Life, Motion and Power, as also of sovereign Rule, and disposal of the whole new Creation, with all things reduced into order thereby, is not only an impious, but a foolish Imagination.

AND it will do so the more, in that it gives a glorious Representation of his Divine Nature also. For that any meer Creature should thus be an Head of Life, Motion and Power, as also of soveraign Rule, and disposal of the whole new Creation, with all things reduced into order thereby, is not only an impious, but a foolish Imagination.

DID we live more in the Contemplation of this Glory of Christ, and of the Wisdom of God in this Recapitulation of all things in him, there is not any thing of our Duty which it would not mind us of, nor any thing of Privilege which it would not give us a Sense of, as might easily be demonstrated.

DID we live more in the Contemplation of this Glory of Christ, and of the Wisdom of God in this Recapitulation of all things in him, there is not any thing of our Duty which it would not mind us of, nor any thing of Priviledge which it would not give us a Sence of, as might easily be demonstrated.

3. IN particular, the Lord Christ is glorious herein, in that the whole Breach made on the Glory of God in the Creation by the Entrance of Sin, is hereby repaired and made up. The Beauty and Order of the whole Creation consisted in its dependence on God by the Obedience of the rational Part of it, Angels and Men. Thereby were the being, the goodness, the wisdom and power of God made manifest. But the Beauty of this Order was defaced, and the Manifestation of the Divine Perfections unto the glory of God eclipsed by the Entrance of Sin. But all is restored, repaired and made up in this Recapitulation of all things in one new Head Christ